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/>
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on February 27th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…>
.
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 our upcoming meeting, we’ll hear about a
new Wikidata Visibility Initiative and updates on the CapX Translat-a-thon.
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-feb-2026>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 10th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (February 2026)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is now available. This newsletter provides updates from the
October–December 2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in
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
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedia Community,
We are happy to share a new tool, TranslateTagger
<https://translatetagger.toolforge.org/>, created to make preparing
wikitext for translation easier and faster across Wikimedia projects.
What is TranslateTagger?
TranslateTagger is a web-based tool that automatically converts regular
wikitext into a translatable format by adding <translate> tags where
needed. This removes the need to manually tag content, helping contributors
save time and avoid common mistakes.
Why use it?
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Automatically converts wikitext into a translatable format
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Handles links, templates, tables, code blocks, and other complex markup
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Preserves the original structure of the page
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Simple and easy-to-use interface
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One-click copy for quick reuse
How it works
1.
Paste your wikitext into the tool
2.
Click “Convert to Translatable Wikitext”
3.
Copy the output
4.
Use it directly in your translation workflow
Get started
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*Live tool:* https://translatetagger.toolforge.org/
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*Source code:*
https://github.com/indictechcom/translatable-wikitext-converter
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*Documentation:* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TranslateTagger
Contributing and feedback
We would love to hear your feedback. Bug reports, feature requests, and
code contributions are very welcome. Please use Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=tool-tra…>,
or feel free to reply to me in this same email thread.
We hope TranslateTagger helps make translation work simpler, improves
accessibility of Wikimedia content in many languages, and supports
communities in preparing Hackathon and Wikimania pages for translation more
easily.
Best regards,
Gopa Vasanth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gopavasanth>
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”