Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/December
 November 2021 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for December 2021 | January 2022 |
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 | December 2021 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 20794 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 1048908 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1172 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
15312 | |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12392 | |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 2958 | |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
54648 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12272 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5847 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3238 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10583 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3733 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1372 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
137 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 468 |
Other statistics
[edit]| Language | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
|---|---|---|---|
| az | 28 | 23 | 3 |
| ba | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| bn | 47 | 40 | 8 |
| ha | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| ig | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| ku | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ml | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ms | 19 | 15 | 1 |
| ta | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| th | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| arz | 79 | 7900.00% |
| bcl | 24 | 600.00% |
| jv | 4 | 400.00% |
| sr | 150 | 283.02% |
| lt | 16 | 228.57% |
| km | 19 | 211.11% |
| yi | 4 | 200.00% |
| kn | 103 | 143.06% |
| is | 4 | 133.33% |
| bg | 68 | 109.68% |
| ko | 177 | 101.14% |
| ku | 2 | 100.00% |
| st | 1 | 100.00% |
| ug | 1 | 100.00% |
| xh | 1 | 100.00% |
| eu | 254 | 97.32% |
| ceb | 4 | 80.00% |
| la | 4 | 80.00% |
| cy | 34 | 79.07% |
| ky | 33 | 76.74% |
| sl | 23 | 53.49% |
| bs | 17 | 50.00% |
| bn | 120 | 45.11% |
| et | 4 | 44.44% |
| tr | 915 | 43.65% |
| gl | 128 | 41.56% |
| simple | 6 | 40.00% |
| th | 8 | 38.10% |
| ar | 383 | 37.62% |
| tg | 27 | 36.00% |
| sc | 1 | 33.33% |
| nl | 25 | 30.49% |
| oc | 2 | 28.57% |
| si | 4 | 28.57% |
| hu | 20 | 27.03% |
| fa | 189 | 26.51% |
| ne | 9 | 26.47% |
| ru | 66 | 25.78% |
| it | 117 | 25.60% |
| sw | 7 | 25.00% |
| sk | 3 | 23.08% |
| he | 94 | 22.17% |
| vi | 11 | 15.71% |
| ur | 47 | 14.83% |
| mt | 1 | 14.29% |
| fr | 166 | 13.72% |
| be | 6 | 12.77% |
| pl | 3 | 10.71% |
| da | 11 | 10.38% |
| sv | 8 | 9.64% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| tr | 3011 |
| ar | 1401 |
| fr | 1376 |
| es | 1344 |
| uk | 998 |
| fa | 902 |
| ca | 660 |
| el | 616 |
| pt | 597 |
| it | 574 |
| he | 518 |
| eu | 515 |
| zh | 488 |
| gl | 436 |
| en | 400 |
| bn | 386 |
| tl | 380 |
| ur | 364 |
| ko | 352 |
| mk | 332 |
| ru | 322 |
| ja | 303 |
| ta | 292 |
| ms | 280 |
| sr | 203 |
| nn | 199 |
| kn | 175 |
| cs | 174 |
| ha | 153 |
| tt | 142 |
| eo | 136 |
| hi | 135 |
| bg | 130 |
| pa | 125 |
| da | 117 |
| de | 117 |
| nl | 107 |
| tg | 102 |
| hu | 94 |
| ro | 91 |
| sv | 91 |
| te | 88 |
| vi | 81 |
| arz | 80 |
| cy | 77 |
| ky | 76 |
| id | 70 |
| ml | 67 |
| sl | 66 |
| ba | 59 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ak | 1 |
| am | 1 |
| ary | 5 |
| azb | 4 |
| bar | 1 |
| ch | 1 |
| co | 2 |
| cv | 2 |
| dag | 1 |
| ext | 1 |
| ff | 1 |
| fj | 1 |
| frp | 5 |
| fy | 2 |
| kab | 1 |
| kk | 3 |
| lg | 1 |
| lld | 5 |
| mnw | 1 |
| na | 1 |
| nah | 1 |
| new | 1 |
| nso | 5 |
| pam | 2 |
| pih | 1 |
| rmy | 1 |
| sm | 2 |
| sn | 1 |
| szl | 2 |
| ve | 4 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| lo | 6 |
| sa | 5 |
| lb | 3 |
| lij | 3 |
| bug | 2 |
| pnb | 2 |
| sat | 2 |
| skr | 2 |
| bxr | 1 |
| cu | 1 |
| gd | 1 |
| ks | 1 |
| nap | 1 |
| pdc | 1 |
| ps | 1 |
| se | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| wo | 1 |
| xal | 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:
- Fix Special:MovePage being broken with MediaWiki < 1.36 (task T296450)
- Special:Translate: Add language name in editor placeholder (task T296987)
- Special:Translate: Make target language selector more prominent (task T296986)
- TranslatorActivity: Implement caching for inactive languages (task T285314)
- Fire hook when translation view state changes. Hook:
mw.translate.translationView.stateChange(task T297129)
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 7.295 (+56); MediaWiki.org 5.956 (-94); Commons 1.706 (+146) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 454 (+3) 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,
- Handle "Enter" keyboard event for checkbox hack selectors (Gerrit change 748177)
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):
- Add Nanai (gld) and Nawdm (nmz) (task T297073, task T297074)
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation 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 2021.12 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.
The next release will happen next year in January.
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]- No updates
- No updates
- Localisation updates
- No updates
- Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates
[edit]- Add Aleut languages
- Add Talysh in Cyrillic (tly-cyrl)
Stats
[edit]- About 73 (+31) new users [2]
- About 328 (-30) translators made about 31.232 (-12.770) edits [3][4]
- About 67 (+27) translators reviewed about 3.780 (-2.303) 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]- Gabriel Pita, QA Engineer for the Language Team for 1 year, 10 months left the team in December 2021.