Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/December

November 2019 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2019 January 2020

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. Check out also the updates about version 2.

Usage data edit

Content Translation monthly data December 2019 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 15007
Articles created till end of month 567225
Number of new translators (during the month) 1112
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10003 vi
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

8997 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 1598 ar
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

37517
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

8101
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3665
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

2124
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6772
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

2357
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

819
Articles deleted (during the month)

Other statistics edit

Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
oc 26 2600.00%
sco 20 2000.00%
ny 11 1100.00%
ss 11 1100.00%
yi 11 1100.00%
te 200 588.24%
am 4 400.00%
th 18 360.00%
ku 7 350.00%
ba 269 332.10%
ast 3 300.00%
fj 3 300.00%
mi 3 300.00%
sc 6 300.00%
ta 412 271.05%
sq 52 216.67%
ha 15 214.29%
ko 70 189.19%
ckb 88 187.23%
mr 8 160.00%
sl 19 158.33%
diq 14 155.56%
hr 9 150.00%
tg 79 133.90%
hy 4 133.33%
lt 3 100.00%
tw 3 100.00%
et 5 83.33%
ar 708 77.46%
cs 84 76.36%
eo 20 74.07%
nl 53 73.61%
as 2 66.67%
uk 362 65.23%
da 13 61.90%
fa 230 53.12%
pl 17 51.52%
os 2 50.00%
simple 1 50.00%
sv 26 50.00%
pt 194 48.99%
lv 6 40.00%
bs 5 33.33%
ka 3 33.33%
su 1 33.33%
ts 1 33.33%
ur 35 31.25%
tl 12 27.91%
en 63 27.27%
my 3 27.27%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
ar 1622
es 1350
fr 1233
uk 917
fa 663
pt 590
ta 564
pa 531
ca 517
bn 426
it 390
he 365
ba 350
ja 348
ru 340
vi 327
zh 296
en 294
ms 252
te 234
el 201
cs 194
gl 193
ro 150
ur 147
ml 142
tg 138
ckb 135
tr 135
nl 125
ko 107
mk 89
sv 78
sq 76
sr 67
sw 63
hi 57
tl 55
pl 50
id 48
kn 48
eo 47
de 45
nn 38
hu 35
da 34
fi 33
gu 33
be 32
sl 31
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
sn 12
la 5
bar 4
so 4
is 2
mzn 2
nap 2
om 2
rm 2
ang 1
ay 1
bm 1
ceb 1
ch 1
chy 1
co 1
eml 1
fo 1
gan 1
gd 1
got 1
gv 1
haw 1
jam 1
kl 1
li 1
lij 1
lmo 1
ltg 1
pap 1
pih 1
pms 1
qu 1
scn 1
sm 1
tet 1
tn 1
tum 1
ve 1
vo 1
xh 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
ti 19
ig 13
wo 11
tyv 7
pnb 3
glk 2
arz 1
av 1
bi 1
cv 1
fy 1
km 1
kw 1
ky 1
lb 1
new 1
ps 1
rue 1
sah 1
sh 1
ug 1

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. Improvements made in the last month include,

  • Prevent duplicate translation unit error from showing twice. (Phab:T236153)
  • Convert PageDisplayTitle to language variant. (Phab:T230681)

And a handful of other behind the scenes improvements. Please follow link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data edit

  • Translatable pages: Meta 4686 (+4); MediaWiki.org 4418 (+37); Commons 1266 (+4) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 300 (0) wikis [1].

Comment: Changes for December, 2019 might appear less because the November, 2019 report was made quite late.

Universal Language Selector edit

Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made in the past month,

  • Update setlang to display confirmation dialog to change language. (Phab:T63115)

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions edit

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

  • Added a fix for Translation Notification Bot sending the same message multiple times to every translator. (Phab:T144780)

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle edit

The MediaWiki language extension bundle (MLEB) provides an easy way to bring ultimate language support to your MediaWiki. The bundle is a collection of a selected few MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual.

Next MLEB release will be in January, 2020.

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.

Project Milkshake edit

Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net edit

See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • On December 20th, 2019 we moved to a new server. Follow this link for more details. Thanks to https://netcup.de for making the server resources available.

Stats edit

  • About 59 (+3) new users [2]
  • About 304 (+1) translators made about 42.200 (-6.300) edits [3][4]
  • About 80 (-9) translators reviewed about 8.050 (-16.950) translations[5][6]

TwnMainPage edit

Deployments and other site related updates edit

Cross team work/requirements edit

Public communication and outreach edit

Team status edit