Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/July

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June 2022 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for July 2022 August 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.

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 July 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 27390
Articles created till end of month 1210162
Number of new translators (during the month) 1120
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

19165 tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

13243 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 5413 uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

59372
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

13486
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6357
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3562
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

11736
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4181
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1579
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

153
Articles deleted (during the month) 454

Other statistics[edit]

Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
as 8 7 5
ast 3 3 2
az 7 7 6
bcl 1 1 1
bn 360 168 31
ckb 3 3 3
cs 5 3 3
el 70 15 3
eu 4 3 2
fa 139 76 29
gu 9 8 4
ha 2 2 2
he 21 17 16
ig 2 2 1
is 3 3 2
jv 2 2 2
kn 21 7 3
ko 3 2 2
ku 3 3 3
ln 1 1 1
mk 2 2 1
ml 18 16 6
mr 20 18 2
ms 3 2 2
ne 2 2 2
sq 8 5 1
sr 1 1 1
sw 1 1 1
ta 1 1 1
te 4 4 3
th 8 8 4
tn 11 3 1
tr 66 50 19
ur 29 18 6
uz 3 3 2
zu 10 10 2
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
mzn 16 1600.00%
ps 176 1173.33%
nqo 18 600.00%
ur 1051 577.47%
ast 5 500.00%
az 438 481.32%
sco 3 300.00%
ne 39 260.00%
ky 64 228.57%
as 9 225.00%
kab 2 200.00%
mnw 2 200.00%
is 7 175.00%
hi 50 166.67%
ms 387 144.94%
et 10 142.86%
bs 18 138.46%
or 39 130.00%
id 192 125.49%
ko 108 120.00%
bg 28 116.67%
glk 1 100.00%
sh 1 100.00%
tl 58 90.63%
el 149 87.65%
ckb 17 77.27%
de 59 76.62%
kn 46 74.19%
nso 2 66.67%
ml 28 60.87%
kk 3 60.00%
ru 241 57.79%
ro 76 55.07%
lt 9 52.94%
vi 40 50.63%
an 2 50.00%
ary 1 50.00%
bn 308 40.05%
bjn 2 40.00%
sl 25 35.21%
be 21 35.00%
cy 8 33.33%
jv 1 33.33%
tg 23 27.38%
br 1 25.00%
mn 2 25.00%
fi 7 24.14%
sq 17 23.94%
gl 69 23.23%
pa 24 18.90%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
uz 5547
fr 1413
uk 1286
ur 1233
es 1197
fa 1170
ig 1159
bn 1077
ar 1001
ca 850
ha 689
zh 688
ru 658
ms 654
az 529
tr 525
pt 478
en 461
he 444
gl 366
id 345
el 319
eu 319
it 313
ta 243
ro 214
ja 211
ko 198
sr 194
ps 191
cs 162
pa 151
de 136
ga 126
tl 122
vi 119
te 114
eo 109
kn 108
tg 107
mk 106
nl 105
km 96
sl 96
ky 92
sq 88
be 81
hi 80
ml 74
hy 71
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
ab 1
ak 1
am 2
av 1
dv 5
gag 1
ie 2
kaa 1
kw 3
li 1
lij 2
lo 5
mi 1
mt 1
ny 1
pap 1
rm 1
rue 1
rw 5
sm 1
smn 8
so 3
su 2
ug 2
vec 2
vo 1
war 1
wuu 4
xh 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
bcl 16
tcy 16
zu 8
got 7
ban 3
cv 3
mai 3
sa 3
ss 3
tn 3
lmo 2
azb 1
bar 1
hsb 1
ln 1
pdc 1
pnb 1
sn 1
st 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 8.559 (+210); MediaWiki.org 6.237 (+33); Commons 1.741 (-5) [1][2][3]
  • Wikiapiary is down. Translate extension is installed on - (-) 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):

  • Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36
  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate:

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

  • 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 2022.07 was released this month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

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.

  • 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[edit]

language-data Version 1.1.0 (2022-07-07) was released. See the changelog here.

  • Languages added and changes:
    • Add Wolaytta (wal) (PR)
    • Add Kalanga (kck) (PR)
    • Add Yonaguni (yoi) (PR)
    • Fix Wolaytta autonym (PR)
    • Fix Bunun autonym (PR)

banana-i18n

jquery.i18n

  • Fix chrome cors policy when running the demo (PR)

jquery.uls

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • Keyboards added and changed:
    • Add Esan tilde keyboard
    • Add Setswana tilde keyboard

translatewiki.net[edit]

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates[edit]

Stats[edit]

  • About 100 (+25) new users [2]
  • About 377 (-2) translators made about 52.208 (+8.001) edits [3][4]
  • About 83 (-3) translators reviewed about 11.056 (+2.563) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage[edit]

Deployments and other site related updates[edit]

Cross team work/requirements[edit]

Public communication and outreach[edit]

Team status[edit]