Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/January
 December 2019 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2020 | February 2020 |
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. Check out also the updates about version 2.
Usage data
[edit]| Content Translation monthly data | January 2020 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 14971 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 582019 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1222 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10011 | vi |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9143 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1229 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
38353 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8263 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3708 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2170 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6917 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2397 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
840 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 409 |
Other statistics
[edit]| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| ak | 246 | 24600.00% |
| hy | 62 | 885.71% |
| ky | 7 | 700.00% |
| af | 42 | 350.00% |
| tr | 465 | 344.44% |
| arz | 3 | 300.00% |
| si | 3 | 300.00% |
| min | 22 | 244.44% |
| be | 57 | 178.13% |
| th | 33 | 143.48% |
| simple | 4 | 133.33% |
| az | 15 | 125.00% |
| eo | 51 | 108.51% |
| bg | 14 | 100.00% |
| tt | 1 | 100.00% |
| war | 2 | 100.00% |
| pl | 47 | 95.92% |
| ms | 234 | 92.86% |
| as | 4 | 80.00% |
| de | 36 | 80.00% |
| hr | 10 | 66.67% |
| kn | 31 | 64.58% |
| my | 9 | 64.29% |
| yo | 3 | 60.00% |
| sco | 11 | 52.38% |
| zh | 149 | 51.03% |
| an | 1 | 50.00% |
| vi | 158 | 48.62% |
| gl | 74 | 38.34% |
| ku | 3 | 33.33% |
| nn | 12 | 31.58% |
| bs | 6 | 30.00% |
| uk | 268 | 29.29% |
| el | 56 | 27.86% |
| ro | 36 | 24.16% |
| hu | 7 | 20.00% |
| ne | 1 | 20.00% |
| ru | 58 | 17.11% |
| sl | 5 | 16.13% |
| he | 58 | 15.89% |
| ca | 79 | 15.31% |
| fi | 4 | 12.12% |
| eu | 1 | 4.35% |
| id | 1 | 2.08% |
| ja | 7 | 2.01% |
| ur | 1 | 0.68% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 1269 |
| ar | 1196 |
| fr | 1193 |
| uk | 1183 |
| fa | 658 |
| tr | 600 |
| ca | 595 |
| ta | 551 |
| pt | 494 |
| ms | 486 |
| vi | 483 |
| zh | 441 |
| he | 423 |
| ru | 397 |
| it | 386 |
| ja | 355 |
| pa | 271 |
| bn | 268 |
| gl | 267 |
| el | 257 |
| en | 249 |
| ak | 247 |
| ro | 185 |
| cs | 149 |
| ur | 148 |
| tg | 107 |
| eo | 98 |
| pl | 96 |
| ml | 92 |
| be | 89 |
| nl | 88 |
| de | 81 |
| kn | 79 |
| ba | 72 |
| hy | 69 |
| sr | 62 |
| ko | 58 |
| th | 56 |
| af | 54 |
| ckb | 54 |
| nn | 50 |
| id | 49 |
| mk | 49 |
| sv | 45 |
| hu | 42 |
| fi | 37 |
| sl | 36 |
| hi | 34 |
| da | 33 |
| sco | 32 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ig | 13 |
| ny | 12 |
| wo | 11 |
| os | 6 |
| tw | 6 |
| am | 5 |
| st | 5 |
| fj | 4 |
| mi | 4 |
| ts | 4 |
| glk | 2 |
| myv | 2 |
| av | 1 |
| bi | 1 |
| cv | 1 |
| ee | 1 |
| fy | 1 |
| io | 1 |
| km | 1 |
| kw | 1 |
| lb | 1 |
| mt | 1 |
| new | 1 |
| ps | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| sd | 1 |
| sh | 1 |
| zu | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| eml | 24 |
| la | 6 |
| vec | 4 |
| is | 3 |
| nov | 2 |
| sm | 2 |
| bar | 1 |
| ceb | 1 |
| gom | 1 |
| pih | 1 |
| rn | 1 |
| sa | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| to | 1 |
| vls | 1 |
| wu | 1 |
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. Improvements made in the last month include,
- Translate extension now requires PHP 7.2.x and MediaWiki 1.33 or above.
- Improve performance with large message groups by implement maximum query size in MessageCollection. (Phab:T230100)
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 4766 (+80); MediaWiki.org 4717 (+299); Commons 1290 (+24) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 305 (+5) wikis [1].
Universal Language Selector
[edit]Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,
- Add support for keyboard events for the setlang dialog (Gerrit Patch)
- Remove setlang URL parameter on dialog close (Gerrit Patch)
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Other extensions
[edit]Babel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Updated to cldr 36.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
TranslationNotifications:
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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.
MLEB 2020.01 was released this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.
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 translatewiki.net news page.
Stats
[edit]- About 66 (+7) new users [2]
- About 312 (+8) translators made about 42.000 (-200) edits [3][4]
- About 78 (-2) translators reviewed about 32.700 (+24.650) translations[5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Localisation updates only.
Deployments and other site related updates
[edit]Cross team work/requirements
[edit]Public communication and outreach
[edit]Team status
[edit]- Petar Petković, Software Engineer on the Language team for more than 2 years left the team in January 2020. He had been instrumental in many of the feature updates for Content Translation. The Language team thanks him for his service and for being a valuable colleague.