Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/March

February 2019 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2019 April 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.


Usage data edit

Content Translation monthly data March 2019
Articles created (during the month) 14938
Articles created till end of month 431989
Number of new translators (during the month) 1218
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

5700
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

7890
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

32199
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6928
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3152
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1793
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

5681
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1993
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

615
Articles deleted (during the month) 504

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.

  • During translation hiding the priority language notice if target language is message documentation. (T217419)
  • Fixed page name suggestion dropdown not working on Special:PageMigration. (T217726)
  • Fixed a scenario where the message workflow status would appear when translating to the source language. (T217637)
  • Fixed broken Special:PageMigration due to errors from MessageCollection API. (T217727)
  • Added a link to Special:PageMigration after a page is marked for translation for the first time. (T178642)
  • Removed display of the workflow status for the source language / message group on the Stats page. (T160511)

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

Usage data edit

  • Translatable pages: Meta 4810 (+36); MediaWiki.org 4138 (+20); Commons 1145 (+198) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 207 (+0) 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

  • Amir Aharoni and Kartik Mistry cleaned up failing tests and switched to stylelint and eslint.
  • Amir Aharoni added New tilde-based layouts for several languages of Africa: Kabyle, Kabiye, Kikuyu, Luganda, Lingala, Malagasy, Northern Sotho, Koyraboro Senni, Sango, Sotho, Venda
  • Yuping Zuo added Latin Pinyin transliteration keyboard.

translatewiki.net edit

See also translatewiki.net news page.


Stats edit


TwnMainPage edit

Deployments and other site related updates edit

Cross team work/requirements edit

  • Work in progress to migrate cxserver service to Kubernetes with SRE.

Public communication and outreach edit

Team status edit