1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (408+ words) The Wikimedia technical ecosystem continues to grow globally, but in many regions, there is still a gap between contributors and tool builders. In Northern Nigeria, this gap is especially visible " while many people contribute to Wikimedia projects, fewer are involved…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (762+ words) Mozilla Common Voice has thousands of Dagbanli sentences with native'speaker audio. We built a pipeline to match these sentences to dictionary words, creating audio'rich usage examples. Wikidata gave us the bones for the Dagbanli dictionary: Lexemes, Senses, Forms, and even…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (672+ words) One of the most important barriers to technical contribution is simply knowing where to begin. To address this, WMA launched the Tool Spotlight Series, a monthly learning space designed to introduce contributors to existing Wikimedia technical tools and the people…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (606+ words) Wikimedia. org On May 30th, 2025, Wikimedia Brasil (WMB) published the results of the Lusophone technological wishlist proposals, an initiative that seeks to enumerate the necessities and priorities of the Portuguese-speaking community in the Wikimedia Movement technological area. The submitted proposals were…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1586+ words) Screenshot of the "Optimize for Offline Use?" splash screen with "Download Language Pack" and "Continue Online" buttons. Many Dagbanli speakers live in areas with unreliable internet. We built the dictionary to work offline. Here is the architecture that makes that…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1222+ words) A dictionary without pronunciation is incomplete, especially for a tonal language like Dagbanli. Here's how we built a pipeline from Wikimedia Commons recordings to in-browser playback, including a workaround for i OS Safari. Dagbanli is a tonal language where pronunciation…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (535+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - The Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature, also known as Code Mirror 6, has been used…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (322+ words) The Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub is organizing an upcoming webinar titled "Introduction to Pywikibot for Language Communities." This session aims to support language communities that are interested in using automation to strengthen their Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia tools like the Pywikibot…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (274+ words) Universal Language Selector (ULS)is a Media Wiki extension. Its main features include language selection, input methods, web fonts, language search, and other language-related settings. The current codebase is quite old and suffers from performance issues. In order for this…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (576+ words) This was my second time participating in a hackathon. The Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) End-of-Year Hack Challenge 2025 was organized to close out the year in grand style, and it was a truly enriching experience for me. Participants were divided into…...