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FY 25-26 Quarterly Essential work, Q2 Oct 2025- Dec 2025 - Language Onboarding & Development
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Description

This task aims to track planned work on language onboarding and development for Quarter 2 i.e Oct 2025 - Dec 2025, specifically on essential work.

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 T408036
  • 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. T408031
  • Resolve at least 10 internationalisation and localisation requests per quarter through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities requesting technical assistance T407935

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Event Timeline

✅Resolved 14 tickets in total on Localisation and Internationalisation support ; 5 Languages onboarded, 6 tickets on technical volunteer engagement on namespaces, adding new languages and. numerals. Additionally, engaged at 3 collaboration spaces, Language community meeting , published a newsletter and Wikiconference North America, More details