Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/June

May 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for June 2022

July 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	June 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	29519
Articles created till end of month	1182772
Number of new translators (during the month)	1096
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)	13136	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	6586	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	58471
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13323
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6295
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3525
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11537
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4119
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1537
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	150
Articles deleted (during the month)	746

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
as	10	7	5
az	18	14	9
bn	391	130	28
cs	10	8	8
el	6	5	5
eu	16	10	4
fa	223	143	69
gu	17	11	5
he	66	33	14
ig	6	6	3
is	1	1	1
jv	1	1	1
kn	6	6	3
ko	25	18	13
ku	4	4	3
mk	2	2	2
ml	13	13	5
mn	1	1	1
mr	29	27	6
ms	5	4	2
ne	3	3	2
oc	1	1	1
pa	1	1	1
sq	3	3	3
sr	12	3	2
sw	1	1	1
ta	9	8	4
te	9	8	7
th	6	4	4
tl	3	2	2
tr	180	133	32
ur	17	17	12
yo	2	2	2

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
lt	15	750.00%
mn	7	700.00%
ig	3420	674.56%
ps	13	650.00%
bjn	4	400.00%
hy	59	327.78%
ga	80	307.69%
tl	45	236.84%
ceb	2	200.00%
sd	4	200.00%
tk	4	200.00%
ha	767	175.11%
uz	3960	150.97%
simple	13	144.44%
bn	455	142.63%
az	51	127.50%
lld	5	125.00%
ms	137	105.38%
fy	1	100.00%
gd	1	100.00%
la	6	100.00%
ug	1	100.00%
eo	70	85.37%
yo	49	83.05%
fi	12	70.59%
te	52	68.42%
tg	34	65.38%
hr	13	54.17%
ckb	7	46.67%
nn	20	39.22%
en	119	33.33%
is	1	33.33%
af	14	32.56%
sv	18	26.87%
ja	44	25.73%
th	2	22.22%
ca	137	21.71%
fa	183	18.17%
cs	32	17.30%
pl	9	16.36%
smn	1	14.29%
kn	7	12.50%
mr	6	12.24%
sl	7	10.94%
nl	9	10.00%
uk	138	9.36%
fr	101	8.00%
zh	61	7.86%
he	10	2.53%
it	9	2.49%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	6583
ig	3927
uk	1613
es	1462
fr	1364
ha	1205
fa	1190
ar	935
zh	837
bn	774
ca	768
pt	578
tr	575
en	476
ru	417
eu	415
he	406
it	371
gl	298
sw	286
ta	271
ms	267
mk	255
cs	217
ja	215
sr	207
ur	182
el	171
id	153
eo	152
ro	140
te	128
pa	127
yo	108
ga	106
nl	99
az	91
ko	90
arz	86
da	86
tg	86
km	85
sv	85
vi	79
de	77
hy	77
nn	71
sl	71
sq	71
pl	64

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

Language	Previous month
ace	1
atj	1
ay	1
bcl	17
bi	1
bug	1
csb	1
cv	1
ee	1
frp	1
hyw	1
jam	1
lfn	1
lg	9
lmo	3
mhr	1
mwl	4
myv	9
nah	1
nap	6
nds	1
nov	1
qu	1
sa	1
sah	2
st	2
ti	1
tn	1
ts	1
tw	1
zu	8

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

Language	This month
dv	5
wuu	4
kw	3
nso	3
am	2
ie	2
lij	2
su	2
vec	2
ab	1
av	1
kaa	1
kab	1
li	1
mg	1
min	1
mnw	1
mzn	1
rue	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:

• Add support to delete message bundles (Gerrit change 774817, task T300497)
• Add support for priority languages for message bundles (Gerrit change 780901, task T305138)
• Add support for metadata and setting source languages for message bundles (Gerrit change 779509, task T305137)
• Avoid recreation of translation pages on bulk deletion of pages (Gerrit change 799383, task T291724)
• Allow CSV export for message groups (Gerrit change 802130, task T309517)
• Add script to import translations from CSV file (Gerrit change 803294, task T309517)

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 8.349 (+21); MediaWiki.org 6.204 (+1); Commons 1.746 (+13) [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.

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 maintenance updates.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation maintenance updates.

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 in April 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 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 language-data will be released this month. This section will be updated when that's available.

• Languages added and changes
  • Rename Okinawan PR #225
  • Update Kinyarwanda autonym PR #227
  • Add Campidanese Sardinian (sro) PR #228
  • Update autonym for the Efik language PR #231
  • Add Tai Nüa (tdd) PR #233
  • Add Bura PR #237
  • Change Kanuri autonym to lowercase PR #238

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• For language links, use full space in <li> elements PR #447
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Fix height of selected keyboard text PR #685
• Keyboards added and changed:
  • Add keyboards for Nyanja and Tumbuka PR
  • Add the macron sign to the Ewe keyboard PR
  • Improve the name for the mul-* keyboards PR
  • Add Kanuri tilde keyboard PR
  • Add Bura tilde keyboard PR

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add default assistant languages for Mara and Mizo (Gerrit change 808414)
• Add assistant languages for Chewa and Tumbuka (Gerrit change 804748)
• Add Bura (bwr) and update Kanuri (kr) (Gerrit change 804700)

Stats

• About 75 (-57) new users [2]
• About 379 (-35) translators made about 44.207 (5.228) edits [3][4]
• About 86 (+11) translators reviewed about 8.493 (+2.500) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.