Language: English (mozilla)
The impact of colonization in Africa has played a major role in the determination of the extent of the vitality and endangerment of many of the indigenous languages in Africa.
Language is one of the core values of people and the identity of any nation. It's been established by the United Nations that “every two weeks, at least one indigenous language vanishes, leading to two language extinctions each month
This panel tends to gather language enthusiasts across the movement to brainstorm on the role of Wikipedia and its sister project in supporting various activities, channeled at preserving indigenous languages.
This session aimed at achieving the following goals:
- To showcase the success stories around various Wikimedia projects that have centered on revitalisation of the indegunoes languages in Africa
- Introduces the role of tools in projects in language documentation and preservation.
- The roles played by individual Wikimedia project in language documentation eg Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikidata etc in all the mentioned projects
- Impact of inspiration and challenges in the derive of language documentation.
- Identify challenges facing language documentation among language enthusiasts
Our proposal focuses on language documentation, preservation and revitalization a key component in language digitization and culture.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session? What if 30 participants attend? What if there are 3?:We plan to have more than two facilitators in order to handle the case of many participants and if we have 3 participants, training will be handle to effectively impact the knowledge behind the session.
What happens after MozFest? We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after MozFest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:We plan to setup a working committee to further the conversation and execution of action Points from the session
What language would you like to host your session in?: English
Olushola is a financial management expert and former asset management consultant to the First Bank of Nigeria, a bank founded in 1894 with a assets totaling NGN5.9 trillion (USD 153,908,000,000). Shola is the Chair, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc., and a member of the WMF's Affiliations Committee. He has lead and managed over 50 Wikimedia programs/projects that focus on advocacy, community organising, capacity building, partnership-building and volunteers management. He is the producer of several Wikimedia advocacy radio show. The most prominent and longest running program is the Wiki Women Radio Program produced as part of the Wiki Loves Women project. He has featured in several notable national televisions to promote Wikimedia projects, notably; BBC Channels TV, TVC News & PlusTV Africa. He has attended several Wikimedia conferences and chaired the Wiki Indaba 2019. Olushola is a co-producer of the New Readers Awareness Campaigns promotion videos. This advocacy work earned the team the 2018 African Excellence Awards, and the award ceremony took place in Dublin, Ireland. He's a co-coordinator of the WPWP Campaign, and the project manager of the the Visibility Project in which over 200 female journalists in East Africa were trained and mentored on how to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Olaniyan Olushola would be responsible for managing the entire project with the support of several volunteer members of the Wikimedia Nigeria Community.
I am from Patiala, India and I love learning languages. I work with the Wikimedia Foundation as a Program Officer with the GLAM & Culture team.
