Please disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate. Last call: registration is closing for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference this week.

The Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conferencehttps://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9– This full day conference on 6 July is for colleagues interested in how technology can support language communities. Guest speakers from all across Europe will be joining us in Edinburgh to showcase and discuss a range of exciting open education, open data and open knowledge initiatives. Registration for this event closes 27th June so don’t delay in booking your placehttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Servicehttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-service-workshop-lea-lacroix-wikimedia-deutschland-tickets-35404137729?aff=es2 – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakershttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers and presentationshttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme at the Celtic Knot discussing community engagement and how to make Celtic and Indigenous languages a shared hub of online knowledge. Includes presentations from Catalan Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Scots Gaelic Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia and more.

Navino Evans from Histropedia will also be joining us for Wikidata I/O: a showcase event at the Repository Fringe 2017http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ conference in August. Three workshops will include: (1) how to add data in bulk (2) the wide variety of ways the data can be consumed, queried and visualised and (3) how to build SPARQL queries. 4th August 2017http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/registration/

Very best regards, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence

Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk