User:Nikerabbit/Monthly report/2018-01

This the new Wikimedia language engineering monthly report. It continues the tradition of the monthly report published by the Wikimedia Language team which is discontinued in favour of Global Collaboration monthly report. This report is currently looking for a new location.

December 2017

Wikimedia language engineering monthly report for January 2018

February 2018

Monthly updates about changes to internationalization and translation and other language support features. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Highlights

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Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter.

Please see the ·Global Collaboration monthly report once it is published.

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.

· patches were merged this month.

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Usage data

• Translatable pages (as of 13.): Meta 4311; MediaWiki.org 3635; Commons 727 [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 204 (-7) wikis Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

About · patches were merged this month.

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Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

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

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CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

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LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

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TranslationNotifications:

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

No MLEB release this month. Current stable release is 2017.10. Next release is planned for 2018.01.

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.

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Project Milkshake

Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n

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jquery.uls

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jquery.webfonts

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jquery.ime

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translatewiki.net

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Stats

• About 95 (+25) new users
• About 385 (+70) translators made about 75k (+35k) edits
• About 95 (+25) translators reviewed about 19k (+12k) translations

Sources: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

TwnMainPage

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