Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/February

January 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2020

March 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	February 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	12632
Articles created till end of month	594358
Number of new translators (during the month)	1065
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	10011	vi
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	9279	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1284	fr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	38964
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	8429
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3791
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2200
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	7034
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2450
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	857
Articles deleted (during the month)	321

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
ast	27	2700.00%
bar	9	900.00%
ceb	8	800.00%
mr	14	700.00%
ka	17	566.67%
or	22	550.00%
is	16	533.33%
sq	93	516.67%
bcl	5	500.00%
diq	36	450.00%
su	17	425.00%
mk	139	283.67%
ha	12	240.00%
hi	68	200.00%
so	2	200.00%
sr	78	125.81%
oc	10	100.00%
sc	5	100.00%
gu	7	58.33%
simple	4	57.14%
te	9	52.94%
ko	25	43.86%
sv	17	37.78%
lv	1	20.00%
tr	119	19.93%
sl	7	19.44%
tg	18	16.82%
eu	4	16.67%
et	1	14.29%
he	56	13.27%
de	9	11.69%
it	42	10.91%
fr	122	10.29%
ckb	3	5.56%
gl	13	4.87%
id	2	4.08%
vi	16	3.33%
bn	7	2.61%
es	4	0.32%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
fr	1308
es	1269
ar	840
tr	716
uk	702
vi	496
he	478
fa	461
it	427
pt	375
ca	358
zh	336
ru	328
ms	294
ta	281
gl	280
bn	275
ja	256
en	236
mk	188
el	174
sr	140
tg	125
cs	119
ro	116
sq	111
hi	102
pa	89
de	86
ko	82
be	75
nl	72
ml	62
sv	62
ckb	57
ba	56
kn	54
id	51
ur	51
pl	47
diq	44
sl	43
ak	41
eo	41
af	32
bjn	32
hu	30
ast	28
eu	28
or	26

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

Language	Previous month
eml	24
ne	6
tyv	5
nov	2
tt	2
gom	1
pih	1
pnb	1
rn	1
rue	1
sa	1
to	1
vls	1

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

Language	This month
bjn	32
co	7
km	6
sh	4
ts	3
zu	3
br	2
glk	2
ig	2
lb	2
frp	1
gag	1
gd	1
lg	1
lmo	1
lrc	1
nds	1
om	1
tn	1
tw	1
ug	1
zea	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,

• Removed old MessageChecker code. This has been replaced by the new validator framework. (Phab:T241465)

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 4796 (+30); MediaWiki.org 4731 (+14); Commons 1304 (+14) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 306 (+1) 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,

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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, performance 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.
• Improvements to the earlier changes made for sending user's message. (Phab:T144780)

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 2020.01 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2020.

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 translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• About 71 (+5) new users [2]
• About 297 (-15) translators made about 42.100 (+100) edits [3][4]
• About 75 (-3) translators reviewed about 16.300 (-16.400) translations[5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation updates only.

Deployments and other site related updates

• OpusMT machine translation support has been added for English->Assamese (as) language pair.
• Added Yandex MT support for Chuvash (cv) language.

Team status

• Chelsea Riley joined the Technical Program Management team in the Product department. She will be the Program Manager for the Inuka and Language teams.