Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/January

December 2018

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2019

February 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.

Content Translation

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

• Improved error communication by surfacing pending issues when publishing.
• More reliable navigation in the new translation dialog by opening links on a new window.
• More reliable control of unreviewed content by adjusting the thresholds of the warning, reducing false positives and more strictly checking content copied from the source article.
• Version 2 enabled by default, users migrated are shown an explanatory message. It's still possible to switch to version 1.
• Better support for inline templates, keeping their contents in the translation as plain-text when the corresponding template is missing in the target wiki.
• More clear language for the translation options with a clarifying message when machine translation is not available for the selected languages.
• More fluent experience by avoiding scroll to jump after adding a link.
• Improved support for transferring templates across languages by mapping parameters based on their names when template metadata is lacking.
• More reliable generation of the published content by avoiding ID attributes to be included for tables, and keeping HTML entities (including spaces) when transferred into the translation.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	January 2019
Articles created (during the month)	12313
Articles created till end of month	406848
Number of new translators (during the month)	1174
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	5658
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	7677 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	31022
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6648
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3022
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1714
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5447
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1881
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	575
Articles deleted (during the month)	628

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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.

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