Online content and encyclopedia gaps

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Need to Act?

Each language is a mother tongue.

Each child and each learner is entitled to (learning) content in its mother tongue.

To close the online content gap, each language needs a community of local online content producers and an online encyclopedia.

For many of the languages that face an online content gap, the estimated number of speakers is indicated.

Other languages that don't meet the Wikipedia-Manx Benchmark, are classified as emerging, and their level is indicated (0, 1, or 2).

Especially for languages with 100,000 or more speakers, an online encyclopedia initiative that targets about 3700 basic articles for the language is most desirable, among others for educational reasons.

No Wikipedia Yet

Each language link refers to the wikipedia page on the language, which includes the names of the countries where the language is spoken.

Acoli(800.000), hence the need for a Acoli Online Encyclopedia initiative
Adangme(800.000) hence the need for a Adangme Online Encyclopedia initiative
Adyghe(500.000) hence the need for a Adyghe Online Encyclopedia
Afar(1,500,000) hence the need for a Afar Online Encyclopedia initiative
Afrihili(constructed language)
Angika(750,000) hence the need for a Angika Online Encyclopedia
Aramaic(2,200,000) hence the need for a Aramaic Online Encyclopedia initiative
Assyrian Neo Aramaic (220,000) hence the need for a Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Online Encyclopedia initiative
Australian languages(about 150 indigenous languages, some spoken by up to 3000 people)
Awadhi(38,000,000) hence the need for a Awadhi Online Encyclopedia initiative

Emerging Wikipedia’s

A Abkhazian(1) Achinese(2) Akan(1) Assamese(1) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic(2) Avaric(1) Aymara(2) B Bambara(1) Banjar(2) Banyumasan(2) Bashkir(2) Bihari(2) Bikol(2) Bislama(1) Buriat(1) C Chamorro(1) Chavacano de Zamboanga(2) Chechen(2) Cherokee(1) Cheyenne(1) Chichewa(1) Choctaw(0) Cornish(2) Cree(1) Creek; Muscogee(0) Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish(2) D Divehi; Maldivian(2) Dzongka(1) E Emiliano-Romagnolo(2) Erzya(2) Ewe(1) F Fiji Hindi(2) Fijian(1) Friulian(2) Fulah; Peul(1) G Ganda; Luganda(1) Gothic(1) Guarani(2) H Hakka(2) Hausa(1) Hawaiian(2) Herero(0) Hiri Motu(0) I Igbo(1) Iloko(2) Inuktitut(1) Inupiaq(1) J K Kabyle(1/2) Kalaallisut; Greenlandic(2) Kalmyk; Oirat(2) Kanuri(0) Karachay-Balkar(2) Kara-Kalpak(1) Kashmiri(1) Kashubian(2) Khmer(2) Kikuyu; Gikuyu(1) Kinyarwanda(2) Komi(2) Kongo(1) Kuanyama(0) Kyrgyz(2) L Ladino(2) Lao(1) Ligurian(2) Lingala(2) Lojban(2) Lower Sorbain(1) M Maltese(2) Mari(2) Marshallese(0) Min Dong; Eastern Min(1) Mirandese(1) Moksha (1) Moldavian(1) N Nauru(1) Navajo(2) Ndonga(0) Northern Sami(2) O Oriya(1) Oromo(1) P Pali(2) Pangasinan(2) Papiamento(2) Punjabi(2) Pushto(2) Q R Raeto-Romance(2) Romany(1) Rundi; Kirundi(1) S Samoan(1) Sango(1) Sardinian(2) Shona(1) Sichuan Yi(0) Sindhi(1) Somali(2) Sorani(2) Sotho southern(1) Sranan Togo(1/2) Swati(1) Syriac(-) T Tahitian(1/2) Tetum(1) Tibetan(2) Tigrinya(1) Tok Pisin(1/2) Tonga (Tonga Islands) (2) Tsonga(1) Tswana(1) Tumbuka(1) Twi(1) U Udmurt(2) Uighur(2) V Venda(1) W Wolof(2) Wu(2) X Xhosa(1) Y Z Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki(2) Zhuang; Chuang(1) Zulu(1)

Description

For details, see: list of Wikipedia's.

An online encyclopedia for any language comes close to ''educational content'' that is "Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive" or MECE¹. An online encyclopedia is therefore a recommended channel for providing educational content.

