Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/July

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:


 * TODO: Add changes

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta TODO (TODO); MediaWiki.org TODO (TODO); Commons TODO (TODO) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on TODO (TODO) 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,


 * TODO: Add changes

Please follow [TODO 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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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:
 * Baoule (bci)
 * Gun (guw)
 * Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Language added: Levantine Arabic (ajp)
 * Work is underway to make library updating more automatic

banana-i18n



jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Stats

 * About TODO (TODO) new users
 * About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits
 * About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations