Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/May

April 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for May 2022

June 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	May 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	23053
Articles created till end of month	1153700
Number of new translators (during the month)	1328
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)	13017	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2786	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	58186
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13179
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6233
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3475
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	11394
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4057
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1493
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	147
Articles deleted (during the month)	591

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
az	55	44	16
bn	898	364	27
cs	6	4	3
el	9	6	4
eu	8	1	1
fa	225	139	55
gu	6	5	3
ha	5	2	1
he	40	23	15
ig	4	4	2
kn	23	7	2
ko	42	34	10
ku	7	7	2
ml	4	4	4
mr	50	34	3
ms	8	8	6
ne	5	5	2
pa	4	4	3
sq	3	3	3
sw	1	1	1
ta	8	8	6
te	22	14	3
th	8	8	5
tr	66	48	17
ur	51	29	6
yo	1	1	1

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
yo	55	1375.00%
my	39	1300.00%
as	31	1033.33%
zu	7	700.00%
ba	325	691.49%
ks	47	587.50%
km	113	565.00%
uz	2230	558.90%
ku	25	416.67%
sw	322	387.95%
ky	33	366.67%
th	7	350.00%
af	34	340.00%
si	22	314.29%
ha	326	291.07%
tt	257	288.76%
ak	2	200.00%
lb	2	200.00%
rw	30	166.67%
hi	87	138.10%
lo	20	133.33%
cy	28	121.74%
sr	126	111.50%
lld	2	100.00%
st	1	100.00%
ckb	7	87.50%
nqo	6	85.71%
hr	11	84.62%
da	51	83.61%
ar	523	81.97%
myv	4	80.00%
sk	7	70.00%
mt	2	66.67%
ht	7	63.64%
vi	33	56.90%
eo	27	47.37%
ne	9	39.13%
ms	32	32.65%
id	45	31.25%
cs	43	30.28%
ka	12	25.53%
pl	10	22.22%
kn	10	21.74%
es	246	16.78%
br	1	16.67%
smn	1	16.67%
arz	23	16.55%
uk	208	16.39%
zh	101	14.92%
hu	7	14.00%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	2629
es	1712
uk	1477
fr	1267
ar	1161
tr	1033
fa	1012
zh	778
mk	637
ca	631
pt	573
ig	507
ru	502
el	450
eu	447
ha	438
sw	405
he	399
gl	381
ba	372
it	364
en	363
tt	346
bn	321
ta	265
sr	239
ur	198
id	189
cs	185
pa	177
ja	174
arz	162
ro	160
hi	150
sq	148
km	133
ms	130
de	117
ko	116
da	112
nl	91
vi	91
eo	84
be	77
te	76
sv	68
sl	64
or	61
ka	59
yo	59

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

Language	Previous month
ab	1
am	1
azb	1
ban	1
bar	3
dag	2
ext	2
gn	1
ia	1
ie	1
kab	10
kw	2
lad	2
mg	1
mni	1
pnb	1
sat	5
se	1
skr	5
sn	1
su	4
vec	1
zea	1

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

Language	This month
kk	45
yi	9
co	6
nap	6
gag	3
haw	3
sco	3
sah	2
tk	2
atj	1
bi	1
bjn	1
bug	1
csb	1
cv	1
ee	1
fy	1
gd	1
jam	1
li	1
mhr	1
nah	1
nds	1
nov	1
ny	1
qu	1
rm	1
sa	1
sm	1
ti	1
tn	1
ts	1
ug	1
vo	1
xh	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 move message bundles which has been built to provide a localisation framework for Scribunto modules. (task T300496)
• Add a translation aid in tux to display a translation's edit summaries (task T240364)
• Fix: "Division by zero possibility in mediawiki/extensions/Translate/scripts/ttmserver-export.php" (task T307490)

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 8.328 (+321); MediaWiki.org 6.203 (+42); Commons 1.733 (+13) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 456 (+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.

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 and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance 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 2022.04 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

• Languages added and changes
  • Add Tai Nüa (tdd) PR
  • Update autonym for the Efik language PR
  • Add Campidanese Sardinian (sro) PR
  • Update Kinyarwanda autonym PR
  • Rename Okinawan PR

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• Maintenance updates only.

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Keyboards added and changed
  • Add Efik tilde keyboard PR
• Maintenance updates

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add Tai Nüa (tdd) (Gerrit change 801379)
• Update autonym for the Efik language (Gerrit change 796917)
• Remove Mooré (mos) (since its added to MediaWiki core Gerrit change 790256)
• Add Campidanese Sardinian (sro) (Gerrit change 791746)
• Remove Okinawan (ryu) since its added to MediaWiki core (Gerrit change 787434)

Stats

• About 132 (+68) new users [2]
• About 414 (+45) translators made about 38.979 (+2.906) edits [3][4]
• About 75 (+2) translators reviewed about 5.993 (4.851) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates.