2025-08-06 –, NAIROBI (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/yjENat8ts4Q?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=8696 🎥
Lexica is a new tool for editing lexicographical data on Wikidata, built to be simple, multilingual, and mobile-friendly. This session walks you through exactly how to use it. We’ll cover how to link Lexemes to Items, adding hyphenation, and adding Lemma across different languages and scripts.
Lexicographical data on Wikidata is full of potential, but editing it can feel complicated for newcomers. Lexica offers an alternative: a lightweight web tool built for helping editing lexicographical data more accessible.
In this session, we’ll walk through common contribution workflows using Lexica:
- linking Lexeme Senses to Items
- adding script variants in Lemma
- adding hyphenation for Forms
Whether you’re a language enthusiasts or just curious, this session is for you. No technical background needed.
Aims:
- Help new contributors get started with Lexica
- Show experienced users how Lexica improves existing workflows
- Support small-language communities with accessible tooling
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Collaboration, Edit-a-thons, Product development
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This session shows how inclusivity is built into Lexica at the UX level. It was designed to support contributors using mobile devices and working in underserved languages. By making Lexeme editing easier and clearer, it enables broader impact with fewer barriers. Lexica also build upon a simple, focused architecture which makes it sustainable for small group of people to maintain.
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Everyone can participate in this session
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Dialing in from a remote location
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I agree
Raisha Abdillah is a Project Lead and Wikidata contributor based in Jakarta. She leads the team behind Lexica, developing tool for lexicographical data with a focus on accessibility, multilingual support, thoughtful design, and community-centered development, especially for contributors in underserved language communities.