Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/April

March 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for April 2022

May 2022

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	April 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	19426
Articles created till end of month	1130880
Number of new translators (during the month)	1173
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	19165	tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	12852	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1289	es
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	57387
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13021
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6163
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3398
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11191
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3983
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1460
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	147
Articles deleted (during the month)	561

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
az	4	4	3
bn	206	103	24
fa	9	9	9
ha	151	39	5
ig	7	4	1
ku	10	9	2
ml	2	2	2
ms	6	3	2
oc	1	1	1
sq	3	3	2
te	19	9	1
th	8	8	2

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
tl	146	3650.00%
ps	18	1800.00%
uz	349	698.00%
oc	11	366.67%
la	9	300.00%
su	3	300.00%
tw	11	275.00%
gu	24	266.67%
km	14	233.33%
bs	51	204.00%
rw	12	200.00%
tt	58	187.10%
sq	122	150.62%
ht	6	120.00%
br	3	100.00%
ku	3	100.00%
sh	1	100.00%
uk	585	85.53%
ky	4	80.00%
si	3	75.00%
ceb	2	66.67%
sl	29	59.18%
et	4	57.14%
bn	353	53.73%
ary	1	50.00%
tyv	2	50.00%
lg	8	44.44%
ne	7	43.75%
lv	11	39.29%
arz	38	36.19%
ar	159	32.58%
gl	100	29.41%
myv	1	25.00%
nl	27	24.11%
hu	9	21.95%
ga	10	21.28%
he	80	21.28%
bg	4	13.33%
mk	57	10.11%
hy	2	7.41%
eu	33	7.14%
ca	48	6.99%
ba	2	4.44%
id	5	3.57%
it	14	3.54%
ko	8	3.38%
da	1	1.67%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
es	1469
fr	1316
uk	1269
bn	1010
fa	929
tr	924
ca	735
el	721
zh	679
ar	647
mk	621
pt	617
ig	500
eu	495
ru	493
he	456
gl	440
it	410
uz	399
en	391
ta	252
ko	245
ja	228
pa	223
sq	203
ur	185
ro	168
tl	150
id	145
arz	143
cs	142
nl	139
sr	114
ha	113
de	106
ms	98
tt	89
be	88
mr	87
tg	85
sw	83
sl	78
te	77
bs	76
hi	63
da	61
sv	61
eo	58
vi	58
ga	57

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

Language	Previous month
av	1
cv	4
dv	3
eml	2
ff	1
fur	1
gag	9
io	1
iu	1
kk	5
lij	1
mnw	1
nap	2
rmy	1
sa	4
sco	9
sm	2
tk	2
udm	1
ug	1
vo	1
xh	1
yi	2

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

Language	This month
lo	15
an	6
smn	6
sat	5
mwl	4
bar	3
dag	2
ext	2
kw	2
lad	2
lfn	2
ab	1
ace	1
ay	1
ban	1
gn	1
ia	1
ie	1
mi	1
mni	1
pnb	1
se	1
ts	1
vec	1
zea	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:

• Improve editing of translatable pages with Visual Editor. (Gerrit change 779863, Gerrit change 786880)
• Fix: Special:PageTranslation should not output one message box per invalid unit ID (task T306257, Gerrit change 782244)
• Fix: "Please specify a valid format" notice when trying to export translation on translatewiki.net (task T305906, Gerrit change 779580)
• Fix: "Special:ImportTranslations always reports "There were no changes for this language." (task T230000, Gerrit change 777349)

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 8.207 (+135); MediaWiki.org 6.161 (+23); Commons 1.720 (-21) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 455 (+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,

• Add "quick actions" menu to the current language selector (task T289840, Gerrit change 716241)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

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):

We are planning to sunset the this extension. Please see this task for more information.

• 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 2022.04 was released this month. Please see the corresponding 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: TODO (remove if none)
• Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
• Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data Version 1.0.9 (2022-04-20) was released. See the changelog here.

• Languages added and changes
  • Add Efik (efi) (PR #217)
  • Fix the geo data of Karay-a (krj) (PR #218)
  • Redirect "Eastern Yiddish" (ydd) to Yiddish (yi) (PR #220)
  • Change trp autonym (PR #223)
  • Remove Livvi Karelian from Asia (PR #222)

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• Maintenance updates only.

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Maintenance updates only.

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• Made progress on requiring full deployments for configuration changes. This will help reduce configuration changes causing site outages.

Language configuration updates

• Fix the autonym of Okinawan (ryu) (Gerrit change 786663)
• Update Kokborok language configuration (Gerrit change 784758)
• Remove Eastern Yiddish (ydd) (Gerrit change 784696)
• Add Efik (efi) (Gerrit change 779439)

Stats

• About 64 (-20) new users [2]
• About 369 (-18) translators made about 36.073 (859) edits [3][4]
• About 73 (-7) translators reviewed about 10.844 (2.701) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates.

Public communication and outreach

• We organised Global Wikimedia Sessions to offer a glimpse into the multilingual nature of Wikimedia projects, and the technologies that enable translation and localization. See more here to register for upcoming sessions https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Wikimedia_Sessions

Team status

• Emeka Chukwukere joined the team as a test engineer.