Project:News/Newsletter 2008-12

Hello, dear Betawiki user.

This is our fourth e-mail newsletter. It intends to keep you updated on Betawiki's developments, and is also aimed at reminding you to visit http://translatewiki.net at least once every month to update the language(s) you have been contributing to in the past, so that the localisations will stay up to date.

Noteworthy events

 * We have two weeks left until the end of 2008. What could be better than ending a year with with a fully translated message group? Participate in our End of Year Translation Rally and contribute now!
 * In the past months we have seen a few very nice open source product added to the Betawiki supported products: Mantis, a bug tracker, and Mwlib, an open source python based MediaWiki rendering engine. See the stats later in this newsletter.
 * Feature wise a special page LanguageStats has been added to show real-time translation statistics for all messages groups and  Special:Translations shows all translations for a particular message.
 * More detailed news is available on-wiki.

Status overview

 * MediaWiki core messages: 136 core messages were added since the last update bringing the total to to 2,160. There are now 164 (+34) optional messages. MediaWiki 1.13.3 was released recently; everyone is encouraged to update; it also includes the latest relevant localisations.
 * MediaWiki extensions: Currently Betawiki supports 274 MediaWiki extensions, which is an increase of 30 since the last update. In total the supported MediaWiki extensions have 5,974 (+1,313) normal messages, and 139 (+13) optional messages.
 * Mantis: Localisation of Mantis is still growing; no effort has been made yet to get previous 'off-line' translators to Betawiki. This will be done in the coming month. Current message volume is 1,176 normal messages and 6 optional messages.
 * FreeCol: Localisation of FreeCol is continuing as normal, support for more languages is progressing steadily. FreeCol 0.8.0 alpha 3 is available for download. Please update your translations for the release version. Current message volume is 1,714 (+64) regular messages and 455 (+95) optional messages[8]. Contributions are especially welcome to the languages that are near the 25% inclusion criteria or already below it.
 * Vocabulary trainer: this product makes it possible to use OmegaWiki word collections as input for vocabulary training. It currently contains 63 (-1) messages[9].

Statistics
We run daily statistics on all supported products. Here is an overview of localisation statuses for the various products, and a comparison with the previous report (30 August), per 15 December 2008.
 * MediaWiki: Supported languages: 322 (+1%)
 * MediaWiki: 98% of most often used messages translated: 105 (-6%)
 * MediaWiki: 90% translated: 64 (- 4%)
 * MediaWiki: 90% Wikimedia extensions translated: 25 (-11%)
 * MediaWiki: 65% Extensions translated: 17 (no change)


 * FreeCol: Supported languages 88 (+11%)
 * FreeCol: 90% translated: 17 (+42%)


 * Vocabulary trainer: Supported languages: 56 (+27%)
 * Vocabulary trainer: 90% translated: 19 (+19%)


 * Mantis: Supported languages 52 (no comparison data yet)
 * Mantis: 90% translated: 12 (no comparison data yet)


 * Mwlib.rl: Supported languages: 13 (no comparison data yet)
 * Mwlib.rl: 90% translated: 9 (no comparison data yet)

Languages with the most edits in the past month

 * 1) Ukranian (uk) (1,940 edits)
 * 2) Bosnian (bs) (1,620 edits)
 * 3) French (fr) (1,290 edits)
 * 4) Galician (gl) (1,190 edits)
 * 5) Khmer (km) (1,170 edits)
 * 6) Hebrew (he) (1,110 edits)
 * 7) Dutch (nl) (1,032 edits)
 * 8) Slovak (sk) (995 edits)
 * 9) Occitan (oc) (860 edits)
 * 10) Japanese (ja) (750 edits)

Top contributors since the last newsletter (excluding staff)

 * 1) Meno25 (11,000 edits) Languages: Arabic
 * 2) McDutchie (3,200 edits) Languages: Interlingua
 * 3) CERminator (2,800 edits) Languages: Bosnian
 * 4) Cedric31 (2,900 edits) Languages: Occitan, French
 * 5) නන්දිමිතුරු (2,900 edits) Languages: Sinhala
 * 6) Toliño (2,800 edits) Languages: Galician
 * 7) YaronSh (2,500 edits) Languages: Hebrew
 * 8) Vovk (2,100 edits) Languages: Ukrainian
 * 9) Michawiki (2,100 edits) Languages: Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian
 * 10) Brest (2,100 edits) Languages: Macedonian

We welcome feedback about this newsletter. Please let us know by sending a reply to this mail. We will try to accommodate your wishes.

Siebrand Mazeland

Betawiki staff

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