Might be a project that Whose Knowledge <https://whoseknowledge.org/> (started by a couple of WMF ex-pats) is interested in supporting? They don't have a lot of technical resources of their own, but are probably connected with the right networks.
- J On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: > I talked this evening with Felix Nartey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki > /Felix_Nartey) from Ghana and it looks like their group are pretty far > along in arranging to do some orally-based work with people from indigenous > cultures there. However, the want to use Wikidata to track their content, > and on data modeling they are very much just beginners. I told them that I > suspect I am not the only Cascadia Wikimedian who would be interested in > helping them work out a schema to model the data, since several of us have > relevant skills. This might eventually also be of benefit to us locally as > well, for cultural stuff with ethic groups and tribes/nations in our > geographic area. Not sure all of what this will ultimately entail from us, > but Felix seems rock-solid, so we'd have a strong collaborator on the other > end: I'm pretty sure they can sort out most of what data they'd want to > track, and we'd just have to devise a schema. > > Are there others in Cascadia besides just me who'd be interested in taking > this on? Anyone know someone not yet a Wikimedian (or not all that active) > who might find this interesting? > > JM > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
