Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/July

June 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for July 2021

August 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.

Content Translation

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

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	July 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	24,600
Articles created till end of month	948,982
Number of new translators (during the month)	892
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)	11714	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	7233	tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	51543
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11541
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5484
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3048
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9888
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3512
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1256
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	124
Section translation revisions	17
Section translation unique pages	9
Section translation unique users	5
Articles deleted (during the month)	404

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
zu	262	6550.00%
tw	28	2800.00%
tt	372	2480.00%
ba	65	722.22%
yo	7	700.00%
tyv	13	650.00%
sw	44	628.57%
arz	6	600.00%
as	6	600.00%
io	5	500.00%
ak	14	466.67%
tr	5672	350.99%
az	147	277.36%
ur	163	226.39%
haw	2	200.00%
ia	2	200.00%
mni	2	200.00%
la	11	122.22%
ckb	13	118.18%
cy	27	117.39%
ca	512	100.79%
mk	77	85.56%
be	24	82.76%
simple	8	80.00%
gu	6	75.00%
id	34	68.00%
ar	422	65.83%
ms	32	64.00%
lt	3	60.00%
pl	14	48.28%
nn	19	44.19%
tg	23	38.98%
sv	14	26.92%
ro	24	26.37%
zh	99	26.33%
ne	13	25.49%
azb	1	25.00%
he	119	24.64%
de	13	21.31%
ary	1	20.00%
hi	15	17.44%
ta	85	15.32%
eu	27	13.64%
hr	3	13.64%
ja	48	9.74%
tl	2	8.70%
lv	1	7.69%
fr	56	4.81%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	7288
es	1482
fr	1221
ar	1063
pt	1047
ca	1020
uk	865
bn	708
ta	640
he	602
ja	541
fa	506
ha	498
zh	475
it	400
el	387
tt	387
ru	358
en	306
zu	266
cs	245
ur	235
eu	225
az	200
gl	179
eo	176
mk	167
vi	159
ko	155
ml	144
te	126
ro	115
jv	102
hi	101
sr	100
nl	89
id	84
ms	82
tg	82
ba	74
de	74
sq	68
sv	66
ne	64
nn	62
be	53
sw	51
cy	50
pl	43
bg	33

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

Language	Previous month
an	1
ast	2
av	5
chy	2
co	1
fo	1
frp	1
gd	1
hsb	1
ie	3
kk	3
lad	1
lfn	1
lmo	1
min	7
nds	1
scn	1
smn	1
wo	4

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

Language	This month
ks	21
lg	6
wa	3
dag	2
ext	2
ny	2
pnb	2
qu	2
sn	2
bo	1
cdo	1
fur	1
hif	1
ik	1
kl	1
lld	1
lo	1
mnw	1
mzn	1
os	1
sah	1
sh	1
shi	1
so	1
tcy	1
war	1
xh	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 "When translating in Page mode, modifying and publishing a message causes its to become empty" ({{phab:T270819}})
• Fix fatal on Special:ImportTranslations during import (Gerrit change 704546)
• Fix "Moving a translatable page makes all translation units no longer outdated" (task T275327)
• Fix "A translatable page should not be considered as broken when last change in history is a log entry" (task T241980)
• Fix "Translation units to be deleted appear with unit ID -1 on Special:PageTranslation" (task T283971)
• Show correct number of units marked for translation on SpecialPageTranslation (Gerrit change 705885)
• Extended export.php's capabilities to allow exporting everything with a single invocation (task T287476)
• BREAKING CHANGE: export.php: remove --hours argument (Gerrit change 705677)
• Fix "Discouraged translatable page is no longer discouraged after move" (task T287373)

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 6.758 (+109); MediaWiki.org 5.725 (+72); Commons 1.616 (+34) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 432 (+9) 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,

• Fix regressions in ULS entry point setup (task T282956, task T286574)
• Localisation and maintenance updates

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):

• Localisation and maintenance updates.
• Add es-419 for German (task T286031)
• Add monolingual codes mix, cdo-hani, hak-hans, hak-hant (task T155419, task T180771)

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

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 2021.07 was released this month, July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.

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:
  • Baoule (bci)
  • Gun (guw)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Language added: Levantine Arabic (ajp)
• Work is underway to make library updating more automatic

banana-i18n

• Add support for formatnum with digit grouping transformation (PR)
• New version released: 2.2.0

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

• Maintenance updates

jquery.ime

• No updates

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• Exports for non-mediawiki projects has now been automated (task T103258)

Language configuration updates

• None

Stats

• About 85 (+24) new users [2]
• About 376 (+34) translators made about 39.038 (+4.083) edits [3][4]
• About 83 (+4) translators reviewed about 22.728 (+17.417) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

• Chelsea Riley, Program Manager for the Language team for 1 and half years left the team in July 2021.