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July 2022 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for August 2022 September 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

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Content Translation

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Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Usage data

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Content Translation monthly data August 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 32633
Articles created till end of month 1242374
Number of new translators (during the month) 1284
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

19165 tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

13353 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 10166 uz
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

59994
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

13676
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

6425
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3625
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

11927
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

4287
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1613
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

159
Articles deleted (during the month) 571

Other statistics

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Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
as 2 2 1
ast 1 1 1
az 6 6 4
bcl 48 47 1
bn 339 150 32
ckb 23 18 6
cs 2 2 2
el 49 20 7
eo 3 3 2
et 1 1 1
eu 2 2 2
fa 91 70 40
gu 2 2 2
he 24 20 15
hy 1 1 1
ig 5 5 2
kn 30 15 2
ko 7 7 6
ku 5 5 3
ln 1 1 1
mk 2 2 2
ml 12 11 8
mn 1 1 1
mr 102 75 5
ms 9 6 1
my 41 41 3
ne 3 3 3
sl 1 1 1
sr 2 1 1
su 2 1 1
sw 3 3 1
ta 1 1 1
te 27 14 3
th 8 8 6
tl 4 4 3
tn 3 2 1
tr 37 32 27
ur 3 3 3
uz 6 6 4
yo 2 2 2
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
tk 12 1200.00%
ceb 8 800.00%
be 467 576.54%
la 15 375.00%
kk 29 362.50%
ary 9 300.00%
co 3 300.00%
mg 3 300.00%
ckb 108 276.92%
lv 11 275.00%
br 13 260.00%
simple 51 242.86%
ku 40 235.29%
kn 231 224.27%
bcl 35 218.75%
tl 251 209.17%
mk 220 207.55%
ss 6 200.00%
hr 63 153.66%
oc 7 140.00%
gu 5 125.00%
mr 55 125.00%
my 34 117.24%
ka 35 109.38%
bar 1 100.00%
cv 3 100.00%
st 1 100.00%
as 12 92.31%
tt 9 90.00%
hi 69 89.61%
sr 172 88.66%
uz 4636 83.68%
hu 25 73.53%
da 17 68.00%
nqo 13 61.90%
bs 19 61.29%
ja 112 53.85%
sh 1 50.00%
ur 603 48.94%
ml 36 48.65%
bg 25 48.08%
ast 2 33.33%
tn 1 33.33%
en 143 33.26%
ru 202 30.70%
tr 155 29.81%
eu 87 27.27%
ba 13 27.08%
ha 154 22.35%
nl 23 22.12%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
uz 10176
ur 1835
fr 1533
es 1388
uk 1096
ar 951
fa 901
ru 860
ha 843
ca 833
bn 708
tr 675
en 573
pt 562
be 548
zh 542
he 431
eu 406
tl 371
sr 366
el 338
kn 334
it 327
mk 326
id 324
ja 320
gl 302
ms 273
ta 238
az 218
ig 188
ko 178
ps 174
ro 171
ckb 147
hi 146
pa 144
cs 134
nl 127
ga 116
ml 110
de 104
hr 104
mr 99
eo 90
bg 77
vi 74
simple 72
ka 67
hy 66
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
azb 1
bjn 7
fy 1
glk 2
got 7
hsb 1
kab 3
lld 2
lmo 2
mai 3
min 1
sd 2
sn 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
tum 32
kaa 14
am 12
xh 9
fo 6
su 6
ab 4
mt 4
ace 2
ady 2
ak 2
av 2
fj 2
hyw 2
io 2
lo 2
mni 2
smn 2
szl 2
wuu 2
bug 1
cr 1
fur 1
gag 1
gor 1
lad 1
lg 1
lij 1
ltg 1
new 1
rue 1
sat 1
ug 1
wa 1

Translate

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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:

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

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  • Translatable pages: Meta 8.636 (+77); MediaWiki.org 6.250 (+13); Commons 1.768 (+27) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

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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 only.

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

Other extensions

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Babel (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

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

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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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 2022.07 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2022.

MediaWiki core internationalization

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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

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language-data

  • Languages added and changes:
    • Add Esan language (PR)
    • Fix the autonym of the Iñupiaq language (PR)
    • Add Makassarese (mak) (PR)
    • Add Iraqi Arabic (acm) (PR)

banana-i18n

  • No updates

jquery.i18n

  • Add sr-cyrl as fallback for sr (PR)

jquery.uls

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts

  • No updates

jquery.ime

  • Keyboards added and changed
    • Make the Punjabi Gurmukhi Phonetic conform to spec (PR)
    • Add Esan tilde keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net

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See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

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Stats

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  • About 51 (-49) new users [2]
  • About 360 (-17) translators made about 50.101 (-1.107) edits [3][4]
  • About 80 (-3) translators reviewed about 9.561 (-1.495) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

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  • Localisation updates
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