Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/December

November 2018

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2018

January 2019

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.

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.

• Improved saving process by avoiding saving to be unnecessarily triggered when content is transcluded.
• More reliable notification for automatically deleted translations when the user is missing a local account in the current wiki to support backwards compatibility.
• Better guidance when the original article has changed too much and cannot be updated without affecting the current translation, and facilitating access to the updated content in a separate tab/window.
• Invite is shown to encourage users to try the new version.
• Improved support for transferring templates by communicating when mandatory parameters (or no parameter at all) could not be mapped.
• More effective warnings for unreviewed content, not interfering with content that the user started from scratch.
• More solid integration of translation services by supporting a rate-limiter to prevent excessive request peaks and avoiding issues when the rate-limiter is unconfigured.
• Improved entry points by allowing url-based campaigns to configure an edit tag to be used when the resulting translation is published.
• Improved navigation across different errors and warnings on the translation.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	December 2018
Articles created (during the month)	9990
Articles created till end of month	395189
Number of new translators (during the month)	945
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	5646
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	7534
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	30326
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6477
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2923
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1692
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5317
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1836
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	565
Articles deleted (during the month)	597

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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.

Translate

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.

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

MediaWiki core internationalization

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

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

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

• Added new keyboard layouts for several languages of Western Africa: Ewe, Hausa, Igbo. (Amir. This fulfills a community wishlist item. The one for Hausa was already used in the outreach project in Nigeria.)
• Improved layouts for Yoruba and Fon languages. (Amir, Mah3110)
• Merged community-contributed new layouts for Santali (hpnrt) and Ho (Singkiring57) languages, as well as for several languages of Ethiopia (fgaim).

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• As part of Google Code-In, the translatewiki configuration of several extensions was updated to split API messages (10 patches by Zoranzoki, 6 patches by rafidaslam; mentored by Amir, review help from Raymond Spekking and Niklas)