Wikitongues - Content Gaps Research Project
This is a project granted recently to Wikitongues , and is a collaborative effort with the Language Diversity Hub
The project team is being led by @Bogreudell alongside @Mali_Brødreskift_WMNO and @Jon_Harald_Søby_WMNO. The initiative targeted for this project is Initiative 37: Bridging content gaps.
The objective of this project is to pilot a cohort model for onboarding new language communities to Wikimedia. Much like the Wikitongues Language Revitalization Accelerator. This project will provide training, small grants and in-kind support to the leaders of 10 new mother-tongue Wikimedia projects, such as new language versions of Wikipedia, Commons documentation projects, or lexicon projects on Wiktionary.
The overarching objective is evaluating how Wikimedia projects can be made more accessible in under-resourced languages, and in turn, understanding the extent to which Wikimedia projects can accelerate language revitalization. At the end of the cohort process, the team will translate the project learnings and tools into a freely available toolkit for anyone to add their language to Wikimedia. This document will serve as the foundation for Wikitongues and the Language Diversity Hub to support new mother-tongue Wikimedia projects on an ongoing basis, at scale.
Please join me in congratulating this team as they now set things into motion. #identify-topics-for-impact