Celtic Knot Conference 2019/Submissions/Languages Matter to Cultural Diversity: Finding Missing Languages and Bridging the Gaps in Minority Languages
This is an open submission for the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021. |
- Submission no.
- Title of the submission
Languages Matter to Cultural Diversity in Wikipedia: Finding Missing Languages and Bridging the Gaps in Minority Languages
- Type of submission (Lightning talk, panel, tutorial/workshop, Presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
Marc Miquel
- Language of presentation
English
- E-mail address
marcmiquel
gmail.com
- Username
- Country of origin
Catalonia
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
Amical Wikimedia, Wikimedia Diversity Working Group
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
Each Wikipedia language edition adds to the overall Wikipedia cultural diversity with articles about their places, leaders, traditions, among many other topics. It is their genuine and unique contribution that is often not translated across languages generating what is known as a content gap. Leaving aside this gap, in the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory project we find that cultural diversity could improve if we could 1) engage languages with a status of marginalization to represent better their context, 2) increase the number of Wikipedia language editions.
In this talk I want to give a quick overview of our research with few key figures on the overall linguistic situation in Wikipedia in terms of cultural diversity. First, for each Wikipedia whose language is in state of minorization I want to provide a list of articles about their geographical and cultural context that exist in bigger language editions but they do not exist in its language yet. Second, I provide a list of languages of the world that according to their number of speakers and social status could be candidate to start a Wikipedia and represent their context.
Finally, I want to stress out the importance of representing each language's cultural context despite the possible difficulties in finding sources, among other problems. Because I believe that encouraging the growth of Wikipedias cannot be dissociated from the encouragement of representing their context and acknowledging their particular contribution to human knowledge.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- Find which Wikipedia language editions are from a language with a marginalization status and the articles about their cultural and geographical context they should have.
- Look up which territories in the world are not covered by any Wikipedia language edition of a local native language.
- Detect new potential Wikipedia language editions by examining those languages with a high social status and a large number of speakers.
- Theme of session
- Will you attend Celtic Knot if your submission is not accepted?
No.
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
Final
Interested attendees edit
If you are interested in attending this session, please sign with your username below. This will help reviewers to decide which sessions are of high interest. Sign with a hash and four tildes. (# ~~~~).