Usually try not to cross-post, but this is as an FYI. If you're a Wikipedia whose home wiki isn't English, please help us translate if you can, and keep an eye out for further announcements about exact deployment dates etc.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:03 PM Subject: Localization and launch of GettingStarted extension outside English Wikipedia To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects < wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org>

Hi all,

This is just an advance notice that we're getting much closer to being able to launch GettingStarted,[1] a tool for suggesting tasks to new editors after they sign up,[2] on non-English Wikipedias.

In the next 24 hours or so, most of our major user-facing changes will be merged and ready to localize. About 10-15 languages are 80% or better on translatewiki already, so many are close. The more the better!

Our current plan is to launch initially on all Wikipedias where localization is complete (or close to it, 90% or better is ideal). That will likely happen soon after our current iteration of work ends on February 5th, though I will keep people posted.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians