Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Giving voices to the Quechua Puneño vocabulary on Wikimedia Commons (ID: 22450106)/Final Report

Giving voices to the Quechua Puneño vocabulary on Wikimedia Commons

Rapid Fund Final Report

Report Status: Accepted

Due date: 30 June 2024

Funding program: Rapid Fund

Report type: Final

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General information

Applicant username: Elwinlhq
Organization name: N/A
Amount awarded: 4625.05
Amount spent: 4625.05 USD, 4209.8

Part 1: Project and impact

1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)

Activity Implementation: Workshops The workshops about LinguaLibre and how to use it for recording Puno quechua voices were organized in coordination with 3 institutions and organizations in the Puno region. The first, we organized a workshop together with the Systems Engineering faculty of the National university of the Altiplano of Puno, where we reached out a full auditorium. About 120 university students attended the workshop and learned about LinguaLibre and the importance of recording the voices of their mother tongues. The second, we organized a workshop in the Nuñoa town, in Puno. where we made several calls at the radio stations announcing about the LinguaLibre workshop. The event reached about 12 persons. Additionally, we were invited to talk also about LinguaLibre and Wikipedia in the radio of Nuñoa during the “Rondas Campesinas” session, which has the highest pick of audience in the town. The third, we organized a workshop together with the “Illariy Ch’aska” organization, which is located 5 km from the Nuñoa town. The workshop reached 8 participants who were truly quechua speakers, and most of the concepts were explained in Quechua language.

Activity Implementation: Recording sessions In recording session were challenging and quite diverse. We had 9 participants who were willing to record their voices using LinguaLibre tool and with our support. The main challenge was to adjust our schedule according to their free time. For instance, most of the participants were living in the mountains and were often free at very early times or very late in the evenings. Also, we had to adjust our transport, a motorbike, and reach them in their houses at the mountains.

Most of the participants in the recording sessions, resulted from the third workshop. Somehow, they felt connected with our objectives to save the Puno Quechua language, and they feel confident to speak and listen during our live workshop in Quechua. We were supporting them with the LinguaLibre workflow and they feel thankful afterwords. Furthermore, one thing that we always bring with us to connect with them was food, they could be fine getting the reward pack, but they were even happier to receive food and share it with their relatives.

2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)

Share links to:

Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.

You can also share links to:

Important social media posts
Surveys and their results
Infographics and sound files
Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects

• Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LinguaLibre_in_Puno https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Artesanias_de_lana_de_alpaca https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nu%C3%B1oa

Some photos or videos from your event.

Some links about the dissemination of the work are (to be published): How #LinguaLibre arrived in Puno, Peru: https://diff.wikimedia.org/?p=128518 Ideas on Preserving an Under-Resource Language through Wiki projects: Quechua use case: https://diff.wikimedia.org/?p=128533

Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)

For example:

Training materials and guides
Presentations and slides
Work processes and plans
Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others

Training materials and guides https://lingualibre.org/wiki/Help:Main/en https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Libre/es https://lingualibre.org/wiki/Help:RecordWizard_manual/qu Work processes and plans https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n8_gRshxvuZxFffitoH55Pp8yw9sJcjFaTbsVgWyqUI/edit?usp=sharing Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others Qichwabase Import: https://github.com/kristbaum/QichwabaseImport The RecordWizard of LinguaLibre in Quechua: https://lingualibre.org/wiki/Help:RecordWizard_manual Report and dissemination material: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LinguaLibre_in_Puno

3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)

Our efforts during the Fund period have helped to...
A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups	Strongly agree
B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community	Strongly agree
C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups	Strongly agree
D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives	Strongly agree
E. Encourage the retention of editors	Strongly agree
F. Encourage the retention of organizers	Strongly agree
G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement	Strongly agree
F. Other (optional)

Part 2: Learning

4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)

You can recall these learning questions below: The approach we are proposing is certainly new to the Quechua Community, yet it takes advantage of the Wikimedia ecosystems and its tools. We have designed an approach that first, collects all quechua vocabularies on a Wikibase instance, then we select a specific quechua variant (e.g., Quechua Puneño), afterwards, we create lists of words to be recorder by quechua native speakers. Finally, the recordings are loaded ad presented on Wikimedia Commons. Some learning points are:

How this approach can be used for recording other quechua language variants
How this approach can help low-resource languages to overcome their lack of resources
How a community of quechua speaker can be empowered with tools so they can continue contributing to the Wikimedia ecosystem
How the recording can be used for creating Open Educational Resources

The approach we proposed was certainly new to the Quechua Community, because before our project there were just 20 lexemes on Wikidata and no speech recordings. So, what we did was to take advantage of the Wikimedia ecosystems and its tools to record voices of an under resourced language as is the Puno Quechua. There is a workflow that we designed and followed in order to achieve our goal for the Puno Quechua language, which currently has about 1000 lexemes on Wikidata, and they have their speech recordings. It can be used on a different under resourced language by following: First, collects vocabularies and dictionaries and curate them on a Wikibase instance Then, import the curated list of words into Wikidata. Afterwords, generate a SPARQL query to select a list of words that you want to record. Then, open the LinguaLibre tool and import the list of words based on your SPARQL query. Afterwards, speakers of your language can record their voices. Last but not least, the recordings are loaded ad presented on Wikimedia Commons. Finally, the recording are added on the created lexemes on Wikidata. The recording are available on Wikimedia Commons and can be downloaded by anyone. They can be included on Quechua Wikipedia articles, can be used for quechua learners to listen the words, and more.

5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)

Perhaps the most important lesson of this project is to try to connect with people, and not only try to get the task done. One main challenge for us was to adapt to the participant's schedule time, so they can still work on their things during the day, and we can visit them on their free time. Also, the fact that we need to visit them in the mountains because they do not live in the town.

The other thing is that, people living in the town they do not (want to) speak quechua anymore, and they are not interested on saving the language. So mostly people from the mountains try to push their language forward. I hope this changes in the future.

6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)

Coordination has been made, but dates need to be defined: Wikimedistas de Bolivia: https://wikimedia.org.bo WikiMUC: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMUC Wikimania: Informal meetings

Presentation in external events and meetings: Higa Alumni: https://higaalumni.wixsite.com/2024 1st UniDive training school: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr Wikimania: Informal meetings

Dissemination in an International Conference LD&A 2024 : Language Documentation and Archiving 2024: https://lda2024.sciencesconf.org

Part 3: Metrics

7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)

In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.

	Target	Results	Comments and tools used
Number of participants	10	140	3 events
Number of editors	10	9	LinguaLibre
Number of organizers	2	3	Presence events

Wikimedia project	Target	Result - Number of created pages	Result - Number of improved pages
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons	6570	1650	1650
Wikidata		1600	1613
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

8. Other Metrics results.

In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.

Other Metrics name	Metrics Description	Target	Result	Tools and comments

9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)

No

9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Part 4: Financial reporting

10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)

4209.8

11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)

4625.05

12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)

Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gu0WGANeVcLVanbkvFxfS3FfDbg3nixV04wrXOmBrUs/edit?usp=sharing

12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)

13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?

No

13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.

N/A

13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?

N/A

13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.

N/A

14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?

Yes

14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?

Yes

14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.

Yes

15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)

Review notes

Review notes from Program Officer:

N/A

Applicant's response to the review feedback.

N/A