Dear Ms.,
I thank you for your answer. As a Programme Committee member of WikiIndaba 2018 and as the
author of WikiResearch in Africa: Situation and Challenges also presented in the Research
Showcase of WikiIndaba 2018, I was honoured to receive your report. I really greet the
efforts of Wikimedia Foundation to raise WikiResearch in Africa and would like to
contribute in this context. We can discuss about that if you want to. Concerning the role
of Wikimedia Foundation concerning and as I already said after your presentation, I think
that the matter is the lack of connection between LangCom and African language regulatory
institutions. Another matter can be the difficulty of reaching LangCom. In fact, messages
from communities to LangCom mailing list take days to be processed by moderators and then
published. There is also a problem of contacting LangCom using Phabricator and Meta.
Absolutely, such matters should be fixed. Finally, just for information concerning
Wikimania proposal about using Wikidata in Medicine, I should inform you that I am Csisc
who posted it in Wikidata talk page of Wikimania 2018.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
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Hi all,
Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the
past weekend:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_20…
Best,
Leila
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Hoi,
I have read your comments on the WIki Indaba. Sad to hear that you could
not make it.
As a movement it is not our task to serve the "2000" languages that you
mention. It is our task to serve the languages that we support in our
existing Wikipedias. The difference is significant. When people aim to help
themselves, their culture, their language by investing their efforts in a
Wikipedia, we have a process that recognises this and that leads to the
start of a Wikipedia. Thanks to the Incubator,
translatewiki.net we provide
a native interface in all our languages. There are strong arguments why we
should invest more in other languages like the top 25 languages minus
English and in the other languages. The easiest argument is that English is
less than 50% of our traffic.
Where you talk about subjects that people are likely to read, there are
many predictive models possible. The big issue in current approaches is
that they start with what we know from projects particularly the English
Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is biased and consequently many subjects
that may be of a higher relevance in other languages or cultures will not
be suggested when English Wikipedia and its traffic is the yard stone to
measure by. Often there is more and better information in other Wikipedias.
Arguably thanks to Wikidata it becomes easier to find a more composite view
of the subjects people may be interested in.
Anyway, thank you for reporting on your virtual presence; you made a
difference in this way.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 March 2018 at 00:41, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the
past weekend:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_
reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018
Best,
Leila
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