Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2015/November
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 October 2015 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2015 | December 2015 |
Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team
Content Translation
[edit]Updates from the ongoing development and deployment for Content Translation. (Newsletter)
Development update
[edit]- Personalized recommendations from the http://recommend.wmflabs.org/ by research team is integrated to suggestions system of CX. Users will get suggestions based on their previous translations as well.
- The suggestions system now supports manually curated campaigns based on a category. Articles existing in a category in one language but not in another can be created as a campaign.
- The UX of suggestions view improved further. More improvements and features planned for coming weeks
- Design and development of parallel corpora based on translations in content translation started(https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111905)
- The cxserver is getting migrated to service-runner. The rewritten version is planned to deploy in December 2015
- Miscellaneous bug fixes based on user feedback
Usage data
[edit]| Details | Numbers |
|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 7181 |
| Articles created till end of month | 36015 |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1380 |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
560 |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
es (1476) |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6016 |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1149 |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
521 |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
283 |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and <= 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
796 |
| Total number of translators with >20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
270 |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 507 |
Comparisons
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Articles published. -
Deletion ratio. -
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
Other projects
[edit]Updates from Translate, Universal Language Selector, MLEB and other projects.
Development update
[edit]Translate had a lot of code maintenance:
- The number and size of master database queries in message index were reduced significantly
- Code style checkers were added and made to run automatically. Issues found by them were fixed (Thanks to Željko Filipin and Paladox)
- Large cleanup to token handling
Universal Language Selector also had code cleanups.
- The usage of jQuery.tipsy was reduced due to performance reasons (thanks to Ori Livneh).
- A compatibility issue with Internet Explorer 8 was fixed (although the support for that browser will soon be dropped in general).
- Input methods for Yoruba were added by update of jQuery.ime library.
Usage data
[edit]- Translatable pages: Meta 2408 (+82); MediaWiki.org 2655 (+19); Commons 421 (+4)
- Translate extension is installed on 205 wikis (+2), according to Wikiapiary
Updates from translatewiki.net volunteers
[edit]- Raymond handled the downfall of localisation updates caused by non-standard git settings of Gather, RelatedArticles and similar (T120581).
Deployments and other site related updates
[edit]Machine Translation
[edit]- ContentTranslation added new MT service Yandex for English to Russian (T89844).
Campaign
[edit]- 'article-recommender-1' campaign was added which is used in article suggestion.
Cross team work/requirements
[edit]Team status
[edit]- No changes