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Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Lead Program Officer, Emerging Communities Community Development Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 21:08 Mohammed Sadat Abdulai via African-Wikimedians < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I am happy to share a major update to the Dagbanli Dictionary. > > The dictionary now integrates over **20,000 native audio recordings** from > the Mozilla Common Voice dataset. This means when you look up a word, you > can now hear it spoken in example sentences. You can see this in action > here: https://dagbanli.info/?word=L722895 > > This is a significant step toward our goal of **phonological > preservation**, ensuring the oral heritage of Dagbanli is not lost in its > digital transition. > > All links, including the live tool, source code, and a feedback etherpad, > are on the central project page: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dagbanli_dictionary > > Best, > > -Masssly > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello folks, >> >> I am happy to share that I have built a Dagbanli Dictionary which is now >> live at: https://dagbanli.info/ >> >> The tool is currently in *Beta*, so a lot of refinement is still needed. >> I am looking for people to stress-test it and send over feedback. >> >> This project builds a Dagbanli-first digital infrastructure to move away >> from reliance on English-based wordlists. The goal is to create a dynamic >> record of the language with native audio and full grammatical mapping. >> >> Help is needed to refine the tool in several areas, including: >> >> - *Admins*: To manage the project dashboard and tasks. >> - *Category Leads*: To "adopt" a lexical category (Nouns, Verbs, >> etc.) and create gold-standard word models. >> - *Developers*: To contribute to the open-source codebase via pull >> requests. >> >> All links, including the live tool, source code, and feedback etherpad >> are available on the central project page: >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dagbanli_dictionary >> >> Please add your name to the *Participants* list on that page and >> indicate your area of interest. >> >> Best, >> -- >> >> Mohammed Sadat Abdulai >> --- >> *(Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to >> work with me? I’d love your feedback <https://admonymous.co/masssly>!)* >> >> Feel free to schedule a chat with me: cal.com/masssly. >> > > > -- > > Mohammed Sadat Abdulai > --- > *(Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to > work with me? I’d love your feedback <https://admonymous.co/masssly>!)* > > Feel free to schedule a chat with me: cal.com/masssly. > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list -- > [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] >
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