Portal Indigenous languages on Wikimedia
Video-presentation about the portal “Indigenous languages on Wikimedia”- Wayuu community.The Wayuu or Guajiro language is spoken by about 400,000 indigenous people in the Guajira Peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela, and is the most widely spoken indigenous language in both countries. But this d...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/5943 2023-05-15T14:23:47+02:00 Portal Indigenous languages on Wikimedia Oscar Verón, Constanza 2021-10-19 video/mp4 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5943 https://doi.org/10.7557/5.5943 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5943/6248 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5943 doi:10.7557/5.5943 Copyright (c) 2021 Oscar, Constanza Verón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-SA Septentrio Conference Series; No. 3 (2021): Arctic Knot Conference 2021 2387-3086 10.7557/scs.2021.3 Arctic Knot Conference 2021 Indigenous languages Wikimedia info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Webinar 2021 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/5.5943 https://doi.org/10.7557/scs.2021.3 2021-10-20T22:54:10Z Video-presentation about the portal “Indigenous languages on Wikimedia”- Wayuu community.The Wayuu or Guajiro language is spoken by about 400,000 indigenous people in the Guajira Peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela, and is the most widely spoken indigenous language in both countries. But this does not place the language in a privileged position; on the contrary, it is among the region's endangered indigenous languages, with less and less Guajiro children learning to speak, let alone write the language. There is currently no Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki language, so speakers have to access information through Wikipedia in other languages. Although there is no Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki, there is an "incubator" of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.The "Indigenous Languages on Wikipedia" portal aims to be a place to collaborate and add knowledge of the Wayúu culture to the Wikimedia projects, as well as a space for learning about the language, its culture, traditions, and history. The portal has 3 sections, (1) to learn the Wayuunaiki language, (2) to collaborate in Wikimedia projects, and (3) talk page. Knowing how difficult it is to collaborate on Wikimedia platforms, especially for projects in the incubator, we plan to use the portal as a bridge to reduce the learning curve and centralize efforts to create, modify and improve information in and for speakers of the language. Finally, we seek to promote a friendly online space dedicated to a safe and constructive community exchange in order to strengthen the confidence of the Wayuu community in the Wikimedia networks. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic The Portal ENVELOPE(159.167,159.167,-78.100,-78.100) Septentrio Conference Series 3 |
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Video-presentation about the portal “Indigenous languages on Wikimedia”- Wayuu community.The Wayuu or Guajiro language is spoken by about 400,000 indigenous people in the Guajira Peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela, and is the most widely spoken indigenous language in both countries. But this does not place the language in a privileged position; on the contrary, it is among the region's endangered indigenous languages, with less and less Guajiro children learning to speak, let alone write the language. There is currently no Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki language, so speakers have to access information through Wikipedia in other languages. Although there is no Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki, there is an "incubator" of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.The "Indigenous Languages on Wikipedia" portal aims to be a place to collaborate and add knowledge of the Wayúu culture to the Wikimedia projects, as well as a space for learning about the language, its culture, traditions, and history. The portal has 3 sections, (1) to learn the Wayuunaiki language, (2) to collaborate in Wikimedia projects, and (3) talk page. Knowing how difficult it is to collaborate on Wikimedia platforms, especially for projects in the incubator, we plan to use the portal as a bridge to reduce the learning curve and centralize efforts to create, modify and improve information in and for speakers of the language. Finally, we seek to promote a friendly online space dedicated to a safe and constructive community exchange in order to strengthen the confidence of the Wayuu community in the Wikimedia networks. |
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