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.

• 2025-26; This year, our work is intended align with the Foundation Annual plan and the Product & Technology multigeneral pillars. Specifically we will be contributing to the vital knowledge objective. 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. See 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. See 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. See more here