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This is a tag for tasks that set major long-term goals for developing how Wikimedia projects function in various languages, or for tasks that are important blockers on the way to achieving these major goals. It exists to organize the language strategist's work better, and to provide transparency for people who are interested in this work. As of late 2018, it is primarily curated by @Amire80.

Unlike I18n, which is a tag for all kinds of internationalization tasks, of which there are more than a 1000, this tag is planned for relatively limited use—probably several dozens of tasks.

The initial list of members was copied from Language-Team. If you are not interested in this tag, feel free to remove yourself, and if you are interested, please add yourself.

Recent Activity

Aug 28 2025

deryckchan added a comment to T172035: Blockers for Wikimedia wiki domain renaming.

I second @cscott 's comment. Wikipedia is now 20+ years old and a few ISO
639 codes have split, merged, or renamed over the years. Wikimedia's
inability to rename a Wikipedia language edition will only become a bigger
problem as time drags on. Fixing this 20 year old limitation will be the
right thing to do.

Aug 28 2025, 1:51 AM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.21; 2023-01-30), Patch-For-Review, Language-strategy, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Aug 12 2025

SDeckelmann-WMF added a comment to T172035: Blockers for Wikimedia wiki domain renaming.

Can someone loop me in on this conversation about the 26-27 annual plan? Thanks.

Aug 12 2025, 3:27 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.21; 2023-01-30), Patch-For-Review, Language-strategy, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Aug 9 2025

cscott added a comment to T172035: Blockers for Wikimedia wiki domain renaming.

I hear that multilingual support is going to be on the WMF Annual plan for 26-27, and if that happens I would like to strongly nominate this 20-year old bug as a high priority, if we're serious about improving language support.

Aug 9 2025, 1:17 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.21; 2023-01-30), Patch-For-Review, Language-strategy, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Jul 16 2025

Amire80 claimed T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages.
Jul 16 2025, 7:18 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
MaryMunyoki removed a project from T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages: LPL Onboarding and Development.
Jul 16 2025, 7:10 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
MaryMunyoki updated subscribers of T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier.
Jul 16 2025, 6:59 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic
MaryMunyoki raised the priority of T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier from Medium to Needs Triage.
Jul 16 2025, 6:49 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Jul 10 2025

Amire80 updated the task description for T238411: Structured localization framework for templates.
Jul 10 2025, 7:01 PM · Technical-Debt, VisualEditor, TemplateData, MediaWiki-Parser-Templates, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown
Nikerabbit closed T96147: [Epic] ContentTranslation - Lists of articles to translate as Declined.

Closing in favor of page collections feature.

Jul 10 2025, 11:35 AM · ContentTranslation, Language-strategy, Epic, Design, Tracking-Neverending
Nikerabbit edited projects for T96147: [Epic] ContentTranslation - Lists of articles to translate, added: ContentTranslation; removed CX-TranslationList, Language-Engineering October-December 2016, OKR-Work.
Jul 10 2025, 11:34 AM · ContentTranslation, Language-strategy, Epic, Design, Tracking-Neverending

Jul 2 2025

MaryMunyoki triaged T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier as Medium priority.
Jul 2 2025, 5:21 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Jun 29 2025

Tacsipacsi added a comment to T238411: Structured localization framework for templates.

See description:

Jun 29 2025, 7:44 PM · Technical-Debt, VisualEditor, TemplateData, MediaWiki-Parser-Templates, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown
Jarekt added a comment to T238411: Structured localization framework for templates.

On Commons we actually have about 10 competing frameworks for template localization and translation. They are documented at c:Commons:Template i18n and they use translations stored on

Jun 29 2025, 3:32 PM · Technical-Debt, VisualEditor, TemplateData, MediaWiki-Parser-Templates, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Jun 12 2025

tstarling closed T352113: Move the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core, a subtask of T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier, as Resolved.
Jun 12 2025, 3:47 AM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Jun 5 2025

Nikerabbit closed T127016: CXTL-MS2: Share a Content Translation task list, a subtask of T96147: [Epic] ContentTranslation - Lists of articles to translate, as Declined.
Jun 5 2025, 10:56 AM · ContentTranslation, Language-strategy, Epic, Design, Tracking-Neverending

Jun 2 2025

Nikerabbit closed T114744: CXTL-MS1: Create a new translation list, a subtask of T96147: [Epic] ContentTranslation - Lists of articles to translate, as Resolved.
Jun 2 2025, 2:01 PM · ContentTranslation, Language-strategy, Epic, Design, Tracking-Neverending

May 30 2025

Bugreporter merged T395642: Central repository for modules, templates, CSS. into T121470: Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets.
May 30 2025, 3:25 AM · Crosswiki, Language-strategy, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Community-Tech (2015-2017), Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Apr 8 2025

Pppery closed T289577: <Product Discovery> Templates, a subtask of T121470: Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets, as Invalid.
Apr 8 2025, 1:14 AM · Crosswiki, Language-strategy, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Community-Tech (2015-2017), Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Apr 3 2025

srishakatux closed T362368: Gather, implement and test recommendations for improving language incubation, a subtask of T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier, as Resolved.
Apr 3 2025, 6:59 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Apr 1 2025

MaryMunyoki moved T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages from Done (Q4 2024-25) to Backlog on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Apr 1 2025, 7:48 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
MaryMunyoki moved T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier from Quarter Backlog to Backlog on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Apr 1 2025, 7:39 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Mar 27 2025

Nikerabbit closed T369049: Deploy message bundle lua integration MVP to translatewiki.net and gather feedback, a subtask of T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules, as Resolved.
Mar 27 2025, 6:25 AM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Mar 11 2025

