My Fellow Wikimedians,
Don't miss out the opportunity to have your voice heard or push an advocacy.
As announced below, you have until Sunday, 1 March, 2026 to submit a
program proposal for our 21st annual conference.
Further details are on wiki:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Program
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2026 Program Call Is Now Open!
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Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimania Team <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Organizers>
is happy to announce that the Program Call is officially open.
We invite community members, affiliates, volunteers, and partners to submit
proposals and help shape a program that reflects the diversity, creativity
and collaboration of our movement.
Submission timeline
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The submission form will remain open until March 1.
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Results will be published in May.
We kindly remind you that this year’s program is guided by the theme Liberté,
Égalité, Fiabilité <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Wikimania>
(Freedom, Equity, Reliability), and we invite submissions that reflect it.
Learn more
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Read more on Diff here
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/01/27/call-for-sessions-wikimania-2026-is-c…>
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Read more about the theme and formats on the Wikimania wiki
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Program>
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Submit your proposal here
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wm/wikimania2026/cfp>
Orientation sessions will be hosted in early February by the team, stay
tuned for more details.
We’re looking forward to reading your submissions and creating this year’s
Wikimania with the community.
Warm regards,
Afek, Communications Lead
On behalf of The Wikimania Team
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Dear Wikimedia Language and Incubator Communities,
The *Call for Proposals for the ESEAP Conference 2026* is ongoing and
closing tomorrow, *21 December 2025*.
The East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific (ESEAP) region is one of the most
linguistically diverse areas on the planet. Yet, many of our languages face
significant hurdles in the digital space—from technical support in the
Incubator to community sustainability for smaller wikis.
We cannot have a representative ESEAP conference without a strong
focus on *Language
Diversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and Minority Languages.*
We strongly encourage members of the *Incubator, LangCom, Language
Diversity Hub, and Wiki for Minorities* communities to submit sessions. We
are looking for synergy on topics such as:
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*Incubation Strategies:* How to move ESEAP languages from the Incubator
to full projects more efficiently.
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*Minority Language Resilience:* Case studies on sustaining small
communities in the region (Minori-Ties).
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*Indigenous Knowledge:* Integrating oral histories and indigenous data
with Wikimedia projects.
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*Technical Support:* Issues regarding non-Latin scripts and input
methods specific to the Asia-Pacific region.
*Deadline to submit:* Sunday, 21 December 2025 (tomorrow)
Conference URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026>
*Submit your proposal here:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026/Program/Submissions
Let’s ensure that the future of the open movement in our region is
multilingual and inclusive. We look forward to seeing your submissions!
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Best regards,
Butch Bustria
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Hello,
if you can translate to any of the following languages:
ar as be cs cy de es ka km kn ko ky mn ne nn qu ro si sr to ur uz yo yue
zh zu
you can help by joining the current CLDR localisation round (see below
for some statistics). If you added translations in the past, simply
logging in will add them to this round as well. If you do not have an
account, see:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR
Best,
Federico
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Data: Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:07 +0000 (UTC)
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To: Everyone
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Locale(s): ar as az be cs cy de es ka km kn ko kok ky mn ne nn qu ro si
sr to ur uz yo yue zh zu
Reminder, we currently only have 2 weeks remaining of submission before
starting vetting. It looks like your locale has more than 150 items in
either missing or provisional.
Please prioritize missing and provisional items since you will not be
able to add new data items once we start the vetting period on June
11th. Thank you!
Current overall progress in case it is helpful:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1515Ntysw61Rhy1ybv-NdUr81wXXQuzLElsC…
Do not reply to this message, instead please go to the Survey Tool.
https://st.unicode.org
Dear Wikimedia Language and Indigenous Language Community,
We are thrilled to invite you to actively participate in Wikimania 2025, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 6–9, with a pre-conference on August 5. This year's theme, Wikimania at 20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability., reflects our commitment to celebrating the diverse voices that make Wikimedia vibrant and impactful.
