Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/March


February 2022 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2022 April 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.

Highlights

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Content Translation

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Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Usage data

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Content Translation monthly data March 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 21573
Articles created till end of month 1111777
Number of new translators (during the month) 1245
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)

12738 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 1559 fr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

56757
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12842
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6075
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3359
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

11051
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3918
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1441
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

140
Articles deleted (during the month) 489

Other statistics

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Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
az 2 2 2
bn 1040 327 29
ha 336 93 3
ku 4 2 1
ml 1 1 1
ms 3 2 2
sq 1 1 1
te 40 15 4
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
ak 33 825.00%
sco 8 800.00%
yo 8 800.00%
sw 401 646.77%
lmo 4 400.00%
so 4 400.00%
pa 177 316.07%
ha 533 277.60%
hyw 5 250.00%
ast 12 240.00%
be 72 232.26%
or 65 216.67%
dv 2 200.00%
lv 18 180.00%
tg 127 171.62%
mr 168 171.43%
ur 428 168.50%
bcl 63 161.54%
skr 134 132.67%
ne 9 128.57%
gu 5 125.00%
ary 1 100.00%
as 2 100.00%
azb 1 100.00%
cv 2 100.00%
glk 1 100.00%
nap 1 100.00%
sd 1 100.00%
tk 1 100.00%
yi 1 100.00%
sr 69 90.79%
vi 46 90.20%
ml 43 87.76%
af 15 83.33%
ru 246 77.36%
sc 6 75.00%
zh 370 68.01%
ht 2 66.67%
lt 5 62.50%
mn 3 60.00%
ro 94 59.12%
ga 17 56.67%
ms 100 54.95%
is 7 50.00%
ks 3 50.00%
oc 1 50.00%
az 18 48.65%
ka 23 39.66%
pt 201 38.36%
sq 22 37.29%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
fr 1705
es 1512
tr 1032
fa 949
zh 914
el 868
ha 725
pt 725
ca 689
uk 685
ur 682
bn 659
ig 607
mk 565
ru 564
ar 491
eu 463
sw 463
en 419
it 397
he 379
gl 342
ta 318
ms 282
mr 266
ro 253
ja 247
ko 238
skr 235
pa 233
tg 201
hi 171
jv 159
cs 153
sr 145
id 140
de 118
nl 112
arz 105
kn 104
be 103
te 103
bcl 102
sv 98
vi 97
or 95
ml 92
ka 81
sq 81
eo 71
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
an 1
chr 1
co 7
diq 1
fo 1
fy 1
gan 1
gd 1
haw 7
ilo 1
inh 1
ksh 1
li 1
mi 7
nds 1
ny 1
pms 2
pnb 1
rm 1
shi 1
trv 1
vec 1
vls 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
lg 18
frp 11
gag 9
myv 4
tw 4
pap 3
mg 2
sm 2
av 1
ff 1
fur 1
io 1
iu 1
mnw 1
rmy 1
st 1
su 1
udm 1
vo 1
zu 1

Translate

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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:

  • Fix "Suggestions with the same percentage are not sorted by usage" (task T183872)
  • Fix "[TUX] Provide feedback when saving a translation in proofreading mode" (task T47555)
  • Fix priority reason not appearing when marking page translation. (Gerrit change 769277)
  • Avoid fetching language stats for all groups when Special:Translate is loaded to improve performance (task T302680)
  • Rename moveTranslatablePage script to moveTranslatableBundle (Gerrit change 760918)
  • Parse magic words in deletereason-dropdown message (task T302269)

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

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  • Translatable pages: Meta 8.072 (+121); MediaWiki.org 6.138 (+98); Commons 1.741 (+9) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 455 (+0) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

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Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,

  • Fix "ULS button in personal bar broken with classic vector". (task T301882)
  • 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

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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 updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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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 in January 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2022

MediaWiki core internationalization

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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

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language-data

  • Languages added and changes

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • No updates

jquery.uls

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • Maintenance updates only.

translatewiki.net

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See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • Scheduled weekly backports for MediaWiki 1.38 (task T304562)

Language configuration updates

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Stats

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  • About 84 (-13) new users [2]
  • About 387 (-1) translators made about 35.214 (9.112) edits [3][4]
  • About 80 (+7) translators reviewed about 8.143 (-1.009) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

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  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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  • Section Translation was enabled in Javanese, Tagalog, Mongolian, Telugu and Persian Wikipedias, along with Content Translation out of Beta feature.

Cross team work/requirements

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Public communication and outreach

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Team status

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