Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/March

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

Content Translation
Updates from the ongoing development and deployment for Content Translation. (Newsletter)

Other projects
Updates from Translate, Universal Language Selector, MLEB and other projects.

Development update
No MLEB was released this month. Next MLEB is planned for April.

There was quite active work on many extensions this months driven by mostly volunteer patches (bolded) and code review help from the Language team.

Translate:
 * Siebrand Mazeland contributed tens of code quality and cleanup patches.
 * Fomafix contributed multiple bug fixes for unreported issues.
 * Aaron Schulz contributed patches to reduce usage of master database server in favor of slave database server.
 * Niklas Laxström had multiple patches related to updating the autosize feature of translation edit area and improving the placement of insertables, making them more consistent across browsers.
 * Niklas Laxström contributed many code cleanup patches.
 * Niklas Laxström fixed bugs related read-only mode and warnings in Special:ImportTranslations.

Universal Language Selector (part of MLEB):
 * (via jquery.ime) David Chan contributed a big refactoring that makes input methods easier to integrate with visual editor.
 * Siebrand Mazeland contributed many code quality and cleanup patches.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * Sam Reed updated the data to CLDR release 29.
 * Siebrand Mazeland contribued many code quality and cleanup patches.
 * Kghbln contributed a license file.

Babel (part of MLEB):
 * Ricordisamoa contributed patches to code quality and new features.

TranslationNotifications:
 * Niklas Laxström and Siebrand Mazeland contributed some code cleanup patches.
 * Glaisher provided a bug fix related to not failing in read-only mode.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Siebrand Mazeland contributed code quality patches.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * Kghbln contributed a license file.

TwnMainPage:
 * Siebrand Mazeland contributed code quality and cleanup patches.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 2736 (+79); MediaWiki.org 2978 (+17); Commons 441 (+4)
 * Translate extension is installed on 217 wikis (+0), according to Wikiapiary