Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/September

August 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for September 2020

October 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	September 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	17297
Articles created till end of month	731589
Number of new translators (during the month)	941
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)	10267	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1635	es
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	44114
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9722
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4426
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2589
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	8239
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2938
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1064
Articles deleted (during the month)	338

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
tyv	23	2300.00%
rw	12	1200.00%
ka	95	452.38%
lv	9	450.00%
ce	4	400.00%
ba	622	287.96%
cy	23	287.50%
sl	29	263.64%
sco	6	200.00%
tg	37	160.87%
bar	3	150.00%
ht	3	150.00%
ha	43	143.33%
yo	4	133.33%
hr	40	125.00%
jv	147	113.08%
af	24	104.35%
lb	1	100.00%
mi	1	100.00%
mt	1	100.00%
sn	1	100.00%
my	16	84.21%
la	5	83.33%
simple	7	77.78%
mk	67	69.07%
lt	8	61.54%
sk	8	61.54%
sr	48	57.14%
he	270	50.75%
ckb	1	50.00%
ta	134	48.55%
be	16	47.06%
om	3	42.86%
ms	12	41.38%
diq	10	40.00%
bg	9	37.50%
el	61	34.46%
et	1	33.33%
th	7	28.00%
bjn	3	27.27%
ru	92	26.98%
ro	32	26.89%
te	11	26.19%
sv	7	17.07%
tr	97	13.49%
de	11	12.79%
ur	25	11.90%
oc	2	11.11%
gl	21	9.68%
ku	13	8.97%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1681
fa	1184
ar	1100
fr	1063
uk	938
ba	838
tr	816
he	802
pt	658
ca	570
ja	569
it	547
vi	504
ru	433
ta	410
en	282
jv	277
bn	246
zh	245
el	238
gl	238
ur	235
mk	164
tl	164
ku	158
ro	151
cs	149
sr	132
sq	124
ka	116
hi	107
ml	104
de	97
id	82
pl	81
ko	74
eu	73
ha	73
hr	72
nl	65
tt	63
nn	61
tg	60
te	53
ga	52
kn	51
be	50
da	48
sv	48
af	47

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

Language	Previous month
ie	8
ff	5
is	5
arz	2
ceb	2
chr	2
sh	2
am	1
av	1
bo	1
hak	1
kab	1
ksh	1
min	1
nap	1
pfl	1
rm	1
sah	1
st	1
su	1
ts	1
vec	1

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

Language	This month
co	2
fj	2
gn	2
ln	2
lo	2
to	2
tpi	2
an	1
cv	1
fo	1
hsb	1
jam	1
kaa	1
ki	1
lmo	1
mhr	1
mrj	1
ny	1
os	1
pnb	1
qu	1
sm	1
tk	1
ty	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 phplot graphs with Chart.js (Phab:T134634)
• Convert Special:MovePage to use OOUI (Phab:T201284)

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 5721 (+4); MediaWiki.org 5314 (+26); Commons 1440 (+82) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 371 (+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,

• Fixed bug in Compact Languages Links: the Chavacano language was not shown. (task T263717)
• Add GochiHand font. (task T258839)

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 broken language selector on the Special:NotifyTranslator page (task T262188)
• 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 last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01

MediaWiki core internationalization

Translatable modules

The Translatable modules consultation was done during September. The next stage will be writing a development plan based on the community feedback.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• changed cbk-zam to redirect to cbk.
• updated autonyms for the two Altai languages.

banana-i18n

• Introduce option to enable wiki links processing (#39)

jquery.i18n

• No changes

jquery.uls

• Remove png icons and use svg icons
• Update language-data from upstream

jquery.webfonts

• No changes

jquery.ime

• Add middle tone (macron) and fix tests for Igbo - tilde

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• About 99 (+28) new users [2]
• About 377 (+13) translators made about 36.421 (-3879) edits [3][4]
• About 94 (+8) translators reviewed about 23.254 (-2546) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach

Wikimedia Language showcase September 2020

A presentation by Amir E. Aharoni on the topic of Section translation at Wikimedia Conference Russia 2020 (translated to English)

• Language showcase September 2020, presented by Amir E. Aharoni, on the topic of Translatable modules.
• At Wikimedia Conference Russia 2020, Saint Petersburg: A presentation by Amir E. Aharoni on the topic of Section translation (in Russian; English interpretation is available)