Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/January

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. 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.

About · patches were merged this month.



Translate
Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About · patches were merged in this month.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 3322 (+42) ; MediaWiki.org 3287 (+34) ; Commons 585 (+84)
 * Translate extension is installed on 215 wikis (+2) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language choice, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
 * This, that and the other fixed issues related to category names containing language codes with variants. T146778
 * This, that and the other made edit summaries of automated edits to use the content language as opposed to interface language. T46623

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * Ed Sanders updated build configuration.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Rudloff fixed code that was causing PHP notices after a MediaWiki core change. T151825

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * No changes.

TranslationNotifications:
 * No changes.

MLEB
MLEB 2017.01 was released this month. It contains a fix for reported incompatibility in the Babel extension, among other changes.

MediaWiki core internationalization
This is a new, experimental section in this report. Coverage might not be comprehensive.



Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n
 * No changes

jquery.uls
 * The Discoverer updated the language name of  and  . T137222

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes.

jquery.ime
 * The Discoverer updated the name of input method for . T137222

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Stats

 * About 85 (+5) new users
 * About 375 (+30) translators made about 38.000 (-8.000) edits
 * About 95 (+20) translators reviewed about 9.500 (=) translations

Sources:     

TwnMainPage

 * No changes

Team status

 * Development was slow during this month due to travels and holidays.