Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/September

August 2022

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for September 2022

October 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	September 2022	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	24116
Articles created till end of month	1265917
Number of new translators (during the month)	1213
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)	13459	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	3655	uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	60663
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	13791
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	6509
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3669
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12111
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4328
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1647
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	161
Articles deleted (during the month)	858

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
am	1	1	1
as	3	3	1
ast	2	2	2
az	20	20	7
ba	2	1	1
bcl	64	62	1
bn	234	109	34
ca	1	1	1
ckb	30	14	6
cs	14	10	7
ee	1	1	1
el	17	13	7
eo	3	3	2
eu	8	4	2
fa	59	51	35
gn	3	2	2
gu	2	2	1
he	49	30	10
ht	1	1	1
jv	1	1	1
km	1	1	1
kn	9	6	4
ko	15	14	10
ku	3	3	3
lt	1	1	1
lv	1	1	1
ml	39	27	8
mn	3	3	3
mni	7	4	2
mr	85	48	6
ms	5	5	5
my	8	8	4
nso	1	1	1
or	1	1	1
pa	3	3	3
qu	1	1	1
sa	6	6	2
si	2	2	2
sl	2	2	2
so	3	3	3
sq	3	3	1
sr	4	2	2
ss	1	1	1
su	5	3	2
ta	6	6	5
te	10	8	6
th	3	2	2
tl	5	3	2
tn	4	4	2
tr	68	64	27
ur	1	1	1
uz	3	3	3
yo	4	4	2

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
yo	191	6366.67%
lg	46	4600.00%
arz	9	900.00%
ht	13	650.00%
sa	6	600.00%
mni	10	500.00%
ig	868	461.70%
et	20	285.71%
jv	7	233.33%
tyv	4	200.00%
ary	13	108.33%
ks	1	100.00%
lij	1	100.00%
sc	1	100.00%
sw	14	77.78%
sh	2	66.67%
sk	11	64.71%
cy	11	57.89%
vi	41	56.16%
es	758	54.81%
km	21	53.85%
bg	41	53.25%
eo	43	47.78%
sq	30	47.62%
ne	10	45.45%
bcl	22	43.14%
ba	20	32.79%
mr	31	31.31%
en	163	29.00%
nn	13	26.00%
mt	1	25.00%
he	97	22.66%
el	71	21.01%
bn	136	19.35%
su	1	16.67%
hi	24	16.44%
te	9	15.52%
ast	1	12.50%
bs	6	12.00%
fa	108	12.00%
gu	1	11.11%
tt	2	10.53%
cs	12	9.09%
pa	12	8.33%
kaa	1	7.14%
uk	25	2.29%
sv	1	1.92%
ja	6	1.89%
ga	2	1.72%
ta	2	0.84%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
uz	3789
es	2141
fr	1419
ur	1161
uk	1119
ig	1056
fa	1008
bn	839
ar	829
en	725
ca	614
tr	552
pt	530
he	525
ru	470
zh	464
el	409
ha	406
eu	340
ja	323
it	294
ta	240
mk	239
tl	220
sr	208
yo	194
hi	170
ms	170
pa	156
gl	146
cs	144
eo	133
mr	130
kn	129
ro	129
az	128
bg	118
ga	118
vi	114
be	110
ps	104
ko	97
sq	93
nl	91
ml	88
id	85
ba	81
ckb	79
de	76
bcl	73

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

Language	Previous month
ab	4
ady	2
ak	2
an	2
av	2
bar	2
bug	1
ceb	9
co	4
cr	1
cv	6
fj	2
fur	1
gag	1
gd	2
gor	1
haw	1
hyw	2
io	2
lad	1
lb	1
ln	1
lo	2
ltg	1
mg	4
mzn	1
new	1
pdc	1
pnb	1
rue	1
sat	1
ug	1
wa	1
wuu	2
zu	6

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

Language	This month
fy	24
min	7
so	5
iu	3
tw	3
azb	2
bjn	2
gn	2
mi	2
sd	2
ee	1
ff	1
gan	1
got	1
hif	1
hsb	1
kg	1
mwl	1
pap	1
qu	1
rn	1
rw	1
ti	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:

• Improve the edit summary aid to update the timestamp regularly, and improve the formatting. (task T308720, task T308719)
• Automatically add anchor for original version of heading title on translation pages (task T62544)
• Block translations from user blocked from editing translatable bundle (task T317594)

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 8.729 (+93); MediaWiki.org 6.266 (+16); Commons 1.808 (+40) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) 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 only.

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):

• Fix "CleanChanges language selector on recent changes not working as intended". (task T318672)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation 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 2022.07 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 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 Iraqi Arabic (acm) (PR)

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Add ƙ to the Bura keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add Iraqi Arabic (acm)

Stats

• About 67 (+16) new users [2]
• About 335 (-25) translators made about 56.547 (+446) edits [3][4]
• About 84 (+4) translators reviewed about 9.432 (+129) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Handle password failures better. (task T313413)
• Localisation updates.