Wikimedia Language engineering

WMF Language Engineering Team
The Wikimedia Foundation language engineering team consists of 7 opensource community members, developers and designers and have a combined working knowledge of 25 languages

We work on projects that enable the mediawiki platform to support every language on the planet

What is:
 * Internationalization (i18n)
 * Localisation (L10n)

Read more:
 * Roadmap
 * Strategy
 * Statistics
 * Progress reports
 * Deployments
 * Contact us

Public Discussions
Bi-weekly sprint demos - Webex Alternate Tuesdays (1700 UTC) See our latest development work. Watch previous demos

Monthly i18n office hours - [freenode#mediawiki-office] Alternate Tuesdays (1700 UTC) Live IRC chat with the entire language team. [Read logs]

Monthly i18n bug triage - [freenode#mediawiki-i18n] Alternate Tuesdays (1700 UTC) Live IRC collaborative bug fixing. FUN! [Read logs]

Mailing list - mediawiki-i18n

Our Work
Extension:Translate: The Translate extension is a feature-rich extension that lets users translate software strings and pages in their browser. For both software and page translation, it supports translation memory, statistics by group and language, advanced grammar support for multiple languages and more.

Extension:Narayam: Narayam is a tool that lets users input text in their native language without needing special software to do so. It is used in many Indic-language wikis to enable users to type in their own language from any computer, regardless of whether that computer has proper set-up for their script.

Extension:WebFonts: This extension, like the Narayam extension, makes it easier for users to use MediaWiki without needing special fonts on their computer. It uses the CSS web font technology in an innovative way to provide fonts for scripts that users' computers may not otherwise support.

Latest Sprint demo


Internationalize your code
 * Coding tutorial
 * Translation Resources
 * Technical glossary

Use our language extensions
 * Language extensions
 * Translation extensions
 * Installation guide
 * Language support status

Join your language community
 * Provide translation for interfaces
 * Become a language ambassador
 * Web resources for your language

Report and fix language issues
 * File a bug on bugzilla
 * Fix open bugs by submitting a patch
 * Discuss issues on the mailing list