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| Hello. This page has been set up to facilitate the Lingwiki editathons and events at SOAS. The project is supervised by Lauren Gawne and Charlotte Hemmings. | |
We are a WikimediaUK funded group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Endangered Languages and Linguistics. You'll find out more about the specific tasks, and how you can contribute to them under the Lingwiki tab.
- Our original PEG grant application can be read here.
- Our links with Wikimedia UK can be found here.
Please leave any project related questions on our talk page.
Lingwiki at SOAS in 2016-2017 edit
Next event: Monday 6th February, 3pm-6pm (Queen Mary London), Scape 1.02 (building number 64). Contact Lauren for more information.
Previous events:
- Wednesday 23rd of November. 7 participants from SOAS.
- Monday 24th of October. 9 participants from SOAS and QML.
Lingwiki at SOAS in 2015-2016 - numbers and stats edit
Attendees: 14+ (that’s just how many we got names for, but more came and went). The participants were almost all graduate students or researchers at SOAS.
New Wikipedians: 10 of our participants were new Wikipedia editors, some of them are old hands now!
Edits made: 158 edits were made over the editathons - that’s over 10 edits per participant!
Characters added: 40,293 characters were added to Wikipedia.
New pages: 11 new pages were added to Wikipedia over the course of the editathons. Many edits happened on existing pages.
We created this GLAM project page for the kind of work we’ve been doing in these sessions. The majority of edits focused on one of three things:
- Linking archive pages to the relevant language page on Wikipedia to make those materials easier to discover
- Improving the Wikipedia pages of specific languages with both linguistic and ethnographic information found in descriptive grammars
- Improving Wikipedia linguistics pages, or linguist biographies
Some of the pages we improved during the sessions:
Multilingualism Government phonology Tombonuwo language North Ambrym language Belait language Baniwa language Huilliche language Sunwar language Wutun language Nen language (Papuan) Sabahan languages Sama–Bajaw languages
Particular commendation must go to ADHarvey, who added links to ELAR corpora for over 150 languages.
lingwiki will be back in 2015-2016, bigger than ever edit
This year we’re teaming up with colleagues at Queen Mary University of London and Oxford University to make lingwiki bigger and better than ever. I’ve also been talking with colleagues at UK institutions about taking lingwiki on the road. I’ll share updates here, and on Twitter under the #lingwiki hashtag.