Language and Product Localization is a team in the Wikimedia Foundation Product and Tech Department. It was formed in 2024 by merging Language-Team and Inuka-Team.
We triage tasks weekly from this board and from the project boards that are in active maintenance or development.
Maintenance levels
This team has lots of responsibilities, and it is not possible to pay full attention to all of them simultaneously. Hence we have documented different levels of attention to set the expectations both to other parties and ourselves. Projects move between different levels of maintenance during their life-time.
Our code review practices are documented in a separate code review statement (to be ratified).
| Level | Bug triaging | Development | Code review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active development | Yes with prioritization | Lead by Product manager with designer | Per statement |
| Active maintenance | Yes with prioritization | Bug fixing and small features | Per statement |
| Passive maintenance | No | Resolve Unbreak Now!s. Some team goals aligned work may happen | Not prioritized or tracked |
| Unsupported | No | No | No |
Maintenance responsibilities
Section last reviewed 2024-06. This section provides more detailed status on maintenance level for projects listed in Maintainers.
Projects that are included in MediaWiki Language extension bundle (MLEB) get released about twice a year.
| Project | Maintenance level | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ContentTranslation | Active development | Hypothesis area |
| MediaWiki-extensions-Translate | Active maintenance | MLEB |
| MinT | Active maintenance | |
| translatewiki.net | Active maintenance | |
| Wikipedia-Preview | Active maintenance | |
| CX-cxserver | Active maintenance | |
| Wikistories | Passive maintenance | |
| TranslationNotifications | Passive maintenance | |
| MediaWiki-extensions-Phonos | Passive maintenance | |
| Language data library | Passive maintenance | Quarterly releases |
| banana-i18n | Passive maintenance | |
| MediaWiki-extensions-TwnMainPage | Passive maintenance | |
| UniversalLanguageSelector | Passive maintenance | MLEB |
| MediaWiki-extensions-CLDR | Passive maintenance | MLEB |
| MediaWiki-extensions-CleanChanges | Passive maintenance | MLEB |
| MassMessage | Passive maintenance | Scoped to multilingual message delivery |
| jquery.i18n | Passive maintenance | |
| jquery.uls | Passive maintenance | |
| jquery.webfonts | Passive maintenance | |
| jquery.ime | Passive maintenance | |
| MediaWiki-extensions-Babel | Unsupported | MLEB |
| ExternalGuidance | Unsupported | |
| MediaWiki-Internationalization | Unsupported | Team is happy to advise, but is not currently working on this area of code |
| MediaWiki-Language-converter | Unsupported | Team does not have enough knowledge on this area of code |
| KaiOS-Wikipedia-app | Unsupported | |
| Wiki-Highlights | Unsupported | Experiment completed |
| Wikipedia Subscriptions | Unsupported | Experiment completed |