Hello all, The Language Community Meeting will begin in less than 17 hours from now! It is scheduled to take place on *Friday, August 30th* at *15:00 UTC*. In the first half of the meeting, we will hear updates on the following projects and activities:
- Mapping language documentation activities, User:SPatnaik (WMF) - Update on the Language Diversity Hub, User:Shahadusadik - A Hackathon experience supporting South African languages, User:Bobbyshabangu In the second half of the meeting, we will brainstorm solutions for technical challenges that language communities face, such as improving the Latin-Cyrillic converter in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. Please join us, and if you have a topic to bring to the meeting, add it to the agenda < 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 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM Srishti Sethi <sse...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:35 PM Srishti Sethi <sse...@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 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> >>
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