Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/April

March 2017

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for April 2017

May 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

MediaWiki now supports the Dinka language.
Due to security reasons, it is no longer possible to use <html> in interface messages even if raw HTML is enabled in the wiki.
The rewritten version of Content Translation, nicknamed as CX2, starts to take shape with handling of links and integration of machine translation services.
ProveIt is the first gadget that can be translated at translatewiki.net

Content Translation

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

About 25 patches were merged this month.

Most of the work on Content Translation was on OOJS rewrite and work towards VE.
Santhosh Thottingal shortened the label for the button to start a new translation. T160067
Santhosh Thottingal added handling of links to rewritten Content Translation. T162126
Niklas Laxström added first parts of machine translation integration to rewritten Content Translation. T162110
User Fomafix improved code style.
Niklas Laxström fixed a possible issue about restoring which would cause non-latest draft to be restored.

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	8803
Articles created till end of month	196038
Number of new translators (during the month)	835
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	4495
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	4669 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	18191
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3725
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1750
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	996
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2917
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1042
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	291
Articles deleted (during the month)	501

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 8 patches were merged in this month.

Bartosz Dziewoński fixed positioning of Mark as reviewed tooltip on Special:Translate. T162101
Geoffrey Mon refactored the code for insertables (constant string in translations that can be inserted via one press of a button). T152837
Niklas Laxström removed a translation quality check about some XHTML constructs because it was no longer relevant. T161213
User Umherirrender added automated coding style tests for CSS and LESS files and made current code to adhere to the new rules.
David Causse improved compatibility of translation memory with ElasticSearch 5. T163345
Thiemo Mättig fixed formatting of an improperly formatted code documentation block.
Kartik Mistry updated version number. T162231
Niklas Laxström fixed an issue in recent code changes that caused page translation to not work properly with MediaWiki 1.27. T163978

Usage data

Translatable pages: Meta 3632 (+167); MediaWiki.org 3378 (+27); Commons 624 (+19) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 210 wikis (-1) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

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

Kartik Mistry updated upstream library jquery.uls.
User Fomafix simplified a piece of code related to resource loading.
Bartosz Dziewoński fixed position of ULS language change notification tooltips after a change in a library we use to display them. T161203
User Fomafix made the machine generated web font repository file easier to read.
Kartik Mistry added a web font for Sundanese. T162221
Kartik Mistry updated version number.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

User Umherirrender improved code style.

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

User Umherirrender improved code style.
Sébastien Santoro added French translation for Atikamekw language.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

User Umherirrender added code style checker for CSS files.
Kartik Mistry updated version number.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

Antoine Musso made this extension to use JavaScript code style checker in a standard way.

TranslationNotifications:

No changes.

MLEB

MLEB 2017.04 was released this month.

MediaWiki core internationalization

Changes to translations and equivalent localisation data (magic words, namespace names) are not included in this list. Huge thanks are given to our volunteer translators as well.

Brian Wolff made it impossible to use <html> tags in system messages. T156184
Eddie Greiner-Petter improved wording and documentation of a few messages appearing in Special:UserRights. T104518
S Page and Bahodir Mansurov made links in generated API documentation point to translated pages in mediawiki.org. T104518
User Tpt added Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics to the list of special characters included in the editors. T108626
Aaron Schulz improved code in MessageCache for clarity.
Sam Reed made LocalisationCache to default to database storage backend due to security concerns in the file storage backend. T161453
Brian Wolff corrected escaping of content format and content model names in messages. T156184
Matěj Suchánek added support for varying by gender in a message used in the subheading of Special:Contributions. T130960
MediaWiki now supports Dinka language. T163600
Eugene Gvozdetsky expanded the grammatical transformation rules for Ukrainian language.

Project Milkshake

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

jquery.i18n

No changes.

jquery.uls

No changes.

jquery.webfonts

No changes.

jquery.ime

Amir Aharoni added the Akan (ak) keyboard also for Twi (tw).
Amir Aharoni and Felix Nartey added keyboard for Ga (gaa).
Amir Aharoni fixed the name of the Arabic (ar) keyboard.

translatewiki.net

Stats

About 65 (-20) new users
About 330 (-20) translators made about 30.000 (-5.000) edits
About 95 (+5) translators reviewed about 9.000 (=) translations

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

TwnMainPage

No changes.

Deployments and other site related updates

Content Translation was disabled for about a week in all Wikipedias after it caused a partial outage that required investigation and fixing. Incident report
Kartik Mistry added non-default MT support for Azerbaijani.
Kartik Mistry added default MT to Chinese. T162019
Kartik Mistry removed 'source-mt' from default from some language pairs. T162344
Marko Obrovac updated cxserver to use service-runner version v2.2.5.

Cross team work/requirements

No updates.

Team status

No updates.