Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/November

October 2018

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2018

December 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.

• Measurements for performance improvements in the access to external translation services.
• More reliable template processing to avoid issues with templates to block paragraphs to be added to the translation.
• Better control of content quality by adding to a tracking category published translations with unreviewed contents ( you can check the tracking category list on any language for the category with the code "cx-unreviewed-translation-category").
• Improved support for links by correcting a styling regression.
• More reliable saving process by preventing errors in the initial save attempt.
• Support for references added by name, references are correctly transferred to the translation even if their definition is in a different paragraph.
• Improved support for Apertium by making tests independent of the testing servers infrastructure, and updated dependencies (lex-tools, separable, and others) that were needed for updating the French-Catalan support.
• Support for blocked users, and partially-blocked users to access the entry points.
• Performance improved for the API access to translation services.
• Better monitoring of translation services for real-time tracking of errors and availability (view dashboard), and weekly use of translation services over time (view dashboard).
• Improved support for links by updating the link information after a link is added.
• Better guidance by allowing access to additional details from the issue summary.
• More reliable approach to measure content modifications by avoiding the content typed by the user to be counted as machine translated content when starting from scratch.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	November 2018
Articles created (during the month)	10,214
Articles created till end of month	385,700
Number of new translators (during the month)	1119
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	5560
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	7394
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	29,718
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6343
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2877
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1645
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5190
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1807
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	552
Articles deleted (during the month)	754

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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

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.