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/Community_meetings .

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#Unicode-related_topics_under_exploration. 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

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Srishti Sethi (she / her)

Senior Developer Advocate

Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/