Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/May

April 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for May 2021

June 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	May 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	22074
Articles created till end of month	906105
Number of new translators (during the month)	1369
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)	11498	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1972
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	50411
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11246
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5365
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2975
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9613
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3418
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1213
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	118
Section translation revisions	19
Section translation unique pages	16
Section translation unique users	17
Articles deleted (during the month)	452

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
myv	7	700.00%
as	18	600.00%
ku	12	600.00%
sd	5	500.00%
or	19	475.00%
ml	644	456.74%
eml	4	400.00%
kn	28	400.00%
rw	8	400.00%
jv	501	397.62%
kk	11	366.67%
ky	7	350.00%
br	17	340.00%
hi	182	280.00%
sco	5	250.00%
bcl	57	237.50%
ne	30	230.77%
te	105	228.26%
et	22	220.00%
diq	2	200.00%
ps	6	200.00%
az	40	153.85%
lv	45	150.00%
cs	242	124.10%
eo	77	102.67%
gd	1	100.00%
la	8	100.00%
lb	1	100.00%
lij	1	100.00%
simple	17	94.44%
sw	23	67.65%
pnb	2	66.67%
lt	5	62.50%
my	4	57.14%
gu	2	50.00%
mt	4	50.00%
tr	522	42.37%
ast	6	40.00%
sv	20	35.71%
bn	147	33.87%
am	1	33.33%
th	1	33.33%
ig	9	29.03%
ms	21	25.61%
ary	2	25.00%
sk	4	22.22%
it	90	16.79%
ru	61	15.64%
hu	9	13.43%
el	97	12.63%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	2216
tr	1754
fr	1582
uk	1037
pt	967
el	865
ar	843
ml	785
ca	727
fa	686
jv	627
it	626
bn	581
ja	565
he	530
ta	519
zh	508
ru	451
cs	437
tt	436
gl	403
vi	380
en	378
hi	247
mk	227
ro	218
eu	205
sr	164
eo	152
te	151
ba	127
ha	118
sl	109
bg	104
ms	103
tg	99
de	98
bcl	81
hu	76
sv	76
lv	75
id	74
nl	73
cy	72
az	66
hy	66
pa	66
pl	61
sw	57
be	56

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

Language	Previous month
ace	1
alt	2
ce	4
cr	1
cu	1
frr	1
fy	2
gn	1
haw	5
hif	2
hyw	3
ia	2
ie	1
ilo	2
inh	1
io	3
jbo	1
ki	1
koi	3
lez	1
lg	40
lo	2
mg	3
mi	2
min	1
mni	2
nap	1
nia	1
nov	1
oc	3
om	4
os	1
pms	1
rm	2
rn	1
sa	1
sm	3
sn	1
st	1
szl	1
tk	3
tw	3
tyv	1

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

Language	This month
arz	9
iu	9
ang	2
sat	2
ay	1
cv	1
gag	1
glk	1
ik	1
kab	1
lmo	1
mai	1
nah	1
scn	1
sh	1
ug	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:

• Drop support for MW <= 1.34 (task T282770)
• Allow showing yearly stats in Special:TranslationStats (task T281244)
• Special:TranslationStats: Fix bug where last unit of the scale could be ignored (Gerrit change 685438)
• Improve display of very long insertables (Gerrit change 685805)
• Translation page deletion should not clear metadata (task T282905)
• Add GroupsAid (Gerrit change 692021)
• BREAKING CHANGE: Remove Validator and LegacyValidatorAdapter (Gerrit change 685438)
• Remove class_aliases from src/ to conclude the namespace rename (Gerrit change 684087)

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 6.555 (+46); MediaWiki.org 5.593 (+39); Commons 1.540 (-11) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 423 (+4) 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,

• Restore suggested languages to compact languages button (task T282037)
• Replace Jomolhari with BabelStone for Tibetan (task T197596)
• Add hooks (task T281928, Gerrit change 684984)

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 only.
• Add Northwestern Ojibwa (ojb) (task T283053)

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 2021.06 was released in June, 2021. This was a bugfix release. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 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:
  • Malay in Arabic script (Jawi, ms-arab; for UI language and Wikibase values)
  • Ojibwe (ojb)
  • Wallisian (Faka‘uvea, wls)
  • Paiwan (pwn)
• Language configuration changes:
  • Namespaces for Dagbani (dag) and Kinyarwanda (rw)
  • Autonym of Lombard (lmo)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Change lmo language name
• Add Rohingya as a language of Bangladesh and Burma
• Add the Paiwan language (pwn)
• Make 'ha' the primary code for Hausa
• Localisation and maintenance updates

banana-i18n

• build: Reduce the bundle size by using terser plugin with rollup
• Allow empty strings as messages
• Localisation and maintenance updates

jquery.i18n

• Maintenance, security and localization updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Security and lint updates
• Fix a rule in Urdu-phonetic and add tests and comments

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

• We've moved to LiberaChat (irc.libera.chat); channel name: #translatewiki

Language configuration updates

• Added: Paiwan (pwn), Malay in Arabic script
• Fix the Fon language autonym (Gerrit change 690333)
• Removed languages that appear in core:
  • es-formal
  • hu-formal
  • kjp
  • mad
  • mnw
  • mrh
  • nys
  • shn
  • sty

Stats

• About 97 (+6) new users [2]
• About 398 (-16) translators made about 53.238 (+12.042) edits [3][4]
• About 107 (+7) translators reviewed about 13.135 (+631) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.