Newsletter on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/2024/April

Key highlights

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this microtask. Feel free to reopen it for any pending matters.

As Outreachy Round 26 has concluded, closing this task now. Feel free to reopen for any pending items.

Updates from the project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Content_Translation_language_imbalances. As Outreachy Round 26 is long over, closing this task now.

Updates from the project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Content_Translation_language_imbalances_2. As Outreachy Round 26 is long over, closing this task now.

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Admins_and_patrollers/Reminders_or_edit_notifications_after_block_expiration

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Bots_and_gadgets/Tool_that_reviews_new_uploads_for_potential_copyright_violations

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Editing/Avoid_editing_conflicts

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Wikidata/Clickable_map_for_coordinate_locations

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Wikidata/Adding_statements_on_mobile_devices

The proposal already exists here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Categories/Automatically_suggest_categories_when_creating_a_new_article

Proposal already lives here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Miscellaneous/Wikipedia_logout:_Logout_confirmation

Updates from March 2024 Wishathon were added here on an existing page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon/May_2022/Autosuggest_Linking_Wikidata_Item_after_Creating_an_Article

Updates were added here on an existing page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon/May_2023/Add_ability_to_share_QR_code_for_a_page_in_any_Wikimedia_project

During Wikimedia Wishathon, @Rtnf shared the vision for Wikidata to function similarly to how Every Door supports data entry on mobile phones: https://every-door.app/. They showcased a prototype, a mobile-friendly Wikidata web view using the Wikibase API to search for and navigate related Wikidata items. Demo links are here:

Updates on the progress made during Wishathon (March 2024) by @BamLifa and team:

Updates on the progress made during Wishathon (March 2024) by @Soda and @Gopavasanth :

Updates on the progress made during Wishathon (March 2024):

Updates on the progress made during Wishathon (March 2024):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon/May_2022/Autosuggest_Linking_Wikidata_Item_after_Creating_an_Article

Updates on the progress made during Wishathon (March 2024): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon/May_2022/Autosuggest_Linking_Wikidata_Item_after_Creating_an_Article

During Wikimedia Wishathon, @Rtnf shared the vision for Wikidata to function similarly to how Every Door supports data entry on mobile phones: https://every-door.app/. They showcased a prototype, a mobile-friendly Wikidata web view using the Wikibase API to search for and navigate related Wikidata items. Demo links are here:

@Soda @Gopavasanth Since both of you worked on this tool during the Wishathon, could you please share more updates about the progress on this task and any relevant links? Thank you!

@Gopavasanth Looks like @Samwilson has left you some comments on the patchset. Have you had a chance to review the suggested changes?

@Gopavasanth Hello! Are there any updates on this task since the last Wishathon that you would like to share? Do you require any support from the CommTech team folks to make progress on this task?

Output of the script in the comment above includes languages without Wikipedia and present in Incubator, along with their names and ISO codes. Here is the list:

Python script below uses the list above, consisting of languages without Wikipedia, to check if each one of them is present in the Incubator or not:

Output of the script in the comment above includes languages without Wikipedia, along with their names and ISO codes. Here is the list:

Script below written in Python checks Wikipedia existence for each language listed in the dropdown list in the right section at https://translate.wmcloud.org/ and prints the languages for which Wikipedia doesn't exist:

Outreach plan to gather information from low-resourced languages for OPUS machine translation models is documented here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/OpusMT_Outreach

In December 2023, the Language team initiated discussions on improving the Incubator. Various stakeholders shared their inputs through one-on-one and asynchronous discussions on key guiding questions. Here is a compiled list of potential recommendations: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Incubator_conversations. Final recommendations will be documented soon.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/2024/January
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/02/language-and-internationalization-newsletters-2/

Announced this week: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-community-wishlist/
Event page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024
Mailing lists: https://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg95766.html

Around ~40 participants joined the meeting. Recording added to the wiki page.

In T283525#7108525, @Legoktm wrote:

I will look into the template/footer issue shortly.

@Reedy Would it be possible for you to look into this task and help fix it?

@Nox1134 Are you still working on this task? If not, please consider unassigning yourself so someone else can claim it. Thanks!