Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/March
 February 2020 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2020 | April 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
editContent Translation
editContent Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 2.
Usage data
edit| Content Translation monthly data | March 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 20704 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 614666 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1484 | |
| 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) |
9418 | vi |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 2149 | ar |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
39862 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8633 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3919 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2258 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
7193 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2536 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
878 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 495 |
Other statistics
edit| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| bcl | 65 | 1083.33% |
| cy | 28 | 933.33% |
| ku | 22 | 550.00% |
| min | 11 | 550.00% |
| sw | 26 | 433.33% |
| hy | 60 | 428.57% |
| ha | 61 | 381.25% |
| my | 47 | 361.54% |
| ht | 35 | 318.18% |
| ba | 178 | 317.86% |
| mn | 3 | 300.00% |
| ml | 175 | 282.26% |
| lv | 15 | 250.00% |
| eu | 66 | 244.44% |
| tl | 34 | 226.67% |
| id | 113 | 221.57% |
| yo | 6 | 200.00% |
| fa | 903 | 196.73% |
| simple | 19 | 172.73% |
| ar | 1406 | 168.99% |
| an | 3 | 150.00% |
| oc | 30 | 150.00% |
| uk | 1030 | 147.56% |
| ceb | 13 | 144.44% |
| ast | 40 | 142.86% |
| ga | 17 | 130.77% |
| hi | 132 | 129.41% |
| pa | 112 | 127.27% |
| da | 25 | 125.00% |
| bs | 17 | 113.33% |
| sk | 10 | 111.11% |
| pl | 50 | 106.38% |
| jv | 6 | 100.00% |
| ti | 1 | 100.00% |
| ro | 104 | 89.66% |
| cs | 103 | 86.55% |
| ta | 239 | 85.36% |
| bn | 225 | 81.82% |
| af | 26 | 81.25% |
| sl | 33 | 76.74% |
| hu | 17 | 60.71% |
| sc | 6 | 60.00% |
| gl | 154 | 55.00% |
| ka | 11 | 55.00% |
| fi | 12 | 54.55% |
| sv | 33 | 53.23% |
| hr | 9 | 52.94% |
| ja | 129 | 50.99% |
| ig | 1 | 50.00% |
| si | 1 | 50.00% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| ar | 2238 |
| fr | 1951 |
| uk | 1728 |
| es | 1690 |
| fa | 1362 |
| tr | 744 |
| he | 657 |
| vi | 627 |
| pt | 533 |
| ca | 522 |
| ta | 519 |
| bn | 500 |
| it | 480 |
| ru | 477 |
| gl | 434 |
| zh | 404 |
| ja | 382 |
| ms | 329 |
| en | 280 |
| el | 246 |
| ml | 237 |
| ba | 234 |
| hi | 234 |
| cs | 222 |
| ro | 220 |
| pa | 200 |
| id | 164 |
| tg | 149 |
| mk | 140 |
| sq | 133 |
| ko | 103 |
| pl | 97 |
| sv | 95 |
| sr | 94 |
| eu | 93 |
| de | 92 |
| nl | 80 |
| ha | 77 |
| sl | 76 |
| hy | 74 |
| kn | 74 |
| bcl | 71 |
| ast | 68 |
| ur | 65 |
| be | 61 |
| my | 60 |
| af | 58 |
| eo | 50 |
| oc | 50 |
| tl | 49 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| co | 7 |
| ts | 3 |
| yi | 2 |
| frp | 1 |
| gag | 1 |
| gd | 1 |
| ky | 1 |
| lg | 1 |
| lmo | 1 |
| nds | 1 |
| om | 1 |
| ss | 1 |
| tn | 1 |
| tw | 1 |
| wuu | 1 |
| zea | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| ne | 25 |
| tyv | 23 |
| sd | 21 |
| myv | 11 |
| am | 5 |
| haw | 4 |
| lij | 3 |
| mai | 3 |
| pnb | 3 |
| se | 3 |
| got | 2 |
| hif | 2 |
| ia | 2 |
| mwl | 2 |
| scn | 2 |
| st | 2 |
| tt | 2 |
| ay | 1 |
| azb | 1 |
| bpy | 1 |
| cv | 1 |
| eml | 1 |
| ext | 1 |
| fo | 1 |
| ks | 1 |
| kv | 1 |
| li | 1 |
| mt | 1 |
| new | 1 |
| rue | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| tk | 1 |
Translate
editWikimedia'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,
- Show assistant languages in the order defined - (Gerrit Patch)
- Expand toggles in message documentation are inactive when linking to a message directly (Phab:T248265)
- Test and add support for PHP 7.4 (Phab:T247657)
- Remove PHP entry point (Phab:T228055)
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
editUniversal Language Selector
editUniversal 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
editBabel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.
TranslationNotifications:
- Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.
MassMessage:
- Added support for sending a normal page / translation page as message. (Phab:T165128)
- Count on Special:Statistics is less useful due to MassMessageSubmitJob. (Phab:T58878)
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
editThe 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.
There will be an MLEB release this month. Once the release happens, we will update this section with the relevant information.
MediaWiki core internationalization
editChanges 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
editProject Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.
jquery.i18n
jquery.uls
jquery.webfonts
jquery.ime
translatewiki.net
editSee translatewiki.net news page.
Stats
edit- About 85 (+14) new users [2]
- About 328 (+31) translators made about 51.000 (+8.900) edits [3][4]
- About 87 (+12) translators reviewed about 10.100 (-6.200) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
edit- Localisation updates only.
Deployments and other site related updates
edit- New API for finding missing sections in an article pair has been added (/suggest/sections/title/from/to) in cxserver.