How to include oral culture in Wikimédia movement?
Channel: Wikimedia Sverige
Date: 2019-08-18

Oral culture, or oral lore is "a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another". This kind of culture includes lot of people who cannot read and write but some time can speak many languages.

Amadou Hampâté Bà said : « In Africa, When An Old Man Dies, It’s A Library Burning ».

In July 2011, Achal Prabhala start an oral citation research "helping overcome a lack of published material in emerging languages on Wikipedia". But unfortunately, no more of this kind of initiative seams created and oral knowledge don't still really have places in Wikimeida projects. So, the question is still there : what can we do to introduce knowledge from oral culture into the Wikimedia movement?

Session page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Diversity/How_to_include_oral_culture_in_Wikim%C3%A9dia_movement_%3F