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 edit

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 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 edit

Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
bn 79 59 19
ha 9 8 4
ig 8 4 2
Top growing languages
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%
Languages with top published translations
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
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
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
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
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 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:

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

  • Translatable pages: Meta 7.239 (+68); MediaWiki.org 5.862 (+4); Commons 1.560 (-17) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 451 (+4) wikis [1].

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,

  • 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 edit

Babel (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):

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 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 2021.11 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

MediaWiki core internationalization 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.

  • 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

language-data

  • 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

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • 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 edit

See 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.

Deployments and other site related updates edit

Cross team work/requirements edit

Public communication and outreach edit

Team status edit