Subhashish Panigrahi
Subhashish Panigrahi is a Wikimedian, low-resourced-language archivist and filmmaker. Together with couple of other Wikimedians, he revived the Odia Wikipedia. He previously served the Asia and the larger Wikimedia community through positions at the Wikimedia Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society. He founded OpenSpeaks, an open educational resource for language documentation, which has long served the Wikimedia movement for capacity and content building.
Session
This session will detail OpenSpeaks Archives, which was born in 2024 as a digital archive for low-resourced languages. Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wiktionary require extensive citation. However, entries related to low-resource languages do not have historical written records of being subject to colonial and other oppressions or being spoken and not written. OpenSpeaks Archives ran a pilot, identifying gaps in the intersection of low-resourced languages and Wikimedia projects and addressing those gaps by creating a workflow to create citable audiovisual language media. The media helps add depth to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project entries and provides citations for each uploaded file.