Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/November

October 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2022

December 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	November 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	42150
Articles created till end of month	1336307
Number of new translators (during the month)	1604
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)	13738	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	20722	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	62458
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	14191
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6690
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3755
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12518
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4507
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1765
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	170
Articles deleted (during the month)	860

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
am	1	1	1
as	8	3	2
ast	2	2	2
az	46	34	18
bcl	171	171	1
bg	15	6	4
bh	9	9	1
bn	627	235	30
ceb	1	1	1
ckb	56	47	10
cs	8	6	6
ee	1	1	1
el	51	21	7
eo	1	1	1
eu	4	4	3
fa	56	42	30
gl	1	1	1
gu	2	2	2
ha	1	1	1
he	7	7	6
hy	1	1	1
ig	5	5	2
kn	20	11	7
ko	14	14	2
ku	141	64	5
lt	1	1	1
lv	3	3	2
ml	12	12	11
mn	1	1	1
mni	2	1	1
mr	46	31	5
ms	3	2	2
my	7	6	4
or	1	1	1
pa	4	4	3
ro	2	2	1
sa	8	2	1
si	8	7	5
sl	8	6	3
so	2	2	2
sq	9	9	5
sr	5	4	2
su	1	1	1
ta	3	3	3
te	5	5	5
th	21	14	3
tl	1	1	1
tn	3	3	1
tr	68	50	28
ur	9	9	4
uz	16	15	8
yo	1	1	1
zu	155	154	1

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
lg	141	3525.00%
nap	11	1100.00%
uz	16711	418.72%
my	29	414.29%
ha	342	297.39%
ky	14	280.00%
ks	22	275.00%
zu	113	256.82%
ast	34	242.86%
hr	119	224.53%
fy	2	200.00%
ug	17	188.89%
af	48	184.62%
sco	5	166.67%
su	5	166.67%
dag	3	150.00%
yi	3	150.00%
kk	12	133.33%
th	16	133.33%
ml	117	128.57%
sl	44	125.71%
mr	48	114.29%
ace	1	100.00%
co	2	100.00%
ia	1	100.00%
vi	56	87.50%
kw	84	84.00%
sw	8	80.00%
ar	549	67.86%
arz	6	66.67%
tk	2	66.67%
la	3	60.00%
bn	375	58.50%
de	46	51.69%
fo	1	50.00%
tt	5	50.00%
gl	79	47.02%
mzn	7	46.67%
hu	17	38.64%
bg	25	37.88%
ckb	21	37.50%
si	6	37.50%
az	41	36.28%
lv	6	35.29%
sr	59	34.10%
ru	138	33.74%
ga	10	25.64%
so	1	25.00%
tl	45	24.59%
cs	48	24.12%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	20702
es	1419
ar	1358
uk	1342
fr	1254
fa	1143
bn	1016
ur	1010
ca	832
tr	827
pt	591
eu	559
ru	547
el	510
he	483
ha	457
en	417
zh	389
it	348
mk	274
ta	257
cs	247
gl	247
sr	232
tl	228
ml	208
ja	187
kn	187
kw	184
ba	182
bcl	175
hr	172
zu	157
az	154
lg	145
ms	145
ku	140
de	135
sq	132
pa	129
nl	124
vi	120
ps	119
ro	113
nn	110
ko	107
te	100
sv	97
bg	91
mr	90

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

Language	Previous month
ab	1
an	5
ang	1
av	2
bar	2
bxr	1
cdo	1
cv	3
dv	2
ext	3
fj	1
hsb	1
iu	2
kab	1
ksh	1
lb	1
nov	1
nqo	4
nso	1
om	6
pnt	1
sm	1

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

Language	This month
sd	18
gd	5
sah	4
diq	3
hyw	3
scn	3
glk	2
hif	2
mai	2
wo	2
ak	1
ay	1
azb	1
bm	1
gom	1
lad	1
lmo	1
nds	1
olo	1
st	1
ti	1
tw	1
vec	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:

• TODO: Add changes

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

• Translatable pages: Meta TODO (TODO); MediaWiki.org TODO (TODO); Commons TODO (TODO) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on TODO (TODO) 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,

• TODO: Add changes

Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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 (TODO, remove if none)

banana-i18n

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

• Keyboards added and changed (TODO, remove if none)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

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Stats

• About TODO (TODO) new users [2]
• About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits [3][4]
• About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations [5][6]