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Building Inter-linguistic Bridges

… and maintaining them

Farah Jack Mustaklem

Wikimedians of the Levant UG

Welcome

مرحبا

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Hoş geldiniz

خوش آمدید

Bienvenides

Bem-vindes

Добро пожаловать

Рәхим итегеҙ

Марша догӀийла

Fáilte

Croeso

Degemer mat

Dynnargh dhywgh

Ongi etorri

Хвашгелди

Fàilte

Bridges Across Cultures

Bridges Across Cultures

• Conceived during Wikimedia Conference 2017
• Wikimedians from the Levant and Latin America

Bridges Across Cultures 2^nd Edition

• Happened in 2018
• Same languages (Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese) + Ladino
• Expanded article coverage to most countries in SWANA and LatAm (and Haiti!)
• Topics about cuisine, heritage, music, …

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Bridges Across Cultures 3^rd Edition

• Happened in 2019
• Added languages of Russia (Russian, Bashkir, Chechen, Lezgi)
• Articles about each region are written in the languages of the other two regions
• Same topic areas as previous year

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1-1 Cultural Exchange Program

1-1 Cultural Exchange Program

• 2018: Arabic-Bengali Cultural Exchange Program
• 2019: Levant-Algeria Cultural Exchange Program
• 2020: Levant-Greece Cultural Exchange Program

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Palestine-Wales Cultural Exchange Program

Palestine-Wales Cultural Exchange Program

• 2021
• Collab between WM Levant and WMUK
• Articles about Women, Food, Culture, COVID-19, …
• Topics related to Palestine and Wales
• … and Cornwall of course!

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Project Ikusgela

Project Ikusgela

• Basque Wikimedians produced videos
• Subtitles in 18 languages
• WM Levant translated subtitles to Arabic in 2024
• … more to come

What’s Next?

What’s Next?

https://w.wiki/BKym

Thanks for your attention!

Get in touch:

Farah Jack Mustaklem

Contact info (fjmustak@gmail.com, Fjmustak)