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 ________________________________ De : Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> de la part de wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé : vendredi 23 mars 2018 13:00 À : wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Objet : Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Leila Zia) 2. Re: trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Gerard Meijssen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:41:46 -0700 From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] Message-ID: <CAK0Oe2ufs6Q33Y6thyGua4P3r6MejnXzybrAoNXsimueW7oMyQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:13:31 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] Message-ID: <CAO53wxVaE3DPkbbQfeUo1XH1HJETzAzJrzXt=tn_SMTcvLj+SQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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: ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ------------------------------ End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 ************************************************