Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/June

May 2020

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for June 2020

July 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

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 2.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	June 2020	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	18271
Articles created till end of month	676801
Number of new translators (during the month)	1275
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	10012	vi
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	9938	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	1497	es
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	42382
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	9258
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	4262
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2471
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	7845
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2730
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	980
Articles deleted (during the month)	447

Other statistics

Top growing languages
Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
sah	224	3733.33%
ky	5	500.00%
ur	170	340.00%
tt	6	300.00%
oc	7	233.33%
km	2	200.00%
lb	2	200.00%
sh	4	200.00%
os	9	180.00%
kab	7	175.00%
or	5	100.00%
nl	109	78.42%
arz	1	50.00%
pt	311	46.14%
sw	5	45.45%
vi	298	43.00%
jv	12	42.86%
bs	3	37.50%
ja	121	33.61%
ms	70	30.04%
fi	12	27.27%
sr	57	26.89%
ta	31	26.72%
pl	24	26.37%
lt	3	25.00%
ne	3	25.00%
hr	10	23.81%
ca	150	21.31%
tg	6	18.75%
diq	2	16.67%
yi	1	12.50%
es	148	10.35%
zh	22	7.14%
cs	14	6.33%

Languages with top published translations
Language	This month
es	1578
fr	1397
ar	1271
uk	1142
fa	1014
vi	991
pt	985
tr	938
ca	854
it	657
he	544
ja	481
bn	435
ru	403
zh	330
en	311
ms	303
gl	280
sr	269
nl	248
cs	235
sah	230
ur	220
ro	219
id	179
sq	173
ta	147
ba	117
pl	115
el	111
mk	98
nn	96
ko	94
de	92
eu	90
pa	79
ka	72
ml	63
af	62
be	61
hu	59
fi	56
kn	55
hr	52
hi	51
sv	47
ast	45
mr	45
jv	40
da	39

Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language	Previous month
mt	39
nah	15
qu	8
yo	6
bcl	5
bar	4
sd	4
st	3
ext	2
io	2
kw	2
mn	2
mzn	2
pfl	2
pms	2
ts	2
ug	2
ak	1
br	1
ff	1
fo	1
gan	1
glk	1
haw	1
ia	1
kg	1
mi	1
nds	1
ny	1
pcd	1
pdc	1
ps	1
rmy	1
rn	1
rue	1
rw	1
sn	1
so	1
tw	1
wuu	1
xh	1

Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language	This month
dv	3
tk	2
vec	2
zea	2
ang	1
bi	1
bpy	1
chr	1
dsb	1
eml	1
frr	1
got	1
hsb	1
lo	1
mai	1
mg	1
mwl	1
ss	1
szl	1
vls	1
wa	1

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. Improvements made in the last month include:

Ensure plural keyword other is always present in exports for yaml and json (Gerrit Patch)
Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action (Phab:T131132)
Translate's NaviToggle should be hidden in modern Vector (Phab:T251903)

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

Translatable pages: Meta 4660 (+60); MediaWiki.org 5135 (+86); Commons 1357 (+14) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 312 (+2) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

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

Localisation and maintenance updates.

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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

Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

Localisation and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

Fix talk page in other wiki display (Gerrit Patch)
Remove username / password for sending notification to other wikis (Gerrit Patch)
Localisation and maintenance updates.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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 2020.07 will be released next month.

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.