Language Technical Support/Status Updates/Q4 2023-24

Language Team Technical Support updates for Q4 2023-24 (April 2024- June 2024)

Resolved 10 tickets in total on Localisation and Internationalisation support ; 9 Languages onboarded, 20 tickets on message fixes, 2 tickets on RTL, 2 tickets on Language configuration fixes.
1 Language spoken in Congo was onboarded to translatewiki. We began onboarding additional 8 languages however, they are still in progress.
Responded to 44 incoming requests on Translatewiki support page in collaboration with fellow staff members and volunteers. (Reference April, May, June ). Engaged with language communities ,where they are, whether on Translatewiki Telegram channel or Language community meetings etc.

Language onboarding
- 1 Language onboarded to Translatewiki; People who speak this Languages can now translate MediaWiki user interface messages.
  - ✅ T362741 Add the Luba-Kasai language (lua) to translatewiki

Message fixes (4 tickets resolved)
- ✅T361103 Remove angle brackets from visualeditor-mwlanguagevariantcontextitem-rule-invalid-language-label
- ✅T364205 the message mobile-frontend-notifications-filter appears to be unused
- ✅T360909 Remove operators and functions from abusefilter-edit-builder-* messages
- ✅T360390 Remove "<a href" from a SearchVue message

Keyboard fixes (2 tickets resolved)
- ✅T358972 Add new characters to the Bengali characterset in the WikiEditor toolbar
- ✅T360547 Add typograhic apostrophe to the Chinook keyboard

Configuration fixes (2 tickets resolved)
- ✅T360021 Autonym for ku-arab seems to be wrong
- ✅T290657 Recognize apc language code in MediaWiki
- ✅T365255 configure namespaces for Betawi Wikipedia

✅T363889 Organize language community meeting (May 2024)
✅T356870Publish Quarterly "Language & Internationalization Newsletter" for April 2024
✅T377274 Wikimedia Hackathon 2024; Language Support