Wiki Loves Names
What is Wiki Loves Names?
How will it be if each Wikimedian contribute 5 ancient names that are going into extinction with their various meanings to Wiktionary?
Africans attach a lot of importance to the names they bear; both individual names and names of their communities. There are varied reasons for this. The names are so valued that in case of community names, any attempt to change it without the agreement of the entire community always led to crisis. Most names are derived from their forefathers, rivers/streams, deities, hills, markets and other landmarks while families and individuals usually take their names after family members, fore fathers, market days and known heroes and heroines, among other important institutions.
There are over thousands of African names not captured anywhere especially the ancient names and they are going into extinction,most of the young generation youths are not aware of the names and this will be worst if the it is not captured now- what data are we going to present to the generations unborn? We intend to close the gap between the ancient names and the younger generation and in the same time solve the problem of low participation of contributors in Wikitonary as an online educational resource and creation of contents in Wikitonary platform.
How we planned the Maiden Edition edition
This was an edit a thon to train participants on Igbo Wiktionary editing and adding content.
Targeted Audience
We targeted 40 participants divided into 2 segments- 20 offline participants and 20 online participants.
We had 2 series of hybrid training (physicals and online) on 16th September, 2022 and 23rd September, 2022 in Anambra State for Igbo Indigenous members at Wikimedia Igbo User Group, Nigeria, this was a maiden edition, after the training, we organized 2 edith-a-thon challenges that rewarded highest editors and some outstanding contributors with data token and gifts.
Outcome of the Maiden Edition
We targeted 40 participants and 100 names and their meanings but at the end of the project we had 52 participants and over 2.32k page created.
4 times in a year, Wiki Loves Names which comprises of noun ( name of a person, animal, place or thing) gives every Wikimedian the opportunity of adding 5 names each with their various meanings to Wiktionary — this welcomes indigenous people in Africa with the passion to contribute to free knowledge by adding names and their various meanings in Wiktionary.
How it works For example
Select 5 ancient names from your community. Go to ig.wiktionary.org Add the names and meanings of the names with examples.
Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project that creates a free knowledge and content dictionary of terms in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Join us to help enrich the platform by creating and contributing quality contents on Wiktionary to help bridge knowledge gap.
A tip of an iceberg
Your objective is to contribute at least 5 names to Wiktionary wth their various meanings. When you edit, make sure to include category Category:Wiki Loves Names
This is the tracking link to Wiki Loves Names [1]