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December 2021 Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for January 2022 February 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 January 2022 Comments
Articles created (during the month) 20,539
Articles created till end of month 1,069,261
Number of new translators (during the month) 1128
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

16,412 tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12498 es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia 1945 tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

55,302
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

12,512
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

5919
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3272
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

10714
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

3794
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

1393
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

139
Articles deleted (during the month) 421

Other statistics

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Section translation
Language Revisions Unique pages Unique users
az 4 4 3
ba 5 2 2
bn 17 13 9
ha 4 4 2
ml 2 1 1
ms 5 4 3
sq 1 1 1
th 9 7 4
Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
ast 14 1400.00%
sco 7 700.00%
my 26 433.33%
arz 333 426.92%
eml 4 400.00%
mn 4 400.00%
sah 4 400.00%
jv 16 320.00%
ht 7 233.33%
hy 30 230.77%
az 23 209.09%
tt 290 204.23%
mni 2 200.00%
tyv 4 200.00%
ckb 25 192.31%
is 12 171.43%
mk 457 138.07%
nqo 11 122.22%
pl 37 119.35%
te 103 117.05%
br 6 100.00%
sq 40 97.56%
bn 349 90.41%
ka 8 88.89%
ku 3 75.00%
lv 8 72.73%
bcl 19 67.86%
hr 9 60.00%
nl 63 58.88%
cy 43 55.84%
vi 43 53.09%
id 28 40.00%
ta 116 39.73%
cs 66 38.15%
ru 116 36.25%
sw 12 34.29%
fr 416 30.28%
uk 274 27.51%
bs 14 27.45%
ha 41 26.80%
ba 12 21.05%
gl 62 14.22%
tl 48 12.63%
hi 14 10.45%
zh 41 8.69%
fa 77 8.64%
es 94 7.05%
sv 6 6.59%
ro 3 3.30%
el 6 0.97%
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
tr 2033
fr 1790
es 1427
uk 1270
fa 968
mk 788
bn 735
ca 640
el 622
it 525
ar 513
zh 513
he 508
pt 506
gl 498
ru 436
tt 432
tl 428
eu 420
arz 411
ta 408
en 379
ja 292
cs 239
ms 228
ha 194
te 191
nl 170
hi 148
kn 138
vi 124
cy 120
sr 107
de 99
id 98
sv 97
ro 94
hu 92
ko 89
eo 85
tg 82
sq 81
da 76
ba 69
pl 68
bg 65
bs 65
ml 56
pa 54
uz 51
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
an 1
ang 1
as 2
bug 2
bxr 1
cu 1
hyw 1
ks 1
kw 5
lo 6
min 1
nap 1
os 8
pdc 1
pnb 2
sa 5
sat 2
sd 4
se 1
su 2
ti 1
ug 2
wo 1
xal 1
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month
kab 30
bjn 13
lld 8
ary 5
tk 3
azb 2
kg 2
sn 2
co 1
glk 1
gor 1
inh 1
kk 1
nov 1
war 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 7.602 (+307); MediaWiki.org 6.001 (+45); Commons 1.710 (+4) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on 454 (+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,

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 and maintenance updates only.

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

  • Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:

  • Localisation and maintenance 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 2022.01 was released this month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

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:
    • Fon (fon)
    • Variants on Northern Sami for fallback
    • Nkore (nyn)
  • Language configuration changes:
    • Albanian namespaces and magic words
    • Numbered lists for languages in the Burmese script are now shown with Burmese numerals

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support

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language-data

banana-i18n

Version 2.3.3 was released with bug fixes:

jquery.i18n

  • Move to using GitHub actions for CI (GitHub PR)

jquery.uls

  • Updated langauge-data to latest version
  • Maintenance updates

jquery.webfonts

  • Remove usage of deprecated jQuery.trim (GitHub PR)

jquery.ime

  • Change label from National to Jatiyo for bn-nkb keyboard (GitHub PR)
  • In functions calls accept langCodes that have no input methods (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net

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See also translatewiki.net news page.

  • To improve the privacy of our users we stopped using Google Analytics

Language configuration updates

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Stats

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  • About 90 (+17) new users [2]
  • About 409 (+81) translators made about 38.180 (+6.948) edits [3][4]
  • About 81 (+14) translators reviewed about 6.527 (+2.747) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

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  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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Cross team work/requirements

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Public communication and outreach

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Team status

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