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[Session] Scribe: Wikidata Powered Language Keyboards (Hacking our way to Autocomplete)
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Date: Saturday August 13th, 14:30 UTC

Host: @AndrewTavis

Session type: Presentation, Discussion, Q/A

Session Details
Scribe provides users with keyboards that help second language learners translate words, conjugate verbs and remember the gender of nouns (among many features). In this chat we'll give a short presentation of Scribe and talk about what the team is doing during the hackathon, including:

  • Adding a baseline autocomplete feature to the iOS app (🙌)
  • Cleaning up the codebase for Android to make it easier for new contributors

Scribe is a featured project for new developers. There's lots to do and lots to learn! We'd love to support you on:

  • Working with Wikidata
  • Querying Wikidata with Python APIs
  • Coding in Swift for iOS
  • Coding in Kotlin for Android

Requirements: None. Please join!

Target audience: Wikidata editors, users, developers, language learners and anyone who's interested

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AndrewTavis renamed this task from Scribe: Wikidata Powered Language Keyboards (Hacking our way to Autosuggest) to [Session] Scribe: Wikidata Powered Language Keyboards (Hacking our way to Autosuggest).Aug 10 2022, 8:14 PM
AndrewTavis renamed this task from [Session] Scribe: Wikidata Powered Language Keyboards (Hacking our way to Autosuggest) to [Session] Scribe: Wikidata Powered Language Keyboards (Hacking our way to Autocomplete).Aug 11 2022, 6:42 AM
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