Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/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:


 * Add feature to save description for a message bundle
 * Fix title not appearing in fieldset legend in DeleteTranslatableBundle special page
 * Mark translations imported via CSV as bot edits
 * Warnings and errors on the translation editor is displayed after 2 seconds
 * Make Insertable without post content to replace selection
 * Add support for Elasticsearch 7
 * When updating translation pages, create any missing translation pages.

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 8.636 (+77); MediaWiki.org 6.250 (+13); Commons 1.768 (+27) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) 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 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 updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:
 * Localisation 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 2022.07 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2022.

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 changes:
 * Add Esan language (PR)
 * Fix the autonym of the Iñupiaq language (PR)
 * Add Makassarese (mak) (PR)
 * Add Iraqi Arabic (acm) (PR)

banana-i18n


 * No updates

jquery.i18n


 * Add sr-cyrl as fallback for sr (PR)

jquery.uls


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Keyboards added and changed
 * Make the Punjabi Gurmukhi Phonetic conform to spec (PR)
 * Add Esan tilde keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add the Esan language
 * Add Makassarese

Stats

 * About 51 (-49) new users
 * About 360 (-17) translators made about 50.101 (-1.107) edits
 * About 80 (-3) translators reviewed about 9.561 (-1.495) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates