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Language and Product Localization Technical Support Work stream; working closely with language communities where timely interventions and engagements to resolve technical requests that are relevant to keep them moving to achieve their goals. More about this work

  1. Technical Support for existing and New Languages structured approach to respond to internationalisation and localisation issues, support technical follow through, and accountability of deliverables and visible impact. Requests are usually lightweight and rarely require implementing a new feature.

a) Adding new languages to the configuration

b) Helping resolve core language-related engineering issues concerning internationalization, localization, translation, MediaWiki namespace including;

  • Various minor fixes in source English-language messages in core MediaWiki, extensions, and mobile apps in their respective Gerrit and GitHub repos. Fixes, such as: documentation, spelling, style, consistency with other messages, grammar, clarity, correct usage of GENDER and PLURAL, etc.
  • translatewiki configuration : adding or removing optional and ignored messages, maintaining the list of the most used MediaWiki messages, removing discontinued MediaWiki extensions, organizing groups of MediaWiki extensions (main, advanced, media, fundraising, technical, legacy, etc.), etc.
  • RTL (right to left) languages fixes.
  • New input methods for languages that don't have good keyboard support in desktop operating systems, or fixes in existing methods.
  • Other languages configuration: namespace name translation, date formats, special page alias translation, etc.
  1. Volunteer Engagement for Technical support additional tasks for this board include those related to technical engagement for language communities where we are constantly exploring meaningful collaboration and engagement opportunities for language communities for example Language Community meetings, exploring new ways to engage volunteer developers in contributing to technical requests etc.

Task prioritization: On this workboard, tasks are:

Recent Activity

Today

vishalmaurya850 added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

I think you don't get the problem statement properly. It's a different you are telling about and the issue is different. First read the description properly.

Sat, Dec 28, 9:40 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
SD0001 added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

Agreed with Quiddity above that it seems unnecessary to add and maintain 4 different messages for different browsers, especially since enwiki's localisation ("Hold down the Shift key and click the ''Reload'' toolbar button.") appears to work across all major browsers.

Sat, Dec 28, 9:36 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
gerritbot added a project to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers): Patch-For-Review.
Sat, Dec 28, 6:07 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
gerritbot added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

Change #1107032 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anirudh_K; author: Anirudh_K):

[mediawiki/core@master] Implement browser-specific cache-clearing instructions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1107032

Sat, Dec 28, 6:07 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n

Yesterday

Maintenance_bot removed a project from T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers): Patch-For-Review.
Fri, Dec 27, 2:30 PM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
Anirudh_KK added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

Hi, I am Anirudh. Actually, I am very new to this but want to do more contributions, and I have tried to contribute to this mediawiki/core. Sorry for abandoning 3 times. Please guide me and check this patch.

Fri, Dec 27, 2:21 PM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
gerritbot added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

Change #1106931 abandoned by Anirudh_K:

[mediawiki/core@master] Implement browser-specific cache-clearing instructions Bug ID--T195229

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1106931

Fri, Dec 27, 2:17 PM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
gerritbot added a project to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers): Patch-For-Review.
Fri, Dec 27, 11:35 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
gerritbot added a comment to T195229: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers).

Change #1106931 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anirudh_K; author: Anirudh_K):

[mediawiki/core@master] Implement browser-specific cache-clearing instructions Bug ID--T195229

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1106931

Fri, Dec 27, 11:35 AM · Patch-For-Review, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-General, I18n
HitomiAkane added a comment to T382781: Change Levantine Arabic's interface to Western Arabic numerals.

We moved the discussion to the local village pump

Fri, Dec 27, 12:03 AM · LPL Technical Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests
FunLater added a comment to T382781: Change Levantine Arabic's interface to Western Arabic numerals.

Here's the on-wiki discussion: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/apc/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B9/%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9#%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%85_(%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85)

Fri, Dec 27, 12:02 AM · LPL Technical Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Thu, Dec 26

FunLater added a comment to T382781: Change Levantine Arabic's interface to Western Arabic numerals.

Levantine Arabic's Wikipedia doesn't have a big community. But the two most-active editors have requested the change.

Thu, Dec 26, 11:53 PM · LPL Technical Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Nemoralis added a comment to T382781: Change Levantine Arabic's interface to Western Arabic numerals.

Oh wait, Levantine Arabic Wikipedia (apc) is still in the Incubator. I am not sure if this possible

Thu, Dec 26, 11:19 PM · LPL Technical Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Nemoralis added projects to T382781: Change Levantine Arabic's interface to Western Arabic numerals: Wikimedia-Site-requests, LPL Technical Support.

Can you provide a link to community consensus?

Thu, Dec 26, 11:08 PM · LPL Technical Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Ravitej_Neeli added a comment to T294727: Bengali digits are shown on Meetei Wikipedia and translatewiki.net.

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Thu, Dec 26, 5:37 AM · LPL Technical Support, affects-translatewiki.net, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization

Mon, Dec 23

Bennylin added a comment to T382087: Add Indonesian language fallback aliases for Namespaces in Madurese.

The community has voted and agreed. https://mad.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A8%E1%B8%8Dia:B%C3%A2rung_Kopi&oldid=36771#Menambahkan_nama_ruang_nama_dalam_bahasa_Indonesia

Mon, Dec 23, 3:07 PM · LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-Internationalization

Fri, Dec 20

srishakatux added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

@Destiny Thanks for the PR! I have reviewed and left a minor comment. @Amarjitsinghbca I couldn't find your PR, thanks for the documentation related to str-sencoten keyboard. I have pinged the keyboard developer for further review.

Fri, Dec 20, 7:44 AM · good first task, LPL Technical Support

Thu, Dec 19

Amarjitsinghbca added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

Thank you for reaching out. I have not raised a PR for this task yet, as I am still investigating the issue and gathering details. If you already have a PR open for this task, feel free to proceed with it.

Thu, Dec 19, 12:05 PM · good first task, LPL Technical Support
Destiny added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

Sorry @Amarjitsinghbca have you already raised a PR for the task, if you have has it been merged? so I can close my PR as it is yet to be reviewed.

Thu, Dec 19, 10:14 AM · good first task, LPL Technical Support
Amarjitsinghbca added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

Here’s the updated comment including the information about the page you created:

Thu, Dec 19, 5:13 AM · good first task, LPL Technical Support

Wed, Dec 18

MaryMunyoki edited projects for T382087: Add Indonesian language fallback aliases for Namespaces in Madurese, added: LPL Technical Support; removed Language and Product Localization.
Wed, Dec 18, 9:20 AM · LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-Internationalization

Tue, Dec 17

MaryMunyoki updated subscribers of T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).
Tue, Dec 17, 9:44 PM · good first task, LPL Technical Support
Aklapper closed T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users as Declined.

Declining for now to reflect the community discussion

Tue, Dec 17, 6:18 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Dusan_Krehel added a comment to T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users.

skwiki was informed,[1] the people on skwiki do want none change.

Tue, Dec 17, 4:01 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Dusan_Krehel renamed T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users from [Slovak wikipedias] Rename namespaces for users to [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users.
Tue, Dec 17, 3:59 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mon, Dec 16

KasciJ added a comment to T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users.

@Amire80 @Aklapper I do not think there is any consensus. There wasn't even a discussion (I am aware of) about it.

Mon, Dec 16, 5:49 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Dusan_Krehel renamed T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users from [sk.wiktionary.org] Rename namespaces to [Slovak wikipedias] Rename namespaces for users.
Mon, Dec 16, 5:36 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Destiny added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

Hi @srishakatux take a look at this Pull Request

Mon, Dec 16, 4:01 PM · good first task, LPL Technical Support
Aklapper added a comment to T376494: [Slovak Wikipedias without skwiki] Rename namespaces for users.

@Dusan_Krehel: Could you please answer the last comment? Thanks in advance!

Mon, Dec 16, 1:17 PM · LPL Technical Support, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Destiny added a comment to T381067: Add Missing Documentation for Keyboard Input Methods (2).

Hi, I will like to take this on

Mon, Dec 16, 10:45 AM · good first task, LPL Technical Support

Sun, Dec 15

Lalitmax claimed T159643: [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender.
Sun, Dec 15, 1:17 PM · Plural-Support, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, I18n

Sat, Dec 14

Aklapper renamed T159643: [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender from [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit/da]] i18n issue: Translation of "the last" depends on plural/singular and gender to [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender.
Sat, Dec 14, 4:30 PM · Plural-Support, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, I18n
Aklapper added a comment to T159643: [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender.

@Lalitmax: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers#Communication_tips - thanks!

Sat, Dec 14, 4:28 PM · Plural-Support, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, I18n
Agamyasamuel added a comment to T159643: [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender.

