Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/March
 February 2022 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for March 2022 | April 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 | March 2022 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 21573 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 1111777 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1245 | |
| 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) |
12738 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1559 | fr |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
56757 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12842 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6075 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3359 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11051 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3918 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1441 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
140 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 489 |
Other statistics
[edit]| Language | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
|---|---|---|---|
| az | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| bn | 1040 | 327 | 29 |
| ha | 336 | 93 | 3 |
| ku | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| ml | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ms | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| sq | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| te | 40 | 15 | 4 |
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| ak | 33 | 825.00% |
| sco | 8 | 800.00% |
| yo | 8 | 800.00% |
| sw | 401 | 646.77% |
| lmo | 4 | 400.00% |
| so | 4 | 400.00% |
| pa | 177 | 316.07% |
| ha | 533 | 277.60% |
| hyw | 5 | 250.00% |
| ast | 12 | 240.00% |
| be | 72 | 232.26% |
| or | 65 | 216.67% |
| dv | 2 | 200.00% |
| lv | 18 | 180.00% |
| tg | 127 | 171.62% |
| mr | 168 | 171.43% |
| ur | 428 | 168.50% |
| bcl | 63 | 161.54% |
| skr | 134 | 132.67% |
| ne | 9 | 128.57% |
| gu | 5 | 125.00% |
| ary | 1 | 100.00% |
| as | 2 | 100.00% |
| azb | 1 | 100.00% |
| cv | 2 | 100.00% |
| glk | 1 | 100.00% |
| nap | 1 | 100.00% |
| sd | 1 | 100.00% |
| tk | 1 | 100.00% |
| yi | 1 | 100.00% |
| sr | 69 | 90.79% |
| vi | 46 | 90.20% |
| ml | 43 | 87.76% |
| af | 15 | 83.33% |
| ru | 246 | 77.36% |
| sc | 6 | 75.00% |
| zh | 370 | 68.01% |
| ht | 2 | 66.67% |
| lt | 5 | 62.50% |
| mn | 3 | 60.00% |
| ro | 94 | 59.12% |
| ga | 17 | 56.67% |
| ms | 100 | 54.95% |
| is | 7 | 50.00% |
| ks | 3 | 50.00% |
| oc | 1 | 50.00% |
| az | 18 | 48.65% |
| ka | 23 | 39.66% |
| pt | 201 | 38.36% |
| sq | 22 | 37.29% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| fr | 1705 |
| es | 1512 |
| tr | 1032 |
| fa | 949 |
| zh | 914 |
| el | 868 |
| ha | 725 |
| pt | 725 |
| ca | 689 |
| uk | 685 |
| ur | 682 |
| bn | 659 |
| ig | 607 |
| mk | 565 |
| ru | 564 |
| ar | 491 |
| eu | 463 |
| sw | 463 |
| en | 419 |
| it | 397 |
| he | 379 |
| gl | 342 |
| ta | 318 |
| ms | 282 |
| mr | 266 |
| ro | 253 |
| ja | 247 |
| ko | 238 |
| skr | 235 |
| pa | 233 |
| tg | 201 |
| hi | 171 |
| jv | 159 |
| cs | 153 |
| sr | 145 |
| id | 140 |
| de | 118 |
| nl | 112 |
| arz | 105 |
| kn | 104 |
| be | 103 |
| te | 103 |
| bcl | 102 |
| sv | 98 |
| vi | 97 |
| or | 95 |
| ml | 92 |
| ka | 81 |
| sq | 81 |
| eo | 71 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| an | 1 |
| chr | 1 |
| co | 7 |
| diq | 1 |
| fo | 1 |
| fy | 1 |
| gan | 1 |
| gd | 1 |
| haw | 7 |
| ilo | 1 |
| inh | 1 |
| ksh | 1 |
| li | 1 |
| mi | 7 |
| nds | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| pms | 2 |
| pnb | 1 |
| rm | 1 |
| shi | 1 |
| trv | 1 |
| vec | 1 |
| vls | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| lg | 18 |
| frp | 11 |
| gag | 9 |
| myv | 4 |
| tw | 4 |
| pap | 3 |
| mg | 2 |
| sm | 2 |
| av | 1 |
| ff | 1 |
| fur | 1 |
| io | 1 |
| iu | 1 |
| mnw | 1 |
| rmy | 1 |
| st | 1 |
| su | 1 |
| udm | 1 |
| vo | 1 |
| zu | 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 "Suggestions with the same percentage are not sorted by usage" (task T183872)
- Fix "[TUX] Provide feedback when saving a translation in proofreading mode" (task T47555)
- Fix priority reason not appearing when marking page translation. (Gerrit change 769277)
- Avoid fetching language stats for all groups when Special:Translate is loaded to improve performance (task T302680)
- Rename moveTranslatablePage script to moveTranslatableBundle (Gerrit change 760918)
- Parse magic words in
deletereason-dropdownmessage (task T302269)
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 8.072 (+121); MediaWiki.org 6.138 (+98); Commons 1.741 (+9) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 455 (+0) 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,
- Fix "ULS button in personal bar broken with classic vector". (task T301882)
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation 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 2022.01 was released in January 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2022
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]- Languages added and changes
- No updates
- No updates
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- No updates
- Maintenance updates only.
translatewiki.net
[edit]See also translatewiki.net news page.
- Scheduled weekly backports for MediaWiki 1.38 (task T304562)
Language configuration updates
[edit]- Add the toki pona language (tok) (task T300378)
Stats
[edit]- About 84 (-13) new users [2]
- About 387 (-1) translators made about 35.214 (9.112) edits [3][4]
- About 80 (+7) translators reviewed about 8.143 (-1.009) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage
[edit]- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
Deployments and other site related updates
[edit]- Section Translation was enabled in Javanese, Tagalog, Mongolian, Telugu and Persian Wikipedias, along with Content Translation out of Beta feature.