Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/July

June 2018 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for July 2018 August 2018

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.

Usage data edit

Content Translation monthly data July 2018
Articles created (during the month) 10625
Articles created till end of month 345336
Number of new translators (during the month) 952
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)

6847 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

27321
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

5889
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

2627
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1530
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4749
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1671
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

497
Articles deleted (during the month) 574

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.

  • User Paladox added phplot to list of composer dependencies so that it is easy to install.
  • All changes.

Usage data edit

  • Translatable pages: Meta 4461; MediaWiki.org 3697; Commons 778 [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 215 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.

  • Santhosh Thottingal updated Padauk font to version 3.003
  • All changes.

Other extensions edit

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

  • Sam Reed updated language data to CLDR 33.1
  • All changes.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Niklas Laxström disabled the simplified compact changes list by default, because it is not compatible with latest recent changes code. What remains are the additional filters. Similar functionality can be restored with a gadget.
  • All changes.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle edit

MLEB 2018.07 was released this month. It dropped support for MediaWiki 1.29 and has been tested against the new 1.31 release.

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.

  • Niklas Laxström fixed an issue where placing {{#translation:}} on a subpage named "code" would cause a fatal error. T198518
  • C. Scott Ananian enabled deprecation warnings for global function wfBCP47 and method Language::truncate. T197492
  • Aaron Schulz fixed an issue where Message Cache memory usage could grow without limit.
  • User Superyetkin fixed a wrong date in Thai calendar for years between 1912 and 1941. T68648
  • C. Scott Ananian changed the code which adds non-breaking space before colons in French to be more selective. T197902
  • Bartosz Dziewoński fixed an issue which caused some pages to sort incorrectly because their sortkeys were truncated incorrectly. T200623
  • Bartosz Dziewoński fixed an issue which caused incorrect paging in some special pages using dates due to incorrect timezone handling. T171110

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.

  • Timo Tijhof, Santhosh Thottingal and James Forrester performed maintenance on documentation, build tools, tests and code.
  • Santhosh Thottingal released version 1.0.5.

jquery.uls

  • No changes.

jquery.webfonts

  • No changes.

jquery.ime

  • No changes.

translatewiki.net edit

See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • Support was added for new project Grant Metrics.
  • Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Minty Docs.
  • AbuseFilter and CheckUser was installed to combat vandalism.

Stats edit

  • About 85 (+10) new users
  • About 370 (+40) translators made about 45k (+2k) edits
  • About 70 (=) translators reviewed about 6k (-1k) translations

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

TwnMainPage edit

Deployments and other site related updates edit

  • Kartik Mistry improved error handling code for Matxin MT.

Cross team work/requirements edit

Team news edit

  • Niklas Laxström promoted to Senior Software Engineer
  • Amir Aharoni participated in Wikimania, Cape Town
  • Kartik Mistry participated and presented in DebConf 2018, Taiwan
  • Language team office hour was hosted. (Recording).