Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/February

January 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2021

March 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	February 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	20504
Articles created till end of month	838363
Number of new translators (during the month)	1177
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)	10985	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2157	pt
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	47768
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10647
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4908
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2809
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9031
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3227
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1123
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	109
Section translation revisions	42
Section translation unique pages	23
Section translation unique users	12
Articles deleted (during the month)	380

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
sd	8	800.00%
mn	8	400.00%
mk	749	351.64%
ku	92	340.74%
sw	36	300.00%
as	11	275.00%
sh	5	250.00%
ckb	36	240.00%
lo	2	200.00%
sah	2	200.00%
cy	44	183.33%
rw	13	144.44%
ha	46	115.00%
sk	19	111.76%
lld	3	100.00%
tw	1	100.00%
hy	32	96.97%
ro	79	79.00%
pt	947	75.58%
lv	5	71.43%
gl	144	69.23%
az	15	68.18%
sr	25	65.79%
be	31	64.58%
ms	67	54.92%
diq	1	50.00%
oc	1	50.00%
pnb	1	50.00%
bs	6	40.00%
pa	43	39.45%
eo	14	35.00%
hr	10	33.33%
en	71	21.26%
simple	1	20.00%
nn	5	17.24%
ary	2	16.67%
bar	2	15.38%
mnw	1	14.29%
fr	79	5.32%
es	62	3.53%
bg	1	2.27%
de	1	1.00%
ru	4	0.74%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
pt	2200
es	1818
fr	1565
uk	1015
ar	963
mk	962
tr	943
bn	777
he	741
ca	687
fa	627
it	611
ru	541
ta	533
jv	431
en	405
ja	399
zh	380
gl	352
cs	338
ur	285
eu	240
el	233
ms	189
vi	183
ro	179
tl	166
pa	152
ml	128
ku	119
nl	108
de	101
tg	95
id	91
hi	88
te	88
ha	86
be	79
cy	68
da	66
hy	65
sr	63
mr	62
ko	60
eo	54
ckb	51
pl	51
sq	49
ba	48
sw	48

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

Language	Previous month
ady	3
an	5
ast	4
avk	3
fy	5
gcr	1
gv	1
hyw	1
ig	3
kbd	2
kk	8
lb	4
lij	1
lmo	1
mg	1
mi	2
mzn	1
nah	1
om	1
pam	1
rue	2
shn	2
sm	2
szl	1
ts	1

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

Language	This month
se	9
av	8
am	4
ps	4
su	4
ks	3
pms	3
si	3
cv	2
km	2
lbe	2
tk	2
ab	1
ce	1
gag	1
gn	1
got	1
io	1
kw	1
os	1
pag	1
smn	1
sn	1
st	1
udm	1
ug	1
vec	1
vls	1
xh	1
yo	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:

• ExportTranslationsMaintenanceScript: Implement removal threshold (Gerrit change 656619)
• Do not lock pages indefinitely during translatable page moves (Gerrit change 661125)
• MessageGroupStats: Count optional messages with translations (Gerrit change 661741, task T159122)
• Enable "opt-out" translation aware transclusion for templates (Gerrit change 573450, task T47096)
• Add a Getting started with development guide for Translate (task T273580)

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 6.341 (+14); MediaWiki.org 5.476 (+41); Commons 1.522 (+9) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 410 (+1) 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,

• Allow access to display and input settings in new vector ((Gerrit change 663262, task T274396)
• Make Modern Vector compatible with ULS (Gerrit change 661797, task T273232, task T273928)

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):

• Add language code pap-aw (Gerrit change 666739)
• Localisation and maintenance updates

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation and maintenance updates

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 2021.01 was released last month (Jan, 2021). Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 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.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

Language Data - 2021-01-27 was released last month.

Other changes:

• Add nan-hani (GitHub PR)
• Consistently use parentheses in Chinese-script autonyms (GitHub PR)
• Add a newline to the end of language-data.json (GitHub PR)
• Update the autonym for guc (GitHub PR)
• Add Nuer language (nus) (GitHub PR)
• Add Aruba Papiamento (GitHub PR)
• Add Carpathian Romani (GitHub PR)
• Add Rohg to rtlscripts (GitHub PR)
• Cleanup the data for the Talysh language (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n

• Add support for formatnum operation (GitHub PR)

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add Nuer Tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• 2021-02-11: Behavior of statistics has changed:
  • Translated optional are counted in both total and translated (previously they were not)
  • All language & message group statistics were refreshed to apply this change and correct any statistics that were outdated
• 2021-02-03: Behavior of translation exports has changed:
  • Languages under export threshold are now updated if they have already been exported earlier.
  • Languages under removal threshold will be deleted. By default it is 0%, meaning that files with no non-outdated translations will be deleted. The removal threshold can be configured per project in the same way as export threshold.

Stats

• About 84 (-6) new users [2]
• About 396 (-23) translators made about 43.672 (-8.749) edits [3][4]
• About 109 (-2) translators reviewed about 18.872 (+10.214) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Deployments and other site related updates

• Enabled SectionTranslation in bnwiki and testwiki.

Public communication and outreach

Presentation at the Indian Wikimedia Wikimeet conference

• Section Translation New Ways to Contribute on Mobile Devices - presentation by Amir Aharoni, Pau Giner, and Nik Gkountas at the Wikimedia Wikimeet India conference