Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/May

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:


 * Fix Translation memory suggestion page sources are sometimes duplicated. (Phab:T249906)
 * Fix "nothing to translate" error on moving from review to page mode. (Phab:T49986)
 * Split Message index rebuild into a separate job, and deduplicate the job to improve performance. (Phab:T221119)
 * MovePage: update help link to point to Move translatable page doc
 * Fix PageMigration not showing field for first translation unit. (Phab:T139456)
 * Move/Delete pages: Only display the other subpages section if the namespace supports subpages. (Gerrit Patch)
 * Allow patrolling edits to translation pages. (Phab:T151172)

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 4600 (-2); MediaWiki.org 5049 (+110); Commons 1343 (+8) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 310 (+4) 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 jQuery 3 migration warnings. (Phab:T175236)
 * 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 issues associated with the previously implemented bug-fix for Translation Notification Bot sending the same message multiple times. (Phab:T144780)
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

MassMessage:
 * Fix incorrect namespace usage when building the title when sending translatable page (Phab:T165128)
 * 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 2020.04 was released in April, 2020. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2020.

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



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 86 (-5) new users
 * About 349 (-20) translators made about 33.500 (-8.800) edits
 * About 97 (-1) translators reviewed about 11.700 (-3.300) translations

TwnMainPage

 * MainPage: Do not display subgroups after selecting projects. (Phab:T184162)
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

Deployments and other site related updates

 * Added support for Awadhi (awa) language. (T252871)
 * Added support for Sakha language machine translation for Yandex. (T250004)

Public communication and outreach

 * Language showcase presentation about the Research on the Section Translation feature.

Team status

 * Nikolaos Gκοuntas joined the Language Engineering team as a Software Engineer. He will be working on the ContentTranslation Extension.