Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/December

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November 2020 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2020 January 2021

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.

Highlights[edit]

Content Translation[edit]

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Usage data[edit]

Content Translation monthly data December 2020 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 21209
Articles created till end of month 797417
Number of new translators (during the month) 1376
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10012 vi
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10740 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 1874 pt
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

46302
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10242
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4754
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

2692
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

8718
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3113
Total number of translators with >= 100 and < 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1077
Total number of translators with > 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

101
Articles deleted (during the month) 666

Other statistics[edit]

Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
vec 18 1800.00%
fy 15 1500.00%
arz 113 1255.56%
sah 11 1100.00%
co 17 850.00%
ceb 7 700.00%
tt 106 504.76%
gd 5 500.00%
mr 105 362.07%
uz 10 333.33%
simple 22 314.29%
bar 9 300.00%
is 6 300.00%
mt 22 275.00%
et 24 240.00%
lb 2 200.00%
scn 2 200.00%
bs 19 190.00%
pt 1178 163.38%
ug 5 125.00%
bjn 12 109.09%
ta 251 108.19%
ms 84 106.33%
ace 1 100.00%
rw 1 100.00%
hy 17 94.44%
ko 78 90.70%
ku 19 82.61%
la 4 80.00%
lv 10 76.92%
fi 14 70.00%
da 30 66.67%
sv 16 59.26%
sq 28 57.14%
sw 4 57.14%
eu 54 53.47%
pl 24 53.33%
nl 29 43.94%
ur 63 42.00%
tr 402 37.19%
ca 253 36.99%
kk 6 27.27%
be 6 20.69%
hi 11 19.30%
ga 8 18.60%
lg 2 18.18%
id 12 16.67%
te 28 16.18%
bg 5 15.63%
hu 8 12.90%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
pt 1899
es 1797
tr 1483
fr 1480
ar 1188
uk 1107
fa 962
ca 937
bn 754
he 666
it 560
ba 511
ta 483
ja 481
ru 450
el 448
jv 367
en 330
cs 286
zh 251
mk 233
gl 225
ur 213
te 201
ko 164
ms 163
vi 163
eu 155
tl 151
ro 145
mr 134
tt 127
arz 122
nl 95
ml 92
de 91
id 84
ka 83
sq 77
da 75
pa 75
hu 70
pl 69
hi 68
sr 61
ig 58
nn 58
eo 53
ha 52
ga 51
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
cv 4
gn 4
lmo 4
new 3
tk 2
ak 1
eml 1
fj 1
gom 1
hsb 1
kab 1
kg 1
lad 1
lij 1
mai 1
tyv 1
vo 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
haw 41
an 16
mi 11
ext 10
ky 10
so 8
as 7
xh 7
ny 6
si 6
ps 5
sn 5
mwl 4
nap 4
ts 4
zu 4
br 3
fur 3
mg 3
wuu 3
nds 2
am 1
ang 1
bo 1
cu 1
gag 1
gan 1
ia 1
kl 1
km 1
ltg 1
oc 1
pap 1
pnb 1
rue 1
sm 1
st 1
szl 1
tum 1
tw 1
udm 1

Translate[edit]

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:

  • Drop non-array based configuration support for Insertables (Gerrit change 644464)
  • Fix: "ULS Language Selector search textbox is not accessible from the Translate Group Selector" (task T94548)
  • Stop hiding page heading on pages other than Special:Translate (Gerrit change 644514)

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[edit]

  • Translatable pages: Meta 6180 (+64); MediaWiki.org 5423 (+23); Commons 1486 (+9) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 405 (+26) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector[edit]

Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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

Other extensions[edit]

Babel (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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[edit]

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.

There will be an MLEB release this month. We will update this space once it is available.

Previous release was: MLEB 2020.10. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

MediaWiki core internationalization[edit]

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.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support[edit]

language-data

  • Updated the configuration for Min Dong language (cdo; task T139010)
  • Added languages: Tyap (kcg), Nias (nia), Eleme (elm), Izhorian (izh), Nogay (nog)
  • Updated the autonyms for Komi-Permyak (koi), Livvi-Karelian (olo), Voro (vro), Shilha (shi)
  • Fixed a minor issue in the PHP library for the edge cases of no languages spoken in a territory (task T265158)
  • Add a test for validity of language codes
  • Fix GitHub build issues

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • Fix GitHub build issues
  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net[edit]

See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • "Most used MediaWiki messages": Removed many technical and rarely used messages, and add several messages that appear on all Main pages.

Stats[edit]

  • About 68 (-22) new users [2]
  • About 401 (+29) translators made about 50.944 (+12.101) edits [3][4]
  • About 116 (+16) translators reviewed about 18.114 (+8.271) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage[edit]

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Deployments and other site related updates[edit]

Cross team work/requirements[edit]

Public communication and outreach[edit]

Team status[edit]