Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/July
 June 2022 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for July 2022 | August 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 | July 2022 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 27390 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 1210162 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1120 | |
| 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) |
13243 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 5413 | uz |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
59372 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
13486 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6357 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3562 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11736 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4181 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1579 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
153 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 454 |
Other statistics
[edit]| Language | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
|---|---|---|---|
| as | 8 | 7 | 5 |
| ast | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| az | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| bcl | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| bn | 360 | 168 | 31 |
| ckb | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| cs | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| el | 70 | 15 | 3 |
| eu | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| fa | 139 | 76 | 29 |
| gu | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| ha | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| he | 21 | 17 | 16 |
| ig | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| is | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| jv | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| kn | 21 | 7 | 3 |
| ko | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| ku | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| ln | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mk | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| ml | 18 | 16 | 6 |
| mr | 20 | 18 | 2 |
| ms | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| ne | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| sq | 8 | 5 | 1 |
| sr | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| sw | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ta | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| te | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| th | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| tn | 11 | 3 | 1 |
| tr | 66 | 50 | 19 |
| ur | 29 | 18 | 6 |
| uz | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| zu | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| mzn | 16 | 1600.00% |
| ps | 176 | 1173.33% |
| nqo | 18 | 600.00% |
| ur | 1051 | 577.47% |
| ast | 5 | 500.00% |
| az | 438 | 481.32% |
| sco | 3 | 300.00% |
| ne | 39 | 260.00% |
| ky | 64 | 228.57% |
| as | 9 | 225.00% |
| kab | 2 | 200.00% |
| mnw | 2 | 200.00% |
| is | 7 | 175.00% |
| hi | 50 | 166.67% |
| ms | 387 | 144.94% |
| et | 10 | 142.86% |
| bs | 18 | 138.46% |
| or | 39 | 130.00% |
| id | 192 | 125.49% |
| ko | 108 | 120.00% |
| bg | 28 | 116.67% |
| glk | 1 | 100.00% |
| sh | 1 | 100.00% |
| tl | 58 | 90.63% |
| el | 149 | 87.65% |
| ckb | 17 | 77.27% |
| de | 59 | 76.62% |
| kn | 46 | 74.19% |
| nso | 2 | 66.67% |
| ml | 28 | 60.87% |
| kk | 3 | 60.00% |
| ru | 241 | 57.79% |
| ro | 76 | 55.07% |
| lt | 9 | 52.94% |
| vi | 40 | 50.63% |
| an | 2 | 50.00% |
| ary | 1 | 50.00% |
| bn | 308 | 40.05% |
| bjn | 2 | 40.00% |
| sl | 25 | 35.21% |
| be | 21 | 35.00% |
| cy | 8 | 33.33% |
| jv | 1 | 33.33% |
| tg | 23 | 27.38% |
| br | 1 | 25.00% |
| mn | 2 | 25.00% |
| fi | 7 | 24.14% |
| sq | 17 | 23.94% |
| gl | 69 | 23.23% |
| pa | 24 | 18.90% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| uz | 5547 |
| fr | 1413 |
| uk | 1286 |
| ur | 1233 |
| es | 1197 |
| fa | 1170 |
| ig | 1159 |
| bn | 1077 |
| ar | 1001 |
| ca | 850 |
| ha | 689 |
| zh | 688 |
| ru | 658 |
| ms | 654 |
| az | 529 |
| tr | 525 |
| pt | 478 |
| en | 461 |
| he | 444 |
| gl | 366 |
| id | 345 |
| el | 319 |
| eu | 319 |
| it | 313 |
| ta | 243 |
| ro | 214 |
| ja | 211 |
| ko | 198 |
| sr | 194 |
| ps | 191 |
| cs | 162 |
| pa | 151 |
| de | 136 |
| ga | 126 |
| tl | 122 |
| vi | 119 |
| te | 114 |
| eo | 109 |
| kn | 108 |
| tg | 107 |
| mk | 106 |
| nl | 105 |
| km | 96 |
| sl | 96 |
| ky | 92 |
| sq | 88 |
| be | 81 |
| hi | 80 |
| ml | 74 |
| hy | 71 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| ab | 1 |
| ak | 1 |
| am | 2 |
| av | 1 |
| dv | 5 |
| gag | 1 |
| ie | 2 |
| kaa | 1 |
| kw | 3 |
| li | 1 |
| lij | 2 |
| lo | 5 |
| mi | 1 |
| mt | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| pap | 1 |
| rm | 1 |
| rue | 1 |
| rw | 5 |
| sm | 1 |
| smn | 8 |
| so | 3 |
| su | 2 |
| ug | 2 |
| vec | 2 |
| vo | 1 |
| war | 1 |
| wuu | 4 |
| xh | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| bcl | 16 |
| tcy | 16 |
| zu | 8 |
| got | 7 |
| ban | 3 |
| cv | 3 |
| mai | 3 |
| sa | 3 |
| ss | 3 |
| tn | 3 |
| lmo | 2 |
| azb | 1 |
| bar | 1 |
| hsb | 1 |
| ln | 1 |
| pdc | 1 |
| pnb | 1 |
| sn | 1 |
| st | 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 "Impossible to mark pages for translation using the mobile site" (Gerrit change 809970, task T311631)
- Allow filtering the translation review log by subtypes of actions (Gerrit change 810311, task T216335)
- Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36 (Gerrit change 810154, task T311510)
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 8.559 (+210); MediaWiki.org 6.237 (+33); Commons 1.741 (-5) [1][2][3]
- Wikiapiary is down. Translate extension is installed on - (-) 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,
- Add support for empty states to the current language selector (Gerrit change 807929, task T290436)
- Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36 (Gerrit change 810157, task T311510)
- Localisation and maintenance updates.
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):
- Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Localisation updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate:
- 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 2022.07 was released this month. Please see the corresponding 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.
- 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]language-data Version 1.1.0 (2022-07-07) was released. See the changelog here.
- Languages added and changes:
- Setup a website for banana-i18n - https://wikimedia.github.io/banana-i18n/
- Update dev dependencies to fix security issues (PR)
- Fix chrome cors policy when running the demo (PR)
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- No updates
- Keyboards added and changed:
- Add Esan tilde keyboard
- Add Setswana tilde keyboard
translatewiki.net
[edit]See translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates
[edit]- Make Punjabi variants (pa/pnb) each other's assistant (Gerrit change 816319)
- Add default assistant languages for Munda languages (Gerrit change 810280)
- Add default assistant languages for Sotho-Tswana languages (Gerrit change 813329)
- Add Yonaguni language (yoi) (Gerrit change 814280)
- Add Kalanga (kck) (Gerrit change 814746)
- Add Wolaytta language (wal) (Gerrit change 814928)
- Add Bunun (bnn) (Gerrit change 815613)
Stats
[edit]- About 100 (+25) new users [2]
- About 377 (-2) translators made about 52.208 (+8.001) edits [3][4]
- About 83 (-3) translators reviewed about 11.056 (+2.563) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Allow search engine indexing the main page (Gerrit change 818057, task T313396)
- Localisation updates