Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/May

April 2018

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for May 2018

June 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.

Content Translation

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

• Support for Captcha confirmation when target wikis request it.
• Layout adjustments to keep article titles visually aligned, make visual alignment reliable when resizing the browser window, and avoid menus to hide behind the main content.
• Showing a clean source article by removing irrelevant sections and hidden categories.
• Definition of success metrics: number of newcomers, percentage of successful completion, number of errors, and translation survival.
• Support for links with new link cards allowing to preview their content in both languages and manipulate links, support to search for links in the target wiki, and better control for text input cursor placement when editing links.
• Use of updated API for short descriptions which allows local wikis to override Wikidata default descriptions.
• Starting translations from a link is more fluent by automatically selecting the article to translate.
• More reliable saving by including source information, and language selection to avoid duplicates.
• Improved testability: editor version is persistent when navigating from dashboard, and captcha support added in the test environment.
• Automatic translation card with options to select the Machine Translation provider from those available, copying the source text or starting from scratch. Modifications on the original automatic translations are kept persistent with an option to reset them.
• Improving the persistence of categories and solving issues with missing categories.
• Improvements in code modularization, API parameter consistency, and regressions in the visual alignment of paragraphs.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	May 2018
Articles created (during the month)	12184
Articles created till end of month	323728
Number of new translators (during the month)	1107
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)	6572
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	26126
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5652
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2476
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1456
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4553
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1595
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	475
Articles deleted (during the month)	821

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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.

Usage data

• Translatable pages: Meta 4405; MediaWiki.org 3677; Commons 756 [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 206 wikis Wikiapiary

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: 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

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

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