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Home to more than 700 living languages,

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Indonesia is one of the most linguistically
diverse countries on the planet.

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However, this diversity is inadequately
represented in online platforms,

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including in crowd-sourced Wikimedia projects.

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This gap is apparent, among others,
in the Indonesian Wiktionary,

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where entries with audio
pronunciation guides

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were only available in select
languages of Indonesia,

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especially those supported by
active local Wikimedians.

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Thus, volunteers from
Wikimedia Jakarta Community

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initiated an outreach program
called WikiTutur,

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supported by Wikimedia Foundation
Rapid Fund grant.

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During the first phase of this program,

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workshops were conducted
across several Indonesian cities and online,

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where participants from linguistically
diverse backgrounds were trained

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to record audio files for
Wikimedia Commons

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with the help of Lingua Libre,

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and to input lexical entries on
the Indonesian Wiktionary.

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Why Lingua Libre?
Lingua Libre is a tool by Wikimedia France

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specifically designed to help
native speakers

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record vocabulary in their languages

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for use in Wikimedia projects.

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Lingua Libre eliminates several
intermediate steps between recording

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and uploading to Commons,
making the process much more streamlined

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and easy to follow.

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Prior to WikiTutur, there were
only around 4,500 audio recordings

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for 12 languages of Indonesia
in Wikimedia Commons.

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By the end of the first phase,
239 people have participated in the program,

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contributing more than 10,000
new audio files in 39 languages of Indonesia.

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By showcasing the potential
utilization of Wikimedia projects

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and tools in supporting
language documentation

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WikiTutur empowers its participants
and language activists alike

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who seek to share their
native tongues online,

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in hope of bridging the digital language divide.