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Celtic Knot 2024: Future of Language Incubation (September 2024)
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Topics to cover

  • Language gap
  • Incubation Tools, Journey, and Challenges
  • Recommendations for Future Incubation
    • Overview of Future of Language_Incubation project, share recommendations for improving language incubation, work in progress on two experiments and next steps.
  • Brainstorming:
    • What has the onboarding journey been like for your language community?
    • What challenges did you encounter before joining, during your time in the Incubator, or after graduating?
    • What ideas do you have for addressing these challenges and improving the current language incubation process?

Speakers: @srishakatux, @CMyrick-WMF

Event Timeline

Link to the slides and talk description.

Many of the questions focused on how to address issues where it might be beneficial to have a single wiki instead of multiple, such as the case with Montenegrin Wiki. There were also inquiries about the metrics or criteria used to graduate languages from Incubator. Since these matters are beyond the scope of the WMF, the Language Committee was suggested as the appropriate body to look into.

@CMyrick-WMF if I missed adding anything from the Q&A, please do!

Many of the questions focused on how to address issues where it might be beneficial to have a single wiki instead of multiple, such as the case with Montenegrin Wiki. There were also inquiries about the metrics or criteria used to graduate languages from Incubator. Since these matters are beyond the scope of the WMF, the Language Committee was suggested as the appropriate body to look into.

@CMyrick-WMF if I missed adding anything from the Q&A, please do!

Thanks for the great summary, @srishakatux.
I was monitoring the online questions and conversations during Q&A, and there was a question about why some conflicts (like T363538) are detected at the time of graduation rather than at the time of starting the project in Incubator.

I was monitoring the online questions and conversations during Q&A, and there was a question about why some conflicts (like T363538) are detected at the time of graduation rather than at the time of starting the project in Incubator.

T363538 was detected a year before the project was graduated and several months before it was approved by langcom. It's a tricky issue to solve, which is why it was still open, but mos.wikipedia.org does exist now.

@srishakatux this task has a Research tag in it, so I just wanted to double check if we can resolve this as the Celtic Knot conference has passed. Thank you!