---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nitesh Gill <gillte...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 14:46 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Youth Skill Development Program to Document Oral Culture in Endangered Indian Languages To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello again, We are seeking volunteers from North India and North-East India or those who have actively worked in these regions to join us in this project. You can sign-up at the section at the bottom of the project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Youth_Skill_Development_Program_to_Document_Oral_Culture_in_Endangered_Indian_Languages#Volunteer_Sign-Up Regards Nitesh & Amrit On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 8:00 PM Nitesh Gill <gillte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > *This email was sent from Amrit's account but has not been approved yet. > Apologies in advance for overwhelming the mailing list in case the other > email is also approved.* > > I am pleased to inform you that Amrit and I have prepared a toolkit for > transcription of oral culture which enables non-expert to document their > language and culture and digitize them on Wikimedia platforms. We have > built upon the OpenSpeaks toolkit and Elicitation Protocol of Wikitongues > in order to provide a unified toolkit with content on technical knowledge, > oral history elicitation interview questions, wiki workflow and > introduction to language documentation. The volunteers who tested this > toolkit were mostly female, thus forwarding our aim of inclusivity as an > aim of this project. We request you to go through the toolkit on the > following page: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit > > > > Please share your ideas and recommendations on it on the Discussion page > of the toolkit. > > Further, we are planning to utilize this toolkit in the new project that > we have proposed. In this project, we plan to teach youths speaking > endangered languages to document their culture, hold workshops for training > in audio-visual documentation and train them for the wiki workflow. We > would love to hear from you on this plan of ours, your suggestions are very > welcome. Also, if you are interested to participate or volunteer in this > project, do let us know on the talk page or via email. We are sharing the > link to this project below: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Youth_Skill_Development_Program_to_Document_Oral_Culture_in_Endangered_Indian_Languages > > > We are also inviting volunteers to join this project in any capacity. Feel > free to add your name to the Volunteers section on the project page. > > > Regards > > Nitesh and Amrit > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
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