Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/April
 March 2018 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for April 2018 | May 2018 |
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. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.
- Improved approach to keep source and target paragraphs visually aligned and highlighting consistently represented and applied.
- Improved support for galleries, images (to prevent accidental navigation), timelines, math formulas, and tables.
- Polishing on category support, including layout adjustments and support for long labels.
- Asking for confirmation when the translation is going to overwrite an existing article.
- Loading process improvements to communicate the loading status.
- Backwards compatibility support by opening translations with the version of the editor used to create them.
- Tool support improvements to show tool cards in the tools column (including Visual Editor Inspectors) and show initial instructions only when relevant.
Usage data
[edit]| Content Translation monthly data | April 2018 |
|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 12009 |
| Articles created till end of month | 312002 |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1240 |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4613 |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6436 (es) |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
25417 |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5426 |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
2417 |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1422 |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
4459 |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1544 |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
460 |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 718 |
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Articles published. -
Deletion ratio. -
Distribution of users per number of translations they published.
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.
Usage data
[edit]- Translatable pages: Meta 4387; MediaWiki.org 3659; Commons 747 [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 217 wikis Wikiapiary
Universal Language Selector
[edit]Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.
Other extensions
[edit]Babel (part of MLEB):
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
TranslationNotifications:
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
[edit]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.
Project Milkshake
[edit]Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.
jquery.i18n
jquery.uls
jquery.webfonts
jquery.ime
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.