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About the submission

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Title of the submission
Future of Language Incubation


Type of submission
  • Presentation – 20–25 minute presentation. This time includes questions from the audience.
Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
  • There are editions of Wikipedia in about 300 languages. And yet, there are many more languages that are spoken by millions of people, in which there is no Wikipedia and no Wiki at all. The Wikimedia Incubator, is where potential Wikimedia project wikis in new-language versions can be arranged, written, tested and proven worthy of being hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Incubator was launched in 2006 with the assumption that its users would have prior wiki editing knowledge. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that this process is supposed to be mostly performed by people who are the newest and the least experienced in our movement. While editing on Wikimedia wikis has significantly improved since then, the Incubator hasn't received these updates due to technical limitations.
  • In this session, we'll discuss the current state and future of language incubation, sharing research findings and brainstorming ways to improve the experience. We will begin with an overview of language representation across Wikimedia projects. We'll then delve into the current status and the future direction of languages onboarding at Wikimedia. We'll share the latest updates and research findings related to Incubator and other test projects, and then engage in a collaborative brainstorming session on approaches for enhancing the language onboarding experience
Theme of session
  • Visions Forged: Charting Paths in Language Advocacy.


What will attendees take away from this session?
  • Attendees will learn about the current state of language incubation and collectively brainstorm on the future of language incubation.
Language of presentation

English

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About the author

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Author of the submission

MMunyoki_(WMF), SSethi_(WMF), CMyrick-WMF

E-mail address

mmunyoki@wikimedia.org

Country of origin

Kenya

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Wikimedia Foundation

Slides or further information (optional)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future_of_Language_Incubation

Special requests

N/A

Is this Submission a Draft or Final?

Final


Interested attendees

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