LanguagesGallery

Lingualibre Languages Gallery is a VueJS searchable gallery of Lingualibre languages, with relevant statistics, call to action, and access to download our open licence datasets.

Why a language gallery ?

The Lingualibre Languages Gallery is the fruits of 2 years of periodic research and developement. It started in late 2021, with the writing of Help:SPARQL which aimed to explore per language statistics, including on gender coverage and geographic distribution. Advanced SPARQL queries confirmed our suspicions, the major geographic and gender biaises found raised the need for an human friendly, searchable Languages gallery able to communicate those findings to both the general public and Wikimedia policies makers.

Solution

The language gallery stands upon data consolidation pipeline and daily publication systems, the Sparql2data bash script. Using refined SPARQL queries, both Lingualibre and Wikidata's data are fetched daily, their JSON responses saved in persistant files and served online. Responsive HTML/CSS code was adapted from Common Voice Project, with whom further collaboration would be welcome.

The whole does the job elegantly, providing per language key metrics, with a search function, call to action, datasets download and sharable links.

Design

This page presents Lingualibre.org's statistics on a per languages basis with:

• Language name (Wikidata)
• Number of native speakers worldwide. (Wikidata)
• Speakers : number of Lingualibre speakers, aka voices. (Lingualibre)
• Gender split : number of females, other (non-binary and undefined), males voices. (Lingualibre)
• Unique words vs recordings ratio. (Lingualibre)
• Recordings gender split: number of females, other (non-binary and undefined), males recordings. (Lingualibre)
• Contribute button: points to our online rapid recording studio.
• Download button: download access to all open licence audios in this language.

Advanced features

• Search and filter by English or native language name
• Share a filtered url by appending ?search=YourSearch to the url

Datasets reuse

Each language's card has a download button to get a zip of all our open licence files. Their filenames should be used to point to the rightful Wikimedia file page, containing the file's licence.

Contribute

This Single Page Web Application works with:

• HTML
• CSS
• VueJS

Credits

Sorted by involvement: Yug, Elfix, VIGNERON, Poslovitch, Envel.

License

See index.html's footer and LICENSE MPL.