Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/October

September 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for October 2021

November 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	October 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	17614
Articles created till end of month	1005401	Million!
Number of new translators (during the month)	1049
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	11405	tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	12065	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1675	es
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	53147
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11903
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5709
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3168
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10283
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3639
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1328
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	130
Articles deleted (during the month)	430

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
bn	24	22	6
ha	4	4	2
ig	1	1	1
th	1	1	1
yo	1	1	1

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
ky	35	3500.00%
rw	28	2800.00%
su	11	1100.00%
ary	7	700.00%
br	7	700.00%
km	7	700.00%
az	51	566.67%
sh	5	500.00%
is	9	450.00%
hy	19	380.00%
ur	196	332.20%
ak	3	300.00%
qu	3	300.00%
ms	182	288.89%
ig	60	230.77%
eo	96	208.70%
kn	58	207.14%
hif	4	200.00%
ht	12	200.00%
nqo	4	200.00%
ba	136	194.29%
hi	126	157.50%
ks	3	150.00%
ko	101	140.28%
uz	12	109.09%
am	1	100.00%
cu	1	100.00%
lt	6	100.00%
mt	1	100.00%
shi	1	100.00%
th	18	94.74%
my	13	76.47%
tg	22	73.33%
el	134	72.83%
af	14	66.67%
sl	10	55.56%
or	20	54.05%
de	34	53.97%
bg	32	53.33%
bs	20	50.00%
cy	13	50.00%
la	4	50.00%
en	134	45.73%
nn	23	40.35%
id	26	37.14%
eu	51	33.12%
uk	190	32.37%
zu	51	30.72%
tyv	3	30.00%
ka	20	28.57%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1926
fr	1113
tr	959
uk	777
ca	769
pt	714
ar	711
ha	695
it	552
zh	498
fa	477
ta	461
he	450
gl	444
en	427
tl	393
ja	367
el	318
ru	310
ur	255
tt	250
ms	245
zu	217
ba	206
hi	206
eu	205
te	194
bn	193
mk	193
ko	173
eo	142
cs	139
ro	121
sq	116
nl	109
da	101
de	97
id	96
bg	92
ka	90
vi	89
ig	86
kn	86
ml	82
pa	82
nn	80
az	60
bs	60
be	58
or	57

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

Language	Previous month
awa	2
ay	1
ban	1
bar	1
bm	1
ff	1
fy	1
gor	1
ki	1
ksh	1
lad	1
lb	2
lij	1
lmo	1
mai	3
min	1
nah	7
nia	1
nso	1
ny	1
os	1
pfl	1
pnb	7
ps	3
rm	1
rn	2
sa	1
sco	5
sg	1
smn	4
srn	1
tcy	1
tet	1
ti	1
tk	3
vec	4
yi	1
za	1

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

Language	This month
mni	19
tw	4
kaa	3
kw	3
ast	2
azb	2
chr	2
eml	2
gd	2
hsb	2
kk	2
sat	2
alt	1
av	1
bjn	1
dty	1
inh	1
iu	1
kab	1
kl	1
lbe	1
lld	1
mad	1
mi	1
nov	1
pdc	1
sah	1
sn	1
so	1
ss	1
tn	1
trv	1
tum	1
xmf	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:

• SECURITY: Allow revdel-related actions in translatable pages (Gerrit change 725283)
• Special:Translations: Fix language attribute for message documentation (Gerrit change 727430)
• Performance optimizations for Translate metadata (Phabricator)
• Special:ActiveLanguages: Fix language attribute for message documentation (Gerrit change 730040)
• Support Translation Aid: Update %MESSAGE_URL% to return the complete URL (Gerrit change 725006)
• Special:Translate: Ensure translated name of group is displayed (Gerrit change 731970)
• Custom group configuration: Rename validator keymatch option to include (Gerrit change 730035)
• Custom group configuration: Add support to exclude messages from validation (Gerrit change 730034)

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

• Translatable pages: Meta 7.171 (+186); MediaWiki.org 5.858 (+32); Commons 1.577 (-17) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 447 (+12) 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,

• Fix compatibility with MediaWiki 1.35 (Gerrit change 734766)
• SECURITY: Language name search: Avoid searching for very long search keys to avoid potential DDOS attacks. (Gerrit change 733924, task T293749)
• Update language name search data (Gerrit change 732614)

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 2021.10 was released this month. 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.

• Languages added:
  • S'gaw Karen (ksw)
  • Farefare (gur; also known as Frafra, Gurene, and Ninkare)
• Language configuration changes:
  • The name Chinese (Taiwan) changed from 台灣 to 臺灣 by community request.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Renamed language gur from Gurenɛ to Farefare: A more general and inclusive name.
• Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)

banana-i18n

• No changes

jquery.i18n

• No changes

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates
• Security fixes for dev dependencies

jquery.webfonts

• No changes

jquery.ime

• Add Farefare tilde keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• We are now back to using the latest version of Mediawiki code.

Language configuration updates

• Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)

Stats

• About 89 (-7) new users [2]
• About 373 (-3) translators made about 47.882 (+1.550) edits [3][4]
• About 99 (+9) translators reviewed about 5.854 (-9.222) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.