Requested at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support/Archive/2026/04#Adding_Southern_Uzbek_to_Translatewiki
Autonym: اۉزبېکچه
- Add to language-data (patch)
- Run src/util/ulsdata2json.php before adding
- Add a script to scriptgroups (if needed)
- Add a script to rtlscrips (if needed)
- Run src/util/ulsdata2json.php after adding
- Add to translatewiki configuration
- Add assistant languages to mw-config/AssistantLanguageSettings.php (if needed)
- Configure as always-export-languages in repoconfig.yaml (if needed; most languages don't need it)
- Deploy configuration to translatewiki
- Add a Messages*.php file with $rtl = true; (if needed)
- Deploy the Messages*.php file with $rtl = true; to translatewiki
- Add an entry to LocalNames/LocalNamesEn.php in the CLDR extension (if needed)
- Add jquery.ime keyboard (if needed)
- Add keyboard documentation
- Update jquery.uls and jquery.ime in the ULS extension(patch)
- Deploy ULS to translatewiki
- Create the translatewiki language portal
- Make sure that the category for the language is not marked as disabled
- Update the translatewiki language portal to indicate that the language is enabled
- Add the requester (and possibly other relevant users) to the translators list on the portal
- Enter the autonym in the Wikimedia Portals project
- Test language search in UniversalLanguageSelector and fix the search index (if needed)
- Enable machine translation and test that it works (if needed)
See documentation on how to add a language to translatewiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Adding_and_removing_languages#translatewiki