Indic Oral Culture Wiki 2024-25

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Indic Oral Wiki Culture
Location	India
Country code	IN
Approval date	July 28, 2024
Volunteers	20+ Active members
Official language(s)	Odia, Tulu, Tamil, Kannada, Assamese, and Santali
Project Manager	Amrit Sufi
E-mail address	amritsufi2@gmail.com
Facebook	Indicoralculture
Instagram	Indicoralculture
Motto	Documenting Oral Culture

The project will produce the pathway for documentation of oral knowledge and culture within the Indic context. Individuals will be trained to create oral culture content in their languages, which will then be uploaded on Commons, they will be transcribed and uploaded on Wikisource. Basics of Wikiata will also be explored to elicit vocabulary from the oral culture content and uploaded as lexemes. We will be sharing updates on online training sessions, discussions, on field work, and output here.

Project Background

The aim is to expand the idea of what comes under knowledge and to include cultural knowledge as a form of knowledge on Wikimedia projects. The aim is to use Wikimedia projects that focus on audio-visual content to bring the knowledge system that has been created and transferred over generations, and remain in the danger of disappearing lest documented. It will bring underrepresented communities online and create awareness about Wikipedia sister projects as tools for digitalization of oral culture. These aims will be achieved by providing training on utilizing wikimedia projects for oral culture digitalization. There will be an open call for interested individuals to partake into training for documenting their language and culture. They will be encouraged to share these learnings and skills with other members of their language community. Elements of training the trainer will be included, so that communities are built in the selected languages. It will also lead to development of leadership skills among the digitization trainees.

Training sessions

The first introductory meeting of the participants was held on 5th September 2024. Post that, regular training sessions are being held for the volunteer participants.

Special thanks

• Logo: We would like to thank Kurmanbek, a graphic designer and a member of Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey for help with the logo.

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Contact us

• Amrit Sufi - amritsufi2gmailcom
• Yakshitha - yakshitharp6gmailcom

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