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Dear listserve members:<br>
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We wanted to share our just launched Balinese-English-Indonesian
Wiki Reference Dictionary -- its at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dictionary.basabali.org/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://dictionary.basabali.org/Main_Page</a>
-- and solicit ideas about how best to engage the Balinese
community in adding to it.<br>
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The wiki is oriented around everyday Balinese (media), with
references to high and low registers and regional differences. We
devoted a lot of real estate for example sentences, which we hope
people will pull from lontar, folktales, songs, newspaper
articles, etc. to give users a feel for real life usage (for
example, see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dictionary.basabali.org/Uled" target="_blank">http://dictionary.basabali.org/Uled</a>).
We've provided audio/visual functionality so that users can upload
YouTube videos of native speakers saying sample sentences (see for
example <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dictionary.basabali.org/Manyama" target="_blank">http://dictionary.basabali.org/Manyama</a>)
and space for the endangered Bali script (see for example, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dictionary.basabali.org/Umah" target="_blank">http://dictionary.basabali.org/Umah</a>).<br>
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We started the wiki off with a [donated] Balinese-English
dictionary and have an expert team of linguists/lexicographers who
will review entries made by the public.<br>
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Our plan is to engage the public through local print and radio
media, facebook and other social media, to try to encourage
schools to participate, and if we are able to raise some money via
our <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1762259619/gongs-batik-and-sate-wiki-tools-for-balinese">Kickstarter
campaign</a> to send local linguists out to the field to try to
engage local communities through their leaders (using old
fashioned paper and pen in areas with no internet).<br>
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Have you had experience with large scale public participation in
language projects that you can share, especially in areas where
people have access to the internet? Are there particular ways
we can use Facebook and other social media (or even traditional
media) that we should be thinking about? Are there good models
for engaging schools in a project like this? We operate with
barely a thread of a budget, so we're looking for suggestions
which we can do with volunteers.<br>
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Many thanks for your help. <br>
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-- <br>
Alissa Stern <br>
Executive Director <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.BASAbali.org">www.BASAbali.org</a> <br>
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