Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/November

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.

Usage data
Comment: Unusually high number of deletions in the Kazakh Wikipedia.

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.


 * Remove extraneous arrow from tux-editor-n-uses message. (Phab:T236736)
 * Add help link to Special:AggregateGroups (Phab:T179802)
 * Fix incorrect translation restriction check (Phab:T238099)
 * Add a link to the pagename in "tpt-unmarked" message (Phab:T236935)
 * Display error message with HTML entity insertables properly escaped (Phab:T231942)
 * Add secondary check before displaying tpt-unknown-page error (Phab:T221119)
 * Display an error message if translation aids fail to load (Phab:T221119)

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 4682 (-89); MediaWiki.org 4381 (+25); Commons 1262 (-48) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 300 (+1) 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.


 * Put overhauled icon on baseline and unify code with Vector's (Phab:T207075)

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):



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



CleanChanges (part of MLEB):



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):



TranslationNotifications:



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.

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 56 (-6) new users
 * About 303 (+2) translators made about 48.500 (-3500) edits
 * About 89 (+17) translators reviewed about 25.000 (+3.900) translations