Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/November
October 2021 | Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2021 | December 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
editContent Translation
editContent Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.
Usage data
editContent Translation monthly data | November 2021 | Comments |
---|---|---|
Articles created (during the month) | 23702 | |
Articles created till end of month | 1,028,292 | |
Number of new translators (during the month) | 1336 | |
Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12879 | tr |
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12264 | es |
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 2070 | tr |
Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
53898 | |
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12061 | |
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5787 | |
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3207 | |
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10415 | |
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3684 | |
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1351 | |
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
136 | |
Articles deleted (during the month) | 469 |
Other statistics
editLanguage | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
---|---|---|---|
bn | 79 | 59 | 19 |
ha | 9 | 8 | 4 |
ig | 8 | 4 | 2 |
Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
---|---|---|
tw | 71 | 2366.67% |
rw | 502 | 1731.03% |
mk | 1769 | 916.58% |
uz | 150 | 652.17% |
sd | 11 | 550.00% |
kw | 16 | 533.33% |
lld | 4 | 400.00% |
nn | 317 | 396.25% |
yo | 18 | 360.00% |
nqo | 20 | 333.33% |
as | 6 | 300.00% |
sw | 21 | 300.00% |
ast | 5 | 250.00% |
mt | 5 | 250.00% |
ga | 25 | 208.33% |
ba | 372 | 180.58% |
ig | 131 | 152.33% |
ceb | 3 | 150.00% |
tr | 1144 | 119.92% |
el | 379 | 119.56% |
tt | 274 | 109.60% |
pa | 83 | 101.22% |
azb | 2 | 100.00% |
cv | 1 | 100.00% |
mn | 1 | 100.00% |
oc | 4 | 100.00% |
tyv | 13 | 100.00% |
mr | 21 | 91.30% |
de | 77 | 81.05% |
hu | 30 | 68.18% |
sl | 17 | 65.38% |
sk | 5 | 62.50% |
fa | 257 | 54.91% |
cs | 71 | 51.08% |
br | 4 | 50.00% |
kk | 1 | 50.00% |
sv | 26 | 45.61% |
ar | 320 | 45.39% |
tg | 23 | 44.23% |
bn | 75 | 39.27% |
simple | 4 | 36.36% |
ml | 28 | 35.00% |
ms | 76 | 31.02% |
ne | 8 | 30.77% |
id | 27 | 29.35% |
eu | 59 | 29.06% |
et | 2 | 28.57% |
eo | 36 | 25.35% |
ur | 63 | 24.80% |
uk | 191 | 24.65% |
Language | This month |
---|---|
tr | 2098 |
es | 2084 |
mk | 1962 |
fr | 1212 |
ar | 1025 |
uk | 966 |
ca | 796 |
fa | 725 |
pt | 717 |
el | 696 |
ha | 663 |
ba | 578 |
rw | 531 |
tt | 524 |
zh | 462 |
it | 459 |
ja | 441 |
tl | 436 |
he | 425 |
en | 409 |
nn | 397 |
ta | 369 |
ms | 321 |
ur | 317 |
gl | 308 |
bn | 266 |
eu | 262 |
ru | 256 |
hi | 225 |
ig | 217 |
cs | 210 |
eo | 178 |
ko | 175 |
uz | 173 |
de | 172 |
pa | 165 |
te | 125 |
id | 119 |
ml | 108 |
da | 106 |
ro | 91 |
sv | 83 |
nl | 82 |
os | 81 |
tg | 75 |
hu | 74 |
tw | 74 |
kn | 72 |
vi | 70 |
or | 65 |
Language | Previous month |
---|---|
alt | 1 |
av | 1 |
bjn | 1 |
bug | 1 |
chr | 2 |
cu | 2 |
dty | 1 |
gd | 2 |
hif | 6 |
hsb | 2 |
inh | 1 |
iu | 1 |
kaa | 3 |
kl | 1 |
ks | 5 |
lbe | 1 |
lo | 4 |
mad | 1 |
mi | 1 |
nov | 1 |
pdc | 1 |
qu | 4 |
sat | 2 |
shi | 2 |
so | 1 |
ss | 1 |
tn | 1 |
trv | 1 |
tum | 1 |
wa | 1 |
xmf | 1 |
Language | This month |
---|---|
os | 81 |
min | 6 |
frp | 5 |
nso | 5 |
ve | 4 |
co | 2 |
fy | 2 |
pam | 2 |
sm | 2 |
szl | 2 |
yi | 2 |
an | 1 |
ang | 1 |
bar | 1 |
ch | 1 |
dag | 1 |
ext | 1 |
ff | 1 |
fj | 1 |
hyw | 1 |
na | 1 |
nah | 1 |
new | 1 |
pih | 1 |
rmy | 1 |
sco | 1 |
st | 1 |
ti | 1 |
xh | 1 |
Translate
editWikimedia'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 compatibility with VisualEditor (Gerrit change 739177, task T294605)
- Fix: UI issue: the page moves from bottom to top when new messages are loaded in List tab (task T295655, Gerrit change 738587)
- Add functionality to toggle all groups (Gerrit change 740108, task T90511)
- Migrate Translate extension tables to abstract schema (Gerrit change 735613, task T268576)
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
editUniversal Language Selector
editUniversal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,
- Disable language button background color on modern Vector (task T296323)
- Lower .uls-menu z-index for Vector skin to avoid overlapping with the Vector sticky header (task T295794)
- Fix: [Sticky header] ULS should remain fixed to header when scrolling (task T295391)
- Add Awami Nastaliq font (task T290510)
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Other extensions
editBabel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Add Makhuwa, not part of CLDR (task T296612)
- Add Pa'O (blk) (Gerrit change 735934)
- Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd (task T293884, task T286239)
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- No updates
TranslationNotifications:
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
editThe 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 2021.11 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.
MediaWiki core internationalization
editChanges 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
edit- Languages added: Logooli (rag), Aja (ajg), Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aghem (agq) and Masana (mcn)
- Changes:
- Split Northern Thai to nod and nod-thai
- Change names of Cyrillic-script languages to lowercase
- No updates
- No updates
- Localisation updates
- No updates
- Released version 0.3.0
- Security fixes for dev dependencies.
- Improvement to test cases
- Keyboards added:
- Nawdm tilde
- Mon Simplified Anonta
- Aja tilde
- Keyboard changes:
- Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard
- Small improvements in my-xkb layout (See: PR)
translatewiki.net
editSee translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates
edit- Add Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aja (ajg) and Logooli (rag) languages.
Stats
edit- About 104 (+15) new users [2]
- About 358 (-15) translators made about 44.002 (-3.880) edits [3][4]
- About 94 (-5) translators reviewed about 6.083 (+249) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
edit- Localisation and maintenance updates only.