Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/November

October 2021

Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for November 2021

December 2021

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.

Content Translation

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

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data	November 2021	Comments
Articles created (during the month)	23702
Articles created till end of month	1,028,292
Number of new translators (during the month)	1336
Highest number of articles created by one user (cumulative number till end of the month)	12879	tr
Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia (cumulative number till end of the month)	12264	es
Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia	2070	tr
Total number of translators with only 1 published article (cumulative number till end of the month)	53898
Total number of translators with only 2 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	12061
Total number of translators with only 3 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	5787
Total number of translators with only 4 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3207
Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	10415
Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	3684
Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	1351
Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles (cumulative number till end of the month)	136
Articles deleted (during the month)	469

Other statistics

Section translation

Language	Revisions	Unique pages	Unique users
bn	79	59	19
ha	9	8	4
ig	8	4	2

Top growing languages

Language	Absolute growth	Percent of growth
tw	71	2366.67%
rw	502	1731.03%
mk	1769	916.58%
uz	150	652.17%
sd	11	550.00%
kw	16	533.33%
lld	4	400.00%
nn	317	396.25%
yo	18	360.00%
nqo	20	333.33%
as	6	300.00%
sw	21	300.00%
ast	5	250.00%
mt	5	250.00%
ga	25	208.33%
ba	372	180.58%
ig	131	152.33%
ceb	3	150.00%
tr	1144	119.92%
el	379	119.56%
tt	274	109.60%
pa	83	101.22%
azb	2	100.00%
cv	1	100.00%
mn	1	100.00%
oc	4	100.00%
tyv	13	100.00%
mr	21	91.30%
de	77	81.05%
hu	30	68.18%
sl	17	65.38%
sk	5	62.50%
fa	257	54.91%
cs	71	51.08%
br	4	50.00%
kk	1	50.00%
sv	26	45.61%
ar	320	45.39%
tg	23	44.23%
bn	75	39.27%
simple	4	36.36%
ml	28	35.00%
ms	76	31.02%
ne	8	30.77%
id	27	29.35%
eu	59	29.06%
et	2	28.57%
eo	36	25.35%
ur	63	24.80%
uk	191	24.65%

Languages with top published translations

Language	This month
tr	2098
es	2084
mk	1962
fr	1212
ar	1025
uk	966
ca	796
fa	725
pt	717
el	696
ha	663
ba	578
rw	531
tt	524
zh	462
it	459
ja	441
tl	436
he	425
en	409
nn	397
ta	369
ms	321
ur	317
gl	308
bn	266
eu	262
ru	256
hi	225
ig	217
cs	210
eo	178
ko	175
uz	173
de	172
pa	165
te	125
id	119
ml	108
da	106
ro	91
sv	83
nl	82
os	81
tg	75
hu	74
tw	74
kn	72
vi	70
or	65

Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month

Language	Previous month
alt	1
av	1
bjn	1
bug	1
chr	2
cu	2
dty	1
gd	2
hif	6
hsb	2
inh	1
iu	1
kaa	3
kl	1
ks	5
lbe	1
lo	4
mad	1
mi	1
nov	1
pdc	1
qu	4
sat	2
shi	2
so	1
ss	1
tn	1
trv	1
tum	1
wa	1
xmf	1

Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month

Language	This month
os	81
min	6
frp	5
nso	5
ve	4
co	2
fy	2
pam	2
sm	2
szl	2
yi	2
an	1
ang	1
bar	1
ch	1
dag	1
ext	1
ff	1
fj	1
hyw	1
na	1
nah	1
new	1
pih	1
rmy	1
sco	1
st	1
ti	1
xh	1

Translate

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 compatibility with VisualEditor (Gerrit change 739177, task T294605)
• Fix: UI issue: the page moves from bottom to top when new messages are loaded in List tab (task T295655, Gerrit change 738587)
• Add functionality to toggle all groups (Gerrit change 740108, task T90511)
• Migrate Translate extension tables to abstract schema (Gerrit change 735613, task T268576)

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

• Translatable pages: Meta 7.239 (+68); MediaWiki.org 5.862 (+4); Commons 1.560 (-17) [1][2][3]
• Translate extension is installed on 451 (+4) wikis [1].

Universal Language Selector

Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,

• Disable language button background color on modern Vector (task T296323)
• Lower .uls-menu z-index for Vector skin to avoid overlapping with the Vector sticky header (task T295794)
• Fix: [Sticky header] ULS should remain fixed to header when scrolling (task T295391)
• Add Awami Nastaliq font (task T290510)

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

Other extensions

Babel (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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

• Add Makhuwa, not part of CLDR (task T296612)
• Add Pa'O (blk) (Gerrit change 735934)
• Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd (task T293884, task T286239)
• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

• No updates

TranslationNotifications:

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

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 2021.11 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

MediaWiki core internationalization

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

language-data

• Languages added: Logooli (rag), Aja (ajg), Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aghem (agq) and Masana (mcn)
• Changes:
  • Split Northern Thai to nod and nod-thai
  • Change names of Cyrillic-script languages to lowercase

banana-i18n

• No updates

jquery.i18n

• No updates

jquery.uls

• Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts

• No updates

jquery.ime

• Released version 0.3.0
• Security fixes for dev dependencies.
• Improvement to test cases
• Keyboards added:
  • Nawdm tilde
  • Mon Simplified Anonta
  • Aja tilde
• Keyboard changes:
  • Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard
  • Small improvements in my-xkb layout (See: PR)

translatewiki.net

See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

• Add Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aja (ajg) and Logooli (rag) languages.

Stats

• About 104 (+15) new users [2]
• About 358 (-15) translators made about 44.002 (-3.880) edits [3][4]
• About 94 (-5) translators reviewed about 6.083 (+249) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.