@Aklapper Just for background context: a few tasks like these were recently shared with university students who joined some of us on the Language and Product Localization team for a session: T381064

@Ravitej_Neeli It looks like you creating another patch. I would suggest that you amend your original patch by following the steps here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial#Amending_a_change_(your_own_or_someone_else's). When that is done, abandon the new patch you have created.

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30 university students from WikiClub Tech India attended this session today. The slides are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zk772lBCXlWCcpzPw1NljeCtP7414kOG1_J4wvVcSwY/edit?usp=sharing.

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Following what we did for Punjabi to redirect pa-guru to pa here T372034, here is a first patch for this task which addresses an issue with data formatting for Tunisian Arabic:
https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/403.

@mehtab.ahmed Thanks for creating this request! To add new fonts to ULS, the following information is required: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/FAQ#What_information_will_be_necessary_for_a_new_font_to_be_included_into_ULS. Could you update the task description to match the format outlined in this FAQ? Also read through the note in the yellow section in the FAQ. Thanks!

Another patch to automatically update language data from upstream: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/pull/495

Thanks a lot for your work on this task @MolecularPilot!

Another patch for this task which addresses an issue with data formatting for Punjabi: https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/400

Thanks @Slawobog! Made the requested change. @Amire80 will review it soon.

User:Muisha_wiki_hke has let me know via email that their team will soon work on requested namespaces and will get back to us in a couple of weeks.

Newsletter announced via mailing lists and other channels:

As part of this task, Wikipedia is now live for five languages: Pannonian Rusyn, Tai Nüa, Iban, Obolo, and Southern Ndebele. Learn more in this blog post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/10/31/wikipedia-goes-live-for-five-languages-through-the-future-of-language-incubation-initiative/

@Aklapper IMO, the last line in the task description with the link to the example task is sufficient. It includes a list of all repositories where the patch needs to be uploaded.

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• Developed grouping and selection criteria for wikis to participate in the pilot. The criteria included metrics such as edits, new pages created, average number of monthly active editors, and time spent in the Incubator over the past 3 months. Minimum criteria were set: the wiki must be a Wikipedia, have at least 2 active editors and 30 edits in the last 3 months, and could be in either RTL or LTR language. Full details are available in this report.
• Created a measurement plan to track the progress of wikis in production infrastructure versus the Incubator. This plan includes primary and supplementary metrics, selection and evaluation methodologies: T367686
• Selected five wikis using random sampling from clusters with differing characteristics based on the developed criteria.
• Conducted outreach to engage proposed communities and their active editors, inviting them to participate in the experiment. Outreach efforts targeted venues where editors are likely to be active, such as the Incubator, Translatewiki.net project, and user talk pages.
• Worked closely with the Language Committee to gain approval for the experiment and graduate the selected wikis from the Incubator. The status of the five Wikipedias selected for this experiment was tracked here. Ongoing discussions with the Language Committee are documented in mailing list discussions.
• Presented findings and recommendations on language incubation and the hypothesis work at conferences such as Celtic Knot and Wikimania. These presentations emphasized the work on providing production access to wikis (WE2.2.3/WE2.2.4) and integrating addWiki.php into MediaWiki core (WE2.2.5). Recordings, slides, and Phabricator task links are available here: T369131 and T375917. The community feedback was positive, with discussions about the challenges of prolonged incubation periods for languages.
• Approved five languages through the Language Committee, and the intended approval for these proposed languages has been posted on Meta: Link to Language Committee post. These five languages are: Pannonian Rusyn, Tai Nüa, Iban, Obolo, Southern Ndebele.