Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/July

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.

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.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta (+) ; MediaWiki.org  (+) ; Commons  (+)
 * Translate extension is installed on wikis (+) Wikiapiary

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



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * Thiemo Mättig changed "Multiple Languages" and "Unknown Language" to "Multiple languages" and "Unknown languages" in English.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Brian Wolff improved the way we invoke JavaScript for click handlers.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * No updates.

TranslationNotifications:
 * Localisation updates only.

MLEB
No MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle was released this month. Next release is expected in early August.

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

jquery.i18n
 * No updates.

jquery.uls
 * Niklas Laxström renamed "Common languages" to "Suggested languages". T137867
 * Niklas Laxström added language Balti language (bft) to language database.
 * Amir Aharoni added redirect for Mari language (from chm to mhr). T136164
 * Santhosh Thottingal fixed an issue that prevent world languages appearing from their respective regions as well. T137868

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates.

jquery.ime
 * Amir Aharoni fixed an issue with bad output in Punjabi Phonetic Keyboard. T102455
 * Amir Aharoni and Felix Nartey created a new input method for Akan language.

translatewiki.net


See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

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

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TwnMainPage
This MediaWiki extension provides the translatewiki.net main page.
 * Localisation updates only.