Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/February

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January 2021 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2021 March 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 February 2021 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 20504
Articles created till end of month 838363
Number of new translators (during the month) 1177
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)

10985 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 2157 pt
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

47768
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10647
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4908
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

2809
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

9031
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3227
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1123
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

109
Section translation revisions 42
Section translation unique pages 23
Section translation unique users 12
Articles deleted (during the month) 380

Other statistics[edit]

Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
sd 8 800.00%
mn 8 400.00%
mk 749 351.64%
ku 92 340.74%
sw 36 300.00%
as 11 275.00%
sh 5 250.00%
ckb 36 240.00%
lo 2 200.00%
sah 2 200.00%
cy 44 183.33%
rw 13 144.44%
ha 46 115.00%
sk 19 111.76%
lld 3 100.00%
tw 1 100.00%
hy 32 96.97%
ro 79 79.00%
pt 947 75.58%
lv 5 71.43%
gl 144 69.23%
az 15 68.18%
sr 25 65.79%
be 31 64.58%
ms 67 54.92%
diq 1 50.00%
oc 1 50.00%
pnb 1 50.00%
bs 6 40.00%
pa 43 39.45%
eo 14 35.00%
hr 10 33.33%
en 71 21.26%
simple 1 20.00%
nn 5 17.24%
ary 2 16.67%
bar 2 15.38%
mnw 1 14.29%
fr 79 5.32%
es 62 3.53%
bg 1 2.27%
de 1 1.00%
ru 4 0.74%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
pt 2200
es 1818
fr 1565
uk 1015
ar 963
mk 962
tr 943
bn 777
he 741
ca 687
fa 627
it 611
ru 541
ta 533
jv 431
en 405
ja 399
zh 380
gl 352
cs 338
ur 285
eu 240
el 233
ms 189
vi 183
ro 179
tl 166
pa 152
ml 128
ku 119
nl 108
de 101
tg 95
id 91
hi 88
te 88
ha 86
be 79
cy 68
da 66
hy 65
sr 63
mr 62
ko 60
eo 54
ckb 51
pl 51
sq 49
ba 48
sw 48
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
ady 3
an 5
ast 4
avk 3
fy 5
gcr 1
gv 1
hyw 1
ig 3
kbd 2
kk 8
lb 4
lij 1
lmo 1
mg 1
mi 2
mzn 1
nah 1
om 1
pam 1
rue 2
shn 2
sm 2
szl 1
ts 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
se 9
av 8
am 4
ps 4
su 4
ks 3
pms 3
si 3
cv 2
km 2
lbe 2
tk 2
ab 1
ce 1
gag 1
gn 1
got 1
io 1
kw 1
os 1
pag 1
smn 1
sn 1
st 1
udm 1
ug 1
vec 1
vls 1
xh 1
yo 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:

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 6.341 (+14); MediaWiki.org 5.476 (+41); Commons 1.522 (+9) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 410 (+1) 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,

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):

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation and maintenance updates

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 2021.01 was released last month (Jan, 2021). Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2021.

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

Language Data - 2021-01-27 was released last month.

Other changes:

banana-i18n

  • Add support for formatnum operation (GitHub PR)

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net[edit]

See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • 2021-02-11: Behavior of statistics has changed:
    • Translated optional are counted in both total and translated (previously they were not)
    • All language & message group statistics were refreshed to apply this change and correct any statistics that were outdated
  • 2021-02-03: Behavior of translation exports has changed:
    • Languages under export threshold are now updated if they have already been exported earlier.
    • Languages under removal threshold will be deleted. By default it is 0%, meaning that files with no non-outdated translations will be deleted. The removal threshold can be configured per project in the same way as export threshold.

Stats[edit]

  • About 84 (-6) new users [2]
  • About 396 (-23) translators made about 43.672 (-8.749) edits [3][4]
  • About 109 (-2) translators reviewed about 18.872 (+10.214) 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]

Presentation at the Indian Wikimedia Wikimeet conference
  • Section Translation New Ways to Contribute on Mobile Devices - presentation by Amir Aharoni, Pau Giner, and Nik Gkountas at the Wikimedia Wikimeet India conference

Team status[edit]