WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign: Events
Below are the objectives which we plan to achieve before 2030, the aim and objectives are set on early stage, it can be readjust or increase depending on progress on board, and how Wikimedians show their interest in participating to achieve goals, as some of the below mention objectives can only be achieved unless with team work and diversity.
- Promotional Campaign and Awareness on Audio Files in Wikimedia Commons towards Wikimedia Projects.
- To let Wikimedians acquire conceptual skills and technical experience of uploading audio files into Wikimedia Commons.
- Engaging newly editors and users without the experience of uploading audio files into Wikimedia Commons, with respect to making use of those audio files to be worth encyclopedic into various Wikimedia projects and local language Wikis.
- .The campaign plans to achieve many goals, part of which to upload 1,000,000,000 audio files before the end of 2030 in different languages.
- To Enhance Wikimedians to the activities of audio files in Wikimedia Commons.
- To have large number of editors contributing with Audio Files of different varieties.
- To mentor editors on how to record, equalize, convert and upload audio files.
- To have 1,000,000,000 audio files before 2030 through...….
- Through contest and quizzes.
- Organizing Edith-a-thon, workshops and local Wikis events on audio files.
- Having local Mentors, Organizers and Ambassadors on Audio Files.
- Making use of audio files that are worth encyclopedic in Wikipedias.
- Provisions of words pronunciation in the available Wikitionaries.
- Having different language audio across Wikimedia Projects.
- Documenting languages orally in native (Mother tongue).
- Etc.
- Technical Concept of Recording and Conversion.
Activities The following is a summary of the methods and techniques that will help us reach our objectives. The programs include promotional campaigns, mentoring programs, meet-ups, training, workshops, online training, offline training, contests, local language training, and award recognition, all are the first in line with planned activities that are scheduled to occur in ascending order.
Activities for Strategy 1: We would start by launching a massive promotional campaign to raise awareness of The Sound Of All Human Knowledge and the Wikimedia tools that improve sound across all Wikimedia projects, both online and offline. The campaign will use social media handles, flyers, links, video campaigns, and PDFs to raise awareness among the general public and Wikimedians in ten communities across six countries. Through this, the onboarding of interested participants will begin, with each participant assigned to their respective community and mentorship engagement. Throughout the campaign, a survey will be administered to gather data and information about Sound and Wikimedia sound tools.
Activities for Strategy 2: Following the promotional campaign, interested participants were assigned to their respective mentors based on their community; now, meetings are being scheduled to arrange for training and workshops to improve editors/participants' ability to produce audio content, develop technical capacity, and gain experience using Lingua Libre/Spell4Wiki. At this stage, our mentors will act as audio ambassadors, guiding and training volunteers while also assisting in the organization of local language trainings (online and in-person), international contests, and other mentorship tasks. Importantly, we would be hosting two separate events/trainings and two meetings per month. The training will be offered both in-person and online, allowing participants to choose between the two. Activities such as technical audio conversation skills and uploading editing skills, licensing and capacity building workshops in strategic, to improve audio skills among participants and create new audio content, as well as teach and onboard both newcomers, will be included. The goal of these meet-ups, in addition to strengthening the skills of current editors, is to help seasoned editors become more productive, capable of contributing to their community, and potential facilitators or contributors for our programs that advance the WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign in general. Create promotional videos to help with the creation of offline and online campaigns as part of strategy 1. Furthermore, virtual training will be recorded for later use and transfer of expertise to similar future projects. This time, video tutorials will be produced in a variety of languages. Furthermore, additional resources such as Spell4Wiki and Lingua Libre video tutorials will be added to assist editors and participants, despite the fact that video tutorials in other languages already exist.
Strategy 3 activities include research and development of dialectology. The research topic will be oral language dialectology, with a focus on the impact of Wikis in local language communities. The study will involve a systematic phenomenon-to-theory testing in identifying exploratory of what is discovered and what is not on dialectology, as well as theory testing to understand casual relationships and predictive scenarios. The dialectology research will assist every language on Wiki in applying the impactful findings to their respective languages. The information and data collection will aid in language research into neurolinguistics, shining a light on how neurology and brain structure interact with language in dialectology differences. Language research into dialects aims to assist Wikimedians in understanding how dialects form, how they change, and what the sociological or geographic status of various dialects may be in relation to Wikimedia community languages/Wikis and Multilingual.
Strategy 4 activities include outreach and studio work. This campaign's outreach aims to address problems and needs that community members face when it comes to audio contributions, which will benefit the work of WikiSound ASC and the sum of all free audio content knowledge sharing in Wikimedia as a whole. Outreach can only be considered effective if it includes only the following tips, which we intend to implement during our outreach program.
- Meet with the audience wherever they are.
- Providing the audience with the resources they require.
- Encourage participation in the campaign and provide necessary resources.
Strategy 5 activities will include a local contest to encourage local language audio editors, as well as an international contest to encourage editors to contribute solely through audio files. Furthermore, Wikimedia Pages Wanting Audio is introducing Wiki Loves Music as a contest component this time around. The idea is to upload audio files to Wikimedia Commons specifically for the purpose of linking to different pages, with a focus on music rather than word pronunciation and other types of audio that were originally created and uploaded.
Activities for Strategy 6: To gain a better understanding of how languages work, what communication is all about between languages, accents, varieties, evaluations, changes, and accent changes, we would conduct additional oral language research on a variety of topics and language areas. This research would also assist us in determining which pages to enhance with audio files, how to do so, and what type of native speakers we require. Furthermore, audio files from previous WSASC 2023 research are available on Wikimedia Commons.
Activities for Strategy 7: Throughout the aforementioned series of activities, we will create programs based on the needs of participants in order to ensure adequate participation, as well as to achieve long-term development in sound documentation based on oral language dialectology and music. The series of events will include online editing-a-thons, workshops, offline training, mentorship programs, outreach, studio work, and research. We will also ensure that editors and participants receive adequate training to gain experience with sound contributions using Lingua Libre and Spell4Wiki.