Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/January

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

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

Development update

 * Parallel corpora API is in production. Documented at Content_translation/Published_translations#Parallel_corpora . Monthly dumps is also planned.
 * Misc. bug fixes and preformance improvements.
 * Notify translators about the availability of personalized suggestions.
 * Development for handling abusefilter errors before page get published started. Each section of a translation will be validated for abuse filters in target wiki, on auto-save. This is based on the analytics about publishing errors users facing.
 * More language pairs has Machine translations now.

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

Development update
MLEB 2016.01 was released, fixing multiple bugs users had reported.

Translate extension is now compatible with the upcoming PHP 7: fixes were done by a Google Code-In student. To address the shoemaker's children go barefoot situation, we removed some unused messages and added documentation for some messages missing it. We are close to have all messages documented for translators. The language codes outputted in HTML language tags are now formatted in more standard way.

Universal Language Selector was converted to extension registration. Krinkle made some performance improvements to the compact language links beta feature. Code maintenance patches were submitted by several people outside the Language team.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 2612 (+5); MediaWiki.org 2907 (+37); Commons 436 (+2)
 * These numbers are smaller than usual, but they are offset by the larger than usual numbers for the previous month
 * Translate extension is installed on 209 wikis (+2), according to Wikiapiary

Deployments and other site related updates

 * New table for Parallel Corpora was created and deployed.

Team status

 * No changes