Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/January

December 2015

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2016

February 2016

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

Content Translation

Updates from the ongoing development and deployment for Content Translation. (Newsletter)

Development update

• Parallel corpora API is in production. Documented at Content_translation/Published_translations#Parallel_corpora . Monthly dumps is also planned.
• Misc. bug fixes and preformance improvements.
• Notify translators about the availability of personalized suggestions.
• Development for handling abusefilter errors before page get published started. Each section of a translation will be validated for abuse filters in target wiki, on auto-save. This is based on the analytics about publishing errors users facing.
• More language pairs has Machine translations now.

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	8491
Articles created till end of month	52159
Number of new translators (during the month)	1395
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	870
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	1884 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	7797
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1521
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	674
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	374
Total number of translators with >= 5 and <= 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1106
Total number of translators with >20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	385
Articles deleted (during the month)	706

Comparisons

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  Articles published.
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  Deletion ratio.
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  Distribution of users per number of translations they published.

Other projects

Updates from Translate, Universal Language Selector, MLEB and other projects.

Development update

MLEB 2016.01 was released, fixing multiple bugs users had reported.

Translate extension is now compatible with the upcoming PHP 7: fixes were done by a Google Code-In student. To address the shoemaker's children go barefoot situation, we removed some unused messages and added documentation for some messages missing it. We are close to have all messages documented for translators. The language codes outputted in HTML language tags are now formatted in more standard way.

Universal Language Selector was converted to extension registration. Krinkle made some performance improvements to the compact language links beta feature. Code maintenance patches were submitted by several people outside the Language team.

Usage data

• Translatable pages: Meta 2612 (+5); MediaWiki.org 2907 (+37); Commons 436 (+2)
  • These numbers are smaller than usual, but they are offset by the larger than usual numbers for the previous month
• Translate extension is installed on 209 wikis (+2), according to Wikiapiary

Deployments and other site related updates

• New table for Parallel Corpora was created and deployed.

Team status

• No changes