This task aims to track planned work on language onboarding and development for Quarter 2 i.e Oct 2025 - Dec 2025. This quarter our work will cut across OKR and Essential.

OKR areas of work

• Hypothesis WE2.1.5: If we identify and align community needs, individual interests, and content gaps on smaller wikis, and map them to relevant article expansion tools (e.g., Content/Section Translation), we can create more meaningful onboarding experiences for native speakers that motivate them to engage and help improve vital content in their language wikis.

Essential work areas

• Respond to language onboarding requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals. Additionally, develop a prototype script that automates the process of adding a language to Mediawiki Core including the necessary language config variables
• Investigate 1-2 approaches to eliminate technical debt related to unused language codes, remove a long-standing UX bug that causes redirects to appear twice in the Universal Language Selector, and improve the overall experience for multilingual users.
• Resolve at least 10 internationalisation and localisation requests per quarter through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities requesting technical assistance T407935

Exploration

• Brainstorm with relevant stakeholders and explore mock ups highlighting ways in which new and small language communities are supported to know what they need to get started & make progress in their wikis