Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/February

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.
 * Published deletion ratio comparison showing the percentage of deleted articles for those created with and without Content translation and how these evolved in time for the target wikis.
 * Published the percentage of translations compared to total article creations, showing how much translation has been used as a way to create articles since Content Translation was available in different communities.
 * Source article, which is being translated, is now displayed in Visual Editor's read-only mode to allow users to explore references, templates and other content with non visible information from the source article
 * Paragraphs are now checked for potential machine translation abuse when input focus moves out of a paragraph.
 * Content Translation is now more lightweight and less of a burden on every page view, transferring less data for every Wikipedia page
 * Unpublished and very old ContentTranslation drafts are gradually being discarded. See details about process.

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.


 * Special:SearchTranslations handles better some pathological search queries.
 * Abijeet Patro fixed showing/hiding priority language notices on Special:Translate when language was changed using the selector.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4784; MediaWiki.org 4118; Commons 947 [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 207 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



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Team status

 * Abijeet Patro joins the team as a Software Engineer (Contract). He will be working on Translate and translatewiki.net.