Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/March

February 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2021

April 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

• Content Translation had 6000 translations per week, mostly driven by Hausa and Arabic.
• Work has begun on implementing Translatable modules.

Content Translation

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

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	March 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	25607
Articles created till end of month	863694
Number of new translators (during the month)	1801
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)	11186	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1595	uk
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	48882
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10818
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5133
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2882
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9239
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3298
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1149
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	113
Section translation revisions	47
Section translation unique pages	29
Section translation unique users	16
Articles deleted (during the month)	660

Other statistics

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
lo	64	2133.33%
tt	241	2008.33%
ha	1262	1467.44%
arz	75	1250.00%
ba	527	1097.92%
mt	9	900.00%
ks	21	700.00%
ckb	279	547.06%
tw	5	500.00%
or	9	450.00%
bcl	74	435.29%
ceb	4	400.00%
simple	22	366.67%
bjn	3	300.00%
gag	3	300.00%
kab	3	300.00%
myv	3	300.00%
el	603	258.80%
ka	54	257.14%
sq	102	212.50%
az	75	208.33%
is	4	200.00%
kw	2	200.00%
sc	8	200.00%
sco	7	175.00%
ne	5	166.67%
nn	47	138.24%
la	5	125.00%
pl	58	118.37%
hy	72	110.77%
sr	65	103.17%
bg	46	102.22%
ak	2	100.00%
azb	1	100.00%
ce	1	100.00%
km	2	100.00%
ky	1	100.00%
oc	3	100.00%
sl	31	100.00%
pa	141	93.38%
sv	24	85.71%
be	62	78.48%
fi	18	75.00%
et	10	66.67%
si	2	66.67%
da	41	62.12%
bar	9	60.00%
jv	234	54.42%
eu	124	52.10%
de	50	49.50%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1791
uk	1642
pt	1597
fr	1563
ha	1348
ar	1346
tr	1087
fa	841
ca	836
el	836
bn	831
he	684
jv	664
it	602
ru	588
ja	576
ba	575
ta	550
ur	546
en	506
zh	429
gl	398
eu	362
ckb	330
pa	292
mk	261
tt	253
ro	223
vi	200
cs	192
tl	161
ml	152
de	151
sq	150
be	141
hy	137
sr	128
hi	113
az	111
id	109
da	107
pl	107
nl	104
tg	104
bcl	91
bg	91
arz	81
nn	81
ka	75
te	73

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

Language	Previous month
ab	1
am	4
diq	3
gd	1
gn	1
got	1
ht	4
io	1
os	1
pag	1
pms	3
sah	3
se	9
ti	1

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

Language	This month
ast	34
ig	24
lg	20
min	7
stq	5
vo	5
nap	4
ady	3
hyw	3
lad	3
mni	3
szl	3
yi	3
an	2
br	2
lez	2
mi	2
pdc	2
rmy	2
war	2
zea	2
fur	1
fy	1
glk	1
ie	1
kaa	1
kbd	1
kl	1
ksh	1
kv	1
li	1
lmo	1
ltg	1
mhr	1
mzn	1
nah	1
ny	1
om	1
pfl	1
pnt	1
qu	1
rm	1
rn	1
sa	1
sat	1
sm	1
srn	1
wuu	1
xal	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:

• Breaking change: Remove timelimit param from ApiStatsQuery (Gerrit change 673010)
• Add a script to cleanup obsolete rows from translate_groupstats (Gerrit change 673261)
• Rename Special:SupportedLanguages to Special:ActiveLanguages externally (Gerrit change 673007)
• Limit the max number of pages that can be moved (Gerrit change 668655, task T206464)
• Special:PageTranslation: Add tag for pages that support transclusion (Gerrit change 672242)
• Fix metadata handling for translatable page moves and deletions (Gerrit change 666357)

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 6.505 (+164); MediaWiki.org 5.521 (+45); Commons 1.525 (+4) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 410 (+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,

• Changes related to positioning of language menu below language button for new Vector (task T276248)

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 termbox language ryu (Gerrit change 672518)
• Add monolingual language code nan-hani (Gerrit change 669930)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

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 in 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

• Cleanup autonyms in the Chinese script to use consistent parentheses
• Add languages: Belizean Creole, Basaa, Kom, and the Chinese-script variant of Min Nan

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Add options.onPosition and deprecate top and left (GitHub PR)

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add keyboards for Basaa and Kom languages

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• Added languages: Kom, Basaa, Belizean Creole
• Wayuu language graduated to core MediaWiki
  

Stats

• About 99 (+15) new users [2]
• About 426 (+30) translators made about 50.980 (+7.308) edits [3][4]
• About 105 (+6) translators reviewed about 11.916 (-6956) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach

Workshop video recording

• Workshop: "Translatewiki for beginners - Make Wikipedia fully usable in your language!" for the translators into the Dagbani language, but applicable to all languages