 I am Seal and I have been involved with the movement since 2006. I started out as a contributor and soon became admin on the Dutch Wikipedia. Through the years from there on, I was involved in many different roles. I speak Dutch, English, German, and a little bit of French. Today I'm going to tell you about my work on the PapuMento Wikipedia. PapuMento is the native language of the majority of the population on the Dutch Caribbean ABC islands. The language has two variants, PapuMento and PapuMento. In English, these are both commonly referred to as PapuMento. PapuMento is one of the three official languages spoken on the Dutch Caribbean islands, which is a former colony of the Netherlands. The Dutch language has for long been the language of instruction in the lower classes of primary education. PapuMento was the language of the people and has only been formally recognized in 2003 for Aruba and 2007 for Curaçao and Bonair. In the official sphere, that is still mainly used as the written language while PapuMento is preferred as the working language. The PapuMento Wikipedia is generally considered one of the largest online resources for the language. Even though the first official spelling and grammar guide was published in 1976, who will translate, for instance, known and used worldwide, does not know PapuMento yet. A little side note here is that the Wikimedia content translation tool does work for PapuMento because it uses a different translation service called GUNDEX. Hey, Cecil, you can pause for just a moment and start for the stop. You have a few more minutes before they can actually see you. Sorry. No, you're okay. So we're gonna put up this slide that says, start and soon, this, and then you'll see the countdown, and then you'll start, okay? So just hang tight. Sorry, I thought I did, ah, okay. No problem, hang tight. Thank you very much for wanting me and I'm so glad I can hear you. No problem coming off. Okay. Hello, everyone. Let me start by briefly introducing myself first. I am Cecil and have been involved with the movement since 2006. I started out as a contributor and soon became admin on the Dutch Wikipedia. Through the years from there on, I was involved in many different roles. I speak Dutch, English, German, and a little bit of French. Today I'm going to tell you about my work on the PapuMento Wikipedia. PapuMento is the native language of the majority of the population on the Dutch Caribbean ABC islands. The language has two variants, PapuMento and PapuMento. In English, these are both commonly referred to as PapuMento. PapuMento is one of the three official languages spoken on the Dutch Caribbean islands, which is a form of colony of the Netherlands. The Dutch language has for long been the language of instruction in the lower classes of primary education. PapuMento was a language of the people and has only been formally recognized in 2003 for Aruba and 2007 for Curaçao and Bonaire. In the official sphere, Dutch is still mainly used as the written language, while PapuMento is preferred as the working language. The PapuMento Wikipedia is generally considered one of the largest online repositories for the language. Even though the first official spelling and grammar guide was published in 1976, Google Translate, for instance, known and used worldwide, does not know PapuMento yet. A little side note here is that the Wikimedia translation tool does work for PapuMento because it uses a different translation service called Yumdex. The PapuMento Wikipedia was started in 2006 and the admins from that time became less active from about 2010 onwards. One admins stayed around, checking recent changes about every once a week. The main vandalism was taken care of by the small Wikimonitoring team and there was no real maintenance during those years. In 2018, the project Wikighost Caribbean was initiated by the Dutch Ginesco. The project was aimed at improving the available information about the Dutch Caribbean islands on the different Wikipedias and the broader Wikimedia projects. For this project, a working group of interested people was formed and there were regular edit sessions at the National Archives of the Netherlands in The Hague. In 2019, the project was adopted by Wikimedia Netherlands and a working visit to the islands was undertaken. During this trip, Wikimedia Netherlands talked to and visited various glams on the islands and the existing contacts on the University of Purisau were reinforced. During these visits, the university expressed the wish to do more with the PapuMento Wikipedia. In November 2020, when I was asked to help, the Wikipedia contained articles in several related languages to PapuMento, such as Spanish and Portuguese and also articles in Dutch and English, the two other official languages. There was, for instance, no public sandbox, no deletion policy, no general help page and most links to Wikidata were missing. The maintenance reports consisted of long rows of error messages. Since updating the Wiki was a request from the participants of the Wikimedia Netherlands working group WikiGoes Caribbean together with the University of Purisau, we were already in contact with a group of uninterested people. Through this group, some more people joined a first video call I organized. Because Dutch is, as mentioned, also an official language, it was relatively easy for me to communicate and brainstorm with the attendees. A half year into the pandemic, people were sort of getting comfortable with video calling and it almost seemed as if the Atlantic Ocean between the Caribbean islands and the Netherlands was much less of a barrier to cross than before. People from different time zones came together now to talk at the same time on the same subject. Prior to the call, participants filled in a form in which they could share their knowledge on various subjects. How much experience did they have about editing Wikipedia, contributing to comments and Wikidata and also what was their knowledge of programming in general like HTML, Lua and Python and how strong were their skills in written Puppimento. Besides this overview from the questionnaire, I had a list of things that were wanted on the wiki, revising the category 3, creating templates for info boxes and new admins for the project. People present in the call expressed some additional wishes such as translating the Media wiki software into Puppimento and also activating this translation possibility for the Out-of-Hurrayant. Because I knew in advance who might be willing and able to do different tasks during that first call we were able to already make our arrangements and form small working groups. In the weeks and months afterwards I frequently contacted the participants to see if they had made headway in whatever they had signed up for or if there were any problems they were encountering. A small group with more wiki experience started on designing the category 