LinguaLibre

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Welcome to Lingua Libre Technical board !
Where to start?
  • Local developments are easy. You can customize your css and your js, including creating a local WikiJS script, even with limited edit rights.
  • LinguaLibre Bot (Python, github) is a high-impact project. Help is needed to authorize it on more wikis.
  • Join us on Phabricator and GitHub.
Skills we look for…
  • Developers: we especially look for Bot Masters (Python, NodeJS), SPARQL experts, VueJS developpers, issues coordinators, but everyone is welcome.
  • Projects coordinators: we also look for organizers of recording/hacking meet-ups, who are able to build a network with language learning, language conservation and NLP actors.
Happy Coding!
  • Please announce your hacking project here to raise awareness and gather feedbacks.
  • Most of our actions remain small in scope and volunteer-based. In case your project is large enough, you could learn about some of the funding options.
Development & Technical reports
Flash Technical News
  • January 25th, 2023: the latest Github revision has been pushed on the production server. Kurdish Wiktionary is now supported. Oriya Wiktionary will be very soon. Support of more Wiktionary versions should follow.

Please visit LinguaLibre:About to learn more about the project.

Migration of technical contents

Hello all, Please help migrate technical contents from the main LinguaLibre:Chat room to here. Yug (talk) 18:49, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

2021 Github refreshing : call for volunteers and discussion

See also Github.com/lingua-libre

Hello all,
Since November 2020 there is an ongoing effort to clean up, document, fix the 11 github repositories upon which LinguaLibre.org stands. A summary is available on the main forum and will be migrated here shortly. This section will focus on gathering users with development skills and discuss about possible fields of action (repositories). We especially look for Bot Masters (Python, NodeJS), Sparql expert, VueJS developpers, issues coordinators. Yug (talk) 15:57, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Early 2021 codings : Wikivalley & volunteers communication board !

WikiValley have been selected to make a notable technical push on the LinguaLibre Suite where volunteer developers are not enough. They will coordinate with volunteers developers in order to smooth everyone's work, avoid duplicate efforts and git conflicts. The Start, End, and Repositories columns below are especially important, please keep them up to date, respect them, or change them whenever required. If you need to work on a repository under work, contact the developer listed there and organize as needed. Our objective here is to keep clarity and to progress smoothly. Please avoid emails and prefer communicating here within subsections so we can all be somehow aware of how are things going. Yug (talk) 15:56, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Note: Volunteers started working around in December. WikiValley around Feb. 11th. Yug (talk) 15:56, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Past developments
Start End Contacts/dev Team Repository Advancement & result so far.
2021/02/01 2021/02/10 Yug Volunteers SignIt Get back control (access right) ; fix video query ; test locally ; publish new version on Mozilla store
→ Fixed Firefox extension
2021/02/01 2021/02/16? Yug
Michael
Volunteers
WM-France
/operations
/CommonDownloadTool
Explore possible breakpoints ; identify likely cause ; fix ; deploy ; run
→ Fixed https://lingualibre.org/datasets/
2021/02/? 2021/02/11 Vigneron
WikiValley
Wikivalley QueryViz
Other?
Explore possible breakpoints ; identify cause ; fix ; deploy ; inquire on numbers differences
→ Fixed LinguaLibre:Stats
Current developments
2021/02/01 2022/01/01 Poslovitch Volunteers Lingua-Libre-Bot Maintain, update and operate the bot.
2021 Q1 [WIP]: Refactor the bot to ease implementations of additional Wiktionaries.
2021/02/? 2021/02/? WikiLucas00
Yug
Volunteers CustomSubtitle
BlueLL
Explore Subtitle's ribbon's bug ; identify cause.
Planned developments
2021/02/01 2021/03/?? Poslovitch Volunteers /operations
/CommonDownloadTool
Project: Explore datasets scripts and queries. May require SPARQL assistance.

User box ?

