> Experience, skills and knowledge in programming languages and frameworks including Javascript, Vue and PHP through supporting translation needs

Javascript/Vue js; Application of skills in front development with programming languages including Javascript and Vuejs, making changes to the CX codebase files and formatting rules including Rebasing and Merge conflicts among other areas

• ✅T390261: 'Done' Button improperly remains visible when no topic is selected:
• ▶️T374886: SX: Use source/target languages from URL params everywhere
  • SXSectionSelector: Use source/target languages from URL params
  • useMtValidate: Use source/target languages from URL params,
  • SXEditor: Usesource/target languages from URL params.
  • UsePublishingComplete: Use source/target languages from URL params

PHP: Exploring PHP codebase within the Mediawiki core, context of most of the legacy code in Mediawiki software and expounding capabilities of making contributions to tools and extensions in PHP

• ▶️T327063: Adjust "New page" option of the Contribute options to point to a community page when it exists
  • SpecialContribute page: Fix redirection target for "New page" card

> Experience, skills and knowledge in technical aspects of localisation including onboarding new languages and configuring namespaces and keyboards for newly added languages and configuration for messages

Adding New Languages; Context; MediaWiki is heavily multilingual and localized. Adding even more languages to it is a frequent activity . This is done in various contexts, and the procedures can be quite different, both from the technical and the community policies perspectives. New Language versions go through several stages before becoming wikis (reference).This process includes adding new languages (specifically to Language data, translatewiki, Mediawiki core when specifically asked by language speakers, usually on Translatewiki support page).

• ✅ T384234: Add Wali (wlx) to Names.php
• ✅ T392242: Add Sasak (sas) to translatewiki.net
• ✅T392236: Add Pazeh (pzh) to translatewiki.net
• ✅T392266: Add Michif (crg) to translatewiki.net
• ✅T391731: Add Ho in Latin script (hoc-latn) to translatewiki
• ✅T392999: Add local plural rules for Ho language (hoc, hoc-latn)
• ✅T394068: Add Puno Quechua (qxp) to translatewiki.net
• ✅ T384245: Add Lampung Api (ljp) to Names.php
• ✅ T379137: Add Hunde (hke) to Names.php
• ✅ T389916: Add Buginese (Buginese script) (bug-bugi) to Names.php
• ▶️T393086: Add Ho (Latin script) (hoc-latn) to Names.php
• ▶️T395223: Add Yucatec Maya (yua) to Names.php
• ▶️T392255: Add Rajasthani (raj) to translatewiki.net

Keyboard support; Context; Writing on computers is done using a keyboard. It starts to get harder with languages that are not written in the Latin alphabet. A recurring issue among all the smaller language communities is that tools for supporting their language online are lacking; they have insufficient keyboards for typing in their own language.

• ✅ T391830: Add Wali (wlx) characters to jquery.ime

Namespaces; Context; In Wikimedia projects, namespaces are used to separate different types of content, for example, article content (Main namespace), discussion pages (Talk namespace), and user pages (User namespace). MediaWiki comes with built-in core namespaces but also allows for custom namespaces, which are added as needed for particular projects or language wikis. Core namespaces are included in the MediaWiki configuration but need to be correctly translated in MessagesXX.php files for each language. Fixing or adding namespaces is an essential maintenance and support task that enables core namespace functionality in MediaWiki.

• ✅ T389644: Configure namespaces for the Papiamento language (pap)

Messages: Context: There are more than 4000 translatable messages in the "MediaWiki core" group on translatewiki. This work considered splitting into manageable groups to support completion of translation of interface messages especially for newly onboarded languages

• ▶️T167762: Split core en.json to several files
  • ✅ T395359: Split bot password messages to a separate file
  • ▶️T396889: Split untranslatable messages to a separate file

Key take aways

• Knowledge; Gained foundational understanding of internationalization, localisation and translation and technical knowledge of Mediawiki codebase
• Experience; Hands on experience with open source contributions and applying software engineering concepts to support the development of language wikis
• Skills; Problem solving skills to brainstorm technical approaches, tools and methods to implement software needs including soft skills like collaboration, etc

The above mentioned work was possible thanks to the collective and collaborative efforts by mentors and colleagues in the Language and Product Localization , and welcoming additional reflections if any from other mentors and colleagues by Friday, June 27, 2025.