Celtic Knot Conference 2024/Submissions/Wikimedia’s new languages metrics as a resource for insights about minority languages
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- Submission no.
About the submission
edit- Title of the submission
Wikimedia’s new languages metrics as a resource for insights about minority languages
- Type of submission
Presentation
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
This presentation provides an introduction to the language metrics being developed by the Wikimedia Research team. These include metrics about language coverage (i.e., which languages have projects, features, and capabilities across the Wikimedia ecosystem) and language representation (i.e., how Wikimedia language coverage reflects, or doesn’t reflect, the global language landscape). For minority languages such as the Celtic languages, these language metrics can be a useful tool for understanding the state of Celtic languages across Wikimedia projects.
The presentation will begin with an overview of Celtic language representation across Wikimedia projects, including hosted projects, pre-hosted projects (i.e., test wikis), and multilingual projects. Then, an overview of the language metrics project will be provided. Attendees of the presentation will have the opportunity to ask questions about the language metrics and give suggestions. The second half of the presentation will be used for showcasing how to use the language metrics data to answer specific questions about specific Celtic languages. This portion of the presentation will include a live demo of the data, which will be interactive and tailored to the needs of the audience; attendees will be able to ask questions that can be answered using the language metrics data.
By the end of the workshop, attendees will know more about the language metrics being developed by the Foundation; they will understand the current state of Celtic languages across Wikimedia projects; and they will know how to use the language metrics data to answer questions about Celtic languages and other minority languages.
- Theme of session
Visions Forged
- What will attendees take away from this session?
Attendees will learn about an ongoing Wikimedia Foundation project and will learn how to use a related dataset.
- Language of presentation
English
About the author
edit- Author of the submission
Caroline Myrick (User:CMyrick-WMF)
- E-mail address
cmyrickwikimedia.org
- Country of origin
United States of America
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
Wikimedia Foundation
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final
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- Online. Yug (talk) 16:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)