Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/June
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. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.
- Script to clear very old translation drafts to facilitate future backwards compatibility, reduce conflicts due to outdated content and better use of database space.
- Showing a cleaner source article by the removal of irrelevant templates, preventing links for existing pages to be shown as redlinks, and preventing navigating away when clicking images.
- Optimization of the saving process to be applied only when changes occur, and more reliable category manipulation.
- Improved machine translation use by showing the loading indicator persistently, not showing machine translation options on dialogs, fluently switching to an empty paragraph when machine translation is not used, and avoiding unexpected scrolling and technical errors when applying machine translation.
- Communicate errors when translation title contains invalid characters and the translation title is empty.
- Communicate warnings when a page already exists with the same title as the translation.
- Improved link card allowing to mark links as missing and avoiding duplicate cards when double clicking a link.
- Support for machine translation extended for Simple English.
- Discourage publishing empty translations by showing the publish button initially disabled.
Usage data edit
| Content Translation monthly data | June 2018 |
|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 11680 |
| Articles created till end of month | 335022 |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 926 |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4613 |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6694 (es) |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
26714 |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5792 |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2537 |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1489 |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4647 |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1632 |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
486 |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 718 |
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Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
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.
Usage data edit
- Translatable pages: Meta 4429; MediaWiki.org 3693; Commons 764 [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis Wikiapiary
Universal Language Selector edit
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.
Other extensions edit
Babel (part of MLEB):
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
TranslationNotifications:
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle edit
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.
Project Milkshake edit
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.
jquery.i18n: A keyboard for the Fon language, spoken in Benin, was added by Mahuton, Amir, and Santhosh at the Hackathon in Barcelona.
jquery.uls
jquery.webfonts
jquery.ime
translatewiki.net edit
See also translatewiki.net news page.
Stats edit
- About 75 (-15) new users
- About 330 (=) translators made about 43k (-4k) edits
- About 70 (-10) translators reviewed about 7k (-2k) translations
TwnMainPage edit
Cross team work/requirements edit
Team news edit
- Santhosh participated and presented at Grafematik conference, France.