Hello everyone,
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, on Friday, August
28th at 15:00 UTC! If you would like to join, simply sign up on the wiki
page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting for sharing updates on
language-related projects, discussing technical challenges in language
wikis, and collaborating on solutions. In the upcoming meeting, we’ll hear
from Owobusingye <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Owobusingye> about
efforts to develop the Runyankore Wikipedia, a language spoken by over 3
million people in southwestern Uganda whose Wikipedia recently graduated
from the Incubator. We’ll also hear from DaSupremo
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DaSupremo> about the localization of
Wikimedia features for Ghanaian language Wikipedias.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reply
to this message or add agenda items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-aug-2026>.
The 11th edition of the Language & Internationalization Newsletter (July
2026)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is also now available. This newsletter provides updates from the April–June
2026 quarter, including new feature development, improvements across
various language-related projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Feel free to translate this message into your local language and share it
on your village pump or other community channels to help spread the word.
Cheers,
Srishti & Sadik
Srishti Sethi (she / her)
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
MUDCon Fall 2026
(https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…)
will be held from November 11 to 13, 2026, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. You
can now submit your contributions to the program.
Day 1 is dedicated to GLAM topics. We welcome talks about using
MediaWiki in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Share your
collection data, data models, queries, or experiences with migration.
Day 2 will cover MediaWiki in enterprise, government, and public sector
contexts. This includes internal knowledge bases, structured data,
registries, monument lists, archival data, and related topics. We also
invite talks on knowledge management and AI, such as assistants that use
wiki content, knowledge graphs, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Day 3 is a half-day focused on hands-on work, including 90-minute
tutorials and open sessions that we will organize together at the event.
We are also interested in new MediaWiki integrations and extensions,
project ideas, technical experiments, and challenges related to building
and running wikis. If you are unsure, please submit your idea anyway. We
will try to find a suitable place for your contribution.
You can choose from several formats: full talks (25 minutes), short
talks (10 to 15 minutes), or lightning talks (5 minutes). Tutorials and
co-creation sessions will take place on day 3.
To submit, just provide a title, the format, and a short abstract.
Please use the Semantic-MediaWiki website
(https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…)
to publish your proposal by September 15, 2026. We will get back to you
by October 1, and the full program will be announced soon after.
If you are giving your first talk, this is a great conference to start
with. Sharing your own wiki experiences is just as valuable as technical
presentations. Get in touch with us if you are unsure whether your topic
is a good fit.
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Cheers, Karsten Hoffmeyer, on behalf of the organizing committee
--
Karsten / MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and NeoWiki enthusiast
https://professional.wiki // https://www.pro.wiki // https://neowiki.ai
Thanks for the notice! Cc the mediawiki-i18n list. :-)
Federico
Il 13/05/26 08:51, Srishti Sethi via Wikitech-ambassadors ha scritto:
> Hello everyone!
>
> We are excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
> happening soon on May 29th at 15:00 UTC! If you would like to join, simply sign
> up on the wiki page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
> .
>
> This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
> language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
> and collaborate on solutions. In the upcoming meeting, we will hear
> presentations on topics such as building a living dictionary for Dagbani
> and the Starter Kit Dashboard MVP.
>
> Got a topic to share? Whether it is a technical update from your project, a
> challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we
> would love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add
> agenda items to the document here
> <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2026>.
>
> Also, a quick update - Wikimedia Foundation renewed its Associate
> membership with the Unicode Consortium earlier this year for another year.
>
> As part of this membership, a coordination group has been set up to help
> bridge community needs with the Consortium. If you have come across any
> language or script related issues in your work on Wikimedia projects that
> could benefit from Unicode’s involvement, it would be great to hear about
> them. You can learn more about ongoing topic explorations here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_membership_with_Unicode_Consortium#Unico…>.
> Feel free to share thoughts on this talk page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:WMF_membership_with_Unicode_Consortium> or
> reach out directly.
>
> Also, feel free to translate this message into your local language and
> share it on your village pump or other community channels to help spread
> the word.
>
> We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
> Meeting. See you there!
>
> Cheers,
> Srishti
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Srishti Sethi (she / her)
>
> Senior Developer Advocate
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
>
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It's now possible to add new translations ("submissions") for CLDR 49 if
you have an account.
For those who asked an account, I'll get back to you soon, but feel free
to ask again.
More information as usual at
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR
For those at the hackathon, I am not there but I *believe* you can find
someone who can help with CLDR by yelling "i18n" or asking the usual
suspects. Let me know if not.
Best,
Federico
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Oggetto: CLDR SurveyTool message from admin
Data: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:31:46 +0000 (UTC)
This message is being sent to you on behalf of admin" <admin@> (Survey
Tool) - user #1 SurveyTool Message ---
The CLDR Survey Tool is now open for Submission for version 49. Please
read http://cldr.unicode.org/translation before submitting data.
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Survey Tool: https://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps
Hello,
if you can translate to any of the following languages:
ar as be cs cy de es ka km kn ko ky mn ne nn qu ro si sr to ur uz yo yue
zh zu
you can help by joining the current CLDR localisation round (see below
for some statistics). If you added translations in the past, simply
logging in will add them to this round as well. If you do not have an
account, see:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR
Best,
Federico
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Oggetto: CLDR Survey Tool announcement: 2 weeks until vetting starts
Data: Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:07 +0000 (UTC)
Mittente: CLDR SurveyTool
This message is being sent to you on behalf of Annemarie Apple (Google)"
(Google) - user #2303 From: Annemarie Apple (Google)
To: Everyone
Organization(s): All
Locale(s): ar as az be cs cy de es ka km kn ko kok ky mn ne nn qu ro si
sr to ur uz yo yue zh zu
Reminder, we currently only have 2 weeks remaining of submission before
starting vetting. It looks like your locale has more than 150 items in
either missing or provisional.
Please prioritize missing and provisional items since you will not be
able to add new data items once we start the vetting period on June
11th. Thank you!
Current overall progress in case it is helpful:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1515Ntysw61Rhy1ybv-NdUr81wXXQuzLElsC…
Do not reply to this message, instead please go to the Survey Tool.
https://st.unicode.org
Hello,
As the title suggested, I would like to volunteer myself to become a member
of the language support team for my native language “Tausug” [tsg].
My user ID is Zetareyy.
Thank you,
Your regards,
Zetareyy