Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/December

November 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2021

January 2022

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.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	December 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	20794
Articles created till end of month	1048908
Number of new translators (during the month)	1172
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	15312
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	12392
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2958
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	54648
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12272
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5847
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3238
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10583
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3733
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1372
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	137
Articles deleted (during the month)	468

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
az	28	23	3
ba	5	3	1
bn	47	40	8
ha	6	5	3
ig	4	4	2
ku	1	1	1
ml	1	1	1
ms	19	15	1
ta	1	1	1
th	10	10	8

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
arz	79	7900.00%
bcl	24	600.00%
jv	4	400.00%
sr	150	283.02%
lt	16	228.57%
km	19	211.11%
yi	4	200.00%
kn	103	143.06%
is	4	133.33%
bg	68	109.68%
ko	177	101.14%
ku	2	100.00%
st	1	100.00%
ug	1	100.00%
xh	1	100.00%
eu	254	97.32%
ceb	4	80.00%
la	4	80.00%
cy	34	79.07%
ky	33	76.74%
sl	23	53.49%
bs	17	50.00%
bn	120	45.11%
et	4	44.44%
tr	915	43.65%
gl	128	41.56%
simple	6	40.00%
th	8	38.10%
ar	383	37.62%
tg	27	36.00%
sc	1	33.33%
nl	25	30.49%
oc	2	28.57%
si	4	28.57%
hu	20	27.03%
fa	189	26.51%
ne	9	26.47%
ru	66	25.78%
it	117	25.60%
sw	7	25.00%
sk	3	23.08%
he	94	22.17%
vi	11	15.71%
ur	47	14.83%
mt	1	14.29%
fr	166	13.72%
be	6	12.77%
pl	3	10.71%
da	11	10.38%
sv	8	9.64%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	3011
ar	1401
fr	1376
es	1344
uk	998
fa	902
ca	660
el	616
pt	597
it	574
he	518
eu	515
zh	488
gl	436
en	400
bn	386
tl	380
ur	364
ko	352
mk	332
ru	322
ja	303
ta	292
ms	280
sr	203
nn	199
kn	175
cs	174
ha	153
tt	142
eo	136
hi	135
bg	130
pa	125
da	117
de	117
nl	107
tg	102
hu	94
ro	91
sv	91
te	88
vi	81
arz	80
cy	77
ky	76
id	70
ml	67
sl	66
ba	59

Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month

Language	Previous month
ak	1
am	1
ary	5
azb	4
bar	1
ch	1
co	2
cv	2
dag	1
ext	1
ff	1
fj	1
frp	5
fy	2
kab	1
kk	3
lg	1
lld	5
mnw	1
na	1
nah	1
new	1
nso	5
pam	2
pih	1
rmy	1
sm	2
sn	1
szl	2
ve	4

Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month

Language	This month
lo	6
sa	5
lb	3
lij	3
bug	2
pnb	2
sat	2
skr	2
bxr	1
cu	1
gd	1
ks	1
nap	1
pdc	1
ps	1
se	1
so	1
wo	1
xal	1

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:

• Fix Special:MovePage being broken with MediaWiki < 1.36 (task T296450)
• Special:Translate: Add language name in editor placeholder (task T296987)
• Special:Translate: Make target language selector more prominent (task T296986)
• TranslatorActivity: Implement caching for inactive languages (task T285314)
• Fire hook when translation view state changes. Hook: mw.translate.translationView.stateChange (task T297129)

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

• Translatable pages: Meta 7.295 (+56); MediaWiki.org 5.956 (-94); Commons 1.706 (+146) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 454 (+3) 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,

• Handle "Enter" keyboard event for checkbox hack selectors (Gerrit change 748177)

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):

• Add Nanai (gld) and Nawdm (nmz) (task T297073, task T297074)

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation 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 2021.12 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

The next release will happen next year in January.

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: TODO (remove if none)
• Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
• Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Add Aleut languages
• Update Abkhaz autonym

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add Aleut languages
• Add Talysh in Cyrillic (tly-cyrl)

Stats

• About 73 (+31) new users [2]
• About 328 (-30) translators made about 31.232 (-12.770) edits [3][4]
• About 67 (+27) translators reviewed about 3.780 (-2.303) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation updates only.

Team status

• Gabriel Pita, QA Engineer for the Language Team for 1 year, 10 months left the team in December 2021.