Scribe-Data Outreach 👋🚀

[andrewtavis]

Sharing and promoting Scribe-Data

This pinned issue is for discussing where and how best to promote Scribe-Data. The purpose is to spread the word so that others can find Scribe-Data as potential users, to provide feedback and to grow the contributors base. The issue text will be edited as the discussion below progresses :)

Everyone is welcome to share their input, and efforts to share Scribe-Data are much appreciated! Communities revolving around open-source, open-data, Wikidata, Wikimedia, language learning and the languages Scribe-Data supports should all be considered. Projects that also use language data that could adopt Scribe-Data would also be great to look for!

Where Scribe-Data is currently posted:

• Wikimedia New Developers page
• Wikidata tools for lexicographical data

Organizations that have featured Scribe-Data:

• Wikimedia: new developers page and hackathons
• Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikidata events, blogposts and social media

Places where Scribe-Data outreach could occur:

General

• Mastodon - suggested shares and posts welcome!
• Hacker News
• Product Hunt

Conferences

• WIP

Tech subreddits

• WIP

[andrewtavis]

Ping @mhmohona 👋 Let me know if you have ideas here!

[to-sta]

I can post about Scribe-Data in the ReDI School Slack channel. It might be beneficial for some of the students to gain experience through contributions.

[andrewtavis]

Hey @to-sta! Ya, we'd be very happy to work with ReDI School students! For Scribe-Data, but also if there are students working on Swift for Scribe-iOS or Kotlin for Scribe-Android (we're making lots more progress on Android these days).

Thanks for the offer! 😊

[LevisNgigi]

Hey, I am an outreachy applicant and I can share more about Scribe-data on our Moringa School whatsapp Alumni channel.We currently have over 800 members. Could that help?

[andrewtavis]

Could definitely help, @LevisNgigi! There are some updates coming to the software in the coming week, so should we wait on that?

[DeleMike]

Hi @andrewtavis, nice meeting you! I am an outreachy applicant and a Nigerian, I was wondering if Scribe-Data could help with Yoruba language learning, especially data-wise. Could it help to structure the language data in a way that is usable in the app? I know a lecturer that is working on developing a Yoruba language application for kids and one of their current challenges is data structure and content. is there a way Scribe-Data can help?

Here is a highlight about KoEde on LinkedIn

[LevisNgigi]

Could definitely help, @LevisNgigi! There are some updates coming to the software in the coming week, so should we wait on that?

That is definitely okay.Will be looking forward to it.

[andrewtavis]

Hi @andrewtavis, nice meeting you! I am an outreachy applicant and a Nigerian, I was wondering if Scribe-Data could help with Yoruba language learning, especially data-wise. Could it help to structure the language data in a way that is usable in the app? I know a lecturer that is working on developing a Yoruba language application for kids and one of their current challenges is data structure and content. is there a way Scribe-Data can help?

Here is a highlight about KoEde on LinkedIn

Hey @DeleMike 👋 Yoruba isn't a currently supported language, but could be 🤔 Would you want me to make an issue for adding as much as we can and you could work on that? :)

[LevisNgigi]

Hi @andrewtavis I was having a look at language directories in src/scribe_data/language_data_extraction and I did not find Swahili which is my native language.It is a language that is spoken mainly around the East African region and some other parts of Africa.If possible I would love to work on it?

[andrewtavis]

Would be great, @LevisNgigi! I'll make this issue now :)

[DeleMike]

Hi @andrewtavis, nice meeting you! I am an outreachy applicant and a Nigerian, I was wondering if Scribe-Data could help with Yoruba language learning, especially data-wise. Could it help to structure the language data in a way that is usable in the app? I know a lecturer that is working on developing a Yoruba language application for kids and one of their current challenges is data structure and content. is there a way Scribe-Data can help?
Here is a highlight about KoEde on LinkedIn

Hey @DeleMike 👋 Yoruba isn't a currently supported language, but could be 🤔 Would you want me to make an issue for adding as much as we can and you could work on that? :)

Hi @andrewtavis !
Yes, I would love to work on it! Please create the issue, thanks. We would discuss in detail about this in sync soon. Thanks!

[andrewtavis]

@LevisNgigi, would you want to make the issue for Yaruba? I need to step out :) You can make it similar to the Swahili one.

[LevisNgigi]

@andrewtavis , Yes I could make the issue. Doing it in an hour

[andrewtavis]

Ah sorry I'm on my phone and I pinged @LevisNgigi and meant to ping @DeleMike :) Either or would be great, and let's then let @DeleMike know about it and then I can assign 😊

[LevisNgigi]

I have opened the issue @DeleMike . Also I think I do not have permission to add more labels and to include the scribe board under projects.I think @andrewtavis will help with that.

[andrewtavis]

Thanks for the help opening the issue, @LevisNgigi!

[DeleMike]

Thanks @LevisNgigi! 🙌🏾

[LevisNgigi]

Pleasure is mine.