Yug

Bonjour Wikimédia !
Raised in an European forest and Taiwan townships, I joined Wikipedia in 2004. I'm a manager of new technologies, e-learning and multilingualism projects by training and profession. I work in higher education for INALCO, Université de Paris, Université de Toulouse and others. In 2023-2024, I was the Wikimedian en résidence at UdT.

In my early 20s I learnt my ancestors were Occitan, a formerly 15-millions people community with its own vibrant culture now nearly erased.

I'm fluent in French, English and Chinese and supports cultural diversity and minority languages revitalization.

I embraced diverse roles within the Wikimedia community, wearing hats as both an editor and a project coordinator.

Between 2005 and 2015, I initiated and lead several Wikipedia:Graphic Labs, consolidated the Wikipedia Cartographic guidelines^[1], the Commons CJK Stroke Order Project and the Ancient Chinese Characters Project. Each of those managing about 15k images.

My Chinese PhD research lead me to collaborate with an open source recording tools. After a few years the collaboration became LinguaLibre.org: WMF's rapid recording tool to document languages diversity, accents and voices. Lingua Libre helps to create professional-grade audio dictionaries and enlighten local accents. In 2025, Lingua Libre celebrated its 1,400,000th recordings and over 310 languages. It also nutures local projects such as SignIt, WikiTutur, WikiTada, Lingua Libre Dictionary…. I'm co-maintain the codebase Of Lingua Libre, SignIt, Lingua Libre Dictionary, Dragons Bot and others wikimedia tools.

On Wikipedia I mainly focus on international news, Chinese culture, ethology and and human rights. I've held administrative positions on Wikipedia FR, Commons and Lingua Libre, been Wikimedian in residence and lead numerous front-line roles such as being a top-10 coordinators of the 2020 Covid Task Force. You may have met me IRL at Wikimanias ('07,'13-14,'17 to '25) and Wikimedia Hackathons.