3. They looked into the categories that already existed on the wiki and sought comparison in how category 3s in other languages were modeled. From that they created a new tree and manually checked the more than 2,000 articles on the wiki, gave them a place in the tree and also did a first check on the language. The wiki already had a policy to respect the variant in which the original author had started the article and there was a template available to indicate in which variant the article was written. To make translations in both variants possible for wiki data and to move forward in the translations of the Media wiki software I talked to Amir from the Translate wiki team. Together we looked for more information about the language. How realistic is it to activate both of the variants for media wiki and for wiki data? How many people speak the language in what language are people taught at school? In what language does the government communicate? Because both variants are closely related it was important to understand the differences between the languages. For this we talked to a retired Professor and Historian of Caribbean Literature Dr. Adler-Tres who had previously given a presentation for the wiki ghost Caribbean working group. We explored the possibilities of how to facilitate two different language varieties in the broader wiki media projects. Focusing mainly on media wiki and wiki data since the PapuMento wikipedia already had a guideline in place. Interested users started translating the media wiki software focusing on the critical elements first. I had requested admin rights for the PapuMento wikipedia through Meta. From there on I started to clean up articles in languages different from PapuMento that were found in the process of setting up the category 3 and could start to update the wiki from the media wiki side. In the year 2021 two users both speakers of the language felt comfortable enough to join me as admins. With the five pillars of wikipedia as a guide we started on the first help page of our deletion policy. Based on minimum requirements for articles we had previously discussed in a call. In the second and third video call with interested parties we went deeper into wiki data. The property is a was not even translated yet. And in the call we made a start with translating this and other essential properties like country, painting and profession. Working with a Google spreadsheet we were able to ask students from the university to help us so that one of our more experienced users could run a bot to fill in the descriptions of the various items. This hugely sped things up. The students of the university translated among other things all the countries of the world a long list of professions and an even longer list of taxons. Once the bot was running in the first month we had 100,000 labels and 500,000 descriptions in PapuMento were edited to the database with an average of 40,000 descriptions per day. By July 2021 we were approaching 1.5 million PapuMento labels and always 2 million PapuMento descriptions. In order to have info boxes from wiki data it is important to have the various properties and labels translated into your language. Thanks to this work by Ido the Rowe and his bot we can now show wiki data generated info boxes on the PapuMento Wikipedia which for a small wiki are easier to maintain than local info boxes because the data on wiki data is centrally updated. With these general wiki data translations in place we also implemented the wiki data placeholder. If you search on the PapuMento Wikipedia and we don't have a page on the subject yet but wiki data does contain an item by that name you can choose to see this data on the Wikipedia page and hey, maybe start your own first Wikipedia article. So to summarize what we've been working on in the past nine months we worked on translating the media wiki software we implemented info boxes based on wiki data we turned on the wiki data placeholder we designed a first deletion policy and I've been helping new admins to manage a wiki when and how to make choices and what considerations to bear in mind. There are still some wishes for the future now that the technical infrastructures up to date again would like to motivate more people to write their articles also in PapuMento page views show that overall the best visited articles on the Wikipedia are pages that are about local topics one of the collaborations already in place is with the University of Curacao which has decided to include writing for the Encyclopedia in PapuMento in the curriculum of the upcoming academic year a pilot project of this kind last winter was promising but shows it still requires some extra guidance for the professors who will have to supervise this component will be taken up by Wikimedia Netherlands in particular because of the good context with the University from the working visit to the Dutch Caribbean in 2019. I also hope that with the availability of the language in wiki data and through increased indexing of search engines in terms in the language more people will be pointed towards the Encyclopedia so that ultimately more people will want to contribute. In conclusion for me it was not immediately necessary to know the language although it is useful if you have knowledge of some languages from the same language family and the language is in a script you understand by taking on a more coordinating and advisory role and presenting the interested parties and new admins with options and considerations the new community will be able to set up their Wikipedia according to their own wishes and hopefully it will be a reboot of an Encyclopedia in an underrepresented language. So this is my example of how in short you too could help small communities in improving their Wikipedia and speak the language. If you would like to offer your help in the same way as I did please visit the page on meta for the small wiki toolkits at the moment there are two ongoing initiatives one with the Kurdish Wikimedians user group and one focusing on South Asia projects feel free to express your interest in helping in one of these groups or express your interest and ideas in general on the top page of the small wiki toolkits thank you let's see if you have any questions for me Amira is asking do you have a list of non-article pages that you had to translate apologies help pages I think that something like this can be useful in a lot of languages we don't have a list actually we just started on the fly creating a first help page and yes I can look into this Amira I can get back to you with this and Ziko is asking would it be useful if the movement provided a good set of rules on help pages in simple English that is not so long and specific and can easily be translated in other languages it could be but like with the category 3 I think it would be nice to have something at hand but as long as you can fill it in