Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/March

February 2017

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2017

April 2017

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Highlights

Multiple unrelated issues affecting reliability of statistics on Special:CXStats as well as Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupsStats have been fixed, with more performance improvements for the latter coming in the future.
Buttons on Special:Contributions that provide quick access to common ways to contribute now have new style.

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter.

About 40 patches were merged this month.

Santhosh Thottingal rewrote contribution buttons on Special:Contributions for better code and style. T96200
Niklas Laxström fixed the real cause for gaps in Special:CXStats. T158186
Niklas Laxström fixed an issue that caused creation of inaccessible drafts. Existing inaccessible drafts are yet to be cleaned up manually. T146450
Santhosh Thottingal and Niklas Laxström continued the rewrite of translation view using OOjs UI. T152586
Santhosh Thottingal fixed a breakage related to time processing caused by change in MediaWiki core.
Niklas Laxström removed usage of deprecated JSON resource loader module.
User Fomafix replaced usages of deprecated jQuery methods.
Santhosh Thottingal fixed a test failure caused by a change in a Wikipedia template we use for tests.
Kartik Mistry fixed an error that was happening when deleting some translation drafts. T161516
Bartosz Dziewoński recreated PNG images there had got broken at some point.
User Fomafix fixed an inconsistency in JavaScript code.
Santhosh Thottingal fixed an error when anonymous users tried to translate. Now a proper error message is shown.

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	11300
Articles created till end of month	187507
Number of new translators (during the month)	1129
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	4360
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	4539 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	17650
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3621
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1705
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	968
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2830
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1007
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	276
Articles deleted (during the month)	677

Comparisons

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

Translate

Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About 15 patches were merged in this month.

David Causse fixed a ElasticSearch backend translation memory update query which was lacking an index condition, possibly causing removal of entries from wrong indices.
Niklas Laxström fixed an issue affecting message group statistics: some statistics failed to update due to caching issues for message groups (often translatable pages) with long names. T160565
Marco Aurelio made log type names more consistent.
Niklas Laxström updated code linting tool codesniffer. This included conversion to PHP short array syntax.
User DatGuy added confirmation notifications to Special:ManageTranslatorSandbox. T60706
User Glaisher's patch to replace converted edit token usage with csrf token was re-applied now that compatibility issues were resolved, with a follow-up from user Fomafix.
User Fomafix also submitted multiple other clean-up patches that simplified code and replaced usages of deprecated code.
User TTO updated maintenance script to account for expiring user groups. T160026

Usage data

Translatable pages: Meta 3465 (+98) ; MediaWiki.org 3351 (+25) ; Commons 605 (+9) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis (=) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language choice, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

Amir Aharoni and Kartik Mistry updated upstream libraries jquery.uls and jquery.webfonts.
Amir Aharoni fixed a spelling mistake in code comment.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

No changes.

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

Sam Reed updated data to CLDR 31.
User Umherirrender updated English strings file to use tabs for indentation.
User Dereckson added French name for language Atikamekw (atj).

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

No changes.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

No changes.

TranslationNotifications:

No changes.

MLEB

No MLEB was released this month. Last release was 2017.01. Next release is planned for 2017.04.

MediaWiki core internationalization

Florian Schmidt made it possible to provide translatable documentation for configuration options in extension.json via message keys. T155157
Bartosz Dziewoński committed some non-string translations for Western Punjabi (pnb). T157871
User TTO changed how $wgDummyLanguageCodes works.
Bartosz Dziewoński changed messages names in a parser test to not match real message names to avoid confusions.
User Chiefwei updated Chinese language converter conversion tables.
Aaron Schulz optimized MessageCache rebuilds to be faster for certain kind of setups. T158084
Matthew Flaschen made it possible to add new magic words to jQueryMsg via a hook.
Sébastien Santoro added support for Atikamekw (atj) adter translators hade translated enough messages to pass the threshold for inclusion. T137376

Project Milkshake

Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n

Niklas Laxström updated CLDR plural rules to 30.0.3.
James Forrester replaced jscs+JSHint with eslist with required code style fixes.

jquery.uls

User hhm0 added information about language Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (tmr).
Amir Aharoni added information about languages Guambiano (gum) and Nyungar (nys).

jquery.webfonts

No changes.

jquery.ime

No changes.

translatewiki.net

Stats

About 85 (=) new users
About 350 (+10) translators made about 35.000 (-7.000) edits
About 90 (-10) translators reviewed about 9.000 (=) translations

Sources: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

TwnMainPage

No changes.

Deployments and other site related updates

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Cross team work/requirements

Antoine Musso helped a lot debugging and resolving QUnit test failures in Content Translation.

Team status

No change in team
Quarterly office hour hosted this month (log and online session recording).