Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/September

August 2016

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for September 2016

October 2016

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter.

Santhosh Thottingal fixed a section alignment error.
Fomafix updated file permissions.
Fomafix did maintenance for JavaScript code.
Niklas Laxström removed unused code.

Usage data

Details	Numbers
Articles created (during the month)	8685
Articles created till end of month	123900
Number of new translators (during the month)	873
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	3380
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	3446 (es)
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	13649
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2679
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1257
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	720
Total number of translators with >= 5 and <= 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	2133
Total number of translators with >20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	893
Articles deleted (during the month)	468

Comparisons

Articles published.
Deletion ratio.
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.

Translate

Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About 15 patches in total were merged in September.

Jon Robson and Niklas Laxström made Special:Translate work with Mobile Frontend. T102922
Niklas Laxström polished Special:Translate to work better in mobile devices. T146134
Aaron Schulz improved master/replica database selection.
Fomafix cleaned up some JavaScript code.
محمد شعیب fixed spelling mistakes in interface messages. T145492
Glaisher added way to access wikitext editor from Special:Translate. T48955
Niklas Laxström fixed a spelling mistake in error message.
Federico Leva and Niklas Laxström made "hide own translations" button in Special:Translate only appear when relevant. T50972
Kunal Mehta replaced the use of deprecated NS_IMAGE constant.
Jon Robson replaced the uses of depcreated mw-ui-constructive and mw-ui-primary CSS classes. T146923

Usage data

Translatable pages: Meta 3083 (+57) ; MediaWiki.org 3104 (+5) ; Commons 498 (+6) [1][2][3]
Translate extension is installed on 211 wikis (-4) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language choose, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

About 15 patches were merged this month.

Amir Aharoni changed "Language search" to "Search for a language". T138235
New design implemented by Niklas Laxström was imported from jquery.uls.
Niklas Laxström improved language change tooltip positioning. T145483
Amir Aharoni documented available hooks and added one new hook. T145755
Fomafix improved and simplified the way the CSS is loaded for ULS triggers to avoid flash.
Niklas Laxström changed the default GeoIP provider.
Volker Eckl replaced the uses of deprecated mw-ui-constructive CSS class. T146923

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

Kunal Mehta maintained code and code documentation with multiple patches.
Kunal Mehta changed the way babel categories are added to the page to avoid round-trip via wikitext.
Kunal Mehta made is possible to store babel languages in the database for efficient querying if a configuration option is enabled.
Aaron Schulz changed the code to avoid an unnecessary database query.
Sam Reed replaced references to deprecated WikiPage::doEdit method.
Kunal Mehta added an WebAPI module to query user's babel languages.
Kunal Mehta made it possible to read user's babel languages from a central wiki if a configuration option is enabled. T95877
Ricordisamoa added a configuration option that can be used to set namespace limits to restrict for which pages are automatically categorized to babel categories. T69334
Niklas Laxström removed a reference to non-existing configuration option BabelPreferISO639_3.

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

No updates.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

No updates.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

No updates.

TranslationNotifications:

No updates.

MLEB

No MLEB was released this month. Latest MLEB release is 2016.08. A new release is planned in October.

Project Milkshake

Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n

James Forrester fixed a whitespace issue.
Timo Tijhof made string slicing use String#slice consistently.
Time Tijhof made a cleanup to build configuration.

jquery.uls

Niklas Laxström improved display of headings in narrow mode.
Marius Hoch fixed a regression with suggested languages in related to style updates. T144871
Amir Aharoni udpated search label text to be more consistent with MediaWiki Mobile Frontend. T138235

jquery.webfonts

No updates.

jquery.ime

No updates.

translatewiki.net

Stats

About 90 (+10) new users
About 370 (-5) translators made about 44.000 (+1.000) edits
About 120 (+20) translators reviewed about 18.500 (-7.500) translations

Sources: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

TwnMainPage

Niklas Laxström replaced references to the deprecated constructive style for buttons. T146923

Deployments and other site related updates

Machine Translation support was added for ceb, eo, gd, jv, mi, mhr, ml, mr, mrj, ne, su, te and yi languages.
cxserver was updated with service-template-node v0.4.0 changes. T136597

Cross team work/requirements

Language team put up first version of a document that describes what we consider our maintenance responsibilities and maintenance levels.
This month marks the end of the dedicated attention to cleaning up the code review backlog of the Translate extension. Few patches remain, and the from now on work continues to not let the backlog grow unbounded anymore.

Team status

Niklas Laxström is more busy than usual due to a course he is teaching.