[WBG] Announcement of Partnership with School of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University - Wikidata

8 Aug 2024


      Hello,
Apologies for cross-posting.
We are excited to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group is
collaborating with the School of Language and Linguistics of the Jadavpur
University, Kolkata to add a total of more than 5,000 lexicographical data
for 5 endangered languages of West Bengal with varying degrees of
vulnerability according to UNESCO scale. These languages are Kharia Thar,
Koda, Kurmali, Mahali and Toto.
The School will assign 5 post-graduate students in linguistics as
Wikimedians-in-residence to upload the said data on Wikidata who will spend
360 man-hours in total within a 3-months deadline. The entire expenditure
of this assignment will be borne by the user group from its annual budget
granted from the WMF community fund.
The process of selection of the students and including the languages into
Wikibase is underway. We hope to start the project by the end of this
month.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)