Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/June
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 | June 2021 | Comments |
---|---|---|
Articles created (during the month) | 19368 | |
Articles created till end of month | 924,478 | |
Number of new translators (during the month) | 1049 | |
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) |
11606 | es |
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1720 | es |
Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
51034 | |
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11373 | |
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5434 | |
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3030 | |
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
9757 | |
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3452 | |
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1236 | |
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
119 | |
Section translation revisions | 5 | |
Section translation unique pages | 4 | |
Section translation unique users | 3 | |
Articles deleted (during the month) | 435 |
Other statistics
[edit]Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
---|---|---|
ha | 1171 | 992.37% |
si | 17 | 425.00% |
uz | 17 | 425.00% |
is | 8 | 400.00% |
sq | 106 | 321.21% |
ko | 126 | 307.32% |
azb | 3 | 300.00% |
ps | 27 | 300.00% |
ht | 7 | 233.33% |
nqo | 7 | 233.33% |
ceb | 2 | 200.00% |
th | 4 | 133.33% |
mr | 18 | 112.50% |
af | 23 | 100.00% |
kw | 1 | 100.00% |
sc | 4 | 100.00% |
or | 19 | 90.48% |
rw | 9 | 90.00% |
ur | 32 | 80.00% |
ka | 9 | 69.23% |
yi | 2 | 66.67% |
eo | 84 | 56.38% |
hu | 39 | 53.42% |
nl | 38 | 52.05% |
gu | 3 | 50.00% |
lij | 1 | 50.00% |
br | 10 | 45.45% |
ga | 11 | 34.38% |
pt | 308 | 31.95% |
vi | 121 | 31.93% |
ig | 8 | 28.57% |
bjn | 1 | 25.00% |
bn | 136 | 23.57% |
fi | 6 | 23.08% |
cs | 96 | 21.97% |
eml | 1 | 20.00% |
uk | 203 | 19.59% |
ne | 8 | 18.60% |
da | 6 | 14.63% |
ky | 1 | 11.11% |
et | 3 | 10.00% |
hr | 2 | 10.00% |
my | 1 | 9.09% |
mt | 1 | 8.33% |
ta | 38 | 7.35% |
Language | This month |
---|---|
es | 1783 |
tr | 1618 |
ha | 1289 |
pt | 1272 |
uk | 1239 |
fr | 1165 |
bn | 713 |
ar | 642 |
fa | 578 |
el | 560 |
ta | 555 |
cs | 533 |
ca | 510 |
vi | 500 |
ja | 494 |
he | 483 |
it | 480 |
zh | 377 |
ru | 371 |
en | 309 |
gl | 288 |
eo | 233 |
eu | 198 |
ml | 180 |
ko | 167 |
jv | 142 |
sq | 139 |
te | 135 |
hu | 112 |
nl | 111 |
sr | 110 |
ro | 91 |
mk | 90 |
hi | 86 |
sl | 73 |
ur | 72 |
de | 61 |
tg | 59 |
az | 53 |
sv | 52 |
ne | 51 |
id | 50 |
ms | 50 |
da | 47 |
af | 46 |
hy | 44 |
ga | 43 |
nn | 43 |
or | 40 |
ig | 36 |
Language | Previous month |
---|---|
ab | 1 |
ang | 2 |
ay | 1 |
cv | 1 |
diq | 3 |
gag | 1 |
glk | 1 |
ik | 1 |
iu | 9 |
kab | 1 |
lb | 2 |
lbe | 1 |
lld | 1 |
mai | 1 |
mn | 2 |
mnw | 1 |
myv | 8 |
mzn | 1 |
nah | 1 |
ny | 1 |
pnb | 5 |
sah | 1 |
sat | 2 |
sh | 1 |
so | 2 |
ug | 1 |
xh | 2 |
Language | This month |
---|---|
oc | 9 |
min | 7 |
av | 5 |
trv | 4 |
zu | 4 |
ak | 3 |
ie | 3 |
chy | 2 |
fy | 2 |
hyw | 2 |
sa | 2 |
tk | 2 |
tyv | 2 |
an | 1 |
fo | 1 |
frp | 1 |
haw | 1 |
hsb | 1 |
ia | 1 |
io | 1 |
lad | 1 |
mni | 1 |
nds | 1 |
smn | 1 |
tw | 1 |
vec | 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:
- Remove TranslateMessageGroupPathVariables hook (Gerrit change 701678)
- Address voice and tone issues in Translate extension (task T277965). See below for more details.
- Add backport.php to support translation update to stable branches (Gerrit change 692604, task T272830)
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.
Configuration variable changes
[edit]Following configuration variable names have been renamed:
TranslateBlacklist
-->TranslateDisabledTargetLanguages
TranslateAuthorBlacklist
-->TranslateAuthorExclusionList
TranslateCheckBlacklist
-->TranslateValidationExclusionFile
The old variables will be supported for MLEB 2021.07 release but removed in the MLEB 2021.10 release.
If you have defined message groups defined with LANGUAGE
attributes, whitelist/blacklist
have been changed to include/exclude
Usage data
[edit]- Translatable pages: Meta 6.649 (+94); MediaWiki.org 5.653 (+60); Commons 1.582 (+42) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 423 (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,
- Restore compact languages button user preference (task T282149)
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.
- Add monolingual codes osa-latn, wya (task T265297, task T283364)
- Add monolingual language codes gsw-fr and ykg (task T252198, task T252198)
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 2021.06 was released in June, 2021. This was a bugfix release. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 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: Carpathian Romani (rmc)
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
[edit]- Add Siriono (srq) and update Cape Verdean (kea) capitalization
- No updates
- Security fixes
- Security fixes
- Localisation updates
- No updates
- Security fixes
translatewiki.net
[edit]See translatewiki.net news page.
Stats
[edit]- About 61 (+36) new users [2]
- About 342 (-56) translators made about 34.955 (-18.283) edits [3][4]
- About 79 (-28) translators reviewed about 5.311 (-7.824) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Localisation and maintenance updates only.