Event:Wiki na monɔkɔ mua bísó

Mother Tongue Day 2024 by WikiLinguila DRC

Brief overview

Wiki na monɔkɔ mua bísó (Wiki na ndinga ya bwala na beto) yina bo yantikisaka na WikiLinguila kele kampanye ti diambu ya nene ya kutomisa bisalu ya Wikimedia na bandinga ya bwala ya Afrika ya provense ya kati-kati to yina bo ke siamisa bonso bandinga ya insi na bimvuka to bansi na bo. Nsaka yai ya kubasisa mikanda ke wakana ti nkinsi ya kilumbu ya ndinga ya bamama ya ntoto ya mvimba na kilumbu ya 21 ya ngonda ya zole konso mvula, mpi ti bametode ya kimvuka sambu na nsungi ya 2030:

1. Kutomisa ngolo ya Movement na beto;
2. Kupesa lutaninu mpi kukotisa bantu na kati;
3. Kuzitisa lunungu na kubaka badesizio;
4. Kuwakana na kati ya bantu yina ke salaka mambu;
5. Kutwadisa nzayilu ya kati.

Mission

The initiative started when we noticed that we're feeding large wikis almost every day basis in terms of in terms of number of articles and contributors assigned, which have more than one million articles and over 10,000 active contributors, while the small wikis, including ours too, are getting emptier and are becoming more empty. Moreover, we think it's these wikis that can be shaped in our own way, rather the ideal space in which to construct our own editing rules, because, whether it's the wikipedia language version in French, in Sängö, in Fɔngbemɛ, in Kikôngo, in Lingála, in Swahili or even in Kinyarwanda, it is considered from a general point of view to be on a par with that written in English. Along the way, we also encounter a number of obstacles, such as language barriers, because most educational projects are in English.

We also encourage participants to work with professionals from African language training centers for small-scale training courses. We know that our varied languages lack written documentation and that the majority of documents published in local languages are subject to copyright, so it is necessary to partner with other educational structures in this area with a view to prepare important quality documentation to train and always upgrade editors in writing articles via our respective languages on Wikipedia and its sister projects, in order to maintain a high level of competence and ensure the relevance of content online or public on our various Wikimedia projects.

Vision

The Wikimedia Foundation only hosts our online projects, and if we do nothing, nothing will happen either. That said, we won't stop contributing to other wikis, such as French or English, but also looking aside to try to highlight promoting, giving visibility to and highlighting our languages. Otherwise, a language that doesn't evolve gradually dies out, until it's a dead language.

We give little importance to our own works, which can nevertheless be built by and for ourselves. Wiki na monɔkɔ mua bísó aims to bridge this gap, to reduce this contribution gap, in order to highlight our intrinsic identity and revive both our languages by highlighting Wikimedia activities in Congo-Kinshasa and throughout Central Africa, as we wish and want to make the month of February within the Wikimedia movement, The month of mother-tongue contributions, and every February 21, during the International Mother Tongue Day (promulgated by UNESCO in 2000), we celebrate our different languages through the event Wiki na monɔkɔ mua bísó, a good way of preserving the cultural heritage of minority peoples through Wikimedia projects and other structures working to make their culture accessible on the Internet.

Make lobby to the competent local authorities with a view to set up an academy to help and advance our African languages progress and evolve. In the same perspective, we're fighting for the adoption of our respective national languages as language courses in African schools and universities, As in the case of the DRC, French can meanwhile remain the official language of education, but other secondary languages can be taught as branches of language courses, like English, French or Portuguese, throughout the school and university curriculum.

Event

• Bridge this gap, reduce this gap in contributions between large and small wikis
• Increasing contributions in our Wikipedias corresponding to our languages to promote and give visibility to these languages and also involve members of our community

Kisalu ya nene kele ln.wikipedia.org, kansi mpi ln.wiktionary.org mpi Lingua Libre. Na nsuka ya mvu 2024 mpi na luyantiku ya mvu 2025, beto ke vingila nde beto kuma na masolo 5000 na ln.wikipedia.org mpi mambu mingi ya beto ta sala na bisalu ya nkaka ya mutindu mosi.

Wiki na monɔkɔ mua bísó kele na mfunu ya konso muntu yina ke tubaka ndinga yai sambu na kubaka kiyeka ya kisalu yina mpi kusala yo ya yandi mosi !

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External links

• Eventmetrics
• EduWiki Nigeria /Mother Tongue Project
• Wiki Loves Mother Tongue Campaign 2024
• https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lua/Mulongu
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/24/the-mother-tongue-contribution-month/
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/fr/2024/01/08/prendre-en-mains-lavenir-des-versions-linguistiques-des-projets-wikimedia
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kCR-uKVW5ljL14YhyVTyEPTFcN4Zg__KSxDg8Ipyv-k
• WikiLinguila/Mois de la contribution en langues maternelles