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April 2020 Wikimedia language engineering monthly report for May 2020 June 2020

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

Content Translation

Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 2.

Usage data

Content Translation monthly data May 2020 Comments
Articles created (during the month)
Articles created till end of month
Number of new translators (during the month)
Highest number of articles created by one user

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia
Total number of translators with only 1 published article

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with only 2 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with only 3 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with only 4 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles

(cumulative number till end of the month)

Articles deleted (during the month)

Other statistics

Top growing languages
Language Absolute growth Percent of growth
Languages with top published translations
Language This month
Languages that had some translations in the previous month, and no translations this month
Language Previous month
Languages that had no translations in the previous month, and translations this month
Language This month


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:

  • TODO: Add changes

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

  • Translatable pages: Meta TODO (TODO); MediaWiki.org TODO (TODO); Commons TODO (TODO) [1][2][3]
  • Translate extension is installed on TODO (TODO) 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,

  • TODO: Add changes

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

Other extensions

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

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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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.

Project Milkshake

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

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net

See also translatewiki.net news page.


Stats

  • About TODO (TODO) new users [2]
  • About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits [3][4]
  • About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations [5][6]

TwnMainPage

Cross team work/requirements

Public communication and outreach

Language showcase 2020, part 1
Language showcase 2020, part 2
  • Language showcase presentation about the Research on the Section Translation feature:

Team status