Hello all,

The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place on 4th and 5th of July in Penryn, Cornwall, UK.

The conference aims to bring people together to share their experiences of working on sharing information in minority languages, and to help people learn how to encourage the flow of information across language barriers and support associated communities.

During the previous editions, a lot of Wikidata-related sessions took place, and the conference especially helped bringing together editors of small Wikipedia communities who wanted to make more use of Wikidata, but lacked resources or technical skills. We hope that this gathering will bring together again plenty of people who are enthusiastic about sharing knowledge across (project) borders and languages!

The call for program submissions is now open until May 16th. More information about attendance and possible ways to get funded will certainly follow.

I already submitted a Query Booth - the format where people can exchange knowledge about SPARQL and help each other to build queries has been successfully tested at the WikidataCon and other events. If you plan to join the conference and would like to help at the booth, feel free to register on the page!

if you have any question, feel free to reach me or the main organisation contact, Mark Trevethan.

Cheers,

Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

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