Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/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. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.


 * Script to clear very old translation drafts to facilitate future backwards compatibility, reduce conflicts due to outdated content and better use of database space.
 * Showing a cleaner source article by the removal of irrelevant templates, preventing links for existing pages to be shown as redlinks, and preventing navigating away when clicking images.
 * Optimization of the saving process to be applied only when changes occur, and more reliable category manipulation.
 * Improved machine translation use by showing the loading indicator persistently, not showing machine translation options on dialogs, fluently switching to an empty paragraph when machine translation is not used, and avoiding unexpected scrolling and technical errors when applying machine translation.
 * Communicate errors when translation title contains invalid characters and the translation title is empty.
 * Communicate warnings when a page already exists with the same title as the translation.
 * Improved link card allowing to mark links as missing and avoiding duplicate cards when double clicking a link.
 * Support for machine translation extended for Simple English.
 * Discourage publishing empty translations by showing the publish button initially disabled.

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.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4429; MediaWiki.org 3693; Commons 764 [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis Wikiapiary

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

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

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.

Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n: A keyboard for the Fon language, spoken in Benin, was added by Mahuton, Amir, and Santhosh at the Hackathon in Barcelona.

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 75 (-15) new users
 * About 330 (=) translators made about 43k (-4k) edits
 * About 70 (-10) translators reviewed about 7k (-2k) translations

Sources: [4 ] [5 ] [6 ] [7 ] [8 ]

Team news

 * Santhosh participated and presented at Grafematik conference, France.