challenges and opportunities in building an indian language community on-line

Building anIndian Language

communityon-line

Challenges and Opportunities

Context: Wikipedia

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The Difference

Participants from related regions and dialects.

Target audience - smaller, sparse.

Contributors - scarce, widely differing.

Varied Competence.

many more...

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Rural

Urban

NRI

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Understanding theecosystem

It is nothing like the English community.

No magic wand to build it.

Progress is gradual, peaks when necessity and awareness are at their individual peaks.

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Understanding theecosystem

Sociocultural aspects.

Health of the community and the project.

Aspects derived from English community.

Extent and utility of UI translation.

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Opportunities

Connecting to the roots.

Exploring the unexplored.

Share better understanding.

Add to the overall knowledge of humanity (The most important and priceless).

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Opportunities

Contribution to the language content on the web (very important).

Knowledge/Content for those who prefer local language.

Learning.

Improving Skills.

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Challenges

Plagiarism

The problem of citations and verifying them.

Weird scenarios.

An instance: Contributors adding their own biographical page!

... and more.

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ChallengesStubs.

Content that is not up to the mark.

Editing madness.

Bots.

Lack of consensus whilst lesser participation.

Dealing with sensitive sociocultural scenarios.

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Challenges

Argumentative individuals, anonymous editors, time wasters and trouble makers.

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Take away for trainers

Promote culture of volunteering. Involves:

Identifying resourceful people.

Motivating individuals to take up tasks based on their strengths.

The collective.

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Take away for trainers

Asserting importance of Leadership skills, Skills to resolve disputes.

Good reasoning.

Neutral Point of view.

Firm, assertive yet friendly approach.

Knowing when to get into argument.

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Take away for trainers

Pushing contributors to not be protective.

Understanding collaborative flow of work.

Being nice to others.

being open to feedback and changes.

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Take away for trainers

Look for all-rounders.

yet, ensure distribution of tasks through discussion.

COTD or COTW can help.

Virtual community place can help.

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Take away for trainers

Being assertive about Ethics.

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The last mile

Spread WikiCulture.

Organic is better.

Enthusiasm overrides challenges, technical hurdles.

Good luck!

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Contact

hpnadig@gmail.com

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