Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/May

April 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for May 2020

June 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	May 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	21900
Articles created till end of month	658861
Number of new translators (during the month)	1570
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)	9290	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2252	fr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	41633
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9087
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4163
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2419
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	7643
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2680
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	952
Articles deleted (during the month)	520

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
as	61	1220.00%
sco	9	450.00%
nn	83	415.00%
ka	89	404.55%
an	3	300.00%
bar	3	300.00%
lij	6	300.00%
kk	13	260.00%
min	2	200.00%
st	2	200.00%
tl	53	196.30%
id	130	175.68%
gu	11	157.14%
ig	16	145.45%
myv	34	117.24%
mr	35	102.94%
ceb	1	100.00%
co	2	100.00%
ext	1	100.00%
io	1	100.00%
kw	1	100.00%
mzn	1	100.00%
pms	1	100.00%
sah	3	100.00%
su	1	100.00%
ga	12	85.71%
mt	17	77.27%
af	48	71.64%
hr	17	65.38%
tr	596	62.54%
yi	3	60.00%
nl	51	57.30%
bjn	20	57.14%
tyv	29	51.79%
fy	1	50.00%
simple	14	46.67%
bn	171	38.08%
mk	50	34.25%
sr	56	33.73%
eo	10	33.33%
ko	29	33.33%
cy	9	29.03%
th	4	26.67%
la	2	25.00%
de	29	24.37%
hu	16	22.86%
te	6	20.69%
gl	68	20.61%
ca	119	20.31%
ku	1	20.00%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
fr	2325
uk	1993
tr	1549
ar	1461
es	1439
fa	1126
it	844
ca	705
vi	699
pt	677
bn	620
he	603
ru	428
ro	415
gl	398
en	378
ja	362
sq	357
zh	314
ba	261
ms	234
cs	222
sr	222
el	216
id	204
mk	196
ml	170
de	148
nl	140
pa	124
ko	116
ta	116
af	115
ka	111
eu	103
ha	103
nn	103
pl	93
kn	92
sv	87
hu	86
be	85
tyv	85
tl	80
hi	73
mr	69
as	66
myv	63
ckb	58
sl	58

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

Language	Previous month
azb	11
war	7
lmo	4
lg	2
ang	1
ch	1
fj	1
gd	1
got	1
li	1
mg	1
pag	1
pap	1
se	1
tk	1
udm	1

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

Language	This month
nah	15
os	5
kab	4
am	2
arz	2
km	2
pfl	2
pnb	2
sh	2
ts	2
tt	2
ug	2
br	1
ff	1
fo	1
gan	1
glk	1
ia	1
pdc	1
ps	1
rmy	1
rn	1
rue	1
rw	1
sn	1
tw	1
xh	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:

• Fix Translation memory suggestion page sources are sometimes duplicated. (Phab:T249906)
• Fix "nothing to translate" error on moving from review to page mode. (Phab:T49986)
• Split Message index rebuild into a separate job, and deduplicate the job to improve performance. (Phab:T221119)
• MovePage: update help link to point to Move translatable page doc
• Fix PageMigration not showing field for first translation unit. (Phab:T139456)
• Move/Delete pages: Only display the other subpages section if the namespace supports subpages. (Gerrit Patch)
• Allow patrolling edits to translation pages. (Phab:T151172)

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 4600 (-2); MediaWiki.org 5049 (+110); Commons 1343 (+8) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 310 (+4) 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,

• Remove jQuery 3 migration warnings. (Phab:T175236)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

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:

• Fix issues associated with the previously implemented bug-fix for Translation Notification Bot sending the same message multiple times. (Phab:T144780)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

MassMessage:

• Fix incorrect namespace usage when building the title when sending translatable page (Phab:T165128)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

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 2020.04 was released in April, 2020. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 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 also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• About 86 (-5) new users [2]
• About 349 (-20) translators made about 33.500 (-8.800) edits [3][4]
• About 97 (-1) translators reviewed about 11.700 (-3.300) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• MainPage: Do not display subgroups after selecting projects. (Phab:T184162)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

Deployments and other site related updates

• Added support for Awadhi (awa) language. (T252871)
• Added support for Sakha language machine translation for Yandex. (T250004)

Public communication and outreach

Language showcase 2020, part 1

Language showcase 2020, part 2

• Language showcase presentation about the Research on the Section Translation feature.

Team status

• Nikolaos Gκοuntas joined the Language Engineering team as a Software Engineer. He will be working on the ContentTranslation Extension.