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10:00 AM-3:00 PM

Digital Discourses: Wiktionary-Workshop

Workshop | Digital Discourses 2025: Workshop on Contributing Indigenous Languages to Wiktionary

  • Yayasan Riset Visual MataWaktu, Jakarta Selatan

  • Indonesian
  • Free of charge | With registration, limited to 20 people only
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Digital Discourses 2025 © Goethe-Institut Indonesia / Each Other Company

Digital Discourses 2025 © Goethe-Institut Indonesia / Each Other Company

This fourth event in the Digital Discourses 2025 series will give the participants an opportunity to learn about and directly contribute to a digital crowdsourcing project through the online dictionary Wiktionary. During this five-hour event, participants will receive training and have the opportunity to enrich Wiktionary by adding words from Indigenous languages.

The two main Indigenous languages for this workshop are the Balik language from East Kalimantan and the Orang Rimba language from Jambi.

The Balik language is spoken by the Balik Tribe, the Indigenous people of North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan. Currently, there are only about 50 active speakers of this language. The Orang Rimba language is spoken by the Orang Rimba tribe, who live in the Bukit Dua Belas National Park in the Jambi Region of Indonesia. The tribe currently has a population of roughly 1,775 people. Both of these languages are at risk of extinction, primarily due to the loss of their ancestral forests. Therefore, digital preservation efforts for these languages are critical in preventing their extinction.

Biography

Arjuna Fiqrillah

Volunteer at Wiktionary Indonesia Community

is a language activist who is particularly interested in conserving languages from Nusantara. He volunteers for Wikimedia, specialising in the development of Wiktionary, Wikipedia's sister project. Since 2023, he has managed the WikiTutur programme, which focuses on recording the pronunciation of Nusantara indigenous languages in Indonesian Wiktionary (Wikikamus) and Lingua Libre.

Sofi Solihah

Freelance Journalist and Volunteer for the Wikimedia Community

is a strategic public relations professional who also works as a freelance journalist. She has been involved with the Wikimedia Bandung Community since 2019, focusing on the conservation of the Sundanese language and the Cacarakan Sundanese script. She also contributes to the development of Betawi culture and language within the Wikimedia Jakarta community, resulting in the creation of Wikipedia Betawi.

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