Babel user information
mar
mr-N या सदस्याला मराठी चे स्थानिक स्तराचे ज्ञान आहे.
cmn-1 This user has basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese.
Users by language

It may be cool to create an userbox "dev" {{Userbox-dev}}, on the model of {{Userbox-records}}, with Python, Javascript, PHP, VueJS, Wikimedia Bot as specific sub-categorization ? Yug (talk) 15:59, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

I kinda disagree with that. Lingua Libre is not meant to become a hub for techies. Sure, we need all the help that comes, yet the only usecase I foresee for these userboxes would be in the event something goes bad and we need someone with the good skills to take care of that. But, since it has to be added by oneself on one's user page, the same can be said of the page where we list who does what (I don't recall how it's called). Which one of these two 'systems" should be kept? --Poslovitch (talk) 21:53, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
In term of community I see ourselves as somewhere inbetween Wikipedia and Wikidata communities. We mainly deal with singleton : audio files, which are data units. People come, do a more or less powerful recording contributions, then sharply reduce their involvement and leave thousands files units here.
And like Wikidata, we need people giving life to these data units. This is done via reuse, bots, webapps, text-to-speech. Developers' creations.
So yes, developers have to become an important piece of our community. And we would gain to create some active dynamic gathered around languages and projects (repositories). Yug (talk) 22:30, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Datasets has become super slow ?

I try to interpret and understand how /datasets are generate.

  • On April 2020, French dataset of about 100,000 audios is processed in 51 minutes.
  • On February 2021, Bengali dataset of about 50,000 audios is processed in 18 hours.

What do I miss ? Yug (talk) 00:09, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


