Hello, everybody!
The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Knot_Conference_2021> will take
place online 24–25 June 2021.
At the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference we want to look at the
future of indigenous and underrepresented languages and their presence and
use on the Wikimedia projects. The conference will provide space and focus
for indigenous and underrepresented language communities to connect, learn
from each other, and collaborate.
With 20 billion page views every month, Wikipedia is one of the first stops
when people search for information. It is a cornerstone of the digital age,
but the information within it is not evenly represented across languages.
The Wikimedia movement is about to start implementing the 2030 movement
strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030> and the UNESCO
Decade of Indigenous Languages
<https://en.unesco.org/news/upcoming-decade-indigenous-languages-2022-2032-f…>
will start in 2022. The Decade of Indigenous Languages points to the
potential of digital technologies in supporting the use and preservation of
indigenous languages. These two milestones give us the opportunity to look
into our future efforts for language diversity on the Wikimedia projects,
and during the conference discuss how we can work together to make
indigenous and underrepresented language communities grow.
More information about the conference will be shared on the Arctic Knot
Wikimedia Language Conference page over the next few weeks. Registration
will open in May. We hope you will join the conference!
The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is part of the Wikimedia
UK Celtic
Knot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference> series of
conferences. Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is led by Wikimedia
Norge in collaboration with The Arctic University of Norway
<https://en.uit.no/startsida>, Wikimedia UK
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/> and Wikimedia
Deutschland <https://www.wikimedia.de/>, and will focus on Arctic and Sámi
languages. We are also happy to have Wikitongues <https://wikitongues.org/>
and Art+Feminism <https://artandfeminism.org/> as part of the organization
team for the conference.
We hope to see many of you there!
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*Jon Harald Søby*
Prosjektleder / Prosjektleiar / Prošeaktajođiheaddji / Project Manager
Wikimedia Norge / Wikimedia Noreg / Wikimedia Norga
+47 977 67 510
jhsoby(a)wikimedia.no
Hallo. I'm cross-posting this to a few lists. Please send any questions to
the project's talkpage.
We would like to find two or three language communities who would be good
matches to help to guide some long-term improvements to the lexicographic
data part of Wikidata, and the closely related work in the Wikifunctions
wiki and the Abstract Wikipedia project, over the next few years. We are
looking for communities that are open to trying out new things, and have an
interest in linguistics and coding.
Participating communities will hopefully find that this project will lead
to long-term growth in content in Wikipedia and Wiktionary in and about
their language. See
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical_d…
for more detailed information (including some suggested criteria). Please
help us identify potential good matches.
Thank you!
p.s. A translated/translatable version of this message is on meta-wiki, if
you'd like to share it elsewhere:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)/Lexicographical_message
--
Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Wikimedians,
Some of you might be recovering from the Wikimania fatigue. Those of you
who have already recovered, I wanted to pick your brain about something
that came up multiple times during discussions but none really seem to have
a clear answer.
Which script (writing system) an oral language speaker would use for
creating an entry on (gateway [1]) projects like Wiktionary or Wikibooks or
even uploading a list of words on Commons using a tool like Lingua Libre?
Will it be the script used for the official language of the region where
the former language is from?[2] This is a bit controversial as native
speakers of many indigenous languages would see this as a form of
colonization. Will it be the w:International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? This
is probably the least controversial but a common and average user might not
be able to read IPA as the latter was created by linguists and was created
for linguistic and scholarly studies rather than for everyday use.
Wikimedians who are native speakers of languages with less written/recorded
documentation and individuals who work on such languages are more
encouraged to share their inputs based on past experience.
1. Gateway project: This is a made-up term to define the Wikimedia projects
that are more welcoming to newbies and do not require stringent citation as
almost all oral languages would lack that. It was fascinating to see Amir
challenging that it only takes about 30 seconds to add an entry to
Wiktionary (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amir_Aharoni_demonstrating_how_to_a…
)
Subhashish
Nice to have such articles on front pages:
<https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-latam-indigenous-language/in-21st-century…>
«UNESCO named 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages,
committing to working with governments and native peoples to rescue
endangered and threatened tongues among the 600-some surviving
indigenous tongues in the region.»
Federico
Hello,
For those of you who are interested in "small" Wikipedias and Indigenous
languages, here's a new academic paper co-signed by yours truly.
