Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/August

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:


 * Special:PageTranslation: Require tags on the latest version for marking
 * SpecialTranslate: Fix/add validation for target language code
 * Mark page display title to be translatable by default
 * SpecialTranslate: Enable publish translation button in case of failure
 * SpecialTranslate: Show warning when translating discouraged pages
 * Fix translation of pages with custom content models
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Greatly simplify legacy translation interface code
 * ExportTranslationsMaintenanceScript: Avoid creating empty files
 * TranslationPage: Add dir/lang attribute for outdated translation header

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 6.984 (+226); MediaWiki.org 5.750 (+25); Commons 1.606 (-10) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 432 (+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,


 * Remove configuration:

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:


 * Localisation and maintenance 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 2021.07 was released in July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.

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 change,
 * Add Pacific or America regions to rap, id, and zh
 * Add Makhuwa (vmw)
 * Add yrl to CO and VE countries

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * Maintenance updates

jquery.uls
 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * No updates

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * None

Stats

 * About 87 (+2) new users
 * About 401 (+25) translators made about 46.399 (+7.361) edits
 * About 93 (+7) translators reviewed about 35.899 (+13.171) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.