User talk:Bjankuloski06

Welcome

Welcome to Lingua Libre, Bjankuloski06!

Lingua Libre is a project which aims to build a collaborative multilingual audiovisual corpus under free licence in order to expand knowledge about languages and help online language communities to develop.
You can help us!
You can visit this page if you want to learn more about the project.

Before starting

You can create your User page by clicking on it. We recommend that you integrate the babel template onto it. It is very useful to indicate to others the languages you speak, and to facilitate finding other persons speaking your languages. If you are not familiar with wikicode, you can go to this demo User page, read the instructions and copy the prepared babel template, and then paste it onto your user page before adapting it to your information. You can then publish your User page!

Where to start?

• Follow the steps of the Record Wizard
• Think of the words you want to record. You may enter them one by one (live list), use an existing category from a Wiktionary or Wikipedia project, or create your own list.

Do you need help?

You can visit this help page where you will find advice for beginning your contributions on Lingua Libre. If you did not find the answer to your question, please ask it in the Chat room.

Good practice

• Try to avoid background noises during the recording
• Please listen to the pronunciations before uploading them
• Consider using an external microphone

Best regards! — WikiLucas (🖋️) 14:55, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much @Bjankuloski06 for translating Lingua Libre into Macedonian! I hope you like the project, don't hesitate to ask any question or make any suggestion if you have some 🙂

All the best — WikiLucas (🖋️) 14:23, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello Bjankuloski, welcome around and thank you for the translations. Did you interacted with team and introduced yourself a bit ? We are still quite a France-dominated project, is there a way you could post a small invite on your Wiki to point out contributors of all languages can record their languages and voice via LinguaLibre's recording studio. We also look for maintainers, wiki-projects managers (people who think about new templates, new team process, etc.), recording event organizers, as well as Python hackers... We now have a core team but we need to include and train a more diverse team. If you have ideas about that to discuss here, I take ^^ Yug (talk) 20:48, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@Yug Hello! I have not introduced myself properly because I have not felt that I may be useful to the general community of Lingua Libre. I am completely unfamiliar with coding and hacking, and so is everyone else in our community (it's peculiar, because we are from a country with good coders and programmers, but our wiki turned out like that and we are trying to remedy that now). What I can certainly do is invite other people to participate in the pronunciation endeavours, although the Macedonian editors on the English Wiktionary, who are excellent, caution people that proper official speech is not something everyone can do easily; so if our community is to be doing that as a project, we need to be quite selective about it. But it is certainly a feasible idea to discuss with the people in the chapter. If any other non-technical ideas have come to light, I'd like to know about them. Greetings. --B. Jankuloski (talk) 23:24, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, nice to hear back from you this fast.

We had the same issue here, on Lili. The first team of developers left naturally, we had a free-fly period without any dev. We made calls for volunteers, despite being quite junior myself I/we welcomed and mentored at arrival the current team of developers (Poslovitch, Olaf). They learned and explored actively to be honest. It took a good deal of time, about 6 months to be back in a good situation, on a very lovely-popular project (people love their languages).

On that side and given your comment I'am thinking of something. We are periodically creating new flavor of LinguaLibreBot : catalan, kurd,... The bot post audio recordings into wiktionaries, en, fr, or mk. It's a quite simple Python + Github declaration + hacking work. Python and JS are the most popular programming langues, and we have potential mentors here (user:Pamputt), so it's likely you have some folks who could take this hacking challenge as a first experience. It could be a gentle start for a Macedonian developer.

On the pronunciation side we are for diversity, we look for non-standard pronunciations, which carry the true voices of a language, specific to each sub-region, person, or even age. We think of Lingualibre data as a world heritage project, where linguist will be able to compare pronunciations, study voices variations, etc. Just, when an user is created within the Recording studio (Recording Wizard), specify the speaker well : place of birth, gender, etc, which influence the pronunciation.

Yug (talk) 11:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)