I talked this evening with Felix Nartey
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Nartey) from Ghana and it looks
like their group are pretty far along in arranging to do some
orally-based work with people from indigenous cultures there. However,
the want to use Wikidata to track their content, and on data modeling
they are very much just beginners. I told them that I suspect I am not
the only Cascadia Wikimedian who would be interested in helping them
work out a schema to model the data, since several of us have relevant
skills. This might eventually also be of benefit to us locally as well,
for cultural stuff with ethic groups and tribes/nations in our
geographic area. Not sure all of what this will ultimately entail from
us, but Felix seems rock-solid, so we'd have a strong collaborator on
the other end: I'm pretty sure they can sort out most of what data
they'd want to track, and we'd just have to devise a schema.
Are there others in Cascadia besides just me who'd be interested in
taking this on? Anyone know someone not yet a Wikimedian (or not all
that active) who might find this interesting?
JM