Derek Lackaff @lackaff@mastodon.social
civic technology | languages of fewer speakers | social and antisocial media
This entry just won NPR's Tiny Desk Concert contest. Amazing #guitar technique and voice from Naia Izumi. https://youtu.be/nk8HEO_60ms #music
Excited to share this new blog post on my research: https://blog.communitydata.cc/revisiting-the-rise-and-decline/
The pool of active contributors to Wikipedia started declining in 2007. Researchers blamed a calcifying bureaucracy and hostility to newcomers. Are these problems in other wiki communities too? Could there be a deeper reason why these dynamics emerge?
I replicated Halfaker et al 2013's analysis of 'The rise and decline.' The dynamics observed in Wikipedia appear to reoccur again and again in many wiki communities.
The video game: A challenging universe for minority languages
#steredenn #winterfall #brezhoneg #corsu #euskara
https://medium.com/r12n/the-video-game-a-challenging-universe-for-minority-languages-65c2cd7af7d2
Bedre #norsk med skreddersydd språk-app
https://gemini.no/2018/02/bedre-norsk-skreddersydd-sprak-app/
Facebook is "a useful tool when it is stripped of its power. However, when it is larded with my personal details it is a weapon and a liability."
Hello Mastodon, Openwords is an open source #OER language learning webapp. We are in beta, and our Github page is available.
We're looking for partnering universities and instructors to collaboratively build lessons with our team.
Openwords is open source. We are committed to diverse open educational resources.
Openwords.com
Our code:
https://github.com/Openwords/OpenwordsWebapp
Openwords is a social enterprise that is not legally obligated to pursue profit maximization for shareholders.
Much like Scott McCloud's work on comics, these amazing animated gif "tutorials" explain the medium of #pixelart via that medium. https://www.patreon.com/saint11
https://mastodon.social/media/mt9gRdFv0uj9TM-BBHk
@rustyk5 What was the navelgazing section of k5 called? Was it just "meta"?
So I have to select all the languages I don't understand to filter them from my feed? Wouldn't opting in to specific languages be an easier filtering UI?
"There is a strengthening movement of #Indigenous game designers and developers working to portray Indigenous storytelling, teachings and ways of knowing for their own people and the wider world." #gaming #gamedev #storytelling https://medium.com/r12n/video-games-encourage-indigenous-cultural-expression-2945f0609685
So you'd like to start computing in your own #language https://medium.com/r12n/so-youd-like-to-start-computing-in-your-own-language-f43c0e52e133
So you’d like to start computing in your own language https://medium.com/r12n/so-youd-like-to-start-computing-in-your-own-language-f43c0e52e133
Good stuff: What is GNU Social and is Mastodon Social a “Twitter Clone”? by @rw https://robekworld.com/what-is-gnu-social-and-is-mastodon-social-a-twitter-clone-1b12a98c37ec
Just set up my personal Mastodon at https://mastodon.ar.al
Follow me there:
https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/remote_follow
You can mention me there using @aral
When/if you can, I would highly urge you to set up your own Mastodon instance. Currently requires tech knowledge/isn’t seamless (and getting it there will be a big challenge) but this is a great start and a very good step in the right direction.
Lots of love to @eugen and the dev team :)
If I ever make it back to the Berenstein timeline, I wonder if I'll remember my time here.
Speech and #language technology on a shoestring | Scottish #Gaelic provides a model for small-team, high impact strategies for #languages of few speakers
https://medium.com/r12n/speech-and-language-technology-on-a-shoestring-4e11ebc21d55
Local #language / global network: Designing mobile technology for #indigenous and #minority language users https://medium.com/r12n/local-language-global-network-5a83e287132e https://mastodon.social/media/03kiBwo16nEuFnUTSJA