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Wiki Bootcamp: Increasing Literacy among Small Wikipedia Editors

Diff·Kambai Akau·3 days ago
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In line with Wikipedia’s commitment to support all human languages willing to put in the work to have Wikipedia read in their languages, the Tyap Wikimedians User Group has come up with a project called the Wiki Bootcamp , which, since 2024, has been held as the Tyap Wiki Bootcamp, aimed at improving literacy among its community members willing to edit the Tyap Wikipedia , Tyap Wiktionary , and other Tyap-related projects in the Wikimedia space. As the group is an expanding multilingual group, it became necessary to experiment with a language of the community and extend the same learnings to other languages of the region with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and other supporting partners.

The group came to the realization that if its community members are not literate in a language in which many of its projects are edited, how can they contribute correctly to such projects?…

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