Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/January

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:


 * Drop ULS dependency from composer.json
 * Add a script to find and delete equal translations
 * Update cache version for MessageGroups
 * Allow importing empty content from external sources
 * Add script to find unsynchronized definitions

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 6.327 (+147); MediaWiki.org 5.435 (+12); Commons 1.513 (+27) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 409 (+4) 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,


 * Handle corrupted values in input preferences
 * 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 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 2021.01 was released this month (Jan, 2021). Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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.



Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data

Language Data - 2021-01-27 release happened this month.
 * Add Rohingya language (rhg) (GitHub PR)
 * Add Nanai and Gungbe languages (GitHub PR)
 * Return an empty array if there are no languages in territory

banana-i18n


 * No updates

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Add Nias tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 90 (+22) new users
 * About 419 (+18) translators made about 52.421 (+1.477) edits
 * About 111 (-5) translators reviewed about 8.658 (-9.456) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

 * Uzoma Ozurumba joined the Language Engineering team as a Community Relationship Specialist.