Srishti Sethi

A blog post about #Wikimedia's Content Translation tool, which since its 2015 launch has been used to create over 2 million articles, helping bridge the gap for underrepresented languages. Several improvements have been made in recent years, including integrating Wikimedia's own machine translation service, MinT, which combines external models to support missing or low-resourced languages. Indian languages alone saw nearly 60,000 articles created.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/05/08/a-decade-of-consistent-improvements-to-the-content-translation-tool-yields-over-two-million-wikipedia-articles/

It fills me with joy to celebrate this milestone for the new and experimental Future of Language Incubation initiative—five underrepresented languages (Southern Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Iban, Obolo, and Tai Nüa) now have their own Wikipedia! I'm proud to lead this effort as part of the Product and Technology department at @wikimediafoundation. Learn more: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/10/31/wikipedia-goes-live-for-five-languages-through-the-future-of-language-incubation-initiative/

Logged into a dormant #Wikipedia account and happy to see the impact (~14,000 views) on previously made edits (: Homepage feature for #newcomers is awesome - makes suggestions for edits on topics of interest, assigns a mentor, captures activity impact.

Medien: 1

#Wikimedia recently released #Codex1.0! It provides a library of design tokens, #userinterface components, and a catalog of #icons. Already used in many #wiki features, it comes with a #Figma kit that allows designers to reuse these components and assets. Learn more how to use Codex: https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/

#designsystem #userinterface #wikimedia #wikipedia

🔥 Exciting updates from #Wikimedia's Language and Internationalization Newsletter! 🔥

* Machine Translation (MinT) now available for 202 language Wikipedias! 🌐
* Over 67,000 translations made last quarter with Content Translation tool. 📚
* Insights from a user study on translatable pages. 📊
* Language support for West Coast Bajau added in MediaWiki. 🌏

Stay tuned for more exciting news in the next release! 📩

#LanguageTech #WikiUpdates #LocalizationMatters

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/17/language-and-internationalization-newsletters-1/

As per #Ethnologue catalog, there are over 7000 living languages worldwide. Only 320 (less than 5%) of these languages have representation across #Wikimedia projects, including #Wikipedia. How do we create new language editions? #WikimediaIncubator ⬇️

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Main_Page

Greetings! I'm Srishti, a Developer Advocate working at @wikimediafoundation. Consider this my #introduction post! Future posts will revolve around developer events and programs, technical contribution areas and projects, and news from the #Wikimedia's technical community. Looking forward to engaging in conversations with developers new to #Wikimedia 😇