 Come by you can enable your video and you can start. Yes My name is come by a call My name is come by a call again come by a call. I Am from Nigeria from Central, Nigeria. I registered as a Wikimedia in 2018 that began editing in 2016 But never really got serious with it until the year 2020 So we are here to make a presentation titled the tap Wikipedia the journey into reality this session aims at To present the challenges and successes encountered before the creation of the tap Wikipedia on May 16, 2022 and afterwards It also aims at presenting some recommendations for one thinking of starting a small Wikipedia like the tap language edition tab is a niger kongu language native to the central nigerial plateau Spoken by over 250,000 speakers The tap language Wikipedia is the first language Wikipedia edition from the region And the sixth from Nigeria a country with over 500 spoken languages The aim of this presentation is to let the general Wikimedia foundation community Know about the efforts made in getting the tap Wikipedia to go live and after The objectives would be taking one after the other Getting started in the incubator An application was submitted by me for the creation of tap Wikipedia on meta wiki on the third day of December 2020 And I was helped to get around with the starting of translation work In the wiki media incubator by Amir about the same period As the work advanced I discovered getting two or more people to join the project was a criteria for the Approval of a new language Wikipedia. So I created a WhatsApp group From the larger tap language group I earlier started on WhatsApp and five other people joined up And I told them how to create an account On Wikipedia and three were able to create their accounts But only two younger participants showed further interest in editing So those two became my co-founders of fellow co-founders of the tap Wikipedia and It was brought to my knowledge by Amir also That 500 most Used media wiki messages had to be translated on Translate wiki and he helped me to set up my profile page with helpful materials to study And learn about translation and I began working on it Now The challenge Another challenge we had was translating modern terminologies And we didn't let it stand our way So we coined new words when necessary and translated setting terminologies Just for tentative usage So it took us about three words three months to get Those words translated And I worked with my new team to create or to translate modern terminologies And drafted a list of words and phrases And submitted it to or submitted them to the language Tap language development boards a TLDB for approval So those words were used tentatively By us for translation depending on when the TLDB would give us a feedback on the list we submitted Thank you. So I'll make a comment here. So my name is Amira Aroni and I am both Volunteer member of the language committee of the wiki media movement So that's the group that approves new languages to have the Great to create new domains for wikipedia and other projects in new languages And I'm also a staff member Of the wiki media foundation. I was but then staff member of the wiki media foundation who provides support to New languages All kinds of technical support issues and yeah, so With the particular story of this language, it's a pretty typical story of how a new language is added to the wiki media world And combined contacted me in late 2020 and that was really happy Uh, because it sounded like a combined knows the language So he contacted me and I started setting it up and the communication my communication with combined was very quick and productive So I was really happy to to see that. Can you can you go back? Can you go back to the previous slide, please? Yeah, so this so It's an important frequent question Why is it important to translate the most important messages on cross-example key? Why do we force people to do this? And the reason for that is that A new community is starting and they want to write The wikipedia and an online free encyclopedia in that language So it's important to for the new community that emerges To be able like for the people in this new community to be able to talk to each other in their language And use all the terms like upload log in create account Category edit page template and so on. So it's important to create these things For self-reliance and independence and being able to have your your own community like the same as in any other language But in your language as completely as possible. So that's why we Very strongly encourage people to translate these and uh, yeah, I will let's come by go on And I'll just make little comments along the way Okay So thank you very much Organizing in person events to add more volunteers We had two in person events Our 23 people new participants attended the first events Which we held in a town in southern part of cardinal states and The second one had 24 participants Organized in the capital cardinal states Yeah, so here comes another comment from me Thanks to this work With with with come by he really communicated well This is really important and he communicated well about all the technical difficulties That he had and as much as I could I tried to address them Uh, thanks. Thanks for the work with him and thanks to very good Uh reports about all kinds of bugs and difficulties that he encountered along the way with working in the incubator and on I tried as much as I could to document these problems to resolve As much as as much of them as I could since then I also worked with several other volunteers with other languages Africa and india and indonesia and other places Um, and specifically for transit wiki. I documented all the recommendations To new people who are coming into the transit wiki world and the incubator world So you should read that page on transit wiki. I call the best practices for transit wiki events And if if if I can just summarize the most important parts from the page Is that if you organize in an event Where people will be editing wikipedia or incubator or wiki data or transit wiki When you organize and be sure that you are experienced with yourself. This is like it may sound obvious but Not not always people are actually experienced