2019:Program/Wikitongues

Overview

Wikitongues is a community of 1,000+ volunteers in 100+ countries working for all people to have the tools to preserve and sustain their languages for the next generation. Our user group facilitates Wikitongues contribution to Wikimedia projects: in particular, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

This Wikimania, join us by contributing your language to the linguistic diversity of Wikimedia projects!

How it works

• You visit our recording booth (schedule below)
• One of our contributors records you speaking in your language (we'll work with you to transcribe it later)
• We edit the video and upload it to the Wikimedia Commons and appropriate articles on Wikipedia
• Your video may also appear on our YouTube channel and will be archived permanently at the U.S. Library of Congress

Last Year in Cape Town

At the Wikimania 2018 Community Village in Cape Town, we recorded 17 Wikimedians speaking in their mother tongue.

• Mahmoud speaking Iraqi Arabic
• Roussow speaking Afrikaans
• Hasive speaking Bengali
• Mohammed speaking Dagbani
• Gereon speaking English
• Gereon speaking German
• Mckensie speaking English
• Sam speaking English
• William speaking English
• Amir speaking Russian and Hebrew
• Cahyo speaking Javanese
• Netha speaking Malayalam
• Ranjith speaking Malayalam
• Chabota speaking Nyanja
• Iddy speaking Swahili
• Josh speaking Tagalog
• Nataev speaking Uzbek
• Olaniyan speaking Yoruba

Schedule and Location

The Wikitongues recording station is located on the sixth floor, in the interpreting booth overlooking Aula Magna.

Friday

• 10am - 3pm
  
• 3pm - 3:30pm - Booth closed for presentation: How to sustain your language online

Saturday

• 10am - 11:30am
  
• 11:30am - 12:15 - Booth Closed for panel discussion: Why indigenous languages matter more (now) and what we can do for them
  
• 1pm - 4pm

Sunday

Forthcoming.

Sign Up

If you would like to reserve a 15-minute time slot in advance, leave your name and preferred time below.