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Understanding Challenges in Contributing to Wikipedia in Amharic, Tigrinya, and Afan Oromo.

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dc.contributor.authorNigatu, Hellina Hailu
dc.contributor.authorCanny, John
dc.contributor.authorChasins, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-18T15:09:55Z
dc.date.available2024-10-18T15:09:55Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionThis a translation of the summary of the article: Hellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, Sarah Chasins. (2024). "Low-Resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding Study" Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642605 | | | https://hhnigatu.github.io//publication/2024-wiki-chi (Author's website); https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1695 (Translation in Afan Oromo); https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1694 (Translation in Tigrinya); https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1689 (Translation in Amharic).
dc.description.abstractOnline Knowledge Repositories (OKRs) like Wikipedia offer communities a way to share and preserve information about themselves and their ways of living. However, for communities with low-resourced languages—including most African communities—the quality and volume of content available are often inadequate. One reason for this lack of adequate content could be that many OKRs embody Western ways of knowledge preservation and sharing, requiring many low-resourced language communities to adapt to new interactions. To understand the challenges faced by low-resourced language contributors on the popular OKR Wikipedia, we conducted (1) a thematic analysis of Wikipedia forum discussions and (2) a contextual inquiry study with 14 novice contributors. We focused on three Ethiopian languages: Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrinya. Our analysis revealed several recurring themes; for example, contributors struggle to find resources to corroborate their articles in low-resourced languages, and language technology support, like translation systems and spellcheck, result in several errors that waste contributors’ time. We hope our study will support designers in making online knowledge repositories accessible to low-resourced language speakers.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642605
dc.identifier.otherhttps://hhnigatu.github.io//publication/2024-wiki-chi
dc.identifier.otherhttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1695
dc.identifier.otherhttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1694
dc.identifier.otherhttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1689
dc.identifier.urihttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1681
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1564
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectWikipieda
dc.subjectNeed-Finding
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interaction
dc.titleUnderstanding Challenges in Contributing to Wikipedia in Amharic, Tigrinya, and Afan Oromo.
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