Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiJejama:Advancing the Digital Presence of Lampung Language and Culture through Open Knowledge Platforms (ID: 23375047)

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Xiangliangzai

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Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

WikiJejama: Advancing the Digital Presence of Lampung Language and Culture through Open Knowledge Platforms

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-09-01 - 2026-03-01

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Indonesia

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Not applicable

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

The Change We Aim to Bring:

WikiJejama seeks to initiate a community-driven digital revitalization of the Lampung language and culture, transforming marginalized local knowledge from passive archival materials into dynamic, participatory, and freely accessible content across multiple Wikimedia platforms. The project aims to empower Lampung-speaking communities—especially youth, elders, educators, and cultural practitioners—to become active contributors and stewards of their own linguistic and cultural heritage.

By bridging the gap between tradition and technology, this project contributes to the Wikimedia Movement Strategy’s broader goals of Knowledge Equity and Capacity Building. Through collaborative documentation and digital literacy development, WikiJejama envisions a future where Lampung language and culture are not only preserved but actively practiced and represented within the global open knowledge ecosystem.

Main Challenges and Problems to Be Addressed:

1. Severe Underrepresentation in Open Knowledge Spaces: Despite Indonesia’s vast linguistic and cultural diversity, Lampung remains significantly underrepresented across Wikimedia projects. The Lampung language—comprising the Api and Nyo dialects—has minimal visibility in Wiktionary and only 540 pronunciation files on Wikimedia Commons (as of June 2025), compared to over 2,500 for Javanese and 2,300 for Sundanese. There are also very few Wikipedia articles covering Lampung cultural expressions. This stark disparity hinders educational access, lexicographical development, and public recognition of Lampung identity.

2. Language Shift and Cultural Erosion: Lampung is classified as an endangered language, particularly in urban settings, due to limited intergenerational transmission and dominance of Bahasa Indonesia in everyday life. This has led to the gradual loss of oral literature, ritual practices, and intangible cultural heritage such as traditional dances, music, ceremonial dress, and folklore (Rahmawati, 2023; IDN Times, 2023).

3. Digital and Participatory Literacy Gaps: Many Lampung speakers and cultural bearers are unfamiliar with digital tools and open knowledge platforms. They lack access, confidence, and skills needed to document or share their heritage via Wikimedia, resulting in valuable knowledge remaining undocumented and inaccessible.

4. Structural Marginalization within the Wikimedia Ecosystem: Wikimedia Indonesia has historically centered its growth around Java-based contributors and communities. Contributors from Sumatra—especially Lampung—are underrepresented both in content creation and leadership, perpetuating epistemic and regional inequities within the movement.

Main Approaches to Achieve the Change:

1. Decentralized, In-Person Capacity Building Workshops: From October to December 2025, five localized capacity-building workshops will be held across key Lampung-speaking regions: Bandar Lampung, Bandar Jaya, Pringsewu, Liwa, and Krui. These workshops aim to equip participants with the skills and knowledge required to contribute meaningfully to Wikimedia projects. Participants will receive hands-on training in: (a) editing and structuring lexical entries on Indonesian Wiktionary; (b) recording pronunciation and oral expressions via Lingua Libre and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons; (c) documenting and publishing visual and audio content related to traditional dress, dance, music, and ceremonial practices; and (d) collaboratively creating at least 10 new Wikipedia articles focused on Lampung cultural heritage. Each workshop will combine field-based cultural documentation, technical instruction, and collaborative editing, fostering both individual skill-building and collective knowledge creation.

2. Sustained Remote Mentorship and Peer Review: To support participants beyond the workshops, a structured mentorship system using WhatsApp, Google Meet, and asynchronous support channels will be implemented. Peer review mechanisms will help improve content quality, reinforce learning, and foster community accountability.

3. Thematic Community-Based Cultural Events: Activities such as storytelling circles, Sastra Lampung readings, and oral history nights will be conducted to generate multimedia content for upload and encourage intergenerational collaboration. These events also serve as cultural affirmation and celebration spaces.

4. WikiJejama Online Contribution Challenge: A gamified online challenge (January 2026) will encourage sustained engagement across all platforms. Participants will be rewarded based on both quality and quantity of contributions, with digital badges, certificates, and public recognition.

5. Institutional Partnerships for Long-Term Impact: Strategic collaboration with Universitas Lampung (UNILA) and grassroots cultural organizations will ensure both academic credibility and community legitimacy. Co-created outcomes such as bilingual open educational resources (OERs) and a public digital archive will increase sustainability and reuse of materials beyond the project timeline.

Rationale for Approaches:

These approaches were selected based on extensive community engagement, regional realities, and evidence from previous Wikimedia initiatives (e.g., WikiMelayu, WikiTutur). By integrating linguistic revitalization and cultural preservation into a holistic digital strategy, WikiJejama directly addresses the intersecting problems of language endangerment, regional marginalization, and knowledge inequality.

