Wikimedia Language Diversity/Sustainability/ru

Wikimedia Language Diversity A project to support indigenous, minority, marginalized, less-resourced and other underrepresented language communities to have access to their at-risk knowledge

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«	Nelson Mandela	»

«	Annika Pasanen, Janne Saarikivi	»

«	Gaynulla F. Shaykhiev	»

«	Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone	»

«	Charles Arthur	»

To implement any of the tasks below, we need to attract more motivated volunteers, help them master the Wiki-Way & respective tools.

The priority goes to such tasks that increase:

• Readership of Wikipedias & other Wikimedia projects in respective languages.
• On-wiki activity

Attractiveness

• Main page must be exciting and inspiring
  • Visually
    • Main page design (f.e. see BasqueWP)
    • «Picture of the day»
    • «Multimedia of the day»
  • Informationally:
    • «On this day / This month»
    • «Do you know?»
    • «In the news»
    • «How to get in touch with specific language onwiki-community»

• Existing articles should be illustrated and enriched using Wikidata linked infoboxes

• Materials balance:
  • Past, present and future
  • thematic, gender, ideology, cultural etc. kinds of diversity
  • various thematic lists (f.e. see the list of articles every Wikipedia should have)

Improving ease of discovery

• Search engine optimization (let's help Google, Yandex, Bing, etc. tell others about content we have)

• • Tools to access degree of connectedness:
    • Article creation and updating is clearly important, but without intraproject and interwiki-linking of existing pages (categories, articles, templates) they won't be found by neither human, nor a bot. This is also important for improving such SEO indicators as PageRank regarding results in respective languages.

• • Main housekeeping tasks
  • additional aspects
  • Categorization - for navigation & related topic articles discovery
  • placement of navigation templates

• Increase content utility

1. Basic article stub with interwiki - an element of multilingual glossary
2. Longer stub with interwiki - an element of multilingual encyclopedic dictionary

Supporting participant and community development

• Promoting welcoming and collegial environment on and off wiki (expectation)

• Setting up intra-wiki reference system with links to Meta-Wiki or regional auxiliary language wiki reference materials

• Regular recognition of onwiki participants' efforts (f.e. WMRU-way)

• Organize regular Wikimeetups

• Support creation of Wikimedia user groups per each language edition of Wikipedia and their evolution into Wikimedia thematic organizations - discuss possible project roles

• Promoting active participation in Meta-Wiki activities and making it more multilingual

• Helping Wikipedia and its sister projects in the incubator

• Interface translation - not only for convenience, see Mandela quote above

Communicating existence & importance of respective communities

Cheatsheet

Let the community know

• Internal communications

• • Using Outreach Newsletters to promote and showcase efforts

• • Promoting chapter Wikis to have mainpages in regional or other minority languages present within the country (WMRU website & its multilingualism project)

• • Cheatsheet, Wikipedia & other leaflets and posters in respective languages – translation and regular distribution.

• External communications:

• • Language-specific social media – regular well planned posts (advice)

• • Regular well-prepared press releases in respective language oriented mass-media (advice)

Engaging existing readers to participating in respective Wikipedias

• Systemic work on achieving, improving and effectively communicating engaging team spirit among existing participants of the project

• On-wiki recognition of constructive contribution, some examples

• Using CentralNotice system for engagement

• Promoting use of Wikipedia environment in Education

• Including different languages into article writing competitions with prizes and other forms of recognition

См. также

• Wikipedias in the languages of Russia

References