Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/October
 September 2020 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for October 2020 | November 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 | October 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 21857 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 753144 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1089 | |
| 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) |
10367 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 2008 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
44688 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9949 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4514 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2624 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8383 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3000 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1097 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 597 |
Other statistics edit
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| os | 45 | 4500.00% |
| ce | 55 | 1100.00% |
| yo | 76 | 1085.71% |
| gn | 16 | 800.00% |
| ckb | 20 | 666.67% |
| lb | 12 | 600.00% |
| kk | 5 | 500.00% |
| ig | 42 | 420.00% |
| rw | 45 | 346.15% |
| ht | 17 | 340.00% |
| en | 933 | 339.27% |
| mk | 554 | 337.80% |
| sc | 8 | 266.67% |
| gu | 29 | 263.64% |
| hy | 34 | 261.54% |
| lv | 28 | 254.55% |
| bs | 7 | 233.33% |
| as | 11 | 220.00% |
| te | 108 | 203.77% |
| mt | 4 | 200.00% |
| tk | 2 | 200.00% |
| jv | 545 | 197.46% |
| sco | 15 | 166.67% |
| co | 3 | 150.00% |
| km | 1 | 100.00% |
| mrj | 1 | 100.00% |
| ps | 1 | 100.00% |
| tl | 154 | 94.48% |
| tr | 760 | 93.37% |
| cy | 28 | 90.32% |
| fi | 15 | 88.24% |
| ar | 961 | 87.76% |
| or | 4 | 80.00% |
| da | 34 | 70.83% |
| af | 30 | 66.67% |
| ms | 25 | 62.50% |
| ak | 7 | 58.33% |
| pa | 24 | 54.55% |
| ne | 3 | 50.00% |
| bg | 15 | 46.88% |
| my | 13 | 37.14% |
| tg | 20 | 33.33% |
| ca | 186 | 32.63% |
| nl | 21 | 32.31% |
| bn | 78 | 31.84% |
| fr | 314 | 29.62% |
| es | 440 | 26.27% |
| eu | 19 | 26.03% |
| ta | 99 | 24.15% |
| uk | 215 | 23.04% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 2115 |
| ar | 2056 |
| tr | 1574 |
| fr | 1374 |
| en | 1208 |
| uk | 1148 |
| fa | 1034 |
| he | 939 |
| jv | 821 |
| ca | 756 |
| pt | 733 |
| mk | 718 |
| ja | 519 |
| ta | 509 |
| it | 490 |
| ru | 473 |
| vi | 369 |
| bn | 323 |
| tl | 317 |
| zh | 288 |
| gl | 262 |
| ba | 232 |
| el | 224 |
| te | 161 |
| cs | 157 |
| de | 108 |
| eu | 92 |
| id | 90 |
| ro | 87 |
| nl | 86 |
| yo | 83 |
| da | 82 |
| tg | 80 |
| ha | 78 |
| hr | 78 |
| sq | 77 |
| af | 75 |
| sr | 70 |
| pa | 68 |
| ms | 65 |
| pl | 64 |
| ur | 62 |
| ko | 61 |
| ce | 60 |
| cy | 59 |
| rw | 58 |
| ga | 53 |
| ig | 52 |
| hi | 50 |
| hu | 49 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| om | 10 |
| bar | 5 |
| mai | 4 |
| ln | 2 |
| lo | 2 |
| tpi | 2 |
| wo | 2 |
| an | 1 |
| br | 1 |
| cv | 1 |
| fj | 1 |
| fo | 1 |
| hsb | 1 |
| jam | 1 |
| kaa | 1 |
| ki | 1 |
| mhr | 1 |
| mn | 1 |
| qu | 1 |
| sa | 1 |
| ty | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| min | 19 |
| bcl | 12 |
| is | 11 |
| kab | 8 |
| nah | 6 |
| ady | 3 |
| azb | 3 |
| am | 2 |
| arz | 2 |
| ceb | 2 |
| ee | 2 |
| eml | 2 |
| sh | 2 |
| ug | 2 |
| xh | 2 |
| fy | 1 |
| haw | 1 |
| ie | 1 |
| io | 1 |
| iu | 1 |
| kbd | 1 |
| pms | 1 |
| sd | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| st | 1 |
| su | 1 |
| tet | 1 |
| tn | 1 |
| zu | 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:
- Fix "Translation page does not contain the latest translations/last translation" (task T255334)
- Fix "This namespace is reserved for content page translations" when trying to translate a recently created translation unit" (task T221119)
- Fix mandatory deletion of sub pages when deleting translatable pages (Gerrit change 636871)
- Make Language stats appear better on mobile screens and make the header sticky (Gerrit change 631979)
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,
- Reduce JS loaded on critical path (Gerrit change 631885)
- Other 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.
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 last month. 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
- Released Language Data - 2020-10-27
- Add a redirect from cbk-zam to cbk
- Bump minimum Node.js version to 10.x
- Introduce option to enable wiki links processing (#39)
- No changes
- Maintenance updates only
- Maintenance updates and bug fixes only
- Add middle tone (macron) and fix tests for Igbo - tilde
translatewiki.net edit
See also translatewiki.net news page.
- There was approximately 3 minutes of downtime because of a faulty configuration change.
Stats edit
- About 87 (-12) new users [2]
- About 379 (+2) translators made about 42.277 (+5.856) edits [3][4]
- About 85 (-9) translators reviewed about 9.373 (-13.881) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage edit
- Localisation updates only.
Cross team work/requirements edit
Public communication and outreach edit
- The Translatable modules consultation is concluded. The project and the consultation summary were presented at the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020: Translatable modules: Better workflows for onwiki developers.
- The presentation The frontend of WikiCite at the WikiCite 2020 Virtual conference by Amir Aharoni includes some discussion localization challenges with citations on Wikimedia projects and ideas about possible directions for solution.