Develop an understanding of internationalization and localisation principles, tools, and best practices for creating multilingual software like MediaWiki, which can be adapted to various regions and cultures. Gain hands-on experience with open-source contributions, including making changes, submitting patches, and collaborating with other contributors on platforms like Gerrit and GitHub.
The Language Technical track at Wikimania Hackathon will focus on addressing language-specific technical requests across various Wikimedia projects to support new and existing language communities. Some of the requests will involve adding languages from projects (e.g., Translatewiki, MediaWiki core), adding font and keyboard support for languages, Translatewiki, and other miscellaneous language-related configuration changes such as Namespaces, Message fixes and many more.
Tasks will be groomed and curated from various language related boards. We will the share task ideas, onboard volunteers to find code repositories, submit patches, assist them with code reviews, and merging. Join us and make language related technical contributions!
Proposed time for session; August 5th (Preconference), 12:45pm- 2pm (75 minutes)