Outreach Wiki outreachwiki https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikimedia Wikimedia talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Translations Translations talk Topic 0 72643 276377 276311 2026-05-14T02:21:01Z CommonsDelinker 14432 Replacing OpenSpeaks-pcj-Gorum-Boloram_Muduli-OG-Use_of_Gorum_Language.webm with [[File:OpenSpeaks-pcj-Gorum-Balaram_Muduli-OG-Use_of_Gorum_Language.webm]] (by [[:c:User:CommonsDelinker|CommonsDelinker]] because: [[:c:COM:FR|File renamed]]: corrected name 276377 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/April 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Documenting and citing oral knowledge in audio and video|By [[User:Psubhashish|Subhashish Panigrahi]]}} === Tools, framework and GLAM collaborations === [[File:OpenSpeaks-pcj-Gorum-Balaram Muduli-OG-Use of Gorum Language.webm|thumb|A [[:w:Gorum language|Gorum language]] speaker shares how he and his family code-switch between three languages, a common phenomenon among Indigenous-language speakers]] Recording speech, performance, and community memory as audio, video, subtitles, transcripts, and structured metadata has never been easy for Indigenous and other low-resourced languages. Oral knowledge documentation is used when written sources are limited, incomplete, or not the primary form of knowledge transfer. [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Archives|OpenSpeaks Archives]] has worked with nearly 20 communities from South Asia, collaboratively documenting their languages. The documented media is gradually entering language archives and libraries and has enriched nearly 1,000 Wikimedia pages in over 100 languages. These media files are being deposited in a [https://www.elararchive.org/dk0848 dedicated collection] on [[:w:Endangered Languages Archive|Endangered Languages Archive]] (ELAR) and two languages, [https://lacos.uni-koeln.de/collections/019d0101-e2b2-7b43-bae8-4548c0d81742/ Kusunda] and [https://lacos.uni-koeln.de/collections/11341/0000-0000-0000-439E/ Sora], are already up on [https://lacos.uni-koeln.de/ Language Archive Cologne] (LAC). The focus languages were recorded in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. OpenSpeaks has [https://wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/wikiworkshop_2026_15_openspeaks_archives_citing_lowresourced_language_oral_history_multimedia published] an open [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Oral_Knowledge_Framework|framework]] for oral knowledge and language documentation, combining [[:w:FAIR data|FAIR]] and [[:w:CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance|CARE]], community review, multilingual transcription, and time-coded subtitles. A new tool called [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Tools/Subtitler|Subtitler]] (alpha version on [https://subtitler.toolforge.org Toolforge]) is getting ready to help language archivists and Wikimedians alike. This subtitle editor loads audio, video, and subtitle files locally and from Wikimedia Commons, letting users edit and translate subtitles and upload them to Commons. The [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Tools#OpenSpeaks_Metadata_Generator|Metadata Generator]] helps import, create, and edit metadata, and export it to three destinations: ELAR, LAC, and Wikimedia Commons. === Upcoming training and resources === [[File:OpenSpeaks Training Workshop, Kochi - 7 September 2026.svg|thumb|[[:m:OpenSpeaks/Community_language_documentation_and_archiving_training/1| Language documentation and archiving training]] for low-resourced language speakers (18 May–7 September)]] OpenSpeaks is also running a community language documentation and archiving training series with seven online workshops and one in-person workshop in Kochi, Kerala (co-located with [[:m:WikiConference India 2026|WikiConference India 2026]]) on 7 September 2026. The application deadline is 15 May. Trainers and learners apply [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Community_language_documentation_and_archiving_training/1|here]]. The series will produce a [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Community_language_documentation_and_archiving_training|curriculum]], to be co-authored with the trainers. Some of the resources to be used for the training are a [[:m:OpenSpeaks/Text_Style_Guide|text style guide]] for captioning, subtitling, and transcribing, a framework, tool documentation, templates and example workflows from recording to Wikimedia upload and external archives. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=April 2026|June 2023}}</noinclude> hyzsbmlquv8lhkj1zp7h7tqa5fm438o