Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/June

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 2.

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:


 * Ensure plural keyword other is always present in exports for yaml and json (Gerrit Patch)
 * Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action (Phab:T131132)
 * Translate's NaviToggle should be hidden in modern Vector (Phab:T251903)

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 4660 (+60); MediaWiki.org 5135 (+86); Commons 1357 (+14) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 312 (+2) wikis.

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.

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):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.



TranslationNotifications:


 * Fix talk page in other wiki display (Gerrit Patch)
 * Remove username / password for sending notification to other wikis (Gerrit Patch)
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.



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 2020.07 will be released next month.

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.



Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Add Altay languages (alt, atv) (PR)
 * Add Nuxalk language (PR)



banana-i18n



jquery.i18n


 * Fix security warnings in DEV packages (PR)



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime


 * Add Baoulé tilde keyboard (PR)



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 99 (+13) new users
 * About 370 (+21) translators made about 34.100 (+600) edits
 * About 100 (+3) translators reviewed about 12.300 (+600) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates.



Deployments and other site related updates



 * Add Altay languages (alt, atv) (Gerrit Patch)
 * Add Nuxalk language (Gerrit Patch)