LinguaLibre:Jargon

Awareness, Demo, Workshops

Real life outreach stay powerful tools. Common outreach grounds are Wikimedia events and language universities but any context could work as long as you public is interested by languages and conservation of cultural wealths. The first communication tools is just to discuss and create interest to our core mission : letting people know than a Wikimedia tool exist to make rapid audio recording and 800 recordings per hour possible. The second common communication tool at hand is the quicky demo. An experienced Lili users shows on her or his device how he record few words from a list via a <5 minutes and 30~100 words demo. It requires a more visible interest and a calm room while smartphone or tablets have proved to work well for demoing. The recorded audios do not have to be uploaded to Commons, it depends on the situation. The highest strategy requires dedicated public ready for a longer exploration of LinguaLibre as a audio tool for rapid recording. In a workshop session, with one mentoree or a class of leaners under the assistance and leadership of an experienced contributor, the mentoree(s) use their Commons.Wikimedia.org account, go on Lingualibre.org, open the RecordWizard, follow the steps, open a modest list, to start recording. Discovery, ambiguity, mistakes and learning will ensue, therefore providing an aware and trained potential contributor by the end of the session. In all these three scenario, the newly contacted person can now report to other about LinguaLibre, its core goals, and its ease of use.

Gentle ramp approach

Start	End	User type
00001	00200	Discovery user
00201	01000	Returning, motivated
01001	02000	Returning, motivated
02001	05000	Commited
05001	10000	Commited
10001	15000	Bersek
15001	20000	Bersek
20001	25000	Bersek
25001	30000	Dragon
30001	35000	Dragon
35001	40000	Dragon
40001	45000	Dragon
45001	50000	Dragon
50000	+	The One

The gentle ramp approach suggest the creation of Lists creating a progressive practice and learning ground for our audio contributors. This approach is the fruit of real-life experience with Lingualibre's recording outreach, demo and workshops.
The first list has just 200 words, ex: List:Mar/Most_used_words,_UNILEX_1:_words_00001_to_00200. It allows better on-the-ground first-contact and short demo session with new users. 200 is gently ambitious, allows to pass the uncanny valley of the first 20 words, and move to the joyful Lingualibre flow of rapid recording. Perfect for demo and on-boarding.
Following lists are for motivated users who by their own chose to return. To consolidate skills, list n⁰2 has 800 words while list n⁰3 has 1000 items. At this stage a decent 2,000 audios have been recorded by the speaker. These words likely make up for 90~95% of daily conversations.
Few users decide to become committed users. List n⁰4 has 3000 items, while all following ones have 5,000 words each. These lists are not expected to be done in one strike but over several session of one hour or less, during a dedicated day or along a week or so. These lists requires some middle-term planing and understanding of your ability to pause while a list is not complete, with the possibility to return later on.

Lili

Elegant nickname and shortcut for LinguaLibre. While we started to use LL, Indian contributors Titodutta pointed out Lili (pronunced "Leelee") was a good way to orally nickname the project. It was adopted by other users.

See also

• Help:Interface for terms relative to our User interface.