Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/September

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team about changes to internationalization and translation and other language support features. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Content Translation
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Translate
Wikimedia's software is translated to hundreds of languages using the Translate extension for MediaWiki. In addition, it is used to translate help pages, newsletters, policies, announcements, banners, etc. It is installed on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and many other sites. Translate is part of MLEB. Improvements made in the last month include:


 * Improve the edit summary aid to update the timestamp regularly, and improve the formatting.
 * Automatically add anchor for original version of heading title on translation pages
 * Block translations from user blocked from editing translatable bundle

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 8.729 (+93); MediaWiki.org 6.266 (+16); Commons 1.808 (+40) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) wikis |1.

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Fix "CleanChanges language selector on recent changes not working as intended".
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
The MediaWiki language extension bundle (MLEB) provides an easy way to bring ultimate language support to your MediaWiki. The bundle is a collection of a selected few MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual.

MLEB 2022.07 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2022.

MediaWiki core internationalization
Changes to translations and equivalent localisation data (magic words, namespace names) are not included in this list. The volunteer translators are updating translations every day to keep up with changes.


 * Languages added: TODO (remove if none)
 * Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Languages added and changes:
 * Add Iraqi Arabic (acm) (PR)

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Add ƙ to the Bura keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add Iraqi Arabic (acm)

Stats

 * About 67 (+16) new users
 * About 335 (-25) translators made about 56.547 (+446) edits
 * About 84 (+4) translators reviewed about 9.432 (+129) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Handle password failures better.
 * Localisation updates.