We chose decentralized, in-person workshops because they are more effective for building trust and bridging the digital gap in semi-urban and rural contexts. Likewise, field-based documentation is crucial for capturing oral and performative culture, which would otherwise be absent from digital repositories. Sustained remote mentorship ensures continuity and growth, while gamified challenges provide motivation and visibility—especially for younger contributors.

Finally, long-term partnerships with educational and cultural institutions embed the project within existing systems of influence, enhancing both its reach and legacy.

By centering community agency and local knowledge holders, WikiJejama contributes to building a more inclusive, pluralistic, and representative Wikimedia ecosystem—one where endangered languages and cultures are not just preserved but actively co-created and shared with the world.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

1. We will begin with a series of five in-person, one-day workshops conducted between October and December 2025 in Bandar Lampung, Bandar Jaya, Pringsewu, Liwa, and Krui. Each workshop will engage 10–15 participants in hands-on training on how to contribute to Wiktionary (Bahasa Indonesia), Lingua Libre, and Wikimedia Commons. Participants will learn to create and structure lexical entries, record and upload pronunciation files, and ethically document oral and cultural heritage. The workshops will also include localized cultural events, such as storytelling sessions and ritual performances, which will serve as both pedagogical tools and content sources. This integrated format is designed to develop local contributors’ technical skills while grounding their work in culturally relevant practices, ensuring authenticity, engagement, and sustainability.

2. To extend learning and ensure inclusive participation beyond physical workshops, we will provide a four-month online mentorship program from November 2025 through February 2026. This program will use low-bandwidth platforms such as WhatsApp and Google Meet to deliver asynchronous tutorials, personalized feedback, and small group discussions. Through weekly or bi-weekly check-ins, participants will receive continued guidance on editing techniques, content quality, and project documentation. This approach addresses digital access disparities and helps build a distributed network of support and shared accountability among contributors from different cities.

3. In January 2026, we will organize Record-a-thon and Edit-a-thon events to intensify content production and community engagement. The Record-a-thon will focus on uploading at least 500 pronunciation files to Lingua Libre, based on curated vocabulary lists drawn from Swadesh sets, thematic categories (e.g., kinship, environment, rituals), and linguistic consultation with local experts. This will be followed by Edit-a-thons aimed at enhancing Wiktionary entries using the recorded materials. Participants will apply structured formatting, semantic categorization, and contextual usage examples to improve quality and readability. These events are designed to consolidate learning, stimulate collaboration, and amplify content output.

4. Each of the five cities will also host an oral heritage documentation event involving local elders, storytellers, and cultural practitioners. These sessions will record oral traditions such as folktales, ceremonial chants, origin myths, and poetic forms, many of which are at risk of being lost. The outputs—captured in audio or video—will be transcribed, annotated with metadata, translated when possible, and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under open licenses. These events not only preserve intangible cultural heritage but also reinforce intergenerational knowledge exchange and affirm community identity through digital platforms.

5. To ensure broader usability and impact, we will develop a collection of Open Educational Resources (OERs) derived from project activities. These will include a bilingual community lexicon (Lampung–Bahasa Indonesia), a practical Wiktionary and Lingua Libre toolkit tailored to regional language users, and editable training materials such as slides, handouts, and video tutorials. All resources will be published under Creative Commons licenses and distributed via educational networks, Wikimedia communities, and public repositories, enabling replication, adaptation, and long-term use by language activists and educators.

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

The WikiJejama team comprises 16 individuals, structured into 2 salaried staff and 14 non-staff volunteers, forming a hybrid and community-embedded operational model. This structure balances centralized project coordination with decentralized grassroots facilitation, ensuring professional consistency while remaining adaptive to local needs and community dynamics.

Salaried Core Staff:

1. Xiangliangzai (Project Manager) – A Wikimedian and experienced language activist, Xiangliangzai oversees project planning, budget and timeline management, partner liaison, content quality control, and strategic integration with Wikimedia platforms. Having led WikiTutur 1.0 and 2.0 in Bandar Lampung, he brings proven leadership and deep contextual understanding of Lampung language revitalization efforts. He will also co-facilitate training workshops, ensure licensing and metadata compliance, and contribute to mentoring contributors throughout the project cycle.

2. BlueberryCheeseCream (Project Assistant) – This role supports operational and technical execution, including event logistics, outreach coordination, materials preparation, and troubleshooting during hybrid and online activities. BlueberryCheeseCream also contributes to content development on Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons, supports remote mentoring, and documents workshop processes. His dual role strengthens project continuity across both in-person and online formats.

Non-staff Volunteer Team:

The volunteer structure is divided into two clusters: a Core Technical and Cultural Team (6 members) and Local Facilitators (8 members, 2 per city).

