Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/July
 June 2020 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for July 2020 | August 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.
Highlights edit
Content Translation edit
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 2.
Usage data edit
| Content Translation monthly data | July 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 18849 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 695224 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1130 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10012 | |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10056 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1872 | ar |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
43026 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9462 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4318 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2508 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
7999 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2800 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1007 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 450 |
Other statistics edit
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| my | 25 | 500.00% |
| th | 55 | 458.33% |
| tl | 72 | 400.00% |
| kn | 120 | 218.18% |
| ku | 6 | 200.00% |
| mr | 72 | 160.00% |
| ja | 617 | 129.08% |
| ne | 16 | 114.29% |
| bg | 41 | 110.81% |
| ig | 2 | 100.00% |
| min | 1 | 100.00% |
| myv | 1 | 100.00% |
| pnb | 1 | 100.00% |
| uz | 2 | 100.00% |
| cy | 24 | 96.00% |
| ur | 204 | 93.58% |
| ml | 54 | 85.71% |
| el | 89 | 80.18% |
| pa | 58 | 74.36% |
| hi | 37 | 72.55% |
| ky | 4 | 66.67% |
| ar | 734 | 58.35% |
| de | 47 | 52.81% |
| fa | 527 | 52.39% |
| kk | 2 | 50.00% |
| la | 2 | 50.00% |
| lb | 1 | 50.00% |
| sv | 20 | 42.55% |
| ta | 60 | 40.82% |
| bjn | 9 | 34.62% |
| be | 21 | 34.43% |
| da | 10 | 25.64% |
| ga | 6 | 24.00% |
| jv | 9 | 22.50% |
| gl | 54 | 19.29% |
| bn | 73 | 16.94% |
| en | 43 | 14.29% |
| simple | 1 | 9.09% |
| zh | 25 | 7.72% |
| he | 37 | 6.83% |
| eo | 2 | 6.25% |
| es | 83 | 5.28% |
| az | 1 | 3.57% |
| vi | 15 | 1.53% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| ar | 1992 |
| es | 1656 |
| fa | 1533 |
| fr | 1280 |
| ja | 1095 |
| vi | 996 |
| uk | 905 |
| pt | 825 |
| tr | 690 |
| ca | 682 |
| he | 579 |
| bn | 504 |
| it | 422 |
| ur | 422 |
| zh | 349 |
| en | 344 |
| gl | 334 |
| ru | 266 |
| cs | 207 |
| ta | 207 |
| el | 200 |
| ms | 192 |
| nl | 189 |
| kn | 175 |
| ro | 145 |
| sr | 140 |
| de | 136 |
| pa | 136 |
| ml | 117 |
| mr | 117 |
| id | 100 |
| sq | 96 |
| tl | 90 |
| hi | 88 |
| pl | 86 |
| be | 82 |
| ko | 82 |
| bg | 78 |
| mk | 77 |
| eu | 71 |
| nn | 69 |
| sv | 67 |
| th | 67 |
| af | 52 |
| cy | 49 |
| da | 49 |
| jv | 49 |
| hr | 45 |
| bjn | 35 |
| eo | 34 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| sah | 230 |
| kab | 11 |
| si | 7 |
| dv | 3 |
| fy | 3 |
| am | 2 |
| an | 2 |
| vec | 2 |
| zea | 2 |
| ang | 1 |
| bi | 1 |
| bpy | 1 |
| chr | 1 |
| co | 1 |
| dsb | 1 |
| eml | 1 |
| frr | 1 |
| got | 1 |
| hsb | 1 |
| lij | 1 |
| lo | 1 |
| mai | 1 |
| mg | 1 |
| mwl | 1 |
| ss | 1 |
| szl | 1 |
| vls | 1 |
| wa | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| kw | 13 |
| mt | 7 |
| yo | 6 |
| azb | 3 |
| br | 3 |
| mn | 3 |
| wuu | 3 |
| wo | 2 |
| xh | 2 |
| bar | 1 |
| bcl | 1 |
| ff | 1 |
| gd | 1 |
| gn | 1 |
| hif | 1 |
| mi | 1 |
| nap | 1 |
| udm | 1 |
| ug | 1 |
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. Improvements made in the last month include:
- Extend page translation syntax by adding instruction to disable wrapping (Phab:T256625)
- Simplify the output for the Special:PageTranslation (Gerrit Patch)
- Convert special page translation marking form to OOUI (Gerrit Patch)
- Display help message when editing a translatable page source (Phab:T192052)
- Merge and bundle various scripts and styles together to reduce network requests.
- SearchTranslations: Fix display of message groups in facet sidebar (Phab:T257268)
- PageTranslation: Update the multiple language selector to OOUI
- Remove various features from the legacy fallback editor to reduce code debt
- Remove the custom edit buttons
- Remove the translation in other language infobox
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 edit
Universal Language Selector edit
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,
- Stop loading ULS in unsupported skins. (Phab:T237036, Phab:T235712)
- Localisation and maintenance updates.
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Other extensions edit
Babel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- Localisation, performance 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 edit
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 this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.
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.
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support edit
- Released version 1.0.2 and 1.0.1. See changelog.
- Fix the way errors are thrown. (Github:a120a55cb1315975281212ca86cd3b7b5ff19b62)
- Update language-data version
translatewiki.net edit
See also translatewiki.net news page.
- 2020-07-29: There was approximately 6 minutes of downtime because of an incorrect configuration change.
Stats edit
- About 91 (-6) new users [2]
- About 395 (+25) translators made about 35.900 (+1.800) edits [3][4]
- About 105 (+5) translators reviewed about 17.500 (+4.900) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage edit
- Localisation and maintenance updates.
- Add Obolo (ann) and Mara (mrh) (Gerrit Patch)
- Add Eleme language (Gerrit Patch)
Cross team work/requirements edit
Public communication and outreach edit
- Language showcase July 2020, presented by Abijeet Patro, Niklas Laxström, and Amir E. Aharoni, on the topic of translatewiki.net and recent updates in it.