Announcing a new opportunity at Rutgers for Wikipedians interested in endangered languages – Wiki Education

"I’m pleased to announce a new opportunity at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for a Wikipedian interested in improving articles about endangered languages!

As an encyclopedia written almost entirely by volunteers, Wikipedia is an incredible accomplishment. As of today, the English Wikipedia has just short of 5.6 million articles. But research has shown that coverage is not uniform across subjects. Unsurprisingly, the English Wikipedia attracts a lot of information from and about the English-speaking world while content about other languages is often underdeveloped or missing. That’s why I’m excited that Rutgers, through its Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, is participating in the Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program to help make coverage of these other languages more robust."