Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025/Submissions/Difficulties in describing plants in minority languages using the example of the Tatar language

ID : 25
Author(s): Dina Abdullina	Username(s): Динә Абдуллина	Type of submission: Lightning talk
Author(s): Dina Abdullina	Affiliation: Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group	Theme(s): Biology, botany, linguistics
Abstract: There are a number of problems in filling out materials on the topic of flora and fauna of Tatarstan in Wikipedia in the Tatar language. Firstly, there is a lack of information about the nature of the republic and the unavailability of publications by Tatar scientists. Secondly, the terminology in the Tatar language is incomplete. Thirdly, these are synonyms, repeated names, folk names of plants and animals. And much more. The same difficulties can be observed on the pages of other minority languages. My report draws attention to these problems and presents ways to solve them.		Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCE_Dina_Abdullina.pdf
		Level of advancement: advanced
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		Recording (Yes/No): Yes
		Photography (Yes/No): Yes

How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region of CEE? I can share my experience of describing plants with representatives of other linguistic minorities so that they can expand botanical and other topics in their languages on Wikipedia

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