2023:Program/ESEAP Region/VUCUJZ-The Past and Future of Hokkien Languages (nan) on Wikimedia Projects

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Title: The Past and Future of Hokkien Languages (nan) on Wikimedia Projects

Speakers:

Dennis Raylin Chen

Taiwanese OpenStreetMap mapper and Wikidata contributor(User:Supaplex), one of the hosts of OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Monthly Meetup in Taipei. Recently speaking in Taiwanese Hokkien at conferences. Also the board of directors of Wikimedia Taiwan.

Pretalx link

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Room: Room 325

Start time: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:15:00 +0800

End time: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:35:00 +0800

Type: Lecture

Track: ESEAP (East, South East Asia, and the Pacific) Region

Submission state: confirmed

Duration: 20 minutes

Do not record: false

Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

台灣台語sī台灣ê國家語言, mā-sī台灣通四界ê通用語言，東南亞ê馬來西亞、新加坡、印尼ê福建話，菲律賓ê咱人話，mā ū kah 台語 ē-tàng 彼此之間無仝程度 ê 交流。這場 bueh 解說 Wikipedia nan 抑是維基辭典 等等 ê 維基媒體計畫ê狀況，猶閣有未來ê可能計畫。

Taiwan Taiwanese is one of the Taiwan national languages and a common language in Taiwan, and also an active Sinitic language in South East Asia countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, known as Hokkien or Lan-lang-oe, interchangeable with Taiwan Taigi. In this section I will summary the past of nan Wikipedia projects and other related nan Wikimedia projects like Wikidata, and Wiktionary.

Description

台灣台語sī台灣ê國家語言, mā-sī台灣通四界ê通用語言，東南亞ê馬來西亞、新加坡、印尼ê福建話，菲律賓ê咱人話，mā ū kah 台語 ē-tàng 彼此之間無仝程度 ê 交流，共通分享以早祖先流傳落來ê話語。。Sui-bóng 台灣台語 sī 日常生活 kah 影視作品ê常用語，毋過tī書面kah網路頂，欠缺文獻kah文本。Tī這場講演，我 bueh 講台灣維基社群tī-teh做ê代誌，

Wikidata ê 標籤、敘述，收字ê詞條，猶閣ū nan Wikipedia，應該按怎用Wikidataê永久重複項，連結用白話字kah漢字書寫ê條目內容。mā ū人bueh編輯nan維基辭典。mā會講kah姊妹仔計畫，親像講OpenStreetMap ê 地號名ê nan標籤bueh按怎配合。

Taiwan Taiwanese is one of the Taiwan national languages and a common language in Taiwan, and also an active Sinitic language in South East Asia countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, known as Hokkien or Lan-lang-oe, interchangeable with Taiwan Taigi. Even though it is also an active market language and entertainment industry language, Taiwanese Taigi lacks formal written documents and articles. In this section, I will share the activities that the Taiwanese community is doing, such as adding nan labels and descriptions on Wikidata and editing nan lexemes on Wikidata.

And I will mention the current situation of nan Wikipedia, and how to handle by Wikimedia’s permanent duplicated items, linking different Wikipedia articles’ written forms like POJ or hanji on Wikidata.

There are some editors expanding lexemes on nan Wikdictionary. Sisters project like OpenStreetMap, it is also possible to collaboratively edit on adding nan place names.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

This talk is mainly focused on local languages like Taiwanese Hokkien and digital preservation by Wikimedia projects like Wikidata, Wiki Commons, or nan Wikipedia.

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand