Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/January

December 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2021

February 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	January 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	21070
Articles created till end of month	818051
Number of new translators (during the month)	1381
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)	10872	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1746
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	47108
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10492
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4819
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2752
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	8866
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3186
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1096
Articles deleted (during the month)	526

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
bcl	34	1700.00%
ht	4	400.00%
rw	7	350.00%
gu	70	259.26%
azb	2	200.00%
tg	77	157.14%
lt	8	133.33%
tt	159	125.20%
id	97	115.48%
hi	75	115.38%
mn	1	100.00%
oc	1	100.00%
pnb	1	100.00%
rue	1	100.00%
sh	1	100.00%
sm	1	100.00%
zh	163	71.81%
eu	102	65.81%
sl	19	63.33%
sv	26	60.47%
jv	216	59.34%
ckb	5	50.00%
cs	142	49.82%
tl	73	48.34%
pa	35	46.67%
te	92	45.77%
ml	42	45.65%
sco	3	42.86%
sk	5	41.67%
he	260	39.27%
ta	188	39.00%
be	13	37.14%
la	3	33.33%
lb	1	33.33%
it	176	32.77%
bn	240	31.87%
uk	306	27.69%
ja	132	27.67%
sq	20	26.67%
cy	5	26.32%
pl	17	25.76%
nl	24	25.26%
so	2	25.00%
kn	7	24.14%
hr	6	24.00%
ru	87	19.33%
bg	7	18.92%
vi	23	14.65%
de	12	13.64%
sc	1	12.50%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1758
fr	1489
uk	1411
pt	1257
tr	1156
ar	993
bn	993
he	922
ca	916
fa	850
it	713
ta	670
ja	609
jv	580
ru	537
cs	427
zh	390
en	340
te	293
tt	286
el	285
eu	257
tl	224
mk	213
gl	208
id	181
vi	180
hi	140
ml	134
tg	126
ms	122
nl	119
pa	110
de	100
ro	100
gu	97
sq	95
pl	83
ko	79
mr	78
da	75
sv	69
ba	62
ga	57
ur	57
hu	50
sl	49
be	48
bg	44
eo	40

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

Language	Previous month
vec	19
kw	15
lg	13
ext	10
ug	9
xh	7
ny	6
ps	5
si	5
sn	5
yo	5
mwl	4
nap	4
br	3
fur	3
scn	3
ace	2
min	2
nds	2
am	1
ang	1
bo	1
cu	1
gag	1
gan	1
glk	1
ia	1
kl	1
km	1
ltg	1
mrj	1
os	1
pap	1
st	1
tum	1
udm	1

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

Language	This month
eml	5
kab	4
ady	3
ak	3
myv	3
kbd	2
gv	1
lij	1
lmo	1
lo	1
mzn	1
om	1
pam	1
ti	1
wa	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:

• Drop ULS dependency from composer.json (Gerrit change 653712)
• Add a script to find and delete equal translations (Gerrit change 652543)
• Update cache version for MessageGroups (Gerrit change 655907)
• Allow importing empty content from external sources (Gerrit change 658581) (task T271294)
• Add script to find unsynchronized definitions (Gerrit change 655860) (task T270844)

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 6.327 (+147); MediaWiki.org 5.435 (+12); Commons 1.513 (+27) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 409 (+4) 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,

• Handle corrupted values in input preferences (Gerrit change 657050)
• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 2021.01 was released this month (Jan, 2021). Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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 release happened this month.

• Add Rohingya language (rhg) (GitHub PR)
• Add Nanai and Gungbe languages (GitHub PR)
• Return an empty array if there are no languages in territory (task T265158)

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add Nias tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

• About 90 (+22) new users [2]
• About 419 (+18) translators made about 52.421 (+1.477) edits [3][4]
• About 111 (-5) translators reviewed about 8.658 (-9.456) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

• Uzoma Ozurumba joined the Language Engineering team as a Community Relationship Specialist.