The Call for Program Proposals is ongoing and will close on March 31, 2025. Submissions are open to various presentation modes, whether you'd like to present remotely from your home or workplace, submit a pre-recorded presentation, or join us onsite in Nairobi as a participant. We believe your unique perspectives, particularly from the languages and indigenous communities, can profoundly enrich the conference.
To help spark ideas, here are a few topics that may align with the conference theme:
● Promoting Small and Endangered Languages: Strategies to sustain and grow indigenous and small-language projects.
● Community Engagement Initiatives: Success stories in fostering inclusivity and collaboration within language-based Wikimedia communities.
● Sustainability for Language Projects: Innovative approaches to ensure long-term impact and accessibility in your initiatives.
Feel free to explore other ideas that align with the conference theme and reflect the unique challenges and triumphs of language and indigenous communities within the Wikimedia movement.
Submit your proposals here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program.
For inquiries, comments, or assistance with your proposal, please email wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. Our team of dedicated volunteers will be happy to guide you.
Additionally, to support you in developing your proposals, the Programme Subcommittee will host a consultation hour: 📅 Today, Thursday, 20 March 🕐 13:00 UTC (Find your local time at https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742475600) 🌐 Video Call Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84172058297 💬 Live Interpretation Available in Arabic, French, and Swahili
Your voice and experiences are vital in shaping this milestone event. Let's make Wikimania 2025 a celebration of inclusivity, impact, and sustainability.
We look forward to your proposals!
Warm regards,
Butch Bustria
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Organisers
A chara,
We are thrilled to invite you to the Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages
Conference 2024, taking place from September 25th-27th in the historic city
of Waterford, Ireland. This event is a unique opportunity to engage with
language enthusiasts, Wikimedia contributors, cultural advocates, and
researchers dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Celtic,and
minority languages.
Why Attend?
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Access to All Sessions: Participate in workshops, keynotes, and panel
discussions with leading experts.
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Gala Dinner: Join us for a special conference dinner on Friday,
September 27th to close off Celtic Knot 2024.
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Cultural Experiences: Enjoy access to Waterford museums and a city
walking tour.
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Entertainment: Experience a range of evening entertainment as part of
the conference events. Including live music and dance!
Special Accommodation Rate! Book your accommodation at the Tower Hotel
before July 24th to take advantage of our special rate. Reserve directly
with the venue to ensure you get the best deal.
🎟️ Purchase Your Ticket Today: Eventbrite Link
<https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2024-celtic-knot-wikimedia-language-conference-…>
Secure your spot today and be a part of a vibrant community working towards
language preservation and cultural heritage.
We look forward to welcoming you to Waterford!
Best regards,
The Celtic Knot Conference Team
Thank you for sharing and nice idea, making the acknowledgements section
a Unicode test. :) Cc languages list.
Congrats,
Federico
Il 25/06/24 12:29, Biyanto ha scritto:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope you are doing great! I just finished my master's degree and would
> like to share my thesis about digitally-disadvantaged languages. I
> interviewed some Wikimedians as well, so I believe it will be useful to
> learn about this issue that generally connects with Wikimedia projects.
>
> You can download the thesis here
> <https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1873484&dswid=-3960>.
> Happy reading!
>
> Best,
>
> Biyanto R.
>
> (biyanto.com)
>
>
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Hello all,
On behalf of the Celtic Knot Conference organising team, I have plenty of
exciting news to share about the event dedicated to Celtic languages on the
Wikimedia projects!
The Celtic Knot Language Conference is a gathering that acknowledges the
diversity of Celtic language communities and their presence within the
global Wikimedia ecosystem. Rooted in the spirit of collaboration and
community empowerment, this event serves as a nexus for language
enthusiasts, Wikimedia contributors, cultural advocates, academics and
researchers to come together and explore innovative approaches to language
preservation, promotion, and recognition of Celtic and minority languages
in the digital space.
