Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/December

November 2022 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2022 January 2023

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 December 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 29946
Articles created till end of month 1,365,860
Number of new translators (during the month) 1932
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)

13868 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 7081 uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

63500
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

14442
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6811
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3863
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12805
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4618
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1794
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

173
Articles deleted (during the month) 762

Other statistics edit

Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
am 9 5 5
as 9 4 2
ast 3 2 2
ay 1 1 1
az 73 56 14
ba 1 1 1
bcl 136 136 1
be 6 6 2
bg 4 3 2
bh 3 2 2
bm 1 1 1
bn 833 346 39
ca 2 1 1
ceb 1 1 1
ckb 103 79 5
cs 11 7 7
dv 1 1 1
el 31 20 8
eo 2 1 1
eu 1 1 1
fa 141 89 41
gn 1 1 1
gom 1 1 1
gu 2 2 2
ha 2 2 1
he 16 14 12
hr 3 2 2
hy 1 1 1
is 4 3 1
jv 15 14 3
ka 1 1 1
kn 6 3 3
ko 20 19 5
ku 65 44 3
lg 1 1 1
lv 1 1 1
mai 1 1 1
mk 1 1 1
ml 4 4 4
mn 1 1 1
mni 1 1 1
mr 61 52 9
ms 24 21 13
mt 42 19 1
my 4 4 4
ne 2 2 2
om 2 1 1
pa 5 4 4
ps 1 1 1
ro 7 7 7
sa 6 6 3
sah 2 2 2
sd 1 1 1
si 1 1 1
sl 1 1 1
sq 5 5 2
su 1 1 1
ta 7 7 6
te 21 6 4
th 106 46 10
tk 9 9 2
tl 20 18 4
tn 10 6 1
tr 126 104 34
tt 2 1 1
ur 9 4 3
uz 33 33 11
wo 1 1 1
zu 65 65 1
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
tw 39 3900.00%
ak 34 3400.00%
am 7 700.00%
mt 24 480.00%
tk 20 400.00%
br 30 333.33%
sk 46 287.50%
arz 35 269.23%
ckb 161 209.09%
gn 2 200.00%
th 52 185.71%
sq 238 180.30%
ss 19 172.73%
hyw 5 166.67%
ia 3 150.00%
tg 71 142.00%
be 93 132.86%
hi 100 125.00%
mr 103 114.44%
id 82 113.89%
eo 76 113.43%
ky 20 105.26%
ay 1 100.00%
azb 1 100.00%
jv 9 100.00%
ka 19 100.00%
lld 2 100.00%
nds 1 100.00%
szl 1 100.00%
tyv 3 100.00%
vec 1 100.00%
ro 89 78.76%
ur 731 72.74%
ko 77 71.96%
mn 2 66.67%
sa 4 66.67%
az 86 55.84%
ms 76 52.41%
bs 11 47.83%
ne 14 43.75%
kk 9 42.86%
min 3 42.86%
pa 51 39.53%
et 6 37.50%
simple 12 36.36%
da 17 36.17%
ceb 1 33.33%
hy 4 33.33%
sh 1 33.33%
cy 21 32.31%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
uz 7337
ur 1736
uk 1585
fr 1373
es 1312
fa 997
ar 914
bn 907
tr 900
ca 659
eu 630
ru 603
pt 546
he 535
ha 493
el 490
zh 446
en 438
sq 370
it 344
sr 291
ta 288
mk 261
az 240
ckb 238
ja 232
ms 221
cs 214
hr 208
ro 202
mr 193
gl 189
ko 184
hi 180
pa 180
lg 178
be 163
id 154
nl 153
ba 149
eo 143
bcl 141
kn 141
de 136
ps 133
tg 121
vi 101
nn 98
te 92
cy 86
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
ace 2
alt 1
dag 5
fy 3
gd 5
hif 2
io 1
lij 1
olo 1
sc 3
se 1
shi 1
ug 26
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
om 39
lo 13
ady 8
rue 8
nqo 5
ang 4
qu 4
dv 3
hak 3
lb 3
skr 2
an 1
arc 1
cdo 1
cv 1
ext 1
ff 1
haw 1
iu 1
jbo 1
kab 1
kg 1
lfn 1
li 1
mg 1
mnw 1
pap 1
pi 1
pms 1
rn 1
sn 1
trv 1
war 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:

  • TODO: Add changes

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data edit

  • Translatable pages: Meta TODO (TODO); MediaWiki.org TODO (TODO); Commons TODO (TODO) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on TODO (TODO) 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,

  • TODO: Add changes

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

Other extensions edit

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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 and changes (TODO, remove if none)

banana-i18n

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

  • Keyboards added and changed (TODO, remove if none)

translatewiki.net edit

See also translatewiki.net news page.


Language configuration updates edit

Stats edit

  • About TODO (TODO) new users [2]
  • About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits [3][4]
  • About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage edit

Deployments and other site related updates edit