Core Technical and Cultural Team:

1. Two Linguistic and Cultural Facilitators – Responsible for ensuring dialectal accuracy (Api and Nyo), supporting transcription and translation, and validating oral and ritual content to safeguard cultural integrity. 2. Two Wikimedia Technical Trainers – Deliver training on Wiktionary (Bahasa Indonesia), Lingua Libre, and Wikimedia Commons, while also conducting follow-up mentoring and quality assurance during the online mentorship phase. 3. One Multimedia Documentation Specialist – Oversees audio-visual recording, editing, licensing, and systematic upload to Wikimedia Commons. This role is especially crucial during Record-a-thon sessions and oral heritage documentation events. 4. One Administrative Volunteer – Manages internal documentation, event logistics, and coordination of printed and digital learning materials for workshops and mentorship activities.

Local Community Facilitators (2 each in Bandar Jaya, Pringsewu, Liwa, and Krui):

These eight volunteers serve as the bridge between project leadership and local communities. They coordinate recruitment, manage local logistics, co-facilitate oral heritage events, and maintain participant engagement through culturally sensitive and language-aware approaches. Their local anchoring enhances inclusivity and ensures relevance across diverse geographies.

Team Values and Integration:

This team composition directly reflects our strategic approach outlined in Question 6—to combine decentralized, community-driven participation with structured capacity building. It also underpins all key activities detailed in Question 7, from workshops and mentorship to content production and educational resource development. The team's design promotes sustainability, intergenerational collaboration, and locally grounded leadership, aligned with the values of jejama—the Lampung principle of mutual cooperation.

All team members have previous or ongoing involvement in Wikimedia projects, and their complementary skills ensure that WikiJejama is not only feasible and impactful but also rooted in the lived realities of the communities it serves. Their collective commitment to knowledge equity and cultural preservation forms the backbone of the project’s long-term vision.

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)

The primary target participants of WikiJejama are native speakers and community members from the Lampung-speaking region, especially those residing in the five focus areas: Bandar Lampung, Bandar Jaya, Pringsewu, Liwa, and Krui. These participants represent a cross-generational and cross-sectoral group, including digitally literate youth, elder speakers, educators, linguists, cultural practitioners, and active Wikimedians. This diverse representation ensures that the project supports intergenerational dialogue, promotes inclusivity, and fosters local ownership of language and cultural documentation.

To further reinforce sustainability and cultural rootedness, we will also collaborate with key local institutions—such as schools, universities, language centers, and cultural agencies—that have an established commitment to preserving the Lampung language and heritage. These institutions play a vital role not only as recruitment partners but also as multipliers of impact through resource sharing and ongoing educational use.

Participants are selected based on a combination of factors: linguistic and cultural expertise, digital readiness, regional representation, and interest in free knowledge. Priority is given to individuals who demonstrate potential for long-term engagement with Wikimedia projects and a commitment to knowledge-sharing within their communities. This includes youth with digital skills who can champion Wikimedia editing, and elder speakers who serve as repositories of oral tradition and cultural wisdom. Their collaborative participation forms the backbone of WikiJejama’s strategy to integrate language revitalization with digital empowerment.

Before the activities, outreach is conducted through coordinated efforts by Wikimedia Bandar Lampung and regional Wikimedia communities, supported by our partner institutions. A targeted communication campaign—via WhatsApp broadcasts, social media, school bulletin boards, and cultural gatherings—disseminates information about the project and invites registration. The registration form collects data on participants’ language background, locality, digital literacy, and availability, enabling us to ensure a balanced cohort in terms of age, gender, and regional origin. Informed consent procedures are conducted to ensure ethical participation, with emphasis on Creative Commons licensing, data privacy, and the right to withdraw.

Once participants are confirmed, they are onboarded through low-bandwidth platforms such as WhatsApp, which serve as both information channels and early engagement spaces. In this preparatory phase, participants are guided to compile local vocabulary, pronunciation samples, oral narratives, and relevant multimedia materials. These initial interactions serve to contextualize their engagement, laying the groundwork for participatory content creation aligned with their lived realities.

During the activities, particularly the decentralized workshops (as described in Question 7), participants receive hands-on training in editing Wiktionary entries, recording via Lingua Libre, and ethically documenting cultural practices. Each session is facilitated by a combination of technical trainers, linguistic experts, and local cultural facilitators to ensure the relevance and accessibility of the content. Emphasis is placed on collaborative learning through small group work, peer mentoring, and culturally grounded storytelling. Local facilitators ensure linguistic and contextual appropriateness, while also encouraging community-based knowledge production.

