Summary of Achievements

• Experimented inviting native speakers through targeted regional and language outreach through a CentralNotice banner on a high-traffic Wikipedia in their region and engaging them in simple edits.
• Resolved 15 tickets in total on Localisation and Internationalisation support ; 5 Languages onboarded, 4 tickets on messages , 6 tickets on technical volunteer engagement on plural support, fall back, namespaces, date and time format etc . Additionally, engaged at 3 collaboration and engagement spaces; Wikimania, Language community meting and published a newsletter

Hypothesis related work: Engage native speakers to improve vital content in small language wikis

• ✅ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399011 Hypothesis] FY2025-26 WE2.1.1 Engage native speakers to improve vital content in small language Wikipedias
• ✅ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400301 Growth Experiments localization for the selected 10 Wikipedias
• ✅ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391041 Define selection criteria and measurement plan for GrowthExperiments + Central Notice Banner on small wikis
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391045 Deploy a Central Notice banner on a few high-traffic Wikipedias to raise awareness of smaller wikis and growth features
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403499 Central notification banner experiment evaluation Part 1
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402496 Tracking code for Scenarios 1 for WE2.1.1
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402497 Tracking code for Scenarios 2 for WE2.1.1
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402498 Tracking code for Scenarios 3 for WE2.1.1
• ✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398646 Setup tracking for CentralNotice banners experiment for WE2.1.1

Essential work: Communities particularly new & smaller ones are supported with internationalization and localisation workflows to help them move towards their goals.**

• Key Result; Respond to internationalisation and localisation requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals.

This area includes technical efforts to enable newly introduced or smaller languages to be accessible, usable and sustainable on Wikimedia environments. This has entailed resolving internationalization, and localization needs of these language communities including onboarding new languages, UI localisation, Plural support, Keyboard support, Fall back among other areas categorised into various focus areas depending on prioritization per quarter.

• 2-3 splits to allows for translators to easily select highly-visible/high functionality messages as priority translations in their native language. Splitting Mediawiki core subgroups into different categories provides the opportunity to allow for translators to easily select highly-visible/high functionality messages as priority translations in their native language T404633

4 completed tickets

✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404638 Split interwiki messages to a separate file
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404285 Split Language converter messages to a separate file
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396889 Split nontranslatable messages to a separate file
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401206 Split Mediawiki core aggregates

• Respond to language onboarding requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals. Additionally, 1-2 exploratory steps to the process of onboarding a new language, reducing highly manual and repetitive steps and making it more efficient to make configuration changes, see more T404643

5 completed tickets. ( Also Implemented a work in progress patch that has majority of the functionalities required to automate the onboarding process to MediaWiki core completed)

✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395396 Add Dolgan (dlg) to translatewiki.net
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397356 Add Antiguan and Barbudan Creole (aig) to translatewiki.net
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397435 Add Dolgan (dlg) to Names.php
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398790 Add Antigua and Barbuda Creole (aig) to Names.php
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397355 Add Hadhrami (ayh) to translatewiki.net

• Resolve at least 10 internationalisation and localisation requests per quarter through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities requesting technical assistance. T399682

6 tasks completed with 5 volunteers engaged.

✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375979 Namespace aliases for scn.wikipedia
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393746 Fix ULS language data search index for Javanese
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292750 Change language fallback chain for Asturian
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381061 Add Kavalan (ckv) to Wikidata (lexemes + monolingual text)
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384155 Maltese (mt) plural rules are outdated
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378014 Date/Time formats for Serbian language are incorrect
Additionally, engaged at 3 collaboration and engagement spaces; Wikimania, Language community meting and published a newsletter

✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393068 Publish Quarterly "Language & Internationalization Newsletter" for July 2025
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400177 Language Sessions & Conversations at Wikimania 2025
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400186 Language Tools Session at Wikimania 2025 Hackathon
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400184 Language Technical Contributions at Wikimania 2025 Hackathon
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401531 Wikimania 2025: New and Smaller language support conversations
✅https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400662 Organize language community meeting (August 2025)

Published on Mediawiki page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_Onboarding_and_Development/Status_Updates/Q1_2025-26