About

With 16 billion page views every month, Wikipedia is one of the first stops when people search for information. It is a cornerstone of the digital age, but the information within it is not evenly represented across languages.

The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference aims to bring people together to share their experiences of working on sharing information in minority languages. We hope to help people learn how to encourage the flow of information across language barriers and support associated communities.

Registration

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Accommodation

You can book discounted accommodation at the Penryn Campus where the conference is being held.

Use the link below with the Promotion Code: WLC2019

bookings.cornwall-plus.co.uk/kxbnb_live

Programme

Wednesday 3 July/Dy' Mergher 3 mis Gortheren

19.00 – social drinks at Stannary Bar (upstairs), Penryn Campus

Thursday 4 July/Dy'Yow 4 mis Gortheren

Time	Details
9.00	Registration and coffee
10.00	Welcome Mark Trevethan
10.05	Opening speech Councillor Jesse Foot, Cornwall Council
10.20	How Celtic Knot and Wikimedia have created new opportunities for Cornish language Mark Trevethan, Cornish Language Lead
10.40	Building a Wiki Nation Jason Evans
11.05	Coffee break
11.35	Introduction to Wikidata Lea Lacroix
12.00	Advocacy Work in Wikimedia – Minority Languages Anass Sedrati
12.25	Introduction to Wikisource Jon Harald Søby and Nicolas Vigneron
12.50	Questions
1.00	Lunch
	Parallel sessions
	Chapel Lecture Theatre – Diversity Theme	Seminar Room W – Editathon
2.00	Languages Matter to Cultural Diversity: Finding Missing Languages and Bridging the Gaps in Minority Languages Marc Miquel	Introducing Cornwall's Maritime Churches digital research project Victoria Jenner + volunteer How Wikipedia can help Cornwall's Maritime Churches project 'How to' become a Wikipedia editor - demonstration and practical session Practical: Making your first edit today! Start editing small, find articles which would be ideal for mentioning the project, and develop themes around the project
2.25	Challenges for Berber Wikipedias and learning Anass Sedrati
2.50	Automation and Metadata on Wikipedia – An overview of transnational practices in four language communities Jose Gongora
3.15	Coffee break
3.45	Working with the International Year of Indigenous Languages John Cummings
4.10	2019 Year of Indigenous Languages – Sami Languages Jon Harald Søby and Kimberli Mäkäräinen
4.35	Closing speech Lord Bourne, UK Minister for Faith and Integration
4.50-5.00	End of day 1 discussion and close

18.00 – social event at The Working Boat Pub, Falmouth. Greenbank, Stratton Pl, The Packet Quays, Falmouth TR11 2SR (map). Food (but not drink) is included in the conference ticket price.

Friday 5 July/Dy'Gwener 5 mis Gortheren

Time	Details
9.00	Registration and coffee
10.00	Welcome Mark Trevethan
10.05	Wikipedia in Education Aaron Morris
10.30	The continued growth of Vicipéid Rebecca O'Neill
10.55	Studiañ e brezhoneg..... hep internet? Gregory H. Moigne
11.20	Coffee break
	Parallel sessions
	Chapel Lecture Theatre	Seminar Room W
11.40	Promoting and supporting small sister projects Unapersona, Amical Wikimedia	Wikidata - SPARQL Workshop Nicolas Vigneron
12.05	Languages Sans Frontières International and Fratolish Hiang Perpeshki Robin Owain	Visualising a language with geoshapes Simon Cobb
12.25	An Oral Wikipedia – A dream or reality? Anass Sedrati	Developing the Cornish Dictionary using open source tools and data Davydh Trethewey
12.35	Wikimedia, Mozilla and Common Voice Delyth Prys and Rhoslyn Prys	How to mine texts in Kernewek: using corpus tools to learn a minority language David Pollard
		EMLex Wiktionary HackFest Adrian Estévez
1.00	Lunch
	Parallel sessions
	Chapel Lecture Theatre	Seminar Room W – Editathon
2.00	Unconference Wikidata query booth in the communal area	Presentation: Cornwall's Maritime Churches project - digital research Victoria Jenner and Becky Orchard Practical: Using research material provided, contribute to an existing article and use at least one aspect of multimedia Practical: making connections between all the conference languages - translating articles, linking Wikidata, sharing resources
3.40	Coffee break
4.00	Closing discussion/more unconference
5.00	Closing remarks Mark Trevethan and Jason Evans

Seminar rooms Y and V are available throughout the conference for spontaneous sessions.

Celtic Knot Conference 2019