The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects - Mina Theofilatou
From Ewan McAndrew
From Ewan McAndrew
Overview of topic:
Kefalonia is an island in the Ionian Sea, on the west coast of Greece. Along with the other islands of the "Heptanese",
the island's culture has been influenced by centuries of Venetian rule:
words of Italian origin are often used among locals, although their use
is declining with each passing generation. In the capacity of Computer
Science Teacher at a High School for adults, and recipient of an IEG grant
to train mentally ill patients to edit the Wikimedia projects, I will
present the ideas that helped us contribute to preserving our cultural
heritage: from the edits of a 55-year-old assistant nurse being warmly
received on Greek Wiktionary, to a user-friendly programming environment
being used to develop a language quiz app for Android devices, to
getting the Wikitherapy participants actively involved in joining forces
with the students... and presenting our achievements at an event
in the local Municipal Library last June. The highlight of the event
was a live demonstration of the language quiz by a volunteer from the
audience; I will be making a quiz based on the same CC-BY-SA code
especially for the Celtic Knot conference (volunteer from the audience
will be needed.
Supporting material:
Related Paper presented at Informatics in Education Conference, Piraeus University, October 2015
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