Lightning talk on the Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group: transcript

Key points

• The user group's foundations were laid in 2012 at a Turkic conference in Kazakhstan.
• Turkic Wikimedians met at Wikimania 2016 and decided to create a user group, which was established after 2019 preparations.
• The group supports other local communities and helps members contribute.
• It works to save Turkic culture and develop freely licensed cultural content on Wikimedia projects.
• A Wikidata event at Üsküdar University in Istanbul drew 46 participants from 11 countries and more than 10 presentations.
• An upcoming Turkic Wikimedia conference is planned at the same university in October.

Chapters

1. 0:00Speaker introduction
2. 0:33Origins of the user group
3. 1:48Activities and upcoming Istanbul conference

Full transcript

0:00Great. Okay. Without further ado, let's have our first speaker. Am I stuck? Hello. Start. Should I start?

0:33Hello, everyone. I am Cener and from Turkey. I want to tell about my user group. My user group name is Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group. The foundations of our user group were laid in 2012 at the Turkic conference held in Kazakhstan. Turkic people came together at Wikimania 2016 and they decided to create a user group.

1:12Upon this Hakan and Mehman, I'd like to FCOM in 2019, then next year, our user group is established. We are supporting other local communities, other local Turkey communities and working together for their growth. We work together to empower members to contribute and make our user groups better than now.

1:48We are working to save Turkey culture and develop free license Turkey cultural elements on Wikimedia projects. Wikidata Istanbul was organized and as training and conference the event took place at Üsküdar University in Istanbul in in 11 country 46 participants presented 10 plus presentations so with the Turkey Marathon we supporting our users to say a turkey culture and improve contents rate the turkey world on wikimedia projects we are cooperating with international and local organizers organizations related with 30 world Upcoming Turkey Wikimedia conference will be a conference where the participations make presentations and get information on various topics like Wikimania. The conference will be had at again Üsküdar University in Istanbul in this October. We are working for unity of the Turkey world on Wikimedia projects. Thanks for all.

3:15That was amazing.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Wikimania 2023 - Plenary - 18 August - Lightning Talk - A tree where roots meet. Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group.webm by Wikimania 2023 (2023-08-18), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.