Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on November 28th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d 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. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from contributors of the Wikitongues project and Fante
Wikimedia Community.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, 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-nov-2025>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 9th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (October 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the July–September
2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalization…>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? See a curated list of technical contribution tasks here:
T407935 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407935>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Hello all,
We’re happy to announce that the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026> will be taking
place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy!
The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings together the global
technical community to connect, hack, and explore new ideas. Experienced
technical contributors from all around the world come together to improve
the technological infrastructure and software that powers and benefits the
Wikimedia projects. The 2026 event is being organized by the Wikimedia
Foundation in collaboration with local Wikimedia affiliate, Wikimedia
Italia (WMIT) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia>.
During the Hackathon, we will focus on bringing together people who have
already contributed to the many technical aspects of Mediawiki and our
Wikimedia projects, those who know how to find their way around on our
technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects
rather autonomously.
We'll be livestreaming the Hackathon opening ceremony and closing showcase
for those unable to attend in person. Local and global communities are also
welcome to organize pre-hackathon events or related meetups.
Next steps:
-
Scholarship applications are open and will close on November 28, 2025.
If you would like to apply for a scholarship to attend the hackathon, please
apply through Pretix <https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/Hackathon-2026/>
before the deadline:
-
Scholarships provided will adhere to the WMF travel policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Scholarship_travel_policy>
guidelines.
-
Event registration will open in January 2026 and will close mid April
2026, or earlier based on event capacity.
-
Mark your calendars and register early! And don’t miss the scholarship
application deadline!
If you have any questions or would like to reach out to the organizing
team, feel free to email hackathon(a)wikimedia.org or comment on the talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026&a…>.
All participants will adhere to the Code of Conduct
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct> for Wikimedia technical
spaces and the Friendly Space Policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy>.
We hope to see you in May!
--
*Bee Piovesan *(she/her)
Lead Program Manager, Developer Outreach
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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