Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/February
 January 2019 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2019 | March 2019 |
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. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.
- Published deletion ratio comparison showing the percentage of deleted articles for those created with and without Content translation and how these evolved in time for the target wikis.
- Published the percentage of translations compared to total article creations, showing how much translation has been used as a way to create articles since Content Translation was available in different communities.
- Source article, which is being translated, is now displayed in Visual Editor's read-only mode to allow users to explore references, templates and other content with non visible information from the source article
- Paragraphs are now checked for potential machine translation abuse when input focus moves out of a paragraph.
- Content Translation is now more lightweight and less of a burden on every page view, transferring less data for every Wikipedia page
- Unpublished and very old ContentTranslation drafts are gradually being discarded. See details about process.
Usage data edit
| Content Translation monthly data | February 2019 |
|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 11143 |
| Articles created till end of month | 417465 |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 796 |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5665 |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
7764 |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
31497 |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6742 |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3070 |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1744 |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5564 |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1921 |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
593 |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 308 |
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Articles published. -
Deletion ratio. -
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
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.
- Special:SearchTranslations handles better some pathological search queries.
- Abijeet Patro fixed showing/hiding priority language notices on Special:Translate when language was changed using the selector.
Usage data edit
- Translatable pages: Meta 4784; MediaWiki.org 4118; Commons 947 [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 207 wikis Wikiapiary
Universal Language Selector edit
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.
Other extensions edit
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 edit
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.
Stats edit
TwnMainPage edit
Cross team work/requirements edit
Team status edit
- Abijeet Patro joins the team as a Software Engineer (Contract). He will be working on Translate and translatewiki.net.