Celtic Knot Conference 2024/Submissions/Boosting potential participation in Wikimedia language projects through engagement with digital activism
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- Submission no.
About the submission
edit- Title of the submission
Boosting potential participation in Wikimedia language projects through engagement with digital activism
- Type of submission
- Presentation – 20–25 minute presentation. This time includes questions from the audience.
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
Global Voices, through its Rising Voices initiative, partnered with UNESCO to produce a toolkit resource called “Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages” as part of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. The resource is for all types of language communities interested in leveraging the Internet and digital media to promote and position their languages in digital spaces. With the input of nearly 800 speakers of Indigenous languages from across the world, the toolkit is not designed to be a recipe for digital practice, but rather to support users to create their own road map based on their own interests and current context. The resource focuses eight different key approaches: Facilitate, Multiply, Normalize, Educate, Recover, Imagine, Defender, and Protect.
RV has been offering virtual and in-person workshops that use central elements of the resource as a starting point, creating a space for reflection among peers and helping participants imagine a roadmap to chart their journey in the world of language digital activism. A key feature of these workshops is that they are led by facilitators from the same language community as the participants, further reinforcing the peer learning model.
Recently, we partnered with Wikimedia affiliates/emerging groups in Guatemala, Ghana, and India to pilot these workshops. The hypothesis is that by engaging with speakers from different language communities who have expressed an interest in a more broader way through digital activism, then the pool of potential participants for all types of digital projects, including Wikimedia projects, will grow.
We will provide an overview of the toolkit and workshop design. We will hear from three individuals (either remotely through pre-recorded videos or in-person) from the Wikimedia movement who facilitated the pilot workshops. They will share their experiences and discuss how these sessions can benefit their local work.
- Theme of session
- Momentum Unleashed: Overcoming Barriers, Igniting Progress;
- What will attendees take away from this session?
Attendees will have the opportunity to provide feedback on this pilot project and suggest ways to improve on this collaboration. We are working towards releasing the curriculum as it gets fine tuned under open licenses where any group can potentially use it for their own. From conversations, we think that it has potential to work towards addressing volunteer recruitment and retention challenges that some communities face. We also would like attendees to become more familiar with the RV/UNESCO resource.
- Language of presentation
English
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About the author
edit- Author of the submission
Eddie Avila, Cecilia Tuyuc, Sadik Shahadu, Amrit Sufi
- E-mail address
rising
globalvoices.org
- Country of origin
Bolivia, Guatemala, Ghana, India
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
Global Voices (Rising Voices), Wikiwuj (Wikipedia in Kaqchikel), Dagbani Wikimedians, Indic Oral Culture Project
- Slides or further information (optional)
https://rising.globalvoices.org/lenguas/talleres/convocatoria-taller-de-activismo-digital-del-idioma-kaqchikel/, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_Languages_Wikimedia_Community_Meetup_2024
- Special requests
May not be able to present on Day 3
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final?
Final
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