@Lalitmax if you feel you can complete the task, you can assign the task to yourself.

Sat, Dec 14, 12:49 PM · Plural-Support, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, I18n
Lalitmax added a comment to T159643: [[MediaWiki:Acct creation throttle hit]]: Translation of "in the last $2" depends on plural/singular and gender.

Hi, I’m interested in working on this task. I have experience with i18n and MediaWiki translations. Please let me know if I can take this on.

Sat, Dec 14, 12:35 PM · Plural-Support, LPL Technical Support, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, I18n

Thu, Dec 12

Ladsgroup added a comment to T352113: Move the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core.

And these two:

api_feature_usage ['idwikivoyage', 'tigwiki']
bounce_records ['idwikivoyage', 'tigwiki']
Thu, Dec 12, 10:23 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), LPL Technical Support, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance
Ladsgroup added a comment to T352113: Move the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core.

Probably charts is misconfigured, worth noting that the tables are being created on new wikis:

globaljsonlinks ['idwikivoyage', 'tigwiki', 'testcommonswiki']
globaljsonlinks_target ['idwikivoyage', 'tigwiki', 'testcommonswiki']
globaljsonlinks_wiki ['idwikivoyage', 'tigwiki', 'testcommonswiki']
Thu, Dec 12, 10:21 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), LPL Technical Support, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance
psubhashish1 added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

Ok, we can have just the following for the time being:

Thu, Dec 12, 4:33 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
jhsoby added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

Can we have hyphenated pseudonyms for names?

Thu, Dec 12, 12:06 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes

Wed, Dec 11

psubhashish1 added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

@mrephabricator, Gujari is actually written in multiple scripts. Most Gujari speakers in India are in states where Hindi is a dominant and official language, and in Nepal where Nepali (written in Devanagari) is the national language. Gujari is predominately an oral language and is not taught widely in schools or is used in media or publications. So, those residing in India and Nepal learn Devanagari due to school education and use it for Gujari when they need to. Van Gujjari, a variant of Gujjari, uses Devanagari for this reason even though all Van Gujjars are Muslims who would have preferred Perso-Arabic over Devanagari. Over 174 books are translated and several books are published in Van Gujjari and these are in Devanagari. Gujjars living in Pakistan and Afghanistan would use Perso-Arabic.

Wed, Dec 11, 6:51 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
mrephabricator added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

Note that Gujari is most often written in the Arabic script (گوجری).

Wed, Dec 11, 4:29 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
psubhashish1 added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

Thanks for the clear guidance, @jhsoby.

Wed, Dec 11, 1:15 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
jhsoby renamed T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names from Add languages with ISO codes to Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.
Wed, Dec 11, 10:12 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
jhsoby edited projects for T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names, added: Wikimedia-Site-requests; removed TimedMediaHandler-TimedText.
Wed, Dec 11, 10:08 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
jhsoby added a comment to T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names.

I made a couple of tests just now:

Wed, Dec 11, 10:01 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
jhsoby reopened T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names as "Open".

This is not a request for a new language for translation though. @psubhashish1 wants to add (and presumably show) subtitles in these languages which aren't supported. He shouldn't be required to translate (or find someone to translate) the MediaWiki interface in order to do that.

Wed, Dec 11, 9:50 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes
Anoop closed T381934: Add bfw, gju, hoc and kgg to language names as Invalid.

please add new language code request through https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support as per https://translatewiki.net/wiki/FAQ#How_to_add_a_new_language

Wed, Dec 11, 8:22 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, I18n, MediaWiki-Internationalization, LPL Technical Support, Language codes

Tue, Dec 10

MaryMunyoki moved T381903: Proposed research topic; Supporting Growth of Small Language Wikipedias from Backlog to Following on the LPL Technical Support board.
Tue, Dec 10, 5:49 PM · LPL Technical Support, Research
MaryMunyoki added a project to T381903: Proposed research topic; Supporting Growth of Small Language Wikipedias : LPL Technical Support.
Tue, Dec 10, 5:48 PM · LPL Technical Support, Research

Sat, Dec 7

Pppery removed a project from T377681: Broken diacritics rendering in page title on tly.wikipedia.org on Microsoft Windows: MediaWiki-General.
Sat, Dec 7, 10:30 PM · Browser-Support-Google-Chrome, LPL Technical Support, I18n