with doing this Make sure that participants can actually type in their language on that they have appropriate keyboards and focus on translating particular projects and not just start translating random things here and there And specifically for transit wiki Staff people like we call it staff or a lot of these people are actually volunteers But uh transit wiki administrators like myself and several others nicklas and raymond and arpeggiated and several others Uh, we are usually trying to make ourselves available for any technical support that you need So reach out to us and we will be happy to set you up and yet come by please go on All right So getting started The tap wikipedia was approved on the 16th of may 2022 and at As of that very period we had over 400 articles at the time and The challenges of important templates and modules was overcome by copying and pasting templates and modules from the english to tap wikipedia Going ahead We are currently working on a collaborative project with the wiki medians of romania and moduva user group on translating articles from tiaf to romanian and romanian to tiaf We are also working on Going for our first post wikipedia approval outreach events to a higher institution in nigeria within the next few months To recruit tap speaking students and lecturers into our project in collaboration with the wiki medians of nigeria user group Now we have a few recommendations to make When you start a project stay committed to it And when you explore or rather you should explore and learn new skills on your own because not always You would have Someone coming to tell you okay. This is how you should do it or this how you should do it so on your own you can go Learn new skills and You know help yourself out and then also you can search for and join wiki medias wiki media groups on telegram because In those groups you'll be able to find people who will be help of of great help to you as a New start as someone who has just come in into the translation work To make a new translation in a new language So over to the main Yeah, so now we have to come on for me again, this comment may sound obvious, but It's it's really the most simple thing the commitment actually Doing something about the wikipedia in your language or the vocalization and concept wiki into your language Being committed and doing something about this at least every week preferably every day If you want to do this, um, it's the most obvious thing, but uh, it's something that not everybody does Come by you did this very well and his friends in his wiki media wiki media editing community They just kept doing this. That's really the solution to actually achieving everything um and I hope we'll have a couple of minutes to speak about it later But it's quite important to have plans to what you're going to do next like to to write some articles to make some localizations but also to think okay, so We have these things now What are we going to write in the future? Which which articles are we going to write? Which articles are we going to improve? so for example This example that the combine mentioned of collaborating with another community of people who write in another language And exchange in articles and put it into each other's language That's an excellent example of that of planning something and enriching your own wiki media with articles about another culture That's a good example. There could be lots of others. So yes, please go so How does this presentation? um relates to the theme of this year diversity collaboration and future The tap language wikipedia edition contributes to the wealth of knowledge in an african language The most used wikipedia editions by africans are those in european languages Some feel left out when wikipedia is not in a language. They could get around with easily So this could also help certain individuals create content about things They know or could not have ordinarily expressed in a foreign term in their local wikipedia So this overall adds to the diversity of knowledge and about our future We are taking wikipedia to the grassroots through youtube tutoring and in person Now about group user group and laxity We in the tap wikipedia We had our user group few months after the wikipedia got approved and we have discovered some things and I There are some recommendations or some points here that i'm going to state out Having a user group could enable a community to make long-term plans for projects and resources made available to it could provide for equipment and other necessities for the community For example, you need A place whereby other people who want to learn about wikipedia can come in person because some people feel more comfortable coming in person than Online they don't get more serious So when there is a space for everybody to come around or someone to come around and meet another person Who is knowledgeable in editing and there may be a computer and one other equipment or the other And there's availability of power Just like yesterday when we were preparing for this very presentation. I had to go about looking for Electricity to power my computer. So if we had a space whereby we would be able to Help ourselves won't experience much problems. So the third point is it could also make Some communities channel their energies away from the real thing to events And we find more people interested in events than contributing knowledge On wikipedia, which shouldn't be so for this We are pleading that we must never forget the fundamentals Which is voluntarizing which should come first because by the time we move our attentions to events Rather than editing the wikipedia, which we started you see that the wikipedia begins to Become like a weekly it doesn't get as active as it should Instead we have so much events and no work or little no work in the wikipedia So the core message of this presentation is Doing things are challenging, but they are possible And the success of our language is a proof that it's possible actually and we did it If we did it you can do it too So over to you Yeah, that's it. It's just a it's just a great example and Combined with something that perfectly if the the community did this with all the challenges and any language can do this Thanks a lot So