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Moving Palmleaf.org to Wikisource

March 19, 2020 || David Kamholz

Tags: Balinese Wikipedia, Internet Archive, lontar palm leaf, MediaWiki, PalmLeaf.org, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikisource

Now that the Balinese lontar project on Palmleaf.org has proven successful, the Internet Archive recently suggested that we move it to a well-established platform so the Balinese community can take over management, and so it can be maintained long-term. The obvious choice is Wikisource, both because of the nature of the content (lontar works are […]

Wikidata, WikidataCon, and PanLex

September 11, 2019 || Benjamin Yang

Categories: News, PanLex Database

Tags: Berlin, lexical data, linked data, publicly-accessible information, structured data, Wikidata, WikidataCon 2019, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia

We are honored to announce that PanLex has been asked to give one of the two keynote speeches at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin, Germany on October 25th. Wikidata, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, is a collaboratively-edited database of structured knowledge. Much in the way that Wikimedia’s most well-known project Wikipedia is a publicly created […]