MaryMunyoki moved T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier from Done to Quarter Backlog on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Mar 11 2025, 4:18 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Feb 25 2025

MaryMunyoki changed the status of T352113: Move the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core, a subtask of T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier, from Open to In Progress.
Feb 25 2025, 2:40 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Feb 10 2025

Winston_Sung updated the task description for T329424: Completely distinguish various concepts including "global site ID", "global site key", "site DB name", "site domain"; "site group", "site DB name suffix".
Feb 10 2025, 10:18 AM · Analytics-Canonical-Data, Wikidata, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Client, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Repo, MediaWiki-Configuration, SiteMatrix, MediaWiki-Site-system

Nov 25 2024

MaryMunyoki placed T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages up for grabs.
Nov 25 2024, 10:33 AM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy

Nov 14 2024

abi_ closed T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle, a subtask of T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules, as Resolved.
Nov 14 2024, 7:58 AM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Nov 11 2024

Nikerabbit changed the status of T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle, a subtask of T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules, from Open to In Progress.
Nov 11 2024, 9:32 AM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Nov 6 2024

abi_ added a subtask for T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules: T369894: Improve parser cache expiry mechanism for message bundle dependents.
Nov 6 2024, 3:14 PM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Oct 16 2024

Nikerabbit archived Language-strategy.
Oct 16 2024, 7:36 AM

Sep 17 2024

Awesome_Aasim added a comment to T121470: Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets.

I wonder if we can actually start somewhere like with Fandom's Dev Wiki. Almost the entire contents of that wiki should be compatible with Wikimedia's content license. If we can build a template and module repository that Wikimedia (and other projects) can use, then we can open the door to global templates. It would allow for templates ported to be deletable unless if they are highly used on a project.

Sep 17 2024, 5:58 PM · Crosswiki, Language-strategy, Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), Community-Tech (2015-2017), Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Phlogiston-Category, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015

Sep 6 2024

srishakatux added a subtask for T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier: T352113: Move the addWiki.php maintenance script from WikimediaMaintenance into MediaWiki core.
Sep 6 2024, 12:08 AM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Jul 24 2024

Bugreporter merged T370844: When a Wikipedia article does not exist in a language, still be able to see other versions that exist into T212211: Associate red links on Wikibase client wikis with items in the Wikibase repo.
Jul 24 2024, 9:30 AM · Abstract Wikipedia team, ArticlePlaceholder, MediaWiki-General, Language-strategy, Wikidata

Jul 17 2024

ldelench_wmf added a project to T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier: OKR-Work.
Jul 17 2024, 8:49 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic
srishakatux removed a member for Language-strategy: srishakatux.
Jul 17 2024, 5:09 AM

Jul 10 2024

srishakatux added a subtask for T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier: T362368: Gather, implement and test recommendations for improving language incubation.
Jul 10 2024, 4:55 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Jul 5 2024

KCVelaga_WMF moved T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages from Tracking to Essential workstream on the LPL Analytics board.
Jul 5 2024, 12:58 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
KCVelaga_WMF triaged T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages as Low priority.
Jul 5 2024, 9:48 AM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
KCVelaga_WMF moved T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages from Incoming to Tracking on the LPL Analytics board.
Jul 5 2024, 9:48 AM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy
KCVelaga_WMF added a project to T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages: LPL Analytics.
Jul 5 2024, 9:37 AM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy

Jul 3 2024

MaryMunyoki moved T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages from Done to Done (Q4 2024-25) on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Jul 3 2024, 4:28 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy

Jul 2 2024

abi_ added a subtask for T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules: T369049: Deploy message bundle lua integration MVP to translatewiki.net and gather feedback.
Jul 2 2024, 2:40 PM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Jun 27 2024

MaryMunyoki edited projects for T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier, added: LPL Onboarding and Development; removed Language-Technical Support.
Jun 27 2024, 12:47 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic
MaryMunyoki edited projects for T220635: Formulate a way to calculate the index of how many people in each country read Wikimedia projects in the local languages, added: LPL Onboarding and Development; removed Language-Technical Support.
Jun 27 2024, 12:46 PM · LPL Analytics, research-ideas, Language-analytics, Language-strategy

Apr 18 2024

Aklapper removed members for Language-strategy: Jpita, Jsahleen, Petar.petkovic.
Apr 18 2024, 3:57 PM

Apr 5 2024

MaryMunyoki moved T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier from Backlog to Future on the Language-Technical Support board.
Apr 5 2024, 4:46 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic
MaryMunyoki added a project to T165585: Make creating a new Language project easier: Language-Technical Support.
Apr 5 2024, 4:45 PM · OKR-Work, incubator.wikimedia.org, Language-strategy, I18n, Epic

Mar 21 2024

Pginer-WMF merged T360544: Allow translating non-wikitext pages with configuration option into T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules.
Mar 21 2024, 8:38 AM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Mar 12 2024

Nikerabbit added a subtask for T238417: Structured localization framework for Scribunto modules: T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle.
Mar 12 2024, 9:51 AM · Technical-Debt, Scribunto, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, I18n, Language-strategy, Epic, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Mar 6 2024

Michael moved T329424: Completely distinguish various concepts including "global site ID", "global site key", "site DB name", "site domain"; "site group", "site DB name suffix" from Backlog to Tech on the MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Client board.
Mar 6 2024, 9:31 AM · Analytics-Canonical-Data, Wikidata, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Client, MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Repo, MediaWiki-Configuration, SiteMatrix, MediaWiki-Site-system