Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/August
July 2021 | Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2021 | September 2021 |
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 3.
Usage data
[edit]Content Translation monthly data | August 2021 | Comments |
---|---|---|
Articles created (during the month) | 22553 | |
Articles created till end of month | 970887 | |
Number of new translators (during the month) | 876 | |
Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11113 | tr |
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11819 | es |
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 4953 | tr |
Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
52022 | |
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11642 | |
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5565 | |
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3079 | |
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10023 | |
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3551 | |
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1280 | |
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
128 | |
Section translation revisions | 20 | |
Section translation unique pages | 10 | |
Section translation unique users | 4 | |
Articles deleted (during the month) | 341 |
Other statistics
[edit]Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
---|---|---|
lg | 49 | 1633.33% |
kw | 11 | 1100.00% |
tl | 234 | 936.00% |
bjn | 7 | 700.00% |
shi | 6 | 600.00% |
th | 18 | 360.00% |
ak | 59 | 347.06% |
ig | 102 | 329.03% |
mnw | 3 | 300.00% |
gl | 466 | 260.34% |
bcl | 17 | 242.86% |
cy | 118 | 236.00% |
mni | 7 | 233.33% |
kn | 13 | 216.67% |
lv | 30 | 214.29% |
my | 7 | 175.00% |
pa | 53 | 165.63% |
bg | 51 | 159.38% |
pnb | 3 | 150.00% |
ps | 15 | 125.00% |
hu | 33 | 122.22% |
km | 1 | 100.00% |
lo | 1 | 100.00% |
ny | 1 | 100.00% |
so | 1 | 100.00% |
da | 25 | 96.15% |
ckb | 21 | 87.50% |
fi | 6 | 85.71% |
ar | 897 | 85.02% |
oc | 4 | 66.67% |
ha | 284 | 57.49% |
fy | 1 | 50.00% |
lij | 1 | 50.00% |
tk | 1 | 50.00% |
sk | 4 | 44.44% |
eu | 85 | 37.95% |
ga | 11 | 37.93% |
sl | 11 | 34.38% |
ht | 2 | 33.33% |
simple | 6 | 33.33% |
nl | 26 | 29.21% |
or | 7 | 28.00% |
zh | 119 | 25.27% |
nqo | 1 | 25.00% |
it | 70 | 17.72% |
ku | 1 | 16.67% |
mk | 26 | 15.57% |
en | 43 | 14.43% |
ro | 16 | 13.91% |
fa | 52 | 10.36% |
Language | This month |
---|---|
tr | 5380 |
ar | 1952 |
es | 1457 |
ca | 1017 |
fr | 981 |
uk | 846 |
ha | 778 |
gl | 645 |
he | 633 |
zh | 590 |
pt | 580 |
ja | 563 |
fa | 554 |
it | 465 |
ru | 364 |
ta | 350 |
en | 341 |
bn | 316 |
el | 311 |
eu | 309 |
tl | 259 |
zu | 236 |
mk | 193 |
cy | 168 |
ko | 157 |
vi | 140 |
cs | 134 |
ig | 133 |
ro | 131 |
ur | 122 |
nl | 115 |
hi | 108 |
ml | 107 |
te | 90 |
ms | 89 |
pa | 85 |
bg | 83 |
de | 79 |
ak | 76 |
id | 74 |
ne | 65 |
sq | 62 |
nn | 61 |
sv | 61 |
hu | 60 |
tg | 54 |
lg | 52 |
da | 51 |
eo | 51 |
be | 48 |
Language | Previous month |
---|---|
am | 2 |
arz | 7 |
azb | 5 |
bo | 1 |
cdo | 1 |
ext | 2 |
fur | 1 |
haw | 3 |
hif | 1 |
hyw | 1 |
ia | 3 |
ik | 1 |
io | 6 |
kl | 1 |
mzn | 1 |
os | 1 |
sah | 1 |
su | 1 |
tcy | 1 |
trv | 1 |
Language | This month |
---|---|
ast | 9 |
ee | 2 |
rue | 2 |
scn | 2 |
bxr | 1 |
ce | 1 |
ff | 1 |
fo | 1 |
gan | 1 |
gom | 1 |
jam | 1 |
kk | 1 |
lb | 1 |
lmo | 1 |
mhr | 1 |
mi | 1 |
mn | 1 |
nah | 1 |
nds | 1 |
new | 1 |
nv | 1 |
olo | 1 |
pap | 1 |
pdc | 1 |
smn | 1 |
st | 1 |
ti | 1 |
tpi | 1 |
ty | 1 |
ug | 1 |
wo | 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:
- Special:PageTranslation: Require
<translate>
tags on the latest version for marking (task T289697, Gerrit change 714971) - SpecialTranslate: Fix/add validation for target language code (task T279252, Gerrit change 713601)
- Mark page display title to be translatable by default (task T287816, Gerrit change 709502)
- SpecialTranslate: Enable publish translation button in case of failure (task T272791, Gerrit change 713234)
- SpecialTranslate: Show warning when translating discouraged pages (task T237590, Gerrit change 714215)
- Fix translation of pages with custom content models (task T258756, Gerrit change 693984)
- BREAKING CHANGE: Greatly simplify legacy translation interface code (Gerrit change 708512)
- ExportTranslationsMaintenanceScript: Avoid creating empty files (task T287476, Gerrit change 708765)
- TranslationPage: Add dir/lang attribute for outdated translation header (task T289440, Gerrit change 714323)
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 6.984 (+226); MediaWiki.org 5.750 (+25); Commons 1.606 (-10) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 432 (+0) 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,
- Remove configuration:
ULSEnableAnon
(Gerrit change 707229)
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):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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 2021.07 was released in July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.
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.
- Languages added: TODO (remove if none)
- Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
- Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
[edit]- Languages added and change,
- Add Pacific or America regions to rap, id, and zh
- Add Makhuwa (vmw)
- Add yrl to CO and VE countries
- No updates
- Maintenance updates
- Localisation updates
- No updates
- No updates
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates
[edit]- None
Stats
[edit]- About 87 (+2) new users [2]
- About 401 (+25) translators made about 46.399 (+7.361) edits [3][4]
- About 93 (+7) translators reviewed about 35.899 (+13.171) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Localisation and maintenance updates only.