This is an impressive initiative aimed at savaging the situation of 5
endangered languages of West Bengal.
Congratulations to WB UG 👏

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 8:08 AM Bodhisattwa <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> We are excited to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group is
> collaborating with the School of Language and Linguistics of the Jadavpur
> University, Kolkata to add a total of more than 5,000 lexicographical data
> for 5 endangered languages of West Bengal with varying degrees of
> vulnerability according to UNESCO scale. These languages are Kharia Thar,
> Koda, Kurmali, Mahali and Toto.
>
> The School will assign 5 post-graduate students in linguistics as
> Wikimedians-in-residence to upload the said data on Wikidata who will spend
> 360 man-hours in total within a 3-months deadline. The entire expenditure
> of this assignment will be borne by the user group from its annual budget
> granted from the WMF community fund.
>
> The process of selection of the students and including the languages into
> Wikibase is underway. We hope to start the project by the end of this
> month.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
> (On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)
>
>
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