Hi all!

This is a friendly reminder that the language community meeting is coming up next week. It is scheduled for Friday, August 30th, from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC. There will be three presentations around language related technical topics, time for collaborative problem solving on technical challenges. If you have a topic in mind you would like to present or a technical discussion you want to bring to the meeting, add it to the agenda document and reach out to me. Learn more here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#30_August_2024>

Looking forward to your participation! 

Cheers,

Srishti

Srishti Sethi Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:35 PM Srishti Sethi <ssethi@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some updates regarding the Language & Internationalization newsletter, the upcoming community meeting, and the Language Support track at Wikimania.

Language and Internationalization Newsletter

The fourth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (August 2024) is available at this link: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2024/July>.

This newsletter provides updates from the April–June 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and contribution ideas for getting involved in projects.

To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter>.

Language Community Meeting

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#30_August_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here: <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-aug-2024>.

Language Support Track at Wikimania

Attending the Wikimania Hackathon in person next week? There will be a dedicated Language Support track focusing on addressing small, language-specific technical requests across various Wikimedia projects to support new and existing language communities. Join us to collaborate with interested volunteers on technical tasks, organize technical sessions, and run a support help desk. There will also be a session for remote attendees on using Translatewiki.net for translating Wikimedia interface messages! <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon#Language_Support>

Cheers,
Srishti

Srishti Sethi Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation