WikiIndaba conference 2018/Submissions/The Wiktionary, a project in the service of African languages

Submission no. 017

Title of the submission: The Wiktionary, a project in the service of African languages / Le Wiktionnaire, un projet au service des langues d'Afrique

Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, birds of a feather discussion): lecture

Author of the submission: Benoît Prieur and Pamputt

Language of presentation: English, français

E-mail address: pamputt0gmail.com

Username: Benoît Prieur and Pamputt

Country of origin: France

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.): None

Personal homepage or blog

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

English: The Wiktionary, a Wikimedia project less known than its big brother Wikipedia, is a free and open dictionary that aims to describe nothing less than all the words of all the languages. In addition to definitions, the Wiktionary provides much more lexicographic data (synonyms, pronunciation, related vocabularies, ...). This lecture will first present what is the Wiktionary, focused on the French edition. Then, the lecture will discussed about the advantages of the Wiktionnaries to preserve minority languages. Some examples about contributions on languages spoken in Africa (Afrikaans, Lingala, Koyraboro Senni Songhai and also Arabic, English, French, ...) will be presented. Simple ways to contribute will be presented.
Français: Le Wiktionnaire est un projet Wikimedia moins connu que son grand frère Wikipédia. C'est un dictionnaire libre et gratuit qui vise à décrire pas moins que tous les mots de toutes les langues. En plus des définitions, le Wiktionnaire fournit beaucoup plus de données lexicographiques (synonymes, prononciation, thésaurus, ...). Cet exposé présentera tout d'abord ce qu'est le Wiktionnaire, centré sur la version francophone. Ensuite, l'exposé s'intéressera aux avantages des différentes versions linguistiques du Wiktionnaire pour préserver les langues minoritaires. Quelques exemples sur des contributions sur des langues parlées en Afrique (afrikaans, lingala, songhaï koyraboro senni et aussi l'arabe; l'anglais, le français, ...) seront présentés. Des moyens simples pour contribuer seront également abordés.

What will attendees take away from this session?

English

Attendees will learn what is the Wiktionary and how it works

Attendees will also learn how to use it in order to participate to the vitality of minority languages

Français

Les participants apprendront ce qu'est le Wiktionnaire et comment il fonctionne

Les participants apprendront à l'utiliser en vue de participer à la vitalité des langues minoritaires

Theme of presentation

Sister Projects

For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?: Any level is welcomed

Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long): 25 minutes

Will you attend WikiIndaba if your submission is not accepted?: not sure.

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Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final

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Committee decision

Accepted

Comments (To be considered before February 16th, 2018):

Also deal with Lingua Libre project
If the comment is taken into consideration, we will add 10 min to the time of the presentation.

Dear organizer, thank you for having selected this proposal. We will speak about Lingua Libre in this presentation and so we accept the 10 additional minutes. Pamputt (talk) 19:08, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]