Tochi Precious
Founder of: Smarter Language Hub, Co-founder, Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Wikipedian in Residence at Moleskine Foundation, initiated the launch of the Makhuwa Language Wikipedia in the Incubator (an African language with over 7 million speakers but no digital footprints).
Session
The Wikimedia Foundation’s vision is to “imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”. Abstract Wikipedia imagines a world that closes the gap of the expensive linguistic diversity through abstract representations of knowledge that can get “translated into one of [Wikipedia’s] 300 languages whenever someone wants to read part of it”. In this talk Tochi Precious, bilingual educator and cross-cultural communications expert, and Silvia Gutiérrez, data scientist and computational linguist, will converse with Denny Vrandečić, Product Manager of Abstract Wikipedia, in order to unravel the challenges that lie at the intersection of automation and diversity.