Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/November
 October 2020 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2020 | December 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 3.
Usage data edit
| Content Translation monthly data | November 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 23882 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 776601 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1253 | |
| 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) |
10538 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1943 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
45446 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10067 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4621 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2647 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8553 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3057 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1139 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 413 |
Other statistics edit
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| ka | 210 | 5250.00% |
| kw | 50 | 5000.00% |
| ha | 978 | 1253.85% |
| lg | 10 | 1000.00% |
| sd | 9 | 900.00% |
| ig | 424 | 831.37% |
| az | 61 | 435.71% |
| arz | 7 | 350.00% |
| lmo | 3 | 300.00% |
| my | 126 | 300.00% |
| kk | 17 | 283.33% |
| ne | 25 | 277.78% |
| tl | 698 | 221.59% |
| ml | 93 | 193.75% |
| or | 15 | 166.67% |
| gu | 66 | 165.00% |
| et | 6 | 150.00% |
| ba | 335 | 144.40% |
| ur | 88 | 141.94% |
| yo | 112 | 136.59% |
| el | 294 | 131.84% |
| bn | 414 | 130.19% |
| bjn | 6 | 120.00% |
| fy | 1 | 100.00% |
| ug | 2 | 100.00% |
| yi | 5 | 100.00% |
| ro | 76 | 87.36% |
| ast | 5 | 83.33% |
| ht | 18 | 81.82% |
| cs | 122 | 77.71% |
| tt | 9 | 75.00% |
| nn | 32 | 74.42% |
| sr | 48 | 73.85% |
| jv | 526 | 64.46% |
| ko | 31 | 53.45% |
| mrj | 1 | 50.00% |
| uz | 1 | 50.00% |
| mr | 9 | 42.86% |
| it | 200 | 41.67% |
| hu | 17 | 36.17% |
| lt | 3 | 33.33% |
| mt | 2 | 33.33% |
| ms | 15 | 23.44% |
| fr | 319 | 23.27% |
| eo | 10 | 23.26% |
| hi | 9 | 18.37% |
| sc | 2 | 18.18% |
| pa | 11 | 16.18% |
| eu | 9 | 9.78% |
| ckb | 2 | 8.70% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 2021 |
| fr | 1690 |
| ar | 1479 |
| jv | 1342 |
| uk | 1221 |
| tr | 1085 |
| fa | 1068 |
| ha | 1056 |
| tl | 1013 |
| he | 911 |
| bn | 732 |
| pt | 724 |
| ca | 686 |
| it | 680 |
| ba | 567 |
| ja | 543 |
| el | 517 |
| mk | 505 |
| ig | 475 |
| ru | 410 |
| en | 319 |
| cs | 279 |
| zh | 275 |
| gl | 260 |
| ta | 234 |
| vi | 222 |
| ka | 214 |
| yo | 194 |
| te | 173 |
| my | 168 |
| ro | 163 |
| ur | 150 |
| ml | 141 |
| sr | 113 |
| gu | 106 |
| eu | 101 |
| ko | 89 |
| de | 87 |
| ms | 79 |
| pa | 79 |
| tg | 77 |
| az | 75 |
| id | 75 |
| nn | 75 |
| nl | 68 |
| hu | 64 |
| af | 62 |
| hi | 58 |
| eo | 53 |
| kw | 51 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ce | 60 |
| as | 16 |
| si | 11 |
| oc | 7 |
| ady | 3 |
| am | 2 |
| ee | 2 |
| km | 2 |
| ky | 2 |
| ps | 2 |
| xh | 2 |
| haw | 1 |
| ie | 1 |
| io | 1 |
| iu | 1 |
| kbd | 1 |
| mi | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| pms | 1 |
| pnb | 1 |
| sm | 1 |
| sn | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| st | 1 |
| su | 1 |
| tet | 1 |
| tn | 1 |
| to | 1 |
| zu | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| cv | 4 |
| bar | 3 |
| new | 3 |
| ace | 1 |
| fj | 1 |
| glk | 1 |
| gom | 1 |
| hsb | 1 |
| kg | 1 |
| lad | 1 |
| lij | 1 |
| mai | 1 |
| mn | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| scn | 1 |
| vec | 1 |
| vo | 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:
- Replace usage of jQuery show / hide in various pages
- Remove FCFontFinder (Gerrit change 641189)
- Various code improvements to ManageTranslatorSandboxSpecialPage & TranslationStashSpecialPage
- export.php: remove Gettext post processing support (Gerrit change 641385)
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,
- Handle Language Apply button little bit more sanely (Gerrit change 636872)
- CompactLinks: Better handling of opening links to new tab/window (Gerrit change 639474)
- Allow skins to register their own button and disable compact (Gerrit change 635679)
- Add the Boyo Gagrai for the Ho language in the Warang Citi script (Gerrit change 643498)
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.
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 2020.10 was released in October. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01
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
- No updates
- No updates
- No updates
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- No updates
- Add Obolo tilde keyboard
translatewiki.net edit
See translatewiki.net news page.
Stats edit
- About 90 (+3) new users [2]
- About 372 (-7) translators made about 38.843 (-3.434) edits [3][4]
- About 100 (+15) translators reviewed about 9.843 (+470) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage edit
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
Cross team work/requirements edit
Public communication and outreach edit
- Amir Aharoni: A presentation on Global templates at the online Catalan wiki meeting (speech mostly in English, slides in English and Catalan).