wikimedia indigenous voices
DESCRIPTION
Used for a workshop in Cambodia, August 2013, organised by Cobi Smith. http://www.slideshare.net/cobismithTRANSCRIPT
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Wikimedia Indigenous Voices
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Three ideas
1. Build a new language community2. Support an existing majority
language community3. Promote interests of a cultural
community in dominant languages
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1. Build a new language community
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New Wikipedias
A language community can create their own Wikipedia, using their own language if it has an ISO 639 code (http://enwp.org/ISO_639-3).The steps:1. Initialise an ‘incubator’ project2. Write a large set of articles – 1000 pages3. Build a consistent community of contributors
– 10 people
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Example: Cham language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham_language– 1.5% of Cambodians
• No Wikipedia:– http://cjm.wikipedia.org/ – http://cja.wikipedia.org/
• No incubator projects:– http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cjm– http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cja
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Example: Mon language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_language• No Wikipedia• An incubator project was initialised in 2009 by
‘Jose77’– http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mnw
• But it has zero (0) pages ;-(
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Example: Shan language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_language• http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/shn• 40 articles– http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixI
ndex/Wp/shn• At least one consistent contributor– http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contri
butions/Saiddzone
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Example: Sunda language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundanese_language
• Wikipedia:– http://su.wikipedia.org/
• Statistics– http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaSU.
htm• Very low participation/growth
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2. Support an existing majority language community
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Existing majority languages
• Most national official languages have small sustainable Wikipedias, but they need help– http://km.wikipedia.org - Khmer– http://th.wikipedia.org - Thai– http://lo.wikipedia.org - Lao– http://my.wikipedia.org - Burmese– http://vi.wikipedia.org - Vietnamese– http://ko.wikipedia.org - Korean
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3. Promote interests of a cultural community in dominant languages
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English Wikipedia
The biggest wikipedia, with the highest impact.
So many rules!
Dragons be there. Prepare for this journey.
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European language Wikipedias
Most European languages have a ‘chapter’, that you can collaborate with based on shared interests, such as:1. Colonial history and language
Archives of SE Asian colonial history often exist in the European GLAMs (Gallery, Libraries, Archives and Museums)e.g. Wikimedia France
2. Aid funding programse.g. a Scananavia funding NGO in Thailand might want to work with Scandanavian language Wikipedia in order to communicate with the granters core demographic.
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Resources
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indigenous_Languages
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Asia_Project/Cultural_Content_Exchange
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_South_Asian_languages_projects
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Southeast_Asian_languages_projects