Wikitongues Explained

Type:Non-profit
Volunteers:1500
Wikitongues
Founder:Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes
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Wikitongues is an American non-profit organization registered in the state of New York. It aims to sustain and promote all the languages in the world.[1] It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.[2] [3]

Oral histories

By May 2016, Wikitongues had recorded around 329 videos in over 200 languages.[4] As of 2018, they have recorded more than 350 languages, or 5% of the languages in the world.[5] They also have 15% of their videos subtitled through the organization Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles, which is a web-based non-profit project that hosts and allows user-subtitled video to be accessed and created.

Poly

Poly is open source software built to share and learn languages.[6] The project was supported on Kickstarter[7] and the organization was able to raise US$52,716 with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.[8] [9]

Licenses

All the videos are released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Recently, another option to release the video under CC BY-SA 4.0 has also been introduced.[10]

Mission

In 2019, Daniel Bögre Udell, one of the Wikitongues founders, gave a talk on TED Residency stage about the project and its mission, called "How to save a language from extinction."[11]

Further media

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wikitongues.org . Daniel Bögre Udell . 2020 . Wikitongues. 22 September 2020.
  2. Web site: Wikitongues Press Release . 13 May 2016.
  3. Web site: Wikitongues: Biography . Kickstarter . 15 May 2016.
  4. Web site: Hello from Wikitongues. Wikitongues. 2016-11-04. Wikitongues. 2018-02-20.
  5. Web site: The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages. https://archive.today/20181209214127/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/saving-dying-disappearing-languages-wikitongues-culture/. dead. December 9, 2018. National Geographic. Nina Strochlic. 2018-04-16. 2018-05-03.
  6. Web site: This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world's languages . PRI . February 23, 2016 . 13 May 2016 . Jared Goyette.
  7. Web site: Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages . Kate Groetzinger. February 12, 2016. Quartz . 14 May 2016.
  8. Web site: Share and learn every language in the world . Kickstarter . 13 May 2016 . Wikitongues.
  9. Web site: Poly . . 2 July 2023.
  10. Web site: Wikitongues Licensing . Wikitongues . 20 August 2017 . Wikitongues.
  11. Web site: How to save a language from extinction. Daniel Bögre Udell. en. TED.com. 21 November 2019 . 2021-09-30.

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