Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/April
 March 2021 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for April 2021 | May 2021 |
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
editContent Translation
editContent Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.
Usage data
edit| Content Translation monthly data | April 2021 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 21135 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 884351 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1401 | |
| 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) |
11360 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1722 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
49658 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11021 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5233 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2933 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9448 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3349 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1185 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
117 | |
| Section translation revisions | 6 | |
| Section translation unique pages | 5 | |
| Section translation unique users | 5 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 611 |
Other statistics
edit| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| su | 20 | 400.00% |
| om | 3 | 300.00% |
| cy | 52 | 226.09% |
| azb | 4 | 200.00% |
| br | 4 | 200.00% |
| co | 2 | 200.00% |
| sm | 2 | 200.00% |
| tk | 2 | 200.00% |
| bs | 31 | 163.16% |
| haw | 3 | 150.00% |
| lv | 18 | 150.00% |
| lg | 22 | 122.22% |
| sl | 73 | 117.74% |
| fi | 48 | 114.29% |
| ce | 2 | 100.00% |
| fy | 1 | 100.00% |
| mzn | 1 | 100.00% |
| ny | 1 | 100.00% |
| rm | 1 | 100.00% |
| rw | 1 | 100.00% |
| tt | 248 | 98.41% |
| mk | 209 | 81.01% |
| my | 3 | 75.00% |
| eo | 32 | 74.42% |
| mr | 21 | 63.64% |
| sr | 79 | 62.70% |
| ne | 5 | 62.50% |
| lld | 3 | 50.00% |
| ko | 14 | 48.28% |
| ig | 10 | 45.45% |
| ga | 12 | 40.00% |
| bg | 35 | 39.33% |
| kw | 1 | 33.33% |
| tg | 33 | 32.04% |
| ms | 20 | 31.75% |
| bjn | 1 | 25.00% |
| mnw | 2 | 25.00% |
| ro | 53 | 23.77% |
| si | 1 | 20.00% |
| hu | 11 | 19.64% |
| gl | 74 | 18.59% |
| lt | 1 | 14.29% |
| tr | 154 | 14.22% |
| es | 203 | 11.42% |
| sv | 4 | 7.69% |
| cs | 7 | 3.70% |
| fa | 28 | 3.42% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 1981 |
| uk | 1627 |
| fr | 1510 |
| tr | 1237 |
| pt | 1216 |
| ar | 1015 |
| fa | 847 |
| el | 768 |
| ca | 722 |
| it | 547 |
| he | 546 |
| ja | 545 |
| ta | 510 |
| tt | 500 |
| gl | 472 |
| mk | 467 |
| bn | 452 |
| zh | 429 |
| en | 401 |
| ru | 391 |
| ba | 309 |
| ro | 276 |
| eu | 266 |
| pa | 232 |
| vi | 215 |
| sr | 205 |
| cs | 196 |
| ml | 143 |
| tl | 138 |
| tg | 136 |
| sl | 135 |
| jv | 126 |
| bg | 124 |
| ha | 123 |
| be | 95 |
| de | 95 |
| sq | 92 |
| fi | 90 |
| da | 85 |
| ms | 83 |
| hy | 79 |
| cy | 75 |
| eo | 75 |
| id | 75 |
| hu | 67 |
| nl | 67 |
| pl | 67 |
| hi | 65 |
| uz | 65 |
| sv | 56 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ady | 3 |
| ak | 4 |
| an | 2 |
| arz | 81 |
| av | 8 |
| cv | 1 |
| fur | 1 |
| gag | 4 |
| glk | 1 |
| kaa | 1 |
| kab | 4 |
| kbd | 1 |
| kl | 1 |
| ks | 24 |
| ksh | 1 |
| kv | 1 |
| lad | 3 |
| li | 1 |
| lmo | 1 |
| ltg | 1 |
| mhr | 1 |
| nah | 1 |
| pdc | 2 |
| pfl | 1 |
| pnt | 1 |
| qu | 1 |
| rmy | 2 |
| sat | 1 |
| sh | 4 |
| smn | 1 |
| srn | 1 |
| stq | 5 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| ht | 11 |
| am | 3 |
| io | 3 |
| kk | 3 |
| koi | 3 |
| mg | 3 |
| xh | 3 |
| ab | 2 |
| alt | 2 |
| hif | 2 |
| ia | 2 |
| ilo | 2 |
| vec | 2 |
| wo | 2 |
| ace | 1 |
| cr | 1 |
| cu | 1 |
| diq | 1 |
| frr | 1 |
| gd | 1 |
| gn | 1 |
| inh | 1 |
| jbo | 1 |
| ki | 1 |
| lb | 1 |
| lfn | 1 |
| lij | 1 |
| nia | 1 |
| nov | 1 |
| os | 1 |
| pms | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| tyv | 1 |
| zu | 1 |
Translate
editWikimedia'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:
- Add moveTranslatablePage script (task T275109, Help:Extension:Translate/Move_translatable_page)
- Support new HTML-y translation variable syntax (task T274881)
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
editUniversal Language Selector
editUniversal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,
- Avoid JavaScript errors for tipsy if no entry point on the page (task T278313)
- Simplify undo tooltip positioning (Gerrit change 679289)
- Update Junicode to 1.002 (task T173573)
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Other extensions
editBabel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Add termbox languages cak, cnh (Gerrit change 676932)
- 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
editThe 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 2021.04 was released in April, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2021.
MediaWiki core internationalization
editChanges 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.
- Languages added to core:
- Dagbani
- Internationalization feature changes:
- Removed unnecessary control character from Names.php (gerrit)
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
edit- Languages added and changed: Dargwa (a.k.a. Dargin, dar)
- Cleared the usage of the Ojibwe language in language-data and translatewiki (task T280461)
- Released Version 2.1.0. Please see release notes.
- No updates
- Update language-data
- No updates
- Updates in the Basaa and Palochka keyboards
translatewiki.net
editSee also translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates
edit- Added: Dargin (Dargwa, dar)
- Removed:
- Dagbani, graduated to core
- Chippewa, merged with Ojibwe (task T280461)
Stats
edit- About 89 (-10) new users [2]
- About 412 (-14) translators made about 41.196 (-9.784) edits [3][4]
- About 100 (-5) translators reviewed about 12.504 (+588) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
edit- Localisation and maintenance updates only.