By creating an online encyclopedia for a developing country language, the partnership addresses the constraint lack of educational resources in the native language, in a manner that is rather insensitive to the very severe financing gaps constraint that each and every developing country faces.

Considering articles 17² and 4³ of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, such initiatives are in line with prevailing international agreements.

Availability

Internet, with a range of access channels, ranging from mobile devices, to desktops at telekiosks or internet cafes.

In the below lists, these levels are used (February 2011):

6: 1000000+ articles
5: 100000+ articles
4: 10000+ articles
3: 3734+ articles⁴ = the Wikipedia-Manx Benchmark
2: 1000+ articles
1: 33+ articles
0: less than 20 articles
-: < 100 articles (or not set yet, in that case the url is that of the wikipedia page of the language), the estimated number of speakers is provided between brackets.

Call to Action - #ACT4SDGs

Baseline

Languages in Baseline pass the Wikipedia-Manx Benchmark which stands currently at 3734 articles for the language.

A Afrikaans(4) Albanian(4) Alemani(3) Amharic(3) Arabic(5) Aragonese(4) Armenian(4) Aromanian(4) Asturian(4) Azerbaijani(4) B Basque(4) Belarusian(4) Belarusian(Taraskievica(4) Bengali(4) Bikol(3) Bosnian(4) Breton(4) Buginese(3) Bulgarian(5) Burmese(3) C Catalan; Valencian(5) Cebuano(4) Chinese(5) Chuvash(4) Classical Newari; Classical Nepal Basha(4) Corsican(3) Croatian(4) Czech(5) D Danish(5) Dutch; Flemish(5) E English (6) Esperanto(5) Estonian(4) F Faroese(3) Farsi, Persian (5) Finnish(5) French(6) G Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic(3/4) Galician(4) Gan(3) Georgian(4) German (6) Gilaki(3) Greek(4) Gujarati(4) H Haitian; Haitian Creole(4) Hebrew(5) Hindi(4) Hungarian(5) I Icelandic(4) Ido(4) Indonesian(5) Interlingue(3) Irish(4) Italian(5) J Japanese(5) Javanese(4) K Kannada(4) Kazakh(3) Korean(5) Kurdish(4) L Latin(4) Latvian(4) Limburgan(3) Lithuanian(5) Low German (Low Saxon)(4) Letzeburgesch(4) M Macedonian(4) Malagasy(3) Malay(5) Malayalam(4) Manipuri, Bishnupriya Manipuri(4) Manx(3) Maori(3) Marathi(4) Masri; Egyptian Arabic(3) Mongolian(3) N Nahuatl(3) Neapolitan(4) Nepali(4) Norwegian Bokmal(5) Norwegian Nynorsk(4) O Ossetian(3) P Pampangan(3) Panjabi(4) Polish(5) Portuguese(5) Q Quechua(4) R Romanian(5) Russian(5) S Samogitian(4) Sanskrit(3) Scots(3) Serbian(5) Serbo-Croatian(4) Sicilian(4) Sinhala; Sinhalese(3) Slovak(5) Slovenian(5) Southern Min (Min Nan)(3/4) Spanish(5) Sundanese(4) Swahili(4) Swedish(5) T Tagalog(4) Tajik(3/4) Tamil(4) Tatar(3) Telugu(4) Thai(4) Turkish(5) Turkmen(3) U Ukrainian(5) Upper Sorbian(3) Urdu(4) Uzbek(3) V Vietnamese(5) Volapuk(5) W Walloon(4) Waray(5) Welsh(4) X Y Yakut(3) Yiddish(3/4) Yoruba(4) Yue (Cantonese)(4) Z

Footnotes

2. States Parties recognize the important function performed by the mass media and shall ensure that the child has access to information and material from a diversity of national and international sources, especially those aimed at the promotion of his or her social, spiritual and moral well-being and physical and mental health.
To this end, States Parties shall: (a) Encourage the mass media to disseminate information and material of social and cultural benefit to the child and in accordance with the spirit of article 29; (b) Encourage international co-operation in the production, exchange and dissemination of such information and material from a diversity of cultural, national and international sources; (c) Encourage the production and dissemination of children's books; (d) Encourage the mass media to have particular regard to the linguistic needs of the child who belongs to a minority group or who is indigenous; (e) Encourage the development of appropriate guidelines for the protection of the child from information and material injurious to his or her well-being, bearing in mind the provisions of articles 13 and 18.

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