Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/October

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 updates about version 2.

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.


 * Removed deprecated and unmaintained SolrTTMServer. Recommendation is to migrate to ElasticSearch. (Phab:T87985)
 * Universal Language Selector is no longer listed as composer dependency. Make sure you have Universal Language Selector installed by other means.
 * Fixed regression that broke saving translations. (Phab:T233200)
 * Fixed an issue that prevented moving translatable pages in namespace without subpages. (Phab:T215202)
 * Dropped support for HHVM.
 * Avoid usage of deprecated  global (Gerrit Patch)
 * Fix expanding of multiple times nested groups on Special:LanguageStats (Gerrit Patch)
 * Removed  element from page translation header (Phab:T220841)
 * Implemented used X times in translation memory suggestions (Phab:T47686)
 * Page translation section names can no longer contain underscore or dash.
 * Special:ManageMessageGroups gained support for renaming message keys. (Phab:T196601)

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 4771 (-21); MediaWiki.org 4356 (+40); Commons 1310 (+8) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 299 (+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.



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.

MLEB 2019.10 was released this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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 62 (-20) new users
 * About 301 (-47) translators made about 52.000 (+2500) edits
 * About 72 (-20) translators reviewed about 21.100 (+2.250) translations