Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/August
 July 2019 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2019 | September 2019 |
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.
Highlights
[edit]Content Translation
[edit]Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the updates about version 2.
Usage data
[edit]| Content Translation monthly data | August 2019 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 16027 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 511505 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 824 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9338 | |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8501 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 3532 | vi |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
34990 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
7600 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3423 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1958 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6279 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2210 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
725 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 319 |
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Articles published. -
Deletion ratio. -
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
Translate
[edit]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.
- Fix moving of translatable pages in namespaces without subpages (T215202)
- Fix broken translate sandbox signup (T228025)
- Make the email in Special:ManageTranslatorSandbox ltr
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
[edit]- Translatable pages: Meta 4964 (+18); MediaWiki.org 4309 (+9); Commons 1298 (+27) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 294 (+0) wikis Wikiapiary.
Universal Language Selector
[edit]Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.
Other extensions
[edit]Babel (part of MLEB):
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
TranslationNotifications:
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
[edit]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.
Next release for MLEB is in October, 2019
MediaWiki core internationalization
[edit]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.
Project Milkshake
[edit]Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.
jquery.i18n
jquery.uls
jquery.webfonts
jquery.ime
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
Stats
[edit]- About 74 (+2) new users [1]
- About 334 (+9) translators made about 41.500 (-800) edits [2][3]
- About 102 (+9) translators reviewed about 7.500 (-2.000) translations[4][5]