Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/October

September 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for October 2022

November 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	October 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	28240
Articles created till end of month	1294157
Number of new translators (during the month)	1514
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)	13605	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	3945	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	61595
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13987
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6599
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3700
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12274
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4415
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1682
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	164
Articles deleted (during the month)	860

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
am	2	2	2
as	5	4	3
ast	1	1	1
az	20	18	11
bcl	174	173	1
bh	1	1	1
bn	376	163	28
bs	11	5	2
ceb	8	7	2
ckb	23	19	8
cs	5	5	4
cy	57	17	2
dv	1	1	1
ee	8	7	1
el	116	48	6
eo	2	2	1
et	1	1	1
eu	6	4	2
fa	86	73	49
gl	1	1	1
gn	4	4	2
gu	3	3	3
ha	6	3	1
he	72	32	15
hy	1	1	1
ig	23	22	9
km	15	14	1
kn	35	15	5
ko	28	25	5
ku	81	60	6
lv	3	3	1
ml	7	6	5
mni	5	5	2
mr	20	16	8
ms	11	10	5
mt	2	2	2
my	2	2	2
ne	2	2	1
nso	1	1	1
oc	1	1	1
om	2	2	1
or	2	2	1
pa	4	4	3
sa	2	2	1
si	6	5	5
sl	5	4	4
so	4	4	1
sq	7	7	2
sr	3	3	3
su	4	1	1
sw	1	1	1
ta	7	6	3
te	4	3	1
th	8	6	3
tn	15	15	1
tr	84	72	29
ur	10	8	5
uz	2	2	2
yo	3	3	3
zu	46	36	3

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
kk	8	800.00%
tn	30	750.00%
smn	6	600.00%
ee	5	500.00%
gn	9	450.00%
br	35	437.50%
ss	12	400.00%
ku	102	340.00%
am	3	300.00%
ks	6	300.00%
tcy	3	300.00%
ig	2776	263.13%
sco	2	200.00%
ka	32	177.78%
te	117	177.27%
kn	183	142.97%
bcl	104	142.47%
ba	108	133.33%
km	80	133.33%
min	9	128.57%
si	9	128.57%
sv	67	126.42%
oc	10	111.11%
fo	1	100.00%
is	4	100.00%
sc	2	100.00%
or	18	94.74%
cy	27	90.00%
pl	27	72.97%
hu	18	69.23%
ht	10	66.67%
tyv	4	66.67%
el	258	63.24%
tr	333	60.66%
nn	37	59.68%
nl	54	59.34%
da	20	58.82%
ast	5	55.56%
tg	26	53.06%
mn	2	50.00%
th	4	50.00%
eu	162	47.93%
hy	5	45.45%
sq	36	38.71%
hi	65	38.24%
cs	55	38.19%
he	200	38.17%
lt	4	36.36%
ne	11	34.38%
nqo	1	33.33%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	3992
ig	3831
es	1739
fr	1623
fa	1298
uk	1100
tr	882
ur	835
ar	809
he	724
ca	698
el	666
bn	643
pt	581
eu	500
en	471
zh	441
ru	412
it	345
ja	325
kn	311
ta	300
mk	294
hi	235
ms	226
cs	199
ba	189
te	183
tl	183
bcl	177
sr	173
gl	168
ro	167
pa	146
nl	145
km	140
ku	132
sq	129
sv	120
ha	115
az	113
ps	106
kw	100
nn	99
ko	97
ml	91
de	90
id	79
tg	75
bg	66

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

Language	Previous month
azb	2
bjn	2
ff	1
gan	1
got	1
hif	1
kg	1
mi	2
mnw	2
mwl	1
pap	1
qu	1
rn	1
sd	2
st	1
ti	1
tum	7
tw	3
xh	1

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

Language	This month
kw	100
zu	44
ceb	19
mzn	15
ug	9
om	6
an	5
lld	5
pnb	4
cv	3
ext	3
alt	2
av	2
bar	2
bo	2
co	2
dag	2
dv	2
shi	2
ab	1
ang	1
bxr	1
cdo	1
fj	1
ia	1
io	1
kab	1
ksh	1
lb	1
nap	1
nov	1
pdc	1
pnt	1
se	1
sm	1
wuu	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]