WikiIndaba conference 2019/Submissions/Bringing life into local language Wikipedia

Submission no. 007
Title of the submission
Bringing life into local language Wikipedia
Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, birds of a feather discussion)

Lecture/Panel discussion

Author of the submission

Raphael Berchie

Language of presentation

English

E-mail address

rberchie@gmail.com

Username

Rberchie

Country of origin

Ghana

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Open Foundation West Africa

Personal homepage or blog
Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

Presenter: Raphael Berchie When it comes to underrepresentation of Africa on Wikipedia, aside themes like content and gender which are lacking, one observable thing lacking is African Languages. Wikipedia the largest online encyclopedia is in over 295 languages, however African language are about just 10% of the languages represented. This figure is very alarming and worrying considering that Africa has an estimation of over 2000 languages. This shows that there is a lot to be done when it comes to cataloguing languages in Africa and Wikipedia surely provides a good opportunity to do this.

This presentation will seek to engage participants on the dire consequences on not promoting their languages. It will also be used to solicit views as to how this can be done collectively learning from others on what they are doing and what can be done to change. This will also be used to shed some light on some ongoing partnerships geared towards promoting local language Wikipedia(s) in Ghana.


What will attendees take away from this session?

Attendees will learn more about the need to contribute to their local languages and how this can be achieved through strategic partnerships and collaborations.

Theme of presentation
For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?
Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)

40 minutes

Will you attend WikiIndaba if your submission is not accepted?Yes

Yes

Slides or further information (optional)

TBA

Special requests
Is this Submission a Draft or Final?

Draft

Interested attendees

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  1. Youssefbhy (talk) 09:40, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Anass Sedrati (talk) 17:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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