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.

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Usage data

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

Top growing languages

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%

Languages with top published translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Translatable pages: Meta 6116 (+328); MediaWiki.org 5400 (+69); Commons 1477 (+17) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 379 (+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,

• 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

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

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

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

language-data

• No updates

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add Obolo tilde keyboard

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• 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

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach

Slides for the presentation at the Catalan wiki meeting (Viquitrobada), in English and Catalan

• Amir Aharoni: A presentation on Global templates at the online Catalan wiki meeting (speech mostly in English, slides in English and Catalan).

Video of the presentation "Global templates, now" in the Catalan wiki meeting (Viquitrobada), in English and Catalan.