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.

Highlights edit

Content Translation edit

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

Usage data edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

  • 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 edit

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 edit

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

See also translatewiki.net news page.


Language configuration updates edit

Stats edit

  • 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]

TwnMainPage edit

Deployments and other site related updates edit