Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/August

July 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2021

September 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.

Content Translation

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

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	August 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	22553
Articles created till end of month	970887
Number of new translators (during the month)	876
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	11113	tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	11819	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	4953	tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	52022
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11642
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5565
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3079
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10023
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3551
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1280
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	128
Section translation revisions	20
Section translation unique pages	10
Section translation unique users	4
Articles deleted (during the month)	341

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
lg	49	1633.33%
kw	11	1100.00%
tl	234	936.00%
bjn	7	700.00%
shi	6	600.00%
th	18	360.00%
ak	59	347.06%
ig	102	329.03%
mnw	3	300.00%
gl	466	260.34%
bcl	17	242.86%
cy	118	236.00%
mni	7	233.33%
kn	13	216.67%
lv	30	214.29%
my	7	175.00%
pa	53	165.63%
bg	51	159.38%
pnb	3	150.00%
ps	15	125.00%
hu	33	122.22%
km	1	100.00%
lo	1	100.00%
ny	1	100.00%
so	1	100.00%
da	25	96.15%
ckb	21	87.50%
fi	6	85.71%
ar	897	85.02%
oc	4	66.67%
ha	284	57.49%
fy	1	50.00%
lij	1	50.00%
tk	1	50.00%
sk	4	44.44%
eu	85	37.95%
ga	11	37.93%
sl	11	34.38%
ht	2	33.33%
simple	6	33.33%
nl	26	29.21%
or	7	28.00%
zh	119	25.27%
nqo	1	25.00%
it	70	17.72%
ku	1	16.67%
mk	26	15.57%
en	43	14.43%
ro	16	13.91%
fa	52	10.36%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	5380
ar	1952
es	1457
ca	1017
fr	981
uk	846
ha	778
gl	645
he	633
zh	590
pt	580
ja	563
fa	554
it	465
ru	364
ta	350
en	341
bn	316
el	311
eu	309
tl	259
zu	236
mk	193
cy	168
ko	157
vi	140
cs	134
ig	133
ro	131
ur	122
nl	115
hi	108
ml	107
te	90
ms	89
pa	85
bg	83
de	79
ak	76
id	74
ne	65
sq	62
nn	61
sv	61
hu	60
tg	54
lg	52
da	51
eo	51
be	48

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

Language	Previous month
am	2
arz	7
azb	5
bo	1
cdo	1
ext	2
fur	1
haw	3
hif	1
hyw	1
ia	3
ik	1
io	6
kl	1
mzn	1
os	1
sah	1
su	1
tcy	1
trv	1

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

Language	This month
ast	9
ee	2
rue	2
scn	2
bxr	1
ce	1
ff	1
fo	1
gan	1
gom	1
jam	1
kk	1
lb	1
lmo	1
mhr	1
mi	1
mn	1
nah	1
nds	1
new	1
nv	1
olo	1
pap	1
pdc	1
smn	1
st	1
ti	1
tpi	1
ty	1
ug	1
wo	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:

• Special:PageTranslation: Require ‎<translate> tags on the latest version for marking (task T289697, Gerrit change 714971)
• SpecialTranslate: Fix/add validation for target language code (task T279252, Gerrit change 713601)
• Mark page display title to be translatable by default (task T287816, Gerrit change 709502)
• SpecialTranslate: Enable publish translation button in case of failure (task T272791, Gerrit change 713234)
• SpecialTranslate: Show warning when translating discouraged pages (task T237590, Gerrit change 714215)
• Fix translation of pages with custom content models (task T258756, Gerrit change 693984)
• BREAKING CHANGE: Greatly simplify legacy translation interface code (Gerrit change 708512)
• ExportTranslationsMaintenanceScript: Avoid creating empty files (task T287476, Gerrit change 708765)
• TranslationPage: Add dir/lang attribute for outdated translation header (task T289440, Gerrit change 714323)

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 6.984 (+226); MediaWiki.org 5.750 (+25); Commons 1.606 (-10) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 432 (+0) 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,

• Remove configuration: ULSEnableAnon (Gerrit change 707229)

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 2021.07 was released in July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.

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.

• Languages added: TODO (remove if none)
• Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
• Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Languages added and change,
  • Add Pacific or America regions to rap, id, and zh
  • Add Makhuwa (vmw)
  • Add yrl to CO and VE countries

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• Maintenance updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• No updates

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• None

Stats

• About 87 (+2) new users [2]
• About 401 (+25) translators made about 46.399 (+7.361) edits [3][4]
• About 93 (+7) translators reviewed about 35.899 (+13.171) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.