Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/September

August 2018

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for September 2018

October 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.

• Basic control for too much unmodified content warning, showing a warning at the paragraph level when machine translation has not been edited enough.
• Basic control to prevent publishing translation with very little modifications in the whole document showing an error.
• More reliable handling of failing Machine Translation services.
• Improved behaviour for "undo" when marking links as missing, and avoiding interference with saving.
• A #contenttranslation-v2 tag is added to published articles with version 2 to facilitate analytics. The usual #contenttranslation tag still applies to articles published with any version.
• Improvements in the issue communication system to support general issues that are not attached to a specific paragraph, and code refactoring to reduce duplications with the progress tracking system.
• More reliable application of machine translation to gracefully handle the failure of translation services, its application to references by avoiding repeated cite tags and repeated reference contents, a more reliable integration with Apertium.
• Communication of session expiration in the translation dashboard.
• Dashboard to show the translations published with the new version and the number of users publishing these.
• Support for switching between version 1 and 2 to allow users to test the new version, and provide access to information about the new version.
• Graphs for measuring the number of translators and articles published with the new version.
• Optimization to reduce the amount of data required to adapt templates improving the time to save contents, and better visual display of templates.
• Improved support for templates avoiding infoboxes to be missing on source articles, better support for coordinate templates avoiding these to break the visual alignment of paragraphs, and support for adding the list of references without errors.
• More reliable saving process avoiding blanked sections to remain unsaved.
• Improved visual alignment of paragraphs to avoid new templates added to the document to break it.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	September 2018
Articles created (during the month)	12381
Articles created till end of month	365423
Number of new translators (during the month)	787
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	4921
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	7066
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	28361
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6051
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2731
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1618
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4970
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1739
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	524
Articles deleted (during the month)	461

• 
  Articles published.
• 
  Deletion ratio.
• 
  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 Language Extension Bundle

• No release this month.

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

• No changes.

jquery.webfonts

• No changes.

jquery.ime

• No changes.

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

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