Zip file Date Bits
lingualibre_full.zip 2019-May-17:01:18 1989664440
Q101-srr-Serer.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:09 14967
Q113-cmn-Mandarin_Chinese.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:09 112613
Q115107-bcl-Central_Bikol.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:09 166323
Q127-tam-Tamil.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:09 154352
Q130-zho-Chinese.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:10 2724328
Q131-hye-Armenian.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:10 824117
Q141-cym-Welsh.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:10 12905993
Q154-amh-Amharic.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:11 2653977
Q165-hat-Haitian_Creole.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:11 233588
Q169-tgl-Tagalog.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:11 77198
Q170137-mos-Mossi.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:11 1158142
Q205-gre-Greek.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:11 239390
Q231-myv-Erzya.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:21 205878
Q242-fon-Fon.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:21 1538614
Q258-nso-Northern_Sotho.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:24 774299
Q311-oci-Occitan.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:33 511332485
Q318-bam-Bambara.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:33 277786
Q321-gaa-Ga.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:33 3247380
Q336-ori-Odia.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:34 38697693
Q339-sat-Santali.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:34 128941
Q34-mar-Marathi.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:34 2274397
Q35-nld-Dutch.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:34 36279372
Q385-ita-Italian.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:34 3440247
Q388-que-Quechua.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 397476
Q39-tel-Telugu.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 85571
Q397-heb-Hebrew.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 1657223
Q405-bas-Basaa_language.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 1515700
Q437-mal-Malayalam.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 138601
Q446-pan-Punjabi.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 11004
Q4465-mis-Teochew_dialect.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 69734
Q45-nor-Norwegian.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 431566
Q46-ltz-Luxembourgish.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:35 1679618
Q51299-hav-Havu.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 56823
Q51302-tay-Atayal.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 65533
Q52067-bbj-Ghomala'_language.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 1765823
Q52068-bum-Bulu_language.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 1382789
Q52071-dua-Duala.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 1206427
Q52073-bdu-Oroko.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 1723960
Q52074-bzm-Londo.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 1750380
Q52295-atj-Atikamekw.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 7315215
Q74905-mis-Sursilvan.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:37 14618
Q83641-gcf-Guadeloupean_Creole_French.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:38 7412512
Q930-mis-Gascon_dialect.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:39 179656450
Q931-mis-Languedocien_dialect.zip 2019-Nov-05:03:40 191575650
Q123-hin-Hindi.zip 2020-Apr-25:03:30 1704401
Q126-por-Portuguese.zip 2020-Apr-25:03:31 43732966
Q129-rus-Russian.zip 2020-Apr-25:03:32 60844464
Q150-afr-Afrikaans.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 42363003
Q159-dyu-Dioula_language.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 784432
Q19858-bci-Baoulé.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 1268304
Q203-cat-Catalan.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 9738365
Q204940-ken-Nyang_language.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 483396
Q208-vie-Vietnamese.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:18 8822067
Q219-ara-Arabic.zip 2020-Apr-25:04:19 85373129
Q21-fra-French.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:10 2112950650
Q221062-mis-Cantonese.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:10 3895600
Q22-eng-English.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:12 131688602
Q25-epo-Esperanto.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:19 445662713
Q264201-ary-Moroccan_Arabic.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:19 1371064
Q273-kab-Kabyle.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:19 370876
Q298-pol-Polish.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:21 145009958
Q299-eus-Basque.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:21 46035866
Q33-fin-Finnish.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:46 19473062
Q386-spa-Spanish.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:46 28434220
Q389-jpn-Japanese.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:46 145688
Q392-ces-Czech.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:46 96844
Q44-swe-Swedish.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:46 166237
Q4901-shy-Shawiya_language.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:47 15804835
Q6714-arq-Algerian_Arabic.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:47 3420182
Q80-kan-Kannada.zip 2020-Apr-25:05:47 3662223
Q24-deu-German.zip 2021-Feb-11:15:32 258363332
Q307-ben-Bengali.zip 2021-Feb-12:07:28 1079637723
IMO, this can only be investigated through the logs. Maybe the requests to Commons are taking a longer time than they used to? Maybe the datasets server is under higher load (thus slowing it)? We need you, Michaël! --Poslovitch (talk) 21:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
@Poslovitch could it be that the script upload the "never uploaded yet" ? If so, the April 2020 French dataset was just the 3000 recent French audios whereas Feb 2021 Bengali dataset was like "Yo, there are the 50,000 bengali audio, deal with it B)" Yug (talk) 22:24, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
@Yug that might be it. I still don't fully understand what the script does and, well, we can say the documentation is clearly lacking there. I'm working on that too - but yeah, that might be why it's taking more time. We should let it run for a first time, and then force another dataset update a few days later so we can compare both. --Poslovitch (talk) 22:38, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Seems the script has finished running. @Michael Yug (talk) 12:07, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Using Magic Word {#language:} and Extension:CLDR (?)

For general awareness. No real question asked.

I found out LL uses the MediaWiki Extension CLDR. It ease automatize translation from iso-639 codes to target languages name words, ex: {#language:it|en} → Italian. Coverage range is ~500 names in ~166 languages. Its data comes from the wp:Common Locale Data Repository Project (CLDR). Translate wiki has a tutorial on how to contribute to this CLDR website, here.

  • mw:Help:Magic_words#Miscellaneous > {{#language:language code|target language code}}
    → {{#language:ar|en}} → Arabic
    → {{#language:ar|hi}} → अरबी
    → {{#language:ja|hi}} → जापानी
    → {{#language:fr|he}} → צרפתית
    → {{#language:fra|he}} → fra (not available)
    → {{#language:fr-ca|he}} → Canadian French (falls back on English)
    → {{#language:mar|hi}} → mar (n.a)
    → {{#language:en|mar}} → English (falls back on English)
    → {{#language:mar|en}} → mar (n.a)
    → {{#language:mar|mar}} → mar (n.a)
    • mw:Extension:CLDR MediaWiki Extension : "Provides functions to localize the names of languages, countries, currencies, and time units based on their language code."
      • Github mirror > key folder : /CldrNames & Wikimedia corrections here.

While we would gain to stay focus on our own recording mission, it stays interesting to be aware of this project. cc @Poslovitch , for the Magic Word. Yug (talk) 12:07, 15 February 2021 (UTC)