Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/August

July 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2022

September 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	August 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	32633
Articles created till end of month	1242374
Number of new translators (during the month)	1284
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)	13353	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	10166	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	59994
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13676
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6425
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3625
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11927
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4287
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1613
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	159
Articles deleted (during the month)	571

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
as	2	2	1
ast	1	1	1
az	6	6	4
bcl	48	47	1
bn	339	150	32
ckb	23	18	6
cs	2	2	2
el	49	20	7
eo	3	3	2
et	1	1	1
eu	2	2	2
fa	91	70	40
gu	2	2	2
he	24	20	15
hy	1	1	1
ig	5	5	2
kn	30	15	2
ko	7	7	6
ku	5	5	3
ln	1	1	1
mk	2	2	2
ml	12	11	8
mn	1	1	1
mr	102	75	5
ms	9	6	1
my	41	41	3
ne	3	3	3
sl	1	1	1
sr	2	1	1
su	2	1	1
sw	3	3	1
ta	1	1	1
te	27	14	3
th	8	8	6
tl	4	4	3
tn	3	2	1
tr	37	32	27
ur	3	3	3
uz	6	6	4
yo	2	2	2

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
tk	12	1200.00%
ceb	8	800.00%
be	467	576.54%
la	15	375.00%
kk	29	362.50%
ary	9	300.00%
co	3	300.00%
mg	3	300.00%
ckb	108	276.92%
lv	11	275.00%
br	13	260.00%
simple	51	242.86%
ku	40	235.29%
kn	231	224.27%
bcl	35	218.75%
tl	251	209.17%
mk	220	207.55%
ss	6	200.00%
hr	63	153.66%
oc	7	140.00%
gu	5	125.00%
mr	55	125.00%
my	34	117.24%
ka	35	109.38%
bar	1	100.00%
cv	3	100.00%
st	1	100.00%
as	12	92.31%
tt	9	90.00%
hi	69	89.61%
sr	172	88.66%
uz	4636	83.68%
hu	25	73.53%
da	17	68.00%
nqo	13	61.90%
bs	19	61.29%
ja	112	53.85%
sh	1	50.00%
ur	603	48.94%
ml	36	48.65%
bg	25	48.08%
ast	2	33.33%
tn	1	33.33%
en	143	33.26%
ru	202	30.70%
tr	155	29.81%
eu	87	27.27%
ba	13	27.08%
ha	154	22.35%
nl	23	22.12%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	10176
ur	1835
fr	1533
es	1388
uk	1096
ar	951
fa	901
ru	860
ha	843
ca	833
bn	708
tr	675
en	573
pt	562
be	548
zh	542
he	431
eu	406
tl	371
sr	366
el	338
kn	334
it	327
mk	326
id	324
ja	320
gl	302
ms	273
ta	238
az	218
ig	188
ko	178
ps	174
ro	171
ckb	147
hi	146
pa	144
cs	134
nl	127
ga	116
ml	110
de	104
hr	104
mr	99
eo	90
bg	77
vi	74
simple	72
ka	67
hy	66

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

Language	Previous month
azb	1
bjn	7
fy	1
glk	2
got	7
hsb	1
kab	3
lld	2
lmo	2
mai	3
min	1
sd	2
sn	1

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

Language	This month
tum	32
kaa	14
am	12
xh	9
fo	6
su	6
ab	4
mt	4
ace	2
ady	2
ak	2
av	2
fj	2
hyw	2
io	2
lo	2
mni	2
smn	2
szl	2
wuu	2
bug	1
cr	1
fur	1
gag	1
gor	1
lad	1
lg	1
lij	1
ltg	1
new	1
rue	1
sat	1
ug	1
wa	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:

• Add feature to save description for a message bundle (Gerrit change 811878, task T311503)
• Fix title not appearing in fieldset legend in DeleteTranslatableBundle special page (Gerrit change 820011, task T314447)
• Mark translations imported via CSV as bot edits (Gerrit change 820131, task T314012)
• Warnings and errors on the translation editor is displayed after 2 seconds (Gerrit change 823140, task T164306)
• Make Insertable without post content to replace selection (Gerrit change 822193, task T114101)
• Add support for Elasticsearch 7 (Gerrit change 828050, task T309581)
• When updating translation pages, create any missing translation pages. (Gerrit change 826523)

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 8.636 (+77); MediaWiki.org 6.250 (+13); Commons 1.768 (+27) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 456 (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,

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 updates only.

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

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation 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 2022.07 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2022.

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

• Languages added and changes:
  • Add Esan language (PR)
  • Fix the autonym of the Iñupiaq language (PR)
  • Add Makassarese (mak) (PR)
  • Add Iraqi Arabic (acm) (PR)

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• Add sr-cyrl as fallback for sr (PR)

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Keyboards added and changed
  • Make the Punjabi Gurmukhi Phonetic conform to spec (PR)
  • Add Esan tilde keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add the Esan language (Gerrit change 819013)
• Add Makassarese (Gerrit change 824814)

Stats

• About 51 (-49) new users [2]
• About 360 (-17) translators made about 50.101 (-1.107) edits [3][4]
• About 80 (-3) translators reviewed about 9.561 (-1.495) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation updates