Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/June

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May 2022 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for June 2022 July 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 June 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 29519
Articles created till end of month 1182772
Number of new translators (during the month) 1096
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)

13136 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 6586 uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

58471
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

13323
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6295
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3525
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

11537
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4119
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1537
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

150
Articles deleted (during the month) 746

Other statistics[edit]

Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
as 10 7 5
az 18 14 9
bn 391 130 28
cs 10 8 8
el 6 5 5
eu 16 10 4
fa 223 143 69
gu 17 11 5
he 66 33 14
ig 6 6 3
is 1 1 1
jv 1 1 1
kn 6 6 3
ko 25 18 13
ku 4 4 3
mk 2 2 2
ml 13 13 5
mn 1 1 1
mr 29 27 6
ms 5 4 2
ne 3 3 2
oc 1 1 1
pa 1 1 1
sq 3 3 3
sr 12 3 2
sw 1 1 1
ta 9 8 4
te 9 8 7
th 6 4 4
tl 3 2 2
tr 180 133 32
ur 17 17 12
yo 2 2 2
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
lt 15 750.00%
mn 7 700.00%
ig 3420 674.56%
ps 13 650.00%
bjn 4 400.00%
hy 59 327.78%
ga 80 307.69%
tl 45 236.84%
ceb 2 200.00%
sd 4 200.00%
tk 4 200.00%
ha 767 175.11%
uz 3960 150.97%
simple 13 144.44%
bn 455 142.63%
az 51 127.50%
lld 5 125.00%
ms 137 105.38%
fy 1 100.00%
gd 1 100.00%
la 6 100.00%
ug 1 100.00%
eo 70 85.37%
yo 49 83.05%
fi 12 70.59%
te 52 68.42%
tg 34 65.38%
hr 13 54.17%
ckb 7 46.67%
nn 20 39.22%
en 119 33.33%
is 1 33.33%
af 14 32.56%
sv 18 26.87%
ja 44 25.73%
th 2 22.22%
ca 137 21.71%
fa 183 18.17%
cs 32 17.30%
pl 9 16.36%
smn 1 14.29%
kn 7 12.50%
mr 6 12.24%
sl 7 10.94%
nl 9 10.00%
uk 138 9.36%
fr 101 8.00%
zh 61 7.86%
he 10 2.53%
it 9 2.49%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
uz 6583
ig 3927
uk 1613
es 1462
fr 1364
ha 1205
fa 1190
ar 935
zh 837
bn 774
ca 768
pt 578
tr 575
en 476
ru 417
eu 415
he 406
it 371
gl 298
sw 286
ta 271
ms 267
mk 255
cs 217
ja 215
sr 207
ur 182
el 171
id 153
eo 152
ro 140
te 128
pa 127
yo 108
ga 106
nl 99
az 91
ko 90
arz 86
da 86
tg 86
km 85
sv 85
vi 79
de 77
hy 77
nn 71
sl 71
sq 71
pl 64
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
ace 1
atj 1
ay 1
bcl 17
bi 1
bug 1
csb 1
cv 1
ee 1
frp 1
hyw 1
jam 1
lfn 1
lg 9
lmo 3
mhr 1
mwl 4
myv 9
nah 1
nap 6
nds 1
nov 1
qu 1
sa 1
sah 2
st 2
ti 1
tn 1
ts 1
tw 1
zu 8
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
dv 5
wuu 4
kw 3
nso 3
am 2
ie 2
lij 2
su 2
vec 2
ab 1
av 1
kaa 1
kab 1
li 1
mg 1
min 1
mnw 1
mzn 1
rue 1
war 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 8.349 (+21); MediaWiki.org 6.204 (+1); Commons 1.746 (+13) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) 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,

  • Localisation and maintenance updates.

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):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation maintenance updates.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation 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 2022.04 was released in April 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2022

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 language-data will be released this month. This section will be updated when that's available.

  • Languages added and changes

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • For language links, use full space in <li> elements PR #447
  • Localisation and maintenance updates.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • Fix height of selected keyboard text PR #685
  • Keyboards added and changed:
    • Add keyboards for Nyanja and Tumbuka PR
    • Add the macron sign to the Ewe keyboard PR
    • Improve the name for the mul-* keyboards PR
    • Add Kanuri tilde keyboard PR
    • Add Bura tilde keyboard PR

translatewiki.net[edit]

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates[edit]

Stats[edit]

  • About 75 (-57) new users [2]
  • About 379 (-35) translators made about 44.207 (5.228) edits [3][4]
  • About 86 (+11) translators reviewed about 8.493 (+2.500) 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]

Team status[edit]