Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/February

January 2017

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2017

March 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

Translatewiki.net servers were upgrades to Ubuntu 16.04. Special:ImportTranslations was fixed so that it actually imports translations. Site defined priority languages were briefly broken and not used when selecting short list of languages for compact language links – this issue was fixed. Continue reading for more updates.

Content Translation

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

About 50 patches were merged this month.

Santhosh Thottingal worked on converting translation view to OOUI. T152586
David Sn fixed handling of links with article names with spaces to avoid unnecessary redirects. T147625
Kartik Mistry added stylelint CSS linting tool and made the code pass. T155669
Niklas Laxström improved handling of a case when saved draft translations fails to load. T146450
Eddie Greiner-Petter adjusted page background colors to align with Wikimedia colors. T158401
Nathaniel Schaaf added event logging for translation suggestions. T156522
Niklas Laxström replaced the usage of deprecated edit token with csrf token.
Niklas Laxström improved date manipulation code to take timezones into account. This affects the Special:CXStats statistics page. T158186.
Volker Eckl aligned the contributions dropdown menu to use a layout that follows Wikimedia style guide. T157217

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	9672
Articles created till end of month	176438
Number of new translators (during the month)	1014
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	4122
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	4340 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	16959
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3461
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1644
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	913
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2706
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	959
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	262
Articles deleted (during the month)	695

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 10 patches were merged in this month.

Federico Leva fixed Special:ImportTranslations to actually import new translations. T151585
Niklas Laxström implemented a mechanism to that allows skipping skipping updates to localisation files that only contain metadata updates, such as time of export.
David Causse added support to translation memory and search for using multiple datacenters. T132076
David Causse made it possible to set the internal name of the default translation memory and search service.
Niklas Laxström corrected escaping of one interface message.
Christoph Jauera replaced some deprecated function calls.
David Causse made it possible to freeze writes to translation memory and search backend. T132315
David Causse added support to translation memory and search for ElasticSearch 5. T158070
Kosson removed unused constructor parameters in Job classes. T158737

Usage data

Translatable pages: Meta 3367 (+45) ; MediaWiki.org 3326 (+39) ; Commons 596 (+11) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis (-4) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

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

Niklas Laxström fixed an issues that caused site defined priority languages not to be used for compact language links.
Fomafix improved the code to avoid flash during page rendering. Second patch of two was merged in January.
Amir Aharoni and Kartik Mistry updated included libraries jquery.ime and jquery.uls from upstream.
Niklas Laxström added a link to compact language links info page from the user preference. T157344
James Forrester updated code linting tools.
Huji Lee fixed an issue that caused words to run together in some languages when selecting an input method. T152460
Amir Aharoni added a maintenance script to disable compact language links preference for active users. T133031
Niklas Laxström updated QUnit tests for modern standards.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

This, that and the other fixed an issue when babel magic word was used on category or file pages. T36507

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

Raimond Spekking added German names for languages not in CLDR.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

No changes.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

No changes.

TranslationNotifications:

Marco Aurelio changed the name of a log to be consistent with other logs.

MLEB

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

MediaWiki core internationalization

Marco Aurelio updated namespace translations for Javanese. T155957
Aaron Schulz fixed race conditions in MessageCache::replace. T144952
Chiefwei updated Chinese conversion tables.
Marco Aurelio updated category namespace translations for Extremaduran. T157846
Federico Leva added French as language fallback for Breton, Normaund and Occitan.
Roan Kattouw and Timo Tijhof fixed a JavaScript error for languages which have disabled localised digits. T152800
Federico Leva added reciprocal fallback between Catalan and Occitan.
Toni Hermoso Pulido added translation for magic word redirect in Catalan.
Purodha Blissenbach added support for gender for interface message rollback-success. T141250
Matěj Suchánek added additional special page translations for Czech.

Project Milkshake

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

jquery.i18n

No changes.

jquery.uls

Federico Leva updated language territory information to latest CLDR version.

jquery.webfonts

No changes.

jquery.ime

John Erling Blad made a significant fixes and additions to documentation.
fgaim added new input methods for Eritrean languages Tigrinya, Tigre and Blin.

translatewiki.net

Stats

About 85 (=) new users
About 340 (-35) translators made about 41.000 (+3.000) edits
About 100 (+3) translators reviewed about 9.000 (-500) translations

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

TwnMainPage

Niklas Laxström fixed the sign-up form which was broken in Chrome.

Deployments and other site related updates

Kartik Mistry added better logging support for Apertium MT failures.
MT support for Luxembourgish (lb) was added in ContentTranslation tool.

Cross team work/requirements

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Team status

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