Dear Maria and colleagues, After the Arctic Knot I've shared these news with Tatar and wider Wikipedia Languages of Russia community via a post in Russian Multilingual Wikinews, English copy @ https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=10407945 I later shared the news and website link with wider Tatar, Tatarstan and Russian Federation level contacts of mine (Tatar NGOs, Tatar language News Agency, World Congress of Tatars, Tatar Language Revitalization Commission & responsible contacts in Tatarstan Presidential Administration, as well as Russia's Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs), recommending interested parties to take a look at the way the work is structured and possibly respond to the survey and engage otherwise. Yesterday I was interviewed by our regional Tatar language news agency journalist for a short piece about ELE project. regards, farhad --  Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417 09.07.2021, 16:46, "Maria Heuschkel" <maria.heuschkel(a)wikimedia.de>de>: > Dear Iñaki, > Thanks for the response! I highly appreciate any spreading efforts of this :) > > Dear Gerard, > > Thanks for getting back to me about this and your comments on language technology in the movement. As for your questions: > > With a project that truly aims to support our users in all their languages it may not be necessary to remain a candidate. > The project - once finished - should inform future funding programs and activities of the European Commission. With this in mind, I assume that mostly *European under-resourced languages* will benefit from the project and the future activities. > > However, have you considered how you measure the effectiveness of future language supporting functionality? > The project partners won't be building language technology in the course of the project, but provide input for and and come up with a strategic agenda for the European Commission (which then hopefully will provide funding for organizations to bring forward language technology for all languages). If you are interested in metrics though: some of the project partners are set out to find a definition and measurement for Digital Language Equality to see if any actions taken in the future would actually make a difference in trying to reach Digital Language Equality. The report for this can be found on the website. > > When will you call the project a success, what does it take for you to know the project to be a success? > The project will be considered a success in the case that all EU member states are signed on to bring forward Digital Language Equality by 2030 and the European Commission has set up the infrastructure for this accordingly in the next 2 years. > > Let me know what you think about my response and if that helps clearing your questions! > > Cheers from Berlin, > Maria > > Am Do., 8. Juli 2021 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>: >> Hoi, >> Next week there will be an "office hour" about search. Please get in touch with them because there is functionality that enables, in literally every language supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a search functionality for Wikimedia Commons. In the past I described user stories. The latest was in the context of languages from Nigeria [1]. >> >> Lately there has been work done (in user technology) to improve the quality of status information from Wikisource. Given that there is no user interface for a public of the work of Wikisource, this could be the stepping stone that enables users to find books in their language. This will be particularly rich when we include information about available books from Open Library and other open resources. >> >> FYI I am a candidate for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. With a project that truly aims to support our users in all their languages it may not be necessary to remain a candidate. However, have you considered how you measure the effectiveness of future language supporting functionality? When will you call the project a success, what does it take for you to know the project to be a success? >> Thanks, >>        Gerard >> >> [1] https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2021/07/two-user-stories-for-nigeria.h… >> >> On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 09:12, Maria Heuschkel <maria.heuschkel(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: >>> Tl;dr >>> >>> European project for Language Equality // Invitation to fill in a survey about Language Equality and Language Technology: https://t1p.de/5voc // Bringing the perspective of the Wikimedia movement to the European level >>> >>> Dear everyone, >>> >>> Today I’m writing to you all to ask for your help with a project concerning language technologies, the Wikimedia movement and under-resourced European languages. >>> >>> Wikimedia Deutschland is supporting an EC-funded project called “European Language Equality” (https://european-language-equality.eu/). The vision that this project is working towards is to achieve full digital language equality for all European languages - including all 24 official languages, but also minority and regional languages (https://european-language-equality.eu/languages/) - by 2030. >>> >>> In order to prepare for this ambitious goal a partner consortium of 52 organisations (language associations, universities, language technology providers etc.) will be working on creating a roadmap for European commission programs and activities in the next year. >>> >>> This roadmap and those policies should also include the view of the Wikimedia movement and our perspective, needs and challenges on so-called language technologies. A brief explanation of language technologies can be found here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_Communication_Technologies#Today) and here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_technology). >>> >>> *Why am I writing this to you?* >>> >>> I’m currently reaching out to people in the movement whose voices should be heard in this process. This includes (but is not limited to) editors of small language Wikipedias, editors of European language Wikipedias, Wikidata editors, Wiktionary editors, editors of Lexemes, Lingua Libre volunteers, edit-a-thon organizers etc. etc. - In short, everyone in our movement who is interested in languages and keeping languages thriving. At the Arctic Knot (the Wikimedia Language conference), I had the chance to talk about this project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(ELE)_Presentation_at_Arctic_Knot.p…) and the ways of participating in it. >>> >>> *What am I asking of you exactly?* >>> >>> One of the project leaders (Dublin City University) has created a survey for users of language technology and their demands as well as predictions of the future of European languages. With the answers of this survey, the partners (one of them being Wikimedia Deutschland) will write a report on our perspective on the future of European languages and language technologies. >>> >>> I hope to include as many people from the movement as possible in this consultation process and invite you to fill in the survey. Also, if you want to spread the survey throughout your community - please do so! >>> >>> ------ Filling in the survey will take about 20 minutes, the data protection guidelines are stated at the beginning of the survey. The survey will be open until September 10th. You can get to the survey here: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/LTusers-consumers-wiki. ---- >>> >>> Thank you for reading this mail, please let me know if you have any questions or remarks or further suggestions! If you don’t feel comfortable filling in the survey but still want your perspective to be included, feel free to write me an e-mail. >>> >>> Cheers from Berlin, >>> >>> Maria >>> -- >>> >>> Maria Heuschkel >>> Projektmanagerin >>> Softwareentwicklung >>> >>> Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin >>> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 >>> https://wikimedia.de >>> >>> Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! >>> https://spenden.wikimedia.de >>> >>> Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. 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