Subhashish Panigrahi<p>Text can't express the nuances of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> compared to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multimedia</span></a>, and most of the world's languages are oral (and not written). We’re launching OpenSpeaks Archives, an open (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> licensed) and public digital language multimedia archive optimised for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> projects, focusing on lesser-resourced languages.</p><p>More from the first pilot with five native tongues (Baleswari <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Odia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odia</span></a>, my native tongue, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bonda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bonda</span></a>, Ho, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kusunda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kusunda</span></a> and Van <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gujjari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gujjari</span></a>): <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/18/openspeaks-archives-a-language-archive-for-wikimedia-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/18/</span><span class="invisible">openspeaks-archives-a-language-archive-for-wikimedia-projects/</span></a></p>