Celtic Knot Conference 2024/Submissions/Wikimedia’s new languages metrics as a resource for insights about minority languages

Submission no.

About the submission

Title of the submission

Wikimedia’s new languages metrics as a resource for insights about minority languages

Type of submission

Presentation

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

This presentation provides an introduction to the language metrics being developed by the Wikimedia Research team. These include metrics about language coverage (i.e., which languages have projects, features, and capabilities across the Wikimedia ecosystem) and language representation (i.e., how Wikimedia language coverage reflects, or doesn’t reflect, the global language landscape). For minority languages such as the Celtic languages, these language metrics can be a useful tool for understanding the state of Celtic languages across Wikimedia projects.

The presentation will begin with an overview of Celtic language representation across Wikimedia projects, including hosted projects, pre-hosted projects (i.e., test wikis), and multilingual projects. Then, an overview of the language metrics project will be provided. Attendees of the presentation will have the opportunity to ask questions about the language metrics and give suggestions. The second half of the presentation will be used for showcasing how to use the language metrics data to answer specific questions about specific Celtic languages. This portion of the presentation will include a live demo of the data, which will be interactive and tailored to the needs of the audience; attendees will be able to ask questions that can be answered using the language metrics data.

By the end of the workshop, attendees will know more about the language metrics being developed by the Foundation; they will understand the current state of Celtic languages across Wikimedia projects; and they will know how to use the language metrics data to answer questions about Celtic languages and other minority languages.

Theme of session

Visions Forged

What will attendees take away from this session?

Attendees will learn about an ongoing Wikimedia Foundation project and will learn how to use a related dataset.

Language of presentation

English

About the author

Author of the submission

Caroline Myrick (User:CMyrick-WMF)

E-mail address

cmyrickwikimedia.org

Country of origin

United States of America

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

Wikimedia Foundation

Slides or further information (optional)

Special requests

Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final

Interested attendees

If you are interested in attending this session, please sign with your username below. This will help reviewers to decide which sessions are of high interest. Sign with a hash and four tildes. (# ~~~~).

1. Online. Yug (talk) 16:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)