Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/April
 March 2017 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for April 2017 | May 2017 |
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.
Highlights
[edit]- MediaWiki now supports the Dinka language.
- Due to security reasons, it is no longer possible to use <html> in interface messages even if raw HTML is enabled in the wiki.
- The rewritten version of Content Translation, nicknamed as CX2, starts to take shape with handling of links and integration of machine translation services.
- ProveIt is the first gadget that can be translated at translatewiki.net
Content Translation
[edit]Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter.
About 25 patches were merged this month.
- Most of the work on Content Translation was on OOJS rewrite and work towards VE.
- Santhosh Thottingal shortened the label for the button to start a new translation. T160067
- Santhosh Thottingal added handling of links to rewritten Content Translation. T162126
- Niklas Laxström added first parts of machine translation integration to rewritten Content Translation. T162110
- User Fomafix improved code style.
- Niklas Laxström fixed a possible issue about restoring which would cause non-latest draft to be restored.
Usage data
[edit]| Details | Numbers |
|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 8803 |
| Articles created till end of month | 196038 |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 835 |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4495 |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4669 (es) |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
18191 |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3725 |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1750 |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
996 |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2917 |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1042 |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
291 |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 501 |
Comparisons
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Articles published. -
Deletion ratio. -
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
Translate
[edit]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 8 patches were merged in this month.
- Bartosz Dziewoński fixed positioning of Mark as reviewed tooltip on Special:Translate. T162101
- Geoffrey Mon refactored the code for insertables (constant string in translations that can be inserted via one press of a button). T152837
- Niklas Laxström removed a translation quality check about some XHTML constructs because it was no longer relevant. T161213
- User Umherirrender added automated coding style tests for CSS and LESS files and made current code to adhere to the new rules.
- David Causse improved compatibility of translation memory with ElasticSearch 5. T163345
- Thiemo Mättig fixed formatting of an improperly formatted code documentation block.
- Kartik Mistry updated version number. T162231
- Niklas Laxström fixed an issue in recent code changes that caused page translation to not work properly with MediaWiki 1.27. T163978
Usage data
[edit]- Translatable pages: Meta 3632 (+167); MediaWiki.org 3378 (+27); Commons 624 (+19) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 210 wikis (-1) Wikiapiary
Universal Language Selector
[edit]Universal Language Selector provides language choice, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.
- Kartik Mistry updated upstream library jquery.uls.
- User Fomafix simplified a piece of code related to resource loading.
- Bartosz Dziewoński fixed position of ULS language change notification tooltips after a change in a library we use to display them. T161203
- User Fomafix made the machine generated web font repository file easier to read.
- Kartik Mistry added a web font for Sundanese. T162221
- Kartik Mistry updated version number.
Other extensions
[edit]Babel (part of MLEB):
- User Umherirrender improved code style.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- User Umherirrender improved code style.
- Sébastien Santoro added French translation for Atikamekw language.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- User Umherirrender added code style checker for CSS files.
- Kartik Mistry updated version number.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Antoine Musso made this extension to use JavaScript code style checker in a standard way.
TranslationNotifications:
- No changes.
MLEB
[edit]MLEB 2017.04 was released this month.
MediaWiki core internationalization
[edit]Changes to translations and equivalent localisation data (magic words, namespace names) are not included in this list. Huge thanks are given to our volunteer translators as well.
- Brian Wolff made it impossible to use <html> tags in system messages. T156184
- Eddie Greiner-Petter improved wording and documentation of a few messages appearing in Special:UserRights. T104518
- S Page and Bahodir Mansurov made links in generated API documentation point to translated pages in mediawiki.org. T104518
- User Tpt added Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics to the list of special characters included in the editors. T108626
- Aaron Schulz improved code in MessageCache for clarity.
- Sam Reed made LocalisationCache to default to database storage backend due to security concerns in the file storage backend. T161453
- Brian Wolff corrected escaping of content format and content model names in messages. T156184
- Matěj Suchánek added support for varying by gender in a message used in the subheading of Special:Contributions. T130960
- MediaWiki now supports Dinka language. T163600
- Eugene Gvozdetsky expanded the grammatical transformation rules for Ukrainian language.
Project Milkshake
[edit]Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.
jquery.i18n
- No changes.
jquery.uls
- No changes.
jquery.webfonts
- No changes.
jquery.ime
- Amir Aharoni added the Akan (ak) keyboard also for Twi (tw).
- Amir Aharoni and Felix Nartey added keyboard for Ga (gaa).
- Amir Aharoni fixed the name of the Arabic (ar) keyboard.
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
- Raimond Spekking added new MediaWiki extensions and skins for translation, made changes to many and did exports and imports for all MediaWiki.
- Stephen Niedzielski updated settings for Wikipedia Android app. T156405
- User Sophivorus added ProveIt gadget for translation. T149177
- Geoffrey Mon updated project settings to use new, improved insertables. T152837
- There was a small outage due to denial of service. This was resolved by enabling the "miser mode".
Stats
[edit]- About 65 (-20) new users
- About 330 (-20) translators made about 30.000 (-5.000) edits
- About 95 (+5) translators reviewed about 9.000 (=) translations
TwnMainPage
[edit]- No changes.
Deployments and other site related updates
[edit]- Content Translation was disabled for about a week in all Wikipedias after it caused a partial outage that required investigation and fixing. Incident report
- Kartik Mistry added non-default MT support for Azerbaijani.
- Kartik Mistry added default MT to Chinese. T162019
- Kartik Mistry removed 'source-mt' from default from some language pairs. T162344
- Marko Obrovac updated cxserver to use service-runner version v2.2.5.
Cross team work/requirements
[edit]- No updates.
Team status
[edit]- No updates.