Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/January

December 2019

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2020

February 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	January 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	14971
Articles created till end of month	582019
Number of new translators (during the month)	1222
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)	9143	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1229	es
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	38353
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	8263
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3708
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2170
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6917
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2397
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	840
Articles deleted (during the month)	409

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
ak	246	24600.00%
hy	62	885.71%
ky	7	700.00%
af	42	350.00%
tr	465	344.44%
arz	3	300.00%
si	3	300.00%
min	22	244.44%
be	57	178.13%
th	33	143.48%
simple	4	133.33%
az	15	125.00%
eo	51	108.51%
bg	14	100.00%
tt	1	100.00%
war	2	100.00%
pl	47	95.92%
ms	234	92.86%
as	4	80.00%
de	36	80.00%
hr	10	66.67%
kn	31	64.58%
my	9	64.29%
yo	3	60.00%
sco	11	52.38%
zh	149	51.03%
an	1	50.00%
vi	158	48.62%
gl	74	38.34%
ku	3	33.33%
nn	12	31.58%
bs	6	30.00%
uk	268	29.29%
el	56	27.86%
ro	36	24.16%
hu	7	20.00%
ne	1	20.00%
ru	58	17.11%
sl	5	16.13%
he	58	15.89%
ca	79	15.31%
fi	4	12.12%
eu	1	4.35%
id	1	2.08%
ja	7	2.01%
ur	1	0.68%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1269
ar	1196
fr	1193
uk	1183
fa	658
tr	600
ca	595
ta	551
pt	494
ms	486
vi	483
zh	441
he	423
ru	397
it	386
ja	355
pa	271
bn	268
gl	267
el	257
en	249
ak	247
ro	185
cs	149
ur	148
tg	107
eo	98
pl	96
ml	92
be	89
nl	88
de	81
kn	79
ba	72
hy	69
sr	62
ko	58
th	56
af	54
ckb	54
nn	50
id	49
mk	49
sv	45
hu	42
fi	37
sl	36
hi	34
da	33
sco	32

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

Language	Previous month
ig	13
ny	12
wo	11
os	6
tw	6
am	5
st	5
fj	4
mi	4
ts	4
glk	2
myv	2
av	1
bi	1
cv	1
ee	1
fy	1
io	1
km	1
kw	1
lb	1
mt	1
new	1
ps	1
sah	1
sd	1
sh	1
zu	1

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

Language	This month
eml	24
la	6
vec	4
is	3
nov	2
sm	2
bar	1
ceb	1
gom	1
pih	1
rn	1
sa	1
so	1
to	1
vls	1
wu	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,

• Translate extension now requires PHP 7.2.x and MediaWiki 1.33 or above.
• Improve performance with large message groups by implement maximum query size in MessageCollection. (Phab:T230100)

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 4766 (+80); MediaWiki.org 4717 (+299); Commons 1290 (+24) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 305 (+5) 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,

• Add support for keyboard events for the setlang dialog (Gerrit Patch)
• Remove setlang URL parameter on dialog close (Gerrit Patch)

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):

• Updated to cldr 36.

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 2020.01 was released this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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 66 (+7) new users [2]
• About 312 (+8) translators made about 42.000 (-200) edits [3][4]
• About 78 (-2) translators reviewed about 32.700 (+24.650) translations[5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation updates only.

Team status

• Petar Petković, Software Engineer on the Language team for more than 2 years left the team in January 2020. He had been instrumental in many of the feature updates for Content Translation. The Language team thanks him for his service and for being a valuable colleague.