Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/June

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:


 * Remove TranslateMessageGroupPathVariables hook
 * Address voice and tone issues in Translate extension . See below for more details.
 * Add backport.php to support translation update to stable branches

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.

Configuration variable changes
Following configuration variable names have been renamed:

The old variables will be supported for MLEB 2021.07 release but removed in the MLEB 2021.10 release.

If you have defined message groups defined with  attributes,   have been changed to

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 6.649 (+94); MediaWiki.org 5.653 (+60); Commons 1.582 (+42) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 423 (0) 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. Notable changes made include,


 * Restore compact languages button user preference

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

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

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.
 * Add monolingual codes osa-latn, wya
 * Add monolingual language codes gsw-fr and ykg

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 2021.06 was released in June, 2021. This was a bugfix release. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2021.

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: Carpathian Romani (rmc)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Add Siriono (srq) and update Cape Verdean (kea) capitalization

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * Security fixes

jquery.uls
 * Security fixes
 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Security fixes

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 61 (+36) new users
 * About 342 (-56) translators made about 34.955 (-18.283) edits
 * About 79 (-28) translators reviewed about 5.311 (-7.824) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.