The conference will take place on September 25-27, 2024, onsite in
Waterford City, Ireland. Keep an eye on the event page for more updates
including details about the venue, program and registration soon! details
about the venue, program, registration and other updates will be added to
the event page in due time. [1]
As we are currently building the program for the conference, we would love
to invite community members to contribute to the event by giving a
presentation, a lightning talk, running a workshop or submitting a poster. The
call for program proposals is now open until Sunday, July 14th. You can
make a proposal directly on Wiki or using a form. You will find all the
details and instructions on the Call for submissions page. [2]
To support participants coming from Ireland or Europe to attend the event,
we are offering scholarships to cover event tickets, travel and
accommodation. For people located in other areas of the world or people who
cannot join onsite, we are offering e-scholarships covering data packages
to watch the conference from home. The scholarship application process is
now open until Sunday, June 30th. You can find the form and the
instructions on the Attend page. [3]
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions to the program and
scholarship requests!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the organising team:
Amy O'Riordan and Sophie Fitzpatrick (Wikimedia Community Ireland), Richard
Nevell (WMUK) or Léa Lacroix. [4]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024/Call_for_submis…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024/Attend
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024#Organising_team
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Hello Wikimedians,
My name is Sophie and I am the Project and Communications Manager at
Wikimedia Community Ireland.
I am reaching out to draw your attention to an interesting Natural Language
Processing Project that uses Wikidata to generate content in different
languages, at DCU here in Ireland. We have been collaborating with Simon
Mille from the Adapt Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> recently and I
thought it might be good to make some connections with the wider Wiki
Community who are specifically interested in or involved with AI.
Please let me introduce the project below and if you would like to learn
more or connect with Simon I would be delighted to introduce you.
Kind regards,
Sophie Fitzpatrick
*Project description:* At DCU-NLG <https://dcu-nlg.github.io/>, one of our
main research topics is the automatic generation of text from structured
data. We work with structured repositories such as DBpedia and Wikidata (among
other resources), which contain millions of triples that can be used to
generate texts about targeted entities in a particular language. A lot of
techniques exist for generating text from triple sets, the most famous (and
probably best) one being prompting a GPT model. However, closed-source
models such as the GPT series have some important drawbacks: they are very
much resource-hungry, they are not easily controllable, and they do not
give researchers access to their code. At DCU-NLG, we develop open-source
systems that aim to address these issues in the domain of Natural Language
Generation. We build (i) generators based on Large Language Models (LLMs),
which can achieve very high-quality results but still require a large
amount if energy to work, (ii) fully rule-based systems, which are
extremely energy-efficient but struggle to get to the quality level of
LLMs, and (iii) hybrid systems, which aim at combining the strengths of
LLMs, rule-based systems and neural systems. We are also interested in the
real-world use of these systems, and are currently making a tool that could
help people write Wikipedia articles: we are designing an interface that,
given an entity and a language, returns small seed texts generated using
several techniques mentioned above, always using DBpedia or Wikidata
information to ensure the traceability of the source. People can then use
these seed texts as a starting point for editing a new Wikipedia page.
*Some resources:*
- RTE brainstorm article
<https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1206/1420417-gaeilge-irish-translation-a…>
(by
the way it's funny how they use the word "translate" in their title,
knowing the time I spend talking about how NLG is not translation xD)
- Papers from our group about using GPT
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.mmnlg-1.9/> and a rule-based system
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.pandl-1.4/> for the generation of Irish
text from DBpedia.
- The GEM shared task <https://gem-benchmark.com/shared_task> about
generation from DBpedia and WIkidata, which I co-organise.
--
Sophie Fitzpatrick
*Project and Communications Manager*
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Pobal Wikimedia na hÉireann | Wikimedia Community Ireland
https://wikimedia.ie/
Dear Languages list,
On the theme of rediscovered Medieval languages, a new book is available
that translates a fascinating and harrowing account of the victims of a
volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean Sea in 1444, who were saved by the
nuns of Ischia. The book is titled *The Medieval Map and the Mercy Mission.
A Complete Translation of the Voynich Manuscript Map*. ISBN:9781399954990
It is available as a print-on-demand book at *The Great British Bookshop*:
https://www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the-medieval-map-and-the…
Alternatively available as an ebook at *Google Books*:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YaG9EAAAQBAJ&rdid=book-YaG9E…
Kindest regards,
Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
Research Associate.
University of Bristol.