Language Onboarding and Development/Status Updates/Q2 2023-24

Q2 2023-24 October to December

Summary

Resolved 4 tickets in total on Localisation and Internationalisation support ; 4 Languages onboarded to Wikimedia projects. 1 language from Africa, 1 from Asia, 1 from Europe and 1 from North America.
Engaged with wikimedia language communities at 2 community events; Wikiwomencamp 2023 and Wikindaba 2023

Communities particularly new & smaller ones are supported with internationalization and localisation workflows and features to help them move towards their goals.

Key Result; Respond to internationalisation and localisation requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals.

This area includes technical efforts to enable newly introduced or smaller languages to be accessible, usable and sustainable on Wikimedia environments. 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.

Respond to language onboarding requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals.

Language onboarding (4 tickets)

✅ T351992 Add Efik (efi) to Names.php
✅ T352954 Add Rutul to Names.php
✅ T353058Add Arbëresh (aae) to Names.php
✅ T353307 Add Guadeloupean Creole (gcf) to Names.php

Additionally, engaged at 3 collaboration and engagement spaces; Language community meting and published a newsletter

✅T347923Organize the first language community meeting (November 2023)
✅T347529 Publish Quarterly "Language & Internationalization Newsletter" for October 2023
✅T379458 Wikindaba 2023; Language Onboarding & Incubator Meetup
✅T379461Wikiwomencamp 2023; Organizing Translation workshops