Might be a project that Whose Knowledge <https://whoseknowledge.org/>
(started by a couple of WMF ex-pats) is interested in supporting? They
don't have a lot of technical resources of their own, but are probably
connected with the right networks.
- J
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Joe Mabel <jmabel(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
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
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