Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/February

January 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2022

March 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	February 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	21537
Articles created till end of month	1090489
Number of new translators (during the month)	1224
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)	12620	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	3407	tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	56039
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12657
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6004
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3320
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10857
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3859
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1419
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	140
Articles deleted (during the month)	515

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
az	4	4	3
bn	252	77	22
ha	2	2	1
ig	1	1	1
ku	3	3	1
sq	1	1	1
th	1	1	1

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
skr	101	10100.00%
ig	583	7287.50%
sn	42	2100.00%
jv	191	955.00%
rw	17	850.00%
ur	222	616.67%
co	6	600.00%
haw	6	600.00%
th	39	557.14%
mr	74	308.33%
kk	3	300.00%
ka	41	241.18%
sc	5	166.67%
la	3	150.00%
si	6	150.00%
ko	131	147.19%
af	10	125.00%
fi	12	120.00%
sl	48	117.07%
lij	2	100.00%
sh	1	100.00%
ro	66	70.21%
tr	1415	69.64%
eu	258	61.72%
nqo	11	55.00%
ceb	1	50.00%
kab	15	50.00%
or	10	50.00%
my	15	46.88%
lld	3	37.50%
id	32	32.65%
sw	15	31.91%
mk	248	31.47%
bn	195	26.57%
km	2	22.22%
ba	14	20.29%
mn	1	20.00%
simple	4	20.00%
hi	27	18.24%
br	2	16.67%
et	1	16.67%
kn	20	14.49%
en	49	13.28%
el	82	13.23%
bs	8	12.50%
az	3	8.82%
zh	37	7.24%
ha	9	4.66%
pa	2	3.70%
pt	18	3.56%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	3447
fr	1414
es	1274
mk	1036
uk	967
bn	929
fa	913
el	702
eu	676
ca	620
ig	591
zh	548
pt	524
ar	483
it	460
en	418
ta	381
gl	358
arz	353
he	335
ru	321
ja	283
ur	258
ko	220
jv	211
ha	202
ms	182
hi	175
nl	175
ro	160
kn	158
cs	152
id	130
te	113
skr	102
sv	99
mr	98
de	89
sl	89
ba	83
sr	78
tg	77
bs	72
sw	62
sq	59
ka	58
pa	56
eo	53
tt	53
da	51

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

Language	Previous month
bjn	13
gor	1
kg	2
mni	3
nov	1
sah	5
st	2
tw	1
war	1
zu	12

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

Language	This month
mi	7
ks	6
am	5
ak	4
hyw	3
sa	3
as	2
cv	2
pms	2
ug	2
an	1
chr	1
diq	1
dv	1
fo	1
fy	1
gan	1
ilo	1
ksh	1
li	1
lmo	1
nap	1
nds	1
ny	1
pnb	1
rm	1
sd	1
shi	1
trv	1
vec	1
vls	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:

• Finished moving special pages to namespace (task T298960)
• Add a new entity selector to select groups in Special:MessageGroupStats (task T298960)
• Add UrlInsertableSuggester for Translate (task T300619)

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 7.951 (+349); MediaWiki.org 6.040 (+39); Commons 1.732 (+22) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 455 (+1) 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 and maintenance updates only.

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

• Localisation updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (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 2022.01 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 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:
  • Pannonian Rusyn (rsk)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Languages added and changes:
  • Add the Moore language (mos) (GitHub PR)
  • Add [ken] Kenyang (GitHub PR)
  • Add the Bulu language (bum) (GitHub PR)
  • Add Fante (fat) (GitHub PR)
  • Add Pannonian Rusyn (GitHub PR)
  • Fix the autonym for Rundi (rn) (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n

• No changes

jquery.i18n

• No changes

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No changes

jquery.ime

• Maintenance updates
• Add the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages keyboard (GitHub PR)
• Add Burkina Faso tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)
• Add the Bulu language with Cameroon keyboard (GitHub PR)
• Add Fante language with Akan keyboards (GitHub PR)
• Cleanup Kashmiri Arabic keyboard code (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add the Fante language (fat) (Gerrit change 766077)
• Add Panonian Rusyn (Gerrit change 763908)
• Add the Bulu language (Gerrit change 763901)
• Add Kenyang language (Gerrit change 759460)

Stats

• About 97 (+7) new users [2]
• About 388 (-21) translators made about 44.326 (+6.146) edits [3][4]
• About 73 (-8) translators reviewed about 9.152 (+2.625) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

• Eugene Wang'ombe joined the Language team as Software Engineer (Contractor).