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Activities

Daniel Bogre Udell speaking at Wikipedia Day 2018

Language recording at Wikimania 2018

Wikitongues-Odia Wikimedians User Group in Cape Town.

2017

• Daniel Bogre Udell (talk) gave a lightning talk about language preservation in the digital age.
• Subhashish Panigrahi (talk) gave a tutorial about Kathabhidhana, open source software for contributing words and phonemes to Wiktionary.
• Daniel Bogre Udell (talk), Subhashish Panigrahi (talk), Sailesh Patnaik staffed a Wikitongues table at the community village.

2018

2018 was a big year for Wikitongues and Wikimedia!

Q1

• We launched our official Wikimedia user group.
• We participated in Wikipedia Day 2018 in New York City
  • Daniel Bogre Udell (talk) expanded upon his Wikimania lightning talk by presenting examples of Internet-based language activism on every continent.

Q2

• We updated our licensing system to track language documentation under CCbySA.
• We co-organized the April 2018 Translate-A-Thon at LaGuardia Community College in New York City.

Q3

• We co-organized the Wiki Loves Pride Edit-A-Thon.
• We participated at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town
  • Daniel Bogre Udell (talk) Daniel expanded on his 2017 lightning talk with a more in-depth presentation on Wikitongues activities.
  • Daniel Bogre Udell (talk), Subhashish Panigrahi (talk), Sailesh Patnaik staffed a joint Wikitongues, Odia Wikimedians, and O Foundation table at the community village.

Q4

• Ben Jones-White presented Wikitongues at WikiConference North America in Ohio.
• We contributed over 300 language videos to the Wikimedia Commons.
• We systemized the Wikitongues-Wikimedia contribution flow for future language videos.
• We co-organized the first-ever Afro-Recordathon in at LaGuardia Community College in New York City.

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