Wikidata:WMDE Hardware Donation Program/Bennylin

Your contact information

• Your username: Bennylin (talk • contribs • logs) edit counter
• Your contact e-mail (optional): benny{at}wikimedia.or.id (until end of June), or Special:EmailUser/Bennylin

Your plan

Describe your current contributions to Wikidata, and how receiving a laptop would enable you to further contribute to the project.
I've started contributing to Wikidata since April 2012, and more recently since lexemes being introduced in June 2018. I've created around 19 thousand Indonesian lexemes with more than 400 thousand forms (ordia) (using my bot account). I believe that lexemes in the languages of Indonesia should be entered into Wikidata Lexemes systematically, with standardized format (including forms), rather than sporadically and randomly with multiple formats. Therefore, we, in Indonesia, need to develop the tool, and process the necessary data to be uploaded at once. Only then, contributors will be able to improve upon it.

Currently Wikimedia Indonesia loaned me a laptop, due to be returned this end of June. Working with my laptop often crashes due to low memory. I'm planning to help multiple Indonesian communities with different languages to be able to add their lexemes using Leksem-Indonesia tool that I forked from Lucas's Lexeme-Forms. I'm also planning to install a Wikibase instance for showcasing to different GLAM institutions, and providing workshops and events at communities in different parts of Indonesia's archipelago.

After I'm finishing the Indonesian lexemes, I will try to tackle other languages one by one, starting from the number of speakers, e.g. Javanese, Sundanese, Minang, Balinese, etc. and depending on the availability of other contributors who wishes to collaborate in those projects. My past 10+ years experience was mainly related to Javanese script, transliteration from Latin to Javanese script and vice versa, as well as making keyboard with Keyman and input method with MediaWiki's Universal Language Selector.

Examples of your work

Provide us with links to some of your best Wikidata work, whether on or off-wiki (up to 3 or 4 at most). This will help us get a better sense of the type of work you do.

• Indonesian lexemes: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/id, User:Bennylin/Leksem Indonesia, e.g. air (L6546), pengairan (L479448), (online talkshow) transcript (id), Presentation
• leksem-indonesia.toolforge.org - tool for adding Lexeme to Wikidata in Indonesian's 700+ languages
• related to Javanese language and script: transliteration pages and Javanese transliteration on my Github; Keyman keyboard; ULS's Javanese transliteration

Endorsements

1.  Support Happy to endorse Benny Lin that will have significant impact on Indonesian and Javanese lexemes project. Labdajiwa (talk) 23:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
2.  Support Benny Lin has helped me and many other community members in Indonesia. Having a better device to train more people is needed by him. It's very good idea to improve the lexeme project by providing an accountable device for him. Considering his contribution, we'll never regret to support him by donating a reliable hardware. Thersetya2021 (talk) 16:32, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Impact

You are encouraged to track the impact this equipment has helped you make. This encourages WMDE to donate more hardware.

• Hi, sorry for the late update. The laptop has been sent and delivered. I was abroad for a year and just came back home recently. I sincerely thank WMDE for the laptop donation. I will update the work that I did (particularly with Javanese lexemes) in the coming months. Bennylin (talk) 09:04, 5 August 2024 (UTC)