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 edit
- Content Translation had 6000 translations per week, mostly driven by Hausa and Arabic.
- Work has begun on implementing Translatable modules.
Content Translation edit
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.
Usage data edit
| 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 edit
| 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% |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 edit
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 edit
Universal Language Selector edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- Cleanup autonyms in the Chinese script to use consistent parentheses
- Add languages: Belizean Creole, Basaa, Kom, and the Chinese-script variant of Min Nan
- No updates
- No updates
- Add
options.onPositionand deprecate top and left (GitHub PR)
- No updates
- Add keyboards for Basaa and Kom languages
translatewiki.net edit
See also translatewiki.net news page.
- Added languages: Kom, Basaa, Belizean Creole
- Wayuu language graduated to core MediaWiki
Stats edit
- 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 edit
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
Cross team work/requirements edit
Public communication and outreach edit
- Workshop: "Translatewiki for beginners - Make Wikipedia fully usable in your language!" for the translators into the Dagbani language, but applicable to all languages