Report on Lingwiki editathons at ICLDC in Honolulu, Hawai’i
I organized several Lingwiki editathons in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawaii Manoa. We had a total of 37 participants who edited at least 29 articles, including 15 about languages, 5 about topics and organizations, and 9 about people.
One participant commented, “I am one of about 3 people in the world who knows enough about the grammar of this language to edit its Wikipedia article.”
Thanks to the University of Hawaii Manoa, the organizers of ICLDC and especially Andrea Berez-Kroeker and the student volunteers who assisted with organizing the editathons.
Here’s a list of articles edited. Feel free to check them out and see what else you can add!
If you participated in any of the editathons but don’t see your article on here, just put it in bit.ly/lingwikisurvey and I’ll update the list. You can also check out the slides at bit.ly/lingwiki if you want advice on how to edit for linguists, or wikiedu.org if you’re thinking of assigning Wikipedia editing as a class assignment.
Languages (15)
Yurok_language Igbo_language Anii_language Vurës_language Vera'a language Nivaclé_language Mlabri_language Yasa_language Kala_language Shor_language Awetï_language Gyele_people Kwasio_language Iau_language Sikaritai_language
Topics and organizations (5)
Ka_Haka_‘Ula_O_Ke‘elikōlani,_College_of_Hawaiian_Language Language_nest Tepehua_de_huehuetla (on Spanish Wikipedia) Kaipuleohone University_of_Hawaii_at_Hilo
People (9)
Juliette_Blevins Ulrike_Mosel Florence_M._Voegelin Muriel_Fisher Siri_Tuttle Donca_Steriade Nan_Bernstein_Ratner Keiki_Kawaiʻaeʻa Helen_Aristar-Dry