Language Onboarding and Development/Annual Planning

Here we capture planned key areas for Language Onboarding and Development for every fiscal year. The plan is intended to align with the Foundation's Annual plan, Product & Technology objectives, input from the community members and foundation staff members. The plan helps us to focus on certain initiatives every fiscal year and measure its impact through the year.

2026-27: This year our work focuses on implementing Language Lifecycle dashboards tailored to support specific stages of the Lifecycle of a Language. The dashboards will surface the most relevant priorities and signals that help communities strengthen their projects at the right time depending on the stage of a language edition either incubating, new, small or medium. We will focus on the New to Small Wikipedia stages (through continuing to work on the Wikipedia Starter kit ) and Small to Medium Wikipedia stages. More here
2025-26; This year, our work is intended align with the Foundation Annual plan and the Product & Technology multigeneral pillars. Specifically, our intial focus will entail contributing to the vital knowledge objective. We will then begin experimenting Lifecycle Dashboard for the New → Small Wikipedia stage that will focus on helping new wikis communities establishling the essential foundations of a sustainable wiki. We also will continue supporting communities particularly new & smaller ones are supported with internationalization and localisation workflows and features to help them move towards their goals. More here
2024-25; This year, our work is intended align with the Foundation Annual plan and the Product & Technology multigeneral pillars , objectives and Key results and hypothesis. Specifically we will be contributing to knowledge equity goal specifically on closing knowledge gaps. We will continue supporting communities particularly new & smaller ones are supported with internationalization and localisation workflows and features to help them move towards their goals. More here
2023-24; This year, we were part of Language Inclusion cross departmental initiative, which aimed to connecting the dots across disparate language diversity-focused work streams inside the Foundation, increase understanding of Wikimedia’s role in the internet language ecosystem, coordinate across movement stakeholders, and work toward a movement theory of change for language inclusion. A key deliverable was identifying 3 key recommendations for improving the social and technical infrastructure to support existing and new languages. More here