विकिपीडिया 15/साइट/कहानियाँ/चोरोबेक सादानबेकोव
Chorobek Saadanbekov
भाषाओं और संस्कृतियों का संरक्षण करना एक अद्भुत बात है।
Since 1991, Kyrgyzstan has grappled with the decline of its state language, Kyrgyz. Kyrgyz is a Turkic language spoken by 4 million people in many countries. Historian and activist, Chorobek Saadanbekov, has been writing Kyrgyz into Wikipedia as a way to sustain it for the future.
Chorobek knows that creating educational resources in Kyrgyz increases learning opportunities for those unable to read Russian, the other language commonly spoken in the country. Kyrgyzstan’s population is around 5.5 million people, and the Kyrgyz are the nation’s largest ethnic group.
उन्होंने बताया, "हमें अपने देश के अधिकांश लोगों के लिए निःशुल्क, सुलभ ज्ञान विकसित करने की आवश्यकता है।"
His first project involved building a library of Kyrgyz-language books. Chorobek and others digitized almost 200 and made them freely accessible online. Soon he realized that putting those articles on Wikipedia would boost chances they’d be read.
हमें अपने देश के बहुसंख्यक लोगों के लिए निःशुल्क एवं सुलभ ज्ञान विकसित करने की आवश्यकता है।'
Chorobek has written more than 1,600 articles on the Kyrgyz-language Wikipedia, which now contains almost 50,000 articles since its start in 2011.
Growing up in the countryside of Kyrgyzstan, Chorobek attended a Kyrgyz-language school in his youth. He’s written numerous articles about the Epic of Manas, the most treasured heritage of the Kyrgyz people, and an important part of the country’s oral tradition.
“If I [create a] very good article in Kyrgyz language about Manas, I can translate it into English and place it in English Wikipedia,” he says, “so we can connect our knowledges [in] a good way.”
चोरोबेक को उम्मीद है कि विकिपीडिया कागज़ की किताबों का एक अच्छा विकल्प हो सकता है, जो पहले से ही कई स्कूलों में दुर्लभ संसाधन हैं।
वे कहते हैं, "सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी के आने से हमें अपनी शैक्षिक गुणवत्ता और मात्रा बढ़ाने का बहुत अच्छा अवसर मिला है।"