Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/January
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December 2020 | Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2021 | February 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 | January 2021 | Comments |
---|---|---|
Articles created (during the month) | 21070 | |
Articles created till end of month | 818051 | |
Number of new translators (during the month) | 1381 | |
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) |
10872 | es |
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1746 | |
Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
47108 | |
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10492 | |
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4819 | |
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2752 | |
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
8866 | |
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3186 | |
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1096 | |
Articles deleted (during the month) | 526 |
Other statistics
[edit]Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
---|---|---|
bcl | 34 | 1700.00% |
ht | 4 | 400.00% |
rw | 7 | 350.00% |
gu | 70 | 259.26% |
azb | 2 | 200.00% |
tg | 77 | 157.14% |
lt | 8 | 133.33% |
tt | 159 | 125.20% |
id | 97 | 115.48% |
hi | 75 | 115.38% |
mn | 1 | 100.00% |
oc | 1 | 100.00% |
pnb | 1 | 100.00% |
rue | 1 | 100.00% |
sh | 1 | 100.00% |
sm | 1 | 100.00% |
zh | 163 | 71.81% |
eu | 102 | 65.81% |
sl | 19 | 63.33% |
sv | 26 | 60.47% |
jv | 216 | 59.34% |
ckb | 5 | 50.00% |
cs | 142 | 49.82% |
tl | 73 | 48.34% |
pa | 35 | 46.67% |
te | 92 | 45.77% |
ml | 42 | 45.65% |
sco | 3 | 42.86% |
sk | 5 | 41.67% |
he | 260 | 39.27% |
ta | 188 | 39.00% |
be | 13 | 37.14% |
la | 3 | 33.33% |
lb | 1 | 33.33% |
it | 176 | 32.77% |
bn | 240 | 31.87% |
uk | 306 | 27.69% |
ja | 132 | 27.67% |
sq | 20 | 26.67% |
cy | 5 | 26.32% |
pl | 17 | 25.76% |
nl | 24 | 25.26% |
so | 2 | 25.00% |
kn | 7 | 24.14% |
hr | 6 | 24.00% |
ru | 87 | 19.33% |
bg | 7 | 18.92% |
vi | 23 | 14.65% |
de | 12 | 13.64% |
sc | 1 | 12.50% |
Language | This month |
---|---|
es | 1758 |
fr | 1489 |
uk | 1411 |
pt | 1257 |
tr | 1156 |
ar | 993 |
bn | 993 |
he | 922 |
ca | 916 |
fa | 850 |
it | 713 |
ta | 670 |
ja | 609 |
jv | 580 |
ru | 537 |
cs | 427 |
zh | 390 |
en | 340 |
te | 293 |
tt | 286 |
el | 285 |
eu | 257 |
tl | 224 |
mk | 213 |
gl | 208 |
id | 181 |
vi | 180 |
hi | 140 |
ml | 134 |
tg | 126 |
ms | 122 |
nl | 119 |
pa | 110 |
de | 100 |
ro | 100 |
gu | 97 |
sq | 95 |
pl | 83 |
ko | 79 |
mr | 78 |
da | 75 |
sv | 69 |
ba | 62 |
ga | 57 |
ur | 57 |
hu | 50 |
sl | 49 |
be | 48 |
bg | 44 |
eo | 40 |
Language | Previous month |
---|---|
vec | 19 |
kw | 15 |
lg | 13 |
ext | 10 |
ug | 9 |
xh | 7 |
ny | 6 |
ps | 5 |
si | 5 |
sn | 5 |
yo | 5 |
mwl | 4 |
nap | 4 |
br | 3 |
fur | 3 |
scn | 3 |
ace | 2 |
min | 2 |
nds | 2 |
am | 1 |
ang | 1 |
bo | 1 |
cu | 1 |
gag | 1 |
gan | 1 |
glk | 1 |
ia | 1 |
kl | 1 |
km | 1 |
ltg | 1 |
mrj | 1 |
os | 1 |
pap | 1 |
st | 1 |
tum | 1 |
udm | 1 |
Language | This month |
---|---|
eml | 5 |
kab | 4 |
ady | 3 |
ak | 3 |
myv | 3 |
kbd | 2 |
gv | 1 |
lij | 1 |
lmo | 1 |
lo | 1 |
mzn | 1 |
om | 1 |
pam | 1 |
ti | 1 |
wa | 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:
- Drop ULS dependency from composer.json (Gerrit change 653712)
- Add a script to find and delete equal translations (Gerrit change 652543)
- Update cache version for MessageGroups (Gerrit change 655907)
- Allow importing empty content from external sources (Gerrit change 658581) (task T271294)
- Add script to find unsynchronized definitions (Gerrit change 655860) (task T270844)
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 6.327 (+147); MediaWiki.org 5.435 (+12); Commons 1.513 (+27) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 409 (+4) 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 corrupted values in input preferences (Gerrit change 657050)
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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 2021.01 was released this month (Jan, 2021). 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.
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
[edit]Language Data - 2021-01-27 release happened this month.
- Add Rohingya language (rhg) (GitHub PR)
- Add Nanai and Gungbe languages (GitHub PR)
- Return an empty array if there are no languages in territory (task T265158)
- No updates
- No updates
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- No updates
- Add Nias tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
Stats
[edit]- About 90 (+22) new users [2]
- About 419 (+18) translators made about 52.421 (+1.477) edits [3][4]
- About 111 (-5) translators reviewed about 8.658 (-9.456) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
Deployments and other site related updates
[edit]Cross team work/requirements
[edit]Public communication and outreach
[edit]Team status
[edit]- Uzoma Ozurumba joined the Language Engineering team as a Community Relationship Specialist.