Grants:TPS/Psubhashish/Wikimania/2018/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2018!

Participant

Psubhashish

Odia Wikipedia

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

• list of lessons learned shared on Odia Wikipedia village pump
• Blog summarizing various activities done during Wikimania

Option 2: Learning Pattern: What is one useful learning pattern you can share with the Wikimedia movement?

• Learning patterns/IRL video broadcast is a winning horse. Can Wikimedia projects bet on it?

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome that was created at the event for the Wikimedia movement?

a. Attended many useful sessions, and live-broadcast three sessions that were valuable but were not being recorded so that others could watch them (A Facebook Live session by Wikitongues on preserving languages, Talk "One Image at a time - How Governments can help in bridging the information gap on Wikipedia" by Sailesh Pattanaik, and Facebook Live recording - Working towards Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia (GLOW))

• Talk on multimedia documentation of native languages
• Talk on lobbying with governments for relicensing content under Creative Commons by Sailesh Patnaik
• Talk about Google-supported editathon to grow content on most-searched topics

b. Attended presentation on Lingua Libre and met the Wikimedians behind the project. It was so moving that I started recording right after coming back from Wikimania. I have uploaded over 1900+ pronunciations (and growing..) in Odia language on Commons to help fix some bugs and expanding the scope for improvements, and made a Facebook Live show for the Odia speakers to learn how to use Lingua Libre. I will be creating a tutorial soon which does not exist at the moment.

Tutorial on batch-recording pronunciation of words using Lingua Libre.

c. Updated our toolkit for multimedia documentation of marginalized languages. This will be available soon on Outreach/Wikiversity wiki.

d. Connected with several Creative Commons contributors. Hosted a live show on Facebook and one more on Twitter for Odia speakers to learn about using CC licenses for the creative work

• Tutorial on relicensing creative works under Creative Commons license (in Odia)
• A promotional video created to be used on social media to promote Creative Commons India chapter relaunch

e. Helping relaunch the Creative Commons India Chapter by gathering

Add a link to something new that was created as a result of your participation in this event (for example, you might link to a new tool that you and your co-participants worked on at the Hackathon, or to pages created in a workshop you participated in).

Connections

• Anasuya Sengupta, Siko Bouterse and other colleagues at WhoseKnowledge? - working together for building research and open resources on marginalized topics (people, languages, cultures)
• Sunil Abraham and Amira Dhalla from Mozilla Foundation - Sunil is a former colleague and has advised on several open knowledge projects. Discussed on scope of support from Mozilla for future projects
• Interviewed several Wikimedians who are native language speakers of about 8 languages. Videos will come on Wikimedia soon.
• Mandana, SOAS University, London - discussion on documenting endangered languages
• Daniel Bogre Udell and Freddie Andrade (Wikitongues) - collaborated for staffing a booth in community village and worked together documenting many native languages during Wikimania
• Met several Wikimedians and WMF staff at the strategy meeting
• Participated at Wikimedia brands - 2030 research and planning where I met with several Wikimedians and a comms agency - participated in brainstorming for bettering Wikimedia's brand structure