Q2 2024-25 October to December

Summary

Resolved 31 tickets in total Localisation and Internationalisation support; 13 Languages onboarded, 16 language configuration fixes, 6 Keyboard support (plus 11 patches on Keyboard support)
13 Languages were onboarded to Wikimedia projects. 10 languages were added to translatewiki, 3 were added to MediaWiki. Added Languages were from different continents; 9 Languages of Africa, 4 Languages of Asia, etc.
Engaged at 3 collaboration and engagement spaces i.e. 1) Wikitech Club 2) Language community meeting 3) Indic Wikimedia Hackathon

Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.

Objective: Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.

Key Result; By the end of Q2, implement and test two recommendations, both social and technical, to support languages onboarding for small language communities, with an evaluation to analyze community feedback.

Five new languages added to Wikipedia as part of the experiment: Southern Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Iban, Obolo, and Tai Nüa. Learn more in this blog post and phabricator task. These five languages represent millions of speakers across the globe.
Tai Nüa – Spoken by 720,000 people across Central Europe and Southeast Asia
Southern Ndebele – Spoken by 1.1 million people in South Africa
Iban – Spoken by 2.45 million people in Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia
Pannonian Rusyn – Spoken by 20,000 people in Serbia and Croatia
Obolo – Spoken by 318,000 people in Nigeria

Quantitative and qualitative analysis conducted with a monitoring dashboard set up to track and measure activity on these wikis, including article count, editor count, page views, edit activity, Visual Editor usage, and Content Translation usage (access to the monitoring dashboard is limited). In addition, in-depth interviews were carried out with representatives from four of the five pilot wikis to document their experiences through the pre-incubator, incubator, and post-incubator phases, identify challenges, and explore how the Wikimedia Foundation and the broader community can better support the development of new language wikis. A report on both the quantitative and qualitative analysis will be released soon.
Several technical improvements have been made with the goal of moving the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core. Stay updated on the developments of this task: T352113.

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.

9 Languages were added to translatewiki.net
✅T375118 Add Northern Ndebele (nd) to translatewiki.net
✅T376826 Add Pattani Malay (mfa) to translatewiki.net
✅T377851 Add Maguindanaon (mdh) to translatewiki.net
✅T377101 Add Medumba (byv) to translatewiki.net
✅T376054 Add Lango (laj) to translatewiki.net (keyboard support added as well)
✅T376060 Add Acholi (ach) to translatewiki.net (keyboard support added as well)
✅T378711 Add Fur (fvr) to translatewiki.net (keyboard support added as well)
✅T377797 Add Mampruli (maw) to translatewiki.net (keyboard support added as well)
✅T375944 Add Mansi (mns) to translatewiki.net (keyboard support added as well)

4 Languages were added to MediaWiki.
✅T375999 Add Luba-Lulua (lua) to Names.php
✅T376248 Add Duala (dua) to Names.php
✅T365365 Add Chakma (ccp) to Names.php
✅T375052 Add Tigre (tig) to Names.php
✅T375360 Add Interslavic (isv-cyrl) to Names.php

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

Configuration fixes (16 tickets)

✅T371883 Split Hakka (hak) translations
✅T378900 Inconsistent capitalization of "App icon" in Wikipedia Android app messages
✅T372000 Table, i18n: improve caption message for assistive tech
✅T377294 Fix line-height for Tai Nuea
✅T371068 Set dtpwiki "Project_talk" and "Talk" for other relevant namespaces
✅T375891 Change the autonym of Central Dusun language
✅T377510 Configure namespace translations for kuswiki
✅T372000 Table, i18n: improve caption message for assistive tech
✅T377294 Fix line-height for Tai Nuea
✅T343113 Possible misspelling on [[MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-mniwiktionary/en]] source message
✅T378865 Fix naming clash for mnc input method
✅T378487 Remove <page-collection> tags with less-than signs from WikimediaCampaignEvents extension messages
✅T378900 Inconsistent capitalization of "App icon" in Wikipedia Android app messages
✅ T343113 Possible misspelling on [[MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-mniwiktionary/en]] source message
✅ T378865 Fix naming clash for mnc input method
✅ T378487 Remove <page-collection> tags with less-than signs from WikimediaCampaignEvents extension messages

Keyboard (1 ticket, 11 patches)

✅T376682 Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods

✅Batak Angkola (akb) keyboard (#744)
✅Batak Pakpak (Dairi) (btd) keyboard (#745)
✅Batak Karo (btx) keyboard (#746)
✅Batak Simalungun (bts) keyboard (#747)
✅Balinese transliteration (#758)
✅Requesting PR for Shan Standard Keyboard Layout (#700)
✅Add Korean Revised Romanization to hangeul IME (#716)
✅Indonesian keyboard (#727)
✅jv-kongres keyboard (#729)
✅Batak Alas Kluet (btz) keyboard (#743)
✅Add North Straits Salish (Saanich) SENĆOŦEN Keyboard (#819)

Additionally, engaged at 4 collaboration and engagement spaces; Language community meeting, published a newsletter, Wikitech club and Indic Wikimedia Hackathon;

✅T373387 Publish Quarterly "Language & Internationalization Newsletter" for October 2024
✅T378540 Organize language community meeting (November 2024)
✅T381064 Organize a "Getting started with Wikimedia language tech volunteering" session for WikiClub Tech India
✅T377123 Request for Language Support at Indic Wikimedia Hackathon BBSR 2024