Develop Metrics for the Language Gap: Develop metrics for scripts (writing systems)
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	CMyrick-WMF
	Aug 8 2024, 3:22 PM

Description

A proposed metric facet for the State of Languages Metrics is script coverage, to include the following metrics:

Number of world's languages with script(s) supported on Wikimedia projects
Number of scripts represented across hosted content projects
Number of scripts represented across hosted and pre-hosted (i.e. test) content projects

Currently, no structured data exists connecting our public scripts data with Wikimedia projects.

Tasks:

Build notebook to
- scrape public scripts data
- join with public ISO 15925 data
- wrangle for use in metrics calculations
Build a notebooks for metrics calculation and visualization

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		CMyrick-WMF	T348246 Develop Metrics for the Language Gap
		Resolved		CMyrick-WMF	T372066 Develop Metrics for the Language Gap: Develop metrics for scripts (writing systems)

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CMyrick-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Aug 14 2024, 7:49 PM

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scripts_scraper.ipynb: notebook scrapes Wikimedia script data from langdb.yaml, and joins with script names from ISO 15924 wiki table.

Weekly update:

Finalized scripts_scraper.ipynb notebook which
- scrapes public scripts data
- joins with public ISO 15925 data
- wrangles for use in metrics calculations:

Worked on state_of_scripts.ipynb notebook for scripts metrics calculations and visualizations

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