Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/December

November 2021 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2021 January 2022

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

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Content Translation

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

Usage data

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Content Translation monthly data December 2021 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 20794
Articles created till end of month 1048908
Number of new translators (during the month) 1172
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

15312
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12392
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 2958
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

54648
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12272
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

5847
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3238
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10583
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3733
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1372
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

137
Articles deleted (during the month) 468

Other statistics

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Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
az 28 23 3
ba 5 3 1
bn 47 40 8
ha 6 5 3
ig 4 4 2
ku 1 1 1
ml 1 1 1
ms 19 15 1
ta 1 1 1
th 10 10 8
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
arz 79 7900.00%
bcl 24 600.00%
jv 4 400.00%
sr 150 283.02%
lt 16 228.57%
km 19 211.11%
yi 4 200.00%
kn 103 143.06%
is 4 133.33%
bg 68 109.68%
ko 177 101.14%
ku 2 100.00%
st 1 100.00%
ug 1 100.00%
xh 1 100.00%
eu 254 97.32%
ceb 4 80.00%
la 4 80.00%
cy 34 79.07%
ky 33 76.74%
sl 23 53.49%
bs 17 50.00%
bn 120 45.11%
et 4 44.44%
tr 915 43.65%
gl 128 41.56%
simple 6 40.00%
th 8 38.10%
ar 383 37.62%
tg 27 36.00%
sc 1 33.33%
nl 25 30.49%
oc 2 28.57%
si 4 28.57%
hu 20 27.03%
fa 189 26.51%
ne 9 26.47%
ru 66 25.78%
it 117 25.60%
sw 7 25.00%
sk 3 23.08%
he 94 22.17%
vi 11 15.71%
ur 47 14.83%
mt 1 14.29%
fr 166 13.72%
be 6 12.77%
pl 3 10.71%
da 11 10.38%
sv 8 9.64%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
tr 3011
ar 1401
fr 1376
es 1344
uk 998
fa 902
ca 660
el 616
pt 597
it 574
he 518
eu 515
zh 488
gl 436
en 400
bn 386
tl 380
ur 364
ko 352
mk 332
ru 322
ja 303
ta 292
ms 280
sr 203
nn 199
kn 175
cs 174
ha 153
tt 142
eo 136
hi 135
bg 130
pa 125
da 117
de 117
nl 107
tg 102
hu 94
ro 91
sv 91
te 88
vi 81
arz 80
cy 77
ky 76
id 70
ml 67
sl 66
ba 59
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
ak 1
am 1
ary 5
azb 4
bar 1
ch 1
co 2
cv 2
dag 1
ext 1
ff 1
fj 1
frp 5
fy 2
kab 1
kk 3
lg 1
lld 5
mnw 1
na 1
nah 1
new 1
nso 5
pam 2
pih 1
rmy 1
sm 2
sn 1
szl 2
ve 4
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
lo 6
sa 5
lb 3
lij 3
bug 2
pnb 2
sat 2
skr 2
bxr 1
cu 1
gd 1
ks 1
nap 1
pdc 1
ps 1
se 1
so 1
wo 1
xal 1

Translate

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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 Special:MovePage being broken with MediaWiki < 1.36 (task T296450)
  • Special:Translate: Add language name in editor placeholder (task T296987)
  • Special:Translate: Make target language selector more prominent (task T296986)
  • TranslatorActivity: Implement caching for inactive languages (task T285314)
  • Fire hook when translation view state changes. Hook: mw.translate.translationView.stateChange (task T297129)

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

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  • Translatable pages: Meta 7.295 (+56); MediaWiki.org 5.956 (-94); Commons 1.706 (+146) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 454 (+3) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

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Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions

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Babel (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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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 2021.12 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

The next release will happen next year in January.

MediaWiki core internationalization

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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

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language-data

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard

translatewiki.net

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See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

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  • Add Aleut languages
  • Add Talysh in Cyrillic (tly-cyrl)

Stats

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  • About 73 (+31) new users [2]
  • About 328 (-30) translators made about 31.232 (-12.770) edits [3][4]
  • About 67 (+27) translators reviewed about 3.780 (-2.303) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

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  • Localisation updates only.
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Cross team work/requirements

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Public communication and outreach

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Team status

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  • Gabriel Pita, QA Engineer for the Language Team for 1 year, 10 months left the team in December 2021.