Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/September
 August 2020 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for September 2020 | October 2020 |
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 | September 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 17297 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 731589 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 941 | |
| 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) |
10267 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1635 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
44114 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9722 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4426 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2589 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8239 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2938 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1064 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 338 |
Other statistics[edit]
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| tyv | 23 | 2300.00% |
| rw | 12 | 1200.00% |
| ka | 95 | 452.38% |
| lv | 9 | 450.00% |
| ce | 4 | 400.00% |
| ba | 622 | 287.96% |
| cy | 23 | 287.50% |
| sl | 29 | 263.64% |
| sco | 6 | 200.00% |
| tg | 37 | 160.87% |
| bar | 3 | 150.00% |
| ht | 3 | 150.00% |
| ha | 43 | 143.33% |
| yo | 4 | 133.33% |
| hr | 40 | 125.00% |
| jv | 147 | 113.08% |
| af | 24 | 104.35% |
| lb | 1 | 100.00% |
| mi | 1 | 100.00% |
| mt | 1 | 100.00% |
| sn | 1 | 100.00% |
| my | 16 | 84.21% |
| la | 5 | 83.33% |
| simple | 7 | 77.78% |
| mk | 67 | 69.07% |
| lt | 8 | 61.54% |
| sk | 8 | 61.54% |
| sr | 48 | 57.14% |
| he | 270 | 50.75% |
| ckb | 1 | 50.00% |
| ta | 134 | 48.55% |
| be | 16 | 47.06% |
| om | 3 | 42.86% |
| ms | 12 | 41.38% |
| diq | 10 | 40.00% |
| bg | 9 | 37.50% |
| el | 61 | 34.46% |
| et | 1 | 33.33% |
| th | 7 | 28.00% |
| bjn | 3 | 27.27% |
| ru | 92 | 26.98% |
| ro | 32 | 26.89% |
| te | 11 | 26.19% |
| sv | 7 | 17.07% |
| tr | 97 | 13.49% |
| de | 11 | 12.79% |
| ur | 25 | 11.90% |
| oc | 2 | 11.11% |
| gl | 21 | 9.68% |
| ku | 13 | 8.97% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 1681 |
| fa | 1184 |
| ar | 1100 |
| fr | 1063 |
| uk | 938 |
| ba | 838 |
| tr | 816 |
| he | 802 |
| pt | 658 |
| ca | 570 |
| ja | 569 |
| it | 547 |
| vi | 504 |
| ru | 433 |
| ta | 410 |
| en | 282 |
| jv | 277 |
| bn | 246 |
| zh | 245 |
| el | 238 |
| gl | 238 |
| ur | 235 |
| mk | 164 |
| tl | 164 |
| ku | 158 |
| ro | 151 |
| cs | 149 |
| sr | 132 |
| sq | 124 |
| ka | 116 |
| hi | 107 |
| ml | 104 |
| de | 97 |
| id | 82 |
| pl | 81 |
| ko | 74 |
| eu | 73 |
| ha | 73 |
| hr | 72 |
| nl | 65 |
| tt | 63 |
| nn | 61 |
| tg | 60 |
| te | 53 |
| ga | 52 |
| kn | 51 |
| be | 50 |
| da | 48 |
| sv | 48 |
| af | 47 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ie | 8 |
| ff | 5 |
| is | 5 |
| arz | 2 |
| ceb | 2 |
| chr | 2 |
| sh | 2 |
| am | 1 |
| av | 1 |
| bo | 1 |
| hak | 1 |
| kab | 1 |
| ksh | 1 |
| min | 1 |
| nap | 1 |
| pfl | 1 |
| rm | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| st | 1 |
| su | 1 |
| ts | 1 |
| vec | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| co | 2 |
| fj | 2 |
| gn | 2 |
| ln | 2 |
| lo | 2 |
| to | 2 |
| tpi | 2 |
| an | 1 |
| cv | 1 |
| fo | 1 |
| hsb | 1 |
| jam | 1 |
| kaa | 1 |
| ki | 1 |
| lmo | 1 |
| mhr | 1 |
| mrj | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| os | 1 |
| pnb | 1 |
| qu | 1 |
| sm | 1 |
| tk | 1 |
| ty | 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:
- Replace phplot graphs with Chart.js (Phab:T134634)
- Convert Special:MovePage to use OOUI (Phab:T201284)
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 5721 (+4); MediaWiki.org 5314 (+26); Commons 1440 (+82) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 371 (+5) 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,
- Fixed bug in Compact Languages Links: the Chavacano language was not shown. (task T263717)
- Add GochiHand font. (task T258839)
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:
- Fix broken language selector on the Special:NotifyTranslator page (task T262188)
- 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.
MLEB 2020.10 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01
MediaWiki core internationalization[edit]
Translatable modules[edit]
The Translatable modules consultation was done during September. The next stage will be writing a development plan based on the community feedback.
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support[edit]
- changed cbk-zam to redirect to cbk.
- updated autonyms for the two Altai languages.
- Introduce option to enable wiki links processing (#39)
- No changes
- Remove png icons and use svg icons
- Update language-data from upstream
- No changes
- Add middle tone (macron) and fix tests for Igbo - tilde
translatewiki.net[edit]
See also translatewiki.net news page.
Stats[edit]
- About 99 (+28) new users [2]
- About 377 (+13) translators made about 36.421 (-3879) edits [3][4]
- About 94 (+8) translators reviewed about 23.254 (-2546) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage[edit]
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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Cross team work/requirements[edit]
Public communication and outreach[edit]
- Language showcase September 2020, presented by Amir E. Aharoni, on the topic of Translatable modules.
- At Wikimedia Conference Russia 2020, Saint Petersburg: A presentation by Amir E. Aharoni on the topic of Section translation (in Russian; English interpretation is available)