Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online ! - Wikimedia-l

20 Apr 2021

*Dear All, *

*Wikimedia Taiwan has a great news to share with all of you! *

*We are so happy to announced that the two of Taiwan's indigenous
languages, the Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online!
In 2015, the Taiwan Ministry of Education launched the Indigenous languages
Wikipedia project. Sakizaya Wikipedia was the first language release their
Wikipedia in 2019. On April 15, 2021, Hitay-Payan and Lituk Teymu, who are
another two languages Wikipedia project convener were happy to announce
that Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were online.Since November 22,
2019, the release day of Sakizaya Wikipedia, there have been 1,840 clauses
added. The Wikimedia Taiwan and the Center for aboriginal studies of NCCU
joined the Sakizaya Wikipedia workshop hosted by Sakizaya language
organization on March 11-12, 2021 at the Hualien City. During the workshop,
we taught Sakizaya people how to migrate Chinese modules into Sakizaya, and
they translated all of them into Sakizaya. There are 50 pictures from
Wikimedia Commons was enhanced by Sakizaya and over 100 Wikidata item and
properties were translated into Sakizaya. Moreover, the Sakizaya hashtag
"szy" for other Wikipedia sister projects was ready as well. *

*Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were released on March 16, 2021,
including the previous Sakizaya language, these are the 3 languages which
first included in Wikipedia, there are in total 16 indigenous languages
recognized as aboriginal by the Council of Indigenous People, Taiwan. The
new Wikimedia language hashtag for Atayal (tay) and Seediq (trv) not only
expanded the usability within Wikipedia but also between other Wiki
projects, such as Wikimedia Common and Wikidata. We are happy to preserve,
promote and reuse Taiwan's indigenous languages through the release of the
Wikimedia project, this is an milestone for all of us. We hope to assist
all Indigenous continue finding ways to preserve their legacy and bring
their languages and culture to the world.  Check out our meta-wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA>*

*sincerely,*
*Joyce*

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*陳禹先 **Yuhsien Chen, Joyce (she/her/hers)*
*社團法人台灣維基媒體協會  Wikimedia Taiwan*
Email: yuhsien.chen(a)wikimedia.tw &lt;allenwang(a)wikimedia.tw&gt;