Language Onboarding and Development/Status Updates/Q4 2023-24
Q4 2023-24 April to June
[edit]- Resolved 10 tickets in total on Localisation and Internationalisation support ; 1 Languages onboarded, 4 tickets on message fixes, 2 tickets on RTL, 2 tickets on Language configuration fixes.
- 1 Language spoken in Congo was onboarded to translatewiki. We began onboarding additional 8 languages however, they are still in progress.
- Responded to 44 incoming requests on Translatewiki support page in collaboration with fellow staff members and volunteers. (Reference April, May, June ). Engaged with language communities ,where they are, whether on Translatewiki Telegram channel or Language community meetings etc.
Communities particularly new & smaller ones are supported with internationalization and localisation workflows and features to help them move towards their goals
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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.
✅ T362741 Add the Luba-Kasai language (lua) to translatewiki
Respond to language support requests through timely interventions and engagements to support Language communities to move towards their goals.
- ✅T358972 Add new characters to the Bengali characterset in the WikiEditor toolbar
- ✅T360547 Add typograhic apostrophe to the Chinook keyboard
- ✅T361103 Remove angle brackets from visualeditor-mwlanguagevariantcontextitem-rule-invalid-language-label
- ✅T364205 the message mobile-frontend-notifications-filter appears to be unused
- ✅T360909 Remove operators and functions from abusefilter-edit-builder-* messages
- ✅T360390 Remove "<a href" from a SearchVue message
- ✅T360021 Autonym for ku-arab seems to be wrong
- ✅T290657 Recognize apc language code in MediaWiki
- ✅T365255 configure namespaces for Betawi Wikipedia
Additionally, engaged at 3 collaboration and engagement spaces; Language community meting and published a newsletter