Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/April

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.




 * Improved approach to keep source and target paragraphs visually aligned and highlighting consistently represented and applied.
 * Improved support for galleries, images (to prevent accidental navigation), timelines, math formulas, and tables.
 * Polishing on category support, including layout adjustments and support for long labels.
 * Asking for confirmation when the translation is going to overwrite an existing article.
 * Loading process improvements to communicate the loading status.
 * Backwards compatibility support by opening translations with the version of the editor used to create them.
 * Tool support improvements to show tool cards in the tools column (including Visual Editor Inspectors) and show initial instructions only when relevant.

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.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4387; MediaWiki.org 3659; Commons 747 [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 217 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.

Stats
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