Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/March

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,


 * Show assistant languages in the order defined - (Gerrit Patch)
 * Expand toggles in message documentation are inactive when linking to a message directly (Phab:T248265)
 * Test and add support for PHP 7.4 (Phab:T247657)
 * Remove PHP entry point (Phab:T228055)

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 4870 (+74); MediaWiki.org 4778 (+47); Commons 1308 (+4) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 306 (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, performance and maintenance updates only.

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


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

MassMessage:
 * Added support for sending a normal page / translation page as message. (Phab:T165128)
 * Count on Special:Statistics is less useful due to MassMessageSubmitJob. (Phab:T58878)

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.

There will be an MLEB release this month. Once the release happens, we will update this section with the relevant information.

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 translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 85 (+14) new users
 * About 328 (+31) translators made about 51.000 (+8.900) edits
 * About 87 (+12) translators reviewed about 10.100 (-6.200) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates only.

Deployments and other site related updates

 * New API for finding missing sections in an article pair has been added (/suggest/sections/title/from/to) in cxserver.