Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/October

September 2016

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for October 2016

November 2016

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Content Translation

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

Volker Eckl replaced deprecate uses of the mw-ui-constructive CSS class. T146923
Santhosh Thottingal fixed a bug that caused some links to incorrect appear as red links. T145691
Santhosh Thottingal fixed an issue that broke integration with the recommendation tool. T147835
Ed Sanders updated the beta feature icon to match latest standards.
Thiemo Mättig did some code maintenance.
Niklas Laxström cleaned some technical debt. T146248
Kartik Mistry fixed some default configuration to work without changes. T149164

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	10105
Articles created till end of month	133853
Number of new translators (during the month)	1110
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	3573
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	3683 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	14372
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2843
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1314
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	755
Total number of translators with >= 5 and <= 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2243
Total number of translators with >20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	944
Articles deleted (during the month)	723

Comparisons

Articles published.
Deletion ratio.
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.

Translate

Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About 10 patches in total were merged in August.

Erik Moeller added support for explicitly chosen namespace constant in wfAddNamespace.
Niklas Laxström changed code to avoid deprecation warnings related to MailAddress.
Niklas Laxström fixed an issue causing email confirmation emails to be sent twice for sandbox users. T147570
Erik Moeller added support for CLDR-style plural keywords to JSON file format support.
Niklas Laxström made small tweaks to translation the editor on Special:Translate to improve it for mobile users. T146134
Thiemo Mättig fixed some code comments.

Usage data

Translatable pages: Meta 3141 (+58) ; MediaWiki.org 3103 (-1) ; Commons 506 (+8) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 212 wikis (+1) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language choose, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

About 5 patches were merged this month.

Amir Aharoni updated bundled jquery.uls library.
Ed Sanders updated beta feature image to use proper layout and colours. T144428
Niklas Laxström fixed an issue that caused unparsed plural syntax appear in the compact language links. T148117

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

Kunal Mehta made the new babel database table to start populating automatically if it exists.
Kunal Mehta changed the main babel category no longer include users who set the skill level to zero. T146909

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

No changes.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

Niklas Laxström fixed a minor issue causing unnecessary code to load on certain configurations. T146476

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

Chad Horohoe updated default gerrit branch to be automatically determined.

TranslationNotifications:

No changes.

MLEB

MLEB 2016.10 was released in this month.

Project Milkshake

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

jquery.i18n

Andre Klapper fixed a broken link.

jquery.uls

Niklas Laxström updated language name for olo. T146744

jquery.webfonts

No changes.

jquery.ime

No changes.

translatewiki.net

Stats

About 75 (-15) new users
About 320 (-50) translators made about 38.000 (-6.600) edits
About 85 (-35) translators reviewed about 12.000 (-6.500) translations

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

TwnMainPage

Niklas Laxström made the sign-up button more prominent.

Deployments and other site related updates

Apertium service migrated to Jessie (scb* cluster) with help of TechOps and services teams. This also updated Apertium to latest and improved language pairs from upstream. T144588
Yandex Machine Translation support added for Papiamento (pap) language. T147552
New Apertium language pairs enabled for:
- Argonese <-> Catalan
- Italian -> Sardinian
- Norwegian Bokmål <-> Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål <-> Swedish
- Norwegian Nynorsk <-> Swedish
- Northan Sami -> Norwegian Bokmål (nb)

Cross team work/requirements

Kartik Mistry worked with Alexandros Kosiaris (TechOps) to migrate Apertium service to Debian Jessie.

Team status

Language team participated in a week long Editing department off-site at Seattle, WA, USA.
Niklas Laxström attended a Finnish language sector conference: Kites Symposium.