Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/June

May 2018 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for June 2018 July 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

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Content Translation

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

Usage data

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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

Translate

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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

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  • Translatable pages: Meta 4429; MediaWiki.org 3693; Commons 764 [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

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


Other extensions

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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

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MediaWiki core internationalization

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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

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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

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See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

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  • About 75 (-15) new users
  • About 330 (=) translators made about 43k (-4k) edits
  • About 70 (-10) translators reviewed about 7k (-2k) translations

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

TwnMainPage

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Cross team work/requirements

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Team news

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