After the workshops, participants are supported through a four-month online mentorship program. Structured into weekly or bi-weekly sessions, this program provides ongoing training, feedback on contributions, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Participants remain engaged through WhatsApp groups and Google Meet sessions, where they can ask questions, share updates, and receive encouragement. They also take part in community-driven initiatives such as the WikiJejama Online Challenge, which incentivizes consistent contribution and celebrates milestones.

Regular progress tracking, surveys, and qualitative feedback loops help us understand participants’ growth trajectories, identify challenges, and adapt support mechanisms accordingly. The mentoring framework not only solidifies technical competence but also nurtures confidence, leadership, and a sense of belonging within the Wikimedia ecosystem.

By ensuring continuous engagement before, during, and after the project activities, WikiJejama transforms participation into empowerment. It positions community members not merely as content contributors but as co-creators and stewards of their linguistic and cultural heritage. This approach fully aligns with the Wikimedia Movement Strategy recommendations on Knowledge Equity and Capacity Building, laying the groundwork for long-term community resilience and systemic inclusion of marginalized knowledge in open platforms.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

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11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

Discussion with Komunitas Wikimedia Bandar Lampung: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xkmUZwzmYam75jpZ1nBp4rD5L1FqiJw5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114887614975922341864&rtpof=true&sd=true

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Language

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Linguistic / Language

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Through WikiJejama, we aim not only to generate measurable outputs on Wikimedia platforms but also to derive deeper insights into the sociolinguistic, technological, and pedagogical aspects of community-based open knowledge production, especially within the context of an underrepresented regional language like Lampung. Our learning objectives are structured around the following thematic questions:

1. Content Growth and Impact on Lingua Libre: How significantly will the project contribute to the increase of Lampung language audio files—covering both Api and Nyo dialects—on Lingua Libre and Wikimedia Commons? By disaggregating contributions by city, dialect, speaker profile, and lexical domain, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness of decentralized workshops in mobilizing community-generated media content, and understand how digital audio documentation scales in linguistically diverse and digitally underserved areas.

2. Lexical Expansion and Semantic Coverage in Wiktionary: What is the quantitative and qualitative growth of Lampung entries in Indonesian Wiktionary, and how are these entries distributed across semantic domains (e.g., kinship, environment, rituals, oral idioms)? We seek to understand how community-curated data compares with academic sources, and how culturally grounded content enhances the richness, accuracy, and utility of open lexicographic databases.

3. Methodological and Sociolinguistic Challenges: What challenges emerge in compiling lexicographic content from oral traditions that lack standardized orthography and grammatical rules? We expect to document and analyze issues such as dialectal variation, digital literacy gaps, transcription accuracy, participant fatigue, and representational ethics. These insights will help refine inclusive and context-sensitive documentation practices for similar linguistic contexts.

4. Integration of Oral Heritage into Lexicographic Practice: How does incorporating oral heritage (e.g., folktales, ceremonial chants, idiomatic speech) affect the pedagogical value, structural coherence, and cultural resonance of Wiktionary entries? We will explore how example sentences, embedded audio files, and Commons-linked annotations influence user experience and knowledge retention, particularly among new language learners and educators.

5. Contributor Engagement Patterns Across Localities: What patterns of participation, retention, and content quality emerge from the five target areas—Bandar Lampung, Bandar Jaya, Pringsewu, Liwa, and Krui? By analyzing contributions and feedback longitudinally, we aim to identify enabling and limiting factors for sustained local engagement, and evaluate how locality-specific dynamics influence the success of community facilitation models.

6. Impact of Intergenerational and Cultural Activities on Inclusion: To what extent do cultural activities such as storytelling sessions and oral documentation events impact participants’ attitudes toward their language and their engagement with Wikimedia platforms? We are particularly interested in whether these culturally grounded experiences encourage continued contributions and foster a deeper sense of ownership, pride, and digital agency among participants.

Through these lines of inquiry, we hope to produce a body of knowledge that informs not only future iterations of WikiJejama, but also broader Wikimedia initiatives focused on language equity, oral knowledge inclusion, and community-centered content development. Our findings will be consolidated into a final public report—shared via Meta-Wiki, Wikimedia Indonesia, and relevant language documentation networks—to support peer learning, transparency, and replicability.

In essence, WikiJejama aims to demonstrate how collective, culturally-rooted action can enrich Wikimedia platforms while simultaneously empowering underrepresented communities to take ownership of their linguistic and cultural narratives in the digital space.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	66
Number of editors	50
Number of organizers	16

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	10
Wikimedia Commons	2000
Wikidata
Wiktionary	500
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote	25
Wikivoyage	10
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

We will utilize the Outreach Dashboard to systematically monitor and evaluate participants’ contributions. Additionally, category tags will be employed to assess the number and thematic classification of the pages created or edited.

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dazo1O39qvYYq54TpHKs4D-q659V4b1pHm7PgsLKuUg/edit?usp=sharing

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

79815000 IDR

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

4922.66 USD

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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