Hello Language Committee,
I am writing today to share a proposal for an experiment addressing a new
approach to onboarding a language wiki.
Since December 2023, we have had conversations with 35 relevant
stakeholders, including three members from the Language Committee (Tochi,
Mf-Warburg, and Jon), to develop recommendations addressing a few current
challenges with the incubation journey. As a result of these discussions,
several recommendations emerged, which are documented here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future_of_Language_Incubation/Recommendations
which can be broadly grouped into the following two key areas:
1.
Streamlining technical infrastructure
2.
Exploring social pathways
For the 2024-25 annual planned work of the Wikimedia Foundation and as part
of the Content Growth objective (WE2/Knowledge Equity)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/…>,
the Language and Product Localization team with guidance from the Language
Committee members, identified a recommendation that addresses some of the
difficulties of content creation in the Incubator due to technical
limitations of the platform. To address this, we would like to try the
following:
Identify a set of requests (maximum 5) from the list in the new wiki
approval backlog which have been either already approved by the Language
Committee and, prioritize their creation on the production infrastructure
so that they do not have to continue writing content on the incubator wiki.
At the end of a stipulated period we evaluate progress of these prioritized
wikis compared to other test projects (approved or otherwise) still in the
incubator.
Please see the detailed proposal
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpwimVyhLOJVMnIos4cAAquTglbjdKfiHcdUmHR…>,
including selection and inclusion criteria, timeline, implementation plan,
and more information. We also presented this proposal at Wikimania 2024:
https://youtu.be/BbGrkYK8FEk?t=20299
After consultations with several other teams inside the WMF relevant to
this area of work we believe this is a feasible starting point towards
better content creation experiences for newer communities. To move onwards
we would like to reach a shared agreement with the Language Committee and
start off the pilot. Based on the criteria listed in the email, we would
like to include as part of the experiment following list of wikis (also see
attached screenshot):
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Mapudungun
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Southern Ndebele
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Obolo
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Tai Nüa
-
Pannonian Rusyn
We would like to kick off this experiment as early as possible and would
really appreciate hearing your suggestions on changes or additions to the
selection criteria and initial list of wikis by August 24th.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Hi,
Any objection to marking Tigre (ISO 639: tig) as eligible?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Tigre
The language is living and has a little under one million speakers. It's
distinct, too—though related to Tigrinya and more remotely to Amharic, I
haven't seen anyone saying that it's "the same" as Tigrinya.
It has been very active in translatewiki recently, and quite active in the
Incubator, too.
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