Technical community insights

• awareness/follow up
• Offering resources for creating and improving language data sets
• Improving language wiki interface to make it friendly and quite accessible to readers and editors
• Training and workshops focusing on technical aspects, like formatting, referencing, uploading media
• Creating Large language models surrounding small indigenous languages to help build the documentation and dissemination of small indigenous languages
• Enabling machine translation in all languages
• Getting more hands on deck with support from local language development committees or boards
• Opening spaces for training
• Introducing them to translation tools
• Social media campaign

social community insights

• Awareness & effective communication
• Appreciating minority languages uniqueness and showcasing their diversity
• Organise events that are totally organised in these minority languages
• Collaboration with experts
• Make wikimedia more easily accessible
• Capacity building
• Localised wikimedia training
• Provide access to their own language resources
• Make usable technical and documentating resources on wikimedia
• Engage more speakers by clearly communicating to the group and reaching out to member of communities through outreach events
• Supporting the language
• Develop and implement wikipedia platforms in Nigerian languages
• Offering incentives, rewards or career opportunities to motivate contributors
• Encourage online and offline communities to support contributors

Making resources available for these smaller languages
Documenting these languages and putting them on the shelves of these educational institutions
Documentation of your language in incubator
Encourage continuous speaking of these smaller languages by native speakers
Media campaigns
Policy of education in Nigeria
Implementing the use of the language in the immediate community
Reviewing the policy

Policy community insights
Oral application and implementation of local framework in in public places
Written language and local interpretation in public spaces, books
Compulsory elective study of local languages in all schools
contributor s to publish local languages on platforms
Make some jobs accessible in local languages
Create more content like newspaper, movies etc
Focus on local languages depending on zones
Entertainment
Government policy of mother toungue in education
Standardization and Writing system
Encourage editing in local languages
Local language radio
Historical documentation

Language consultants
Use of Media
Regular training
Partnerships/ Collaboration
Volunteers
Community Engagement
Language edit-athons

@srishakatux @Amire80 @Arrbee @Saileshpat @satdeep_gill @BVershbow_WMF FYI about this session that I co-facilitated at Wikiconference Nigeria, please see outcomes of the sessions for your review