Community
The UniLang Community, an open non-profit organization, is composed by a varied array of international members who share a common interest in languages and linguistics.
The Unilang Community is cited in the UNESCO webpage and search engine as "a home for everybody interested in any aspect of language(s) or linguistics".
UniLang's resources, similar to Wikipedia, have been produced collaboratively by volunteers around the world and can be edited by any member with access to the Internet.
The community openly discuss, create and support the resources available online. All data, with few exceptions, is licensed under an open license: the UniLang Public License. The community has been reviewed by various media and has won a number of awards.
The UniLang Community relies on each other to create and maintain the online language resources and forums. The UniLang members are organized into related groups and coordinate themselves the projects of their interest.
The UniLang website make use of forums to discuss language topics and chat rooms to have live interaction with other members. The UniLang Chat-box supports a number of Unicode scripts, in order to allow members to write in different languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Russian.
Members can submit their proposed language resources to publication on the website. Various language resources have a printer-friendly equivalent. The UniLang website offers members an open wiki resource, similar to Wikipedia, in order to add and edit articles. A user can create and publish on the website her own language quizzes and exercises to the use of the community. A translation interface offers the members the possibility to translate the UniLang web pages and make them available to the community.
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