Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/January

December 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2022

February 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	January 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	20,539
Articles created till end of month	1,069,261
Number of new translators (during the month)	1128
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	16,412	tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	12498	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1945	tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	55,302
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12,512
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5919
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3272
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10714
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3794
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1393
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	139
Articles deleted (during the month)	421

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
az	4	4	3
ba	5	2	2
bn	17	13	9
ha	4	4	2
ml	2	1	1
ms	5	4	3
sq	1	1	1
th	9	7	4

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
ast	14	1400.00%
sco	7	700.00%
my	26	433.33%
arz	333	426.92%
eml	4	400.00%
mn	4	400.00%
sah	4	400.00%
jv	16	320.00%
ht	7	233.33%
hy	30	230.77%
az	23	209.09%
tt	290	204.23%
mni	2	200.00%
tyv	4	200.00%
ckb	25	192.31%
is	12	171.43%
mk	457	138.07%
nqo	11	122.22%
pl	37	119.35%
te	103	117.05%
br	6	100.00%
sq	40	97.56%
bn	349	90.41%
ka	8	88.89%
ku	3	75.00%
lv	8	72.73%
bcl	19	67.86%
hr	9	60.00%
nl	63	58.88%
cy	43	55.84%
vi	43	53.09%
id	28	40.00%
ta	116	39.73%
cs	66	38.15%
ru	116	36.25%
sw	12	34.29%
fr	416	30.28%
uk	274	27.51%
bs	14	27.45%
ha	41	26.80%
ba	12	21.05%
gl	62	14.22%
tl	48	12.63%
hi	14	10.45%
zh	41	8.69%
fa	77	8.64%
es	94	7.05%
sv	6	6.59%
ro	3	3.30%
el	6	0.97%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	2033
fr	1790
es	1427
uk	1270
fa	968
mk	788
bn	735
ca	640
el	622
it	525
ar	513
zh	513
he	508
pt	506
gl	498
ru	436
tt	432
tl	428
eu	420
arz	411
ta	408
en	379
ja	292
cs	239
ms	228
ha	194
te	191
nl	170
hi	148
kn	138
vi	124
cy	120
sr	107
de	99
id	98
sv	97
ro	94
hu	92
ko	89
eo	85
tg	82
sq	81
da	76
ba	69
pl	68
bg	65
bs	65
ml	56
pa	54
uz	51

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

Language	Previous month
an	1
ang	1
as	2
bug	2
bxr	1
cu	1
hyw	1
ks	1
kw	5
lo	6
min	1
nap	1
os	8
pdc	1
pnb	2
sa	5
sat	2
sd	4
se	1
su	2
ti	1
ug	2
wo	1
xal	1

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

Language	This month
kab	30
bjn	13
lld	8
ary	5
tk	3
azb	2
kg	2
sn	2
co	1
glk	1
gor	1
inh	1
kk	1
nov	1
war	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:

• Remove support for unused Configure extension integration. (Gerrit change 751382)
• Remove backward compatibility for MW <= 1.35 (task T298788, Gerrit change 752166)
• Add reason dropdown on PageTranslationDeletePage (task T153542, Gerrit change 754490)
• Allow exporting AggregateMessageGroups in offline format via CLI (task T299493, task T263268, Gerrit change 755356)

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 7.602 (+307); MediaWiki.org 6.001 (+45); Commons 1.710 (+4) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 454 (+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,

• Update GentiumPlus font (task T298613, Gerrit change 752374)
• Hide sticky header language button with preference disabled (task T297579, Gerrit change 751521)
• Remove backward compatibility for MW <= 1.35 (task T298856, Gerrit change 752635)
• Improve the loading time of ULS language selector by fetching modules early (task T299202, Gerrit change 753876)

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):

• Add S'gaw Karen (ksw), not part of CLDR (Gerrit change 732295, task T292612)

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation 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 2022.01 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:
  • Fon (fon)
  • Variants on Northern Sami for fallback
  • Nkore (nyn)
• Language configuration changes:
  • Albanian namespaces and magic words
  • Numbered lists for languages in the Burmese script are now shown with Burmese numerals

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

language-data

• Release Language Data - 2022-01-18
  • Support for Node.js 10 has been removed
• Languages added and changes:
  • Update Nheengatu (yrl) autonym (GitHub PR)
  • Fix the Angika (anp) autonym (GitHub PR)
  • Add the Nyankore language (nyn) (GitHub PR)
  • Add shy-latn, uz-cyrl and uz-latn (GitHub PR)
  • Add Fur (fvr) (GitHub PR)
  • Add se-fi, se-no and se-se (GitHub PR)
  • Update Toki Pona (GitHub PR)
  • Rename Seediq (trv) (GitHub PR)
  • Add the Moore language (mos) (GitHub PR)
  • Add [ken] Kenyang (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n

Version 2.3.3 was released with bug fixes:

• Fix: wikilinks not respected after setLocale call (GitHub PR)
• html sanitizing: Fix extra comma in node concatenation (GitHub PR, task T299388)

jquery.i18n

• Move to using GitHub actions for CI (GitHub PR)

jquery.uls

• Updated langauge-data to latest version
• Maintenance updates

jquery.webfonts

• Remove usage of deprecated jQuery.trim (GitHub PR)

jquery.ime

• Change label from National to Jatiyo for bn-nkb keyboard (GitHub PR)
• In functions calls accept langCodes that have no input methods (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

• To improve the privacy of our users we stopped using Google Analytics

Language configuration updates

• Add assistant languages for Somali (Gerrit change 759202)
• Add the Moore language (Gerrit change 758545)
• Add assistant languages for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi (Gerrit change 754083)
• Add the Nyankore language (nyn) (Gerrit change 754069)

Stats

• About 90 (+17) new users [2]
• About 409 (+81) translators made about 38.180 (+6.948) edits [3][4]
• About 81 (+14) translators reviewed about 6.527 (+2.747) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.