Published in an open access journal :)
Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris)
-
*Openness, Inclusion and Self-Affirmation: Indigenous knowledge in Open
Knowledge Projects
<http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-13-open/peer-reviewed-pape…>*
This paper is based on an action research project (Greenwood and Levin,
1998) conducted in 2016-2017 in partnership with the Atikamekw Nehirowisiw
Nation and Wikimedia Canada. Built into the educational curriculum of a
secondary school on the Manawan reserve, the project led to the launch of a
Wikipedia encyclopaedia in the Atikamekw Nehirowisiw language. We discuss
the results of the project by examining the challenges and opportunities
raised in the collaborative process of creating Wikimedia content in the
Atikamekw Nehirowisiw language. What are the conditions of inclusion of
Indigenous and traditional knowledge in open projects? What are the
cultural and political dimensions of empowerment in this relationship
between openness and inclusion? How do the processes of inclusion and
negotiation of openness affect Indigenous skills and worlding processes?
Drawing from media studies, indigenous studies and science and technology
studies, we adopt an ecological perspective (Star, 2010) to analyse the
complex relationships and interactions between knowledge practices,
ecosystems and infrastructures. The material presented in this paper is the
result of the group of participants’ collective reflection digested by one
Atikamekw Nehirowisiw and two settlers. Each co-writer then brings his/her
own expertise and speaks from what he or she knows and has been trained for.
Casemajor N., Gentelet K., Coocoo C. (2019), « Openness, Inclusion and
Self-Affirmation: Indigenous knowledge in Open Knowledge Projects », *Journal
of Peer Production*, no13, pp. 1-20.
More info about the Atikamekw Wikipetcia project and the involvement
of Wikimedia Canada:
https://ca.wikimedia.org/…/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and…
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and_language_in_…>
Hello everyone,
I am one of the co-leaders of the Language space for this year's Wikimania
in Stockholm. There are many different "spaces" (think "tracks", but a bit
wider) this year, and one of them is the language space
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Languages>. Unfortunately, there
have not been too many proposed sessions for it yet (that actually goes for
many of the spaces), so I would like to invite anyone who is planning to
attend Wikimania and has something cool and language-related to talk about
to submit a session proposal for our space (or any other space you might be
interested in).
A session doesn't have to be a presentation – the aim this year is to make
Wikimania a more interative experience than it has been previously. So the
format of a session is very open – you could hold workshops to e.g.
implement cool ideas from your language's community in other languages, or
hold a panel or roundtable discussion. We could even have a language quiz,
just something relaxing and fun. So if you have any ideas that you would be
able to, please submit a proposal. The deadline was just today extended
until June 9th (it was originally in 2 days), but sooner is better. :-)
You can submit proposals for the language space in the link above, or check
out the other spaces here
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019:Program>.
Thank you, and see you (hopefully) in Stockholm!
--
mvh
Jon Harald Søby
Hey!
I am completely new to this whole Wikimedia by the way but I think that you are the right person to send this email to.
I am a great fan of the whole Wikipedia project and this afternoon I noticed that besides Dutch, my native language, there were also pages written in "Nedersaksisch." This is not really a language at all but rather a combination of many Low Saxon dialects which creates really weird texts with some parts in eg Gronings (a northern dialect) and some parts in Achterhoeks (an eastern dialect). Sometimes the dialect literally changes after each sentence. The use of "Nedersaksisch" as a language for all northern/eastern Dutch dialects is thus highly cunfusing and pretty difficult to read.
Therefore I personally think that it would be so much better if this "language" will be discarded from Wikipedia and that each dialect will be treated as a seperate language because the differences between them are legitimately really large. These dialects should be: Grönnegs, Drèents, Sallaans, Tweants and Achterhooks. Possibly some small dialects like Stellignwarfs, Urkers, Oost-Veluws and West-Veluws can be added in the future as well, though not many people speak it anymore.
Anyway, if there is any information that could be relevent to me or some future developments, please write me a pm back. And is this actually the correct place to write this?
Pieter Post
Hello, language folk.
I would like to work on unblocking some of the wiki-rename work so that our
internal language codes more closely map to BCP 47 standards, starting with
sr-ec/sr-el probably. We need a flag day and synchronized updates across a
number of projects.
I've also been working on LanguageConverter recently, along with Trey Jones
and others. There appear to be a number of stalled LanguageConverter
projects that could use a push as well.
Finally: I'll be at Wikimania in a few weeks. Who else will be there?
Will enough languages-loving folks be there to make it worthwhile to
arrange a meetup, to discuss the above or other technical projects?
--scott
--
(http://cscott.net)
Forwarding this to the languages mailing list.
Jean-Philippe Béland
User:Amqui
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:48 AM
Subject: [GLAM] [x-post] Wikimedia Language team office hour and online
meeting on March 21, 2018 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration
[Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki internationalisation <
mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an online
office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at 13:00 UTC.
This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in particular the
changes to interlanguage links, which were recently rolled-out on the
English Wikipedia.
The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
development:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
# When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
# Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
# Agenda:
Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
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Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
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