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Language Onboarding and Development/Status Updates/Q4 2025-26

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Q4 2025-26 April to June

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  • Starter Kit MVP was completed: T420073. The MVP Dashboard covers a set of six essential tasks (T422214), an Activity & Growth component (T423407), and a Community & Collaboration component (T423409).
  • Evaluated approach to surface content contribution opportunities via Wikipedia Mainpage on Nepali Wikipedia. Two homepage-featured articles showed strong expansion: अरस्तु: 2,624 B → 33,249 B (~12.7× growth) & कश्यप सागर: 2,311 B → 14,943 B (~6.5× growth)
  • Resolved 3 tickets in total on i18n & L10n Support) ; 1 Languages onboarded, 2 tickets on technical volunteer engagement

Starter Kit MVP Development & Testing with Wikipedia Administrators

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By the end of Q4, design , develop and test concept of a Wikipedia Starter kit, a language lifecycle sensitive approach for new Wikipedias that will provide essential tasks, tools and resources for making progress towards becoming a small Wikipedia, with an evaluation from Wikipedia administrators testing and providing feedback

Key Accomplishments

  • Starter Kit MVP was completed: T420073. The MVP Dashboard covers a set of six essential tasks (T422214), an Activity & Growth component (T423407), and a Community & Collaboration component (T423409).
  • Starter Kit Dashboard MVP was presented at the May 29th Language Community Meeting by User:NGkountas (WMF), & User:ToluAyod. User:Kambai Akau shared their experience using the Starter Kit to customize the Main Page for the Jju and Tyap language communities.
    Starter Kit Dashboard Presentation at Language Community Meeting May 2026
  • Testing is underway to gather feedback on the Starter Kit Dashboard MVP from selected 20+ Wikipedia administrators and communities. Their input will help identify which parts of the Starter Kit are most useful, how well the current guided tasks work, and what additional support would be valuable for wiki onboarding and development (T428121).
  • Starter Kit Main Page customization feature was tested with three communities: Tyap, Jju, Fula. Feedback from the communities was largely positive, particularly around the ease of setup and the reduced time required to configure a homepage. Contributors noted that tasks which previously took days or weeks could now be completed in about an hour using the Starter Kit. Communities especially appreciated that much of the HTML and CSS was already in place, making it easier for contributors without strong technical backgrounds to configure their Main Pages. Suggested improvements have been summarized at T420075.

Accomplished tasks (30 tickets)

Dashboard and progress tracking (5 tickets)

Essential tasks for new communities (8 tickets)

Bug fixes and UX improvements ( 7 tickets)

Enhancements (2 tickets)

Community outreach and feedback (2 tickets)

Localization and deployment (3 tickets)

Measurements (2 tickets)

Surface contribution opportunities to native speakers via Wikipedia Mainpage (Evaluation)

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These results are from the Nepali Wikipedia Vital Knowledge Drive campaign. For the Tongan community, there were no registrations during this campaign, so analysis is not applicable https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405298

Campaign Metrics

Category Metric Baseline (3 weeks before campaign) Campaign Change
Awareness Onboarding page views 88 1291 14.7×
Awareness Main page (homepage) views 16900 20126 +19.1%
Awareness Pageviews on 5 homepage-featured pages 147 576 3.9×
Awareness Pageviews on full 241-title promoted list 6340 7304 +15.2%
Editing Edits to promoted articles by existing editors (2 of 5 active; 4 of 241 pages touched) 0 16 new
Editing Edits to promoted articles by new users (12 newcomers; 0 edited promoted content) 0 0 -
Editing Edits via Section/Content Translation tool (SX), by registrants 0 0 -

Summary

1. Visibility & traffic impact

  • Onboarding page views increased by 14.7×
  • The 5 homepage-featured pages saw nearly 4× more traffic
  • Main page views increased by ~19%
  • Page views on promoted articles increased by ~15.2%

2. Participation & editing behavior

  • Out of 17 registrants, only 2 experienced editors edited promoted articles
  • These edits covered 4 of 241 promoted pages
  • Among 12 newcomers, none edited promoted content; all 28 edits were on non-promoted pages
  • No edits were made using Section Translation or Content Translation tools

3. Content growth

  • +42,729 bytes added across 16 edits to 4 articles
  • Two homepage-featured articles showed strong expansion:

4. Overall takeaway

  • The campaign improved visibility, with a ~15.2% increase in views on promoted articles
  • However, edits reached only ~1.6% of promoted articles, indicating limited conversion from awareness to contribution

Language Onboarding (i18n & L10n Support)

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Resolve at least internationalisation and localisation requests per quarter through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities

This area includes technical efforts to enable newly introduced or  smaller languages  to be usable . This has entailed resolving internationalization, and localization needs of these language communities including onboarding new languages,  UI localisation, Plural support, Keyboard support, Fall back among other areas categorised into various focus areas depending on prioritization per quarter.

1 completed ticket

Resolve internationalisation and localisation requests per quarter through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities requesting technical assistance

2 completed tickets

Additionally, engaged at Language community meting and through published a newsletter

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