The Wikimedia Language team has been assembling monthly reports about language support activities for one year. You can read the latest report at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Reports/2016-M...

Highlights for May include: Special:Translate got an edit summary field and modernization of web font formats: woff2 is in, eot is out.

Due to the nature of our work, the Language team [1] (Amir, Kartik, Pau, Runa, Santhosh, and myself) alone cannot adequately support all the languages of the Wikimedia movement. That is why the report includes work by volunteers. We have bolded the names who we believe are contributing as volunteers.

This report focuses on technical activities. You wont find future plans or high level roadmap items on it. There is currently a major omission: the i18n work of MediaWiki core itself. That is lacking because it is more difficult to filter those activities and also because we have not had much time for MediaWiki core i18n work.

To acknowledge the work of volunteers and to support them better, the Language team released a statement of intent for code review [2] about six months ago. To summarize: we attempt to review patches not by us within a week, and patches stalled due to no updates after review for three months will be abandoned -- unless we feel they are worth fixing ourselves.

When we released the statement, we also agreed to reduce the existing backlog of open patches. The results so far are positive, even though it is easy to find examples where we have not been able to follow our intent. Translate extension had 35 open patches when we started in February -- at end of May it had only 12 open patches [3]. Universal Language Selector had gone from 10 to 6, and fewer of them unreviewed. Content Translation had gone from 15 to zero. Our jquery repositories in GitHub have not fared as well, but we hope to achieve similar results there in the future.

We excluded many repositories from the statement of intent in the fear that we would add too much of a burden to ourselves. To our delight, except MediaWiki core i18n, all those repositories have had swift reviews and I count only two open patches in them.

- Niklas (on behalf of the Language team)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Code_review_st... [3] The numbers change constantly. As of 2016-06-17 Translate has 23 open patches, but only 10 of them not from our team. Universal Language Selector has 13 patches, 5 of them not from our team. Content Translation currently has 6, one of them not from our team.