Wikipedia Day 2023: Reactions, feedbacks, and goodwill messages from Igbo Wikimedians
To celebrate Wikipedia at 2022, the community of Igbo Wikimedians gave feedbacks, reactions, and goodwill messages. These feedbacks are mainly for the Igbo Wikipedia and will be used to get better in subsequent years. These feedbacks, reactions, and messages were retrieved from the community survey. Responses were collated below.
Reactions, feedbacks, and goodwill messages[edit]
What areas do you think we should improve on the Igbo Wikipedia?[edit]
- Venturing to a specific dialect
- More editors
- More training
- Please assign admins who can serve as checkers to articles because 50 percent of the articles on the ig pages were translated,not giving the equivalent of the source language.
- More translation tools should be added to the Igbo Wikipedia interface to enable translators have varieties of tools to consult while translating contents.
- The interface
- Addition of audio templates to Wikipedia. It will help tackle the mispronunciation of indigenous names on igbo Wikipedia.
- We need more competitions to improve the interactiveness.
- More active Wikimedians.
- Get more technical hands
- Cleaning up edited article
- On translation more translation should be done
- Clean up after contests is very important.
- Daily task should improve.
- I think organizing continuous training so as to imprint in the minds of people how to contribute rightly and correctly.
- I think we should make more information about the Igbo culture more available for people to and stop letting others hijack what's ours from us.
- To ensure the language becomes well known
- Making accurate edits during contest with the aim of presenting our language well rather than to win prizes.
- pronunciation, same things don't have Igbo pronunciation.
- Use of standard Igbo Language in creating contents or editing
- Interpretation of words in igbo editing.
- Professionalism in editing .
- In the area of Igbo poem translation.
- Well, I have not really thought about it, for me everything is fine for now.
- I think it's necessary to filter contributions.
- The teaching and learning of the central Igbo. Many translate and edit in their different local dialects. The use of central Igbo in editing and translation should be encouraged just like the one in the translated igbo bible which everyone is conversant with.
- Financial motivation
- The community is doing very well but given the inflation rate may be it will be fine to increase micro grant.
- Uniformity in use of translated Igbo words (e.g. some translate page as ibe, while some say it's peeji in Igbo language)
- Accuracy of the machine if possible
- You guys are already doing so well
What interests you most about Igbo Wikipedia?[edit]
- The Audio file
- It is because it's my language. It gives me the opportunity to share my thoughts and language to the world.
- The most interesting thing about Wikipedia is a wide space for everyone to explore
- They mentor well
- Translation and the Igbo keyboard
- The fact that one can Edit and write more about our language and our culture. Language visibility is the most thing that interests me to always contribute.
- As an indigenous language activist, Igbo #Wikipedia provides me the leverage to project my indigenous language (Igbo) at the digital space.
- The indigenous uniqueness
- The fact that I can freely share knowledge and also partake in the sum of knowledge.
- It lovely and engaging
- Am happy to be among Igbo Wikipedia because it's helps me to learn my mother tongue editing
- It's very much easier as i can contribute with easier as a speaker of Igbo Language
- The continuous hunger for innovation.
- It's very interactive
- It is added advantage to me to understand Igbo
- Convenience
- The ability of everyone to edit, contribute and add to knowledge
- Overall it's just the joy of having Wikipedia in my own language and the opportunity of contributing to global knowledge in my local dialect.
- The translation process or part
- I love that it makes English articles available in our local language thereby encouraging free knowledge devoid of language barrier.
- Everything
- Tolerance
- Discipline
- Knowledge facts sharing
- Its vast experience and knowledge
- It’s easy to contribute in.
- The fact that it is aimed towards Circulating and bring about the awareness of the Igbo culture.
- It gives me the opportunity to discover the Igbo translation of some English words I assumed to know.
- The fact that, igbo culture is well represented by the search engine
- The sharing of knowledge in diverse field of life interests me about Igbo Wikipedia. The preservation of culture is part of it too.
- It makes me to ask questions and on a very good day i wouldn't think of asking about them.
- Edit a ton
- Telling our story in Igbo Language
- The translation of articles from English to Igbo language
- Edit a thon and Wiktionary
- I’m happy I’m making my language ie the Igbo language visible to the world
- The editing is easier because it is my mother tongue.
- The uniqueness of the contents added
- What interests me mostly about igbo Wikipedia is the fact that it gives me an opportunity to edit in my local language and it helps me to be more expressive.
- Availability
- The passion to making Igbo language universal
- The fact that I'm helping to make my language and culture visible in the digital world.
- They friendly nature of the people i met, the way they socialize and how much patient they exercise to educate us, to list but a few.
- The passion to making the Igbo language universal
- The fact that I am promoting Igbo language and culture
- The fact that I can read articles in Igbo language.
- The zeal of the Wikimedians and their workaholic spirit
- What interests me most about the Igbo Wikipedia is how the little edits I make on Wikipedia impacts the world positively by the knowledge gain.
- Their Consistency
Do you have any advice for the Igbo Wikipedia admins?[edit]
- They should keep up the good work
- Keep working hard
- No I don't
- Let the work continue with the same agility
- Always appreciate the newbie's whenever they publish a new article by sending them email or by writing on their talk page. #It helped to motivate me back then.
- They should come down and be more accessible and transparent
- I want to appreciate the admins for their effort to make Igbo #Wikipedia stand out but will also encourage them to check articles during contest because most editors deviate from the meaning the text try to convey but only translate to win a price. I know it's can't be that easy but If there should be a way so as to have the exact meaning in the target language.
- They are wonderful
- Keep the good work going
- Keep up your good work, God bless you all
- We should focus on human development. Recruitment and training of new editors so as to be able to keep up with the vast information Wikipedia has to offer.
- They are doing great and more hands are needed as Admins
- Y'all should keep up the good work you're doing and we'll keep supporting you guys and together we'll make the Igbo Wikipedia second to none.
- Yes to be more educating to new comers
- Prompt warning in the case of vandalism should be activated.
- Igbo Wikipedia admins have been awesome/tolerable over the time, I only advice they keep it up.
- Kudos to them
- Please organize more training sessions. Thank you and be strong
- They are really doing well. I will advise they continue to put us through.
- They should keep the good work moving for more innovation
- First, I would love to say a big thank you to the admins for a job well done so far. Keep improving all round.
- They have been doing great all this time and i advice them to keep it up.
- Equity fairness justice and inclusiveness
- My advice is that they should keep up the good work because they are doing well already.
- Prizes and more opportunities with less rigorous process should be enable
- They are doing well, but need to encourage the new Igbo editors.
- The admins are doing really great,but they should look into the area of unprofessionalism ... Yes, everyone can edit on #Wikipedia but there should work on how to review people's work before publication or create a space where professionals can proofread works posted by others before publication.
- Raise more persons that will be able to access grants and carry out project
- There are doing well and I know that they will do better. They are good at what they do.
- Mr Ben biko take it easy with people, we're like your children don't scold us much
- Raise more persons on how to access grants and carry out projects
- Well done 👍🏼 You're doing great! But I think you can publicize more.
- Just encouragement to keep doing what they're doing. Proud to be a member
- My advice is that they should not relent in what they are doing.
- Continue doing what you are doing
Goodwill messages[edit]
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