Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/August

July 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2020

September 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.

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 2.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	August 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	19734
Articles created till end of month	714619
Number of new translators (during the month)	1013
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	10012	vi
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	10172	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2352	ar
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	43614
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9588
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4374
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2536
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	8135
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2874
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1033
Articles deleted (during the month)	464

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
tt	397	7940.00%
ha	29	2900.00%
wo	24	2400.00%
ku	136	1511.11%
te	39	1300.00%
oc	16	800.00%
ig	29	725.00%
ba	187	644.83%
gu	17	566.67%
ff	4	400.00%
is	4	400.00%
gd	3	300.00%
sk	10	250.00%
tl	217	241.11%
yi	13	185.71%
diq	16	177.78%
uz	7	175.00%
jv	81	165.31%
eo	35	102.94%
bar	1	100.00%
br	3	100.00%
ceb	1	100.00%
kk	6	100.00%
km	1	100.00%
sc	2	100.00%
sh	1	100.00%
sw	7	100.00%
ne	27	90.00%
hi	79	89.77%
ka	10	83.33%
sl	5	83.33%
sq	78	82.11%
ga	25	80.65%
hu	17	68.00%
eu	43	60.56%
hy	12	46.15%
ml	47	40.17%
mn	1	33.33%
ta	69	33.33%
da	16	32.65%
kw	4	30.77%
ru	77	29.06%
mk	21	27.27%
it	110	26.57%
ar	431	21.70%
nn	13	18.84%
es	265	16.03%
id	14	14.43%
pt	79	9.67%
ja	76	6.97%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
ar	2417
es	1918
fr	1168
ja	1167
fa	1145
vi	952
uk	933
pt	896
tr	724
ca	596
he	535
it	524
bn	497
tt	402
ru	342
zh	339
tl	307
ta	276
en	266
ak	223
gl	217
ba	216
ur	211
el	177
sq	173
hi	167
ml	164
ku	145
cs	137
jv	130
ro	119
eu	114
id	111
mk	98
nl	93
de	87
pl	86
sr	84
ko	82
nn	82
kn	81
eo	69
pa	69
da	65
ne	57
ga	56
hu	42
sv	42
te	42
hy	38

Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month

Language	Previous month
os	4
azb	3
wuu	3
myv	2
pnb	2
xh	2
bcl	1
gn	1
hif	1
tk	1
udm	1
ug	1
zu	1

Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month

Language	This month
ak	223
si	22
ie	8
om	7
mai	4
sa	3
chr	2
ps	2
am	1
av	1
bo	1
ce	1
hak	1
kab	1
ksh	1
lg	1
pfl	1
rm	1
rw	1
sah	1
sn	1
st	1
ts	1
vec	1

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. Improvements made in the last month include:

• Remove features and code from the old translation editor.
• Force translation pages to have same content model as source page (Phab:T258756)
• Do not list all pages when marking a page for translation (Phab:T255334)

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

Usage data

• Translatable pages: Meta 5717 (+72); MediaWiki.org 5288 (+15); Commons 1358 (-4) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 366 (+53) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

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

• Hide ULS language settings in Minerva skin (Phab:T259037)

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

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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.

MLEB 2020.07 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2020.10

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.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• No changes

banana-i18n

• No changes

jquery.i18n

• Maintenance update only

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No changes

jquery.ime

• No changes

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• About 71 (-20) new users [2]
• About 364 (-31) translators made about 40.300 (+4.300) edits [3][4]
• About 86 (-19) translators reviewed about 25.800 (+8.000) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates.