You are invited to WOW2019: The worlds of Wikimedia: communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures, at University of Sydney, 12-14 June 2019.

The United Nations declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languageshttps://en.iyil2019.org/ to celebrate the world’s rich cultural diversity and heighten awareness of cultures at risk. As a free, multimedia publishing site, Wikipedia has unrealized potential for supporting such cultures in terms of languages, traditions and different knowledge systems. This conference invites participants to consider the breadth of human experience and wisdom, and how they can best be served by digital technologies and the Wikimedia movement. We welcome papers that address Wikimedia’s role in enhancing global diversity from a range of perspectives including education, digital communication, indigenous knowledge, GLAM, Disability Studies, Internet studies and Big Data, as a means to investigate new methods of collaboration to broaden inclusion across all levels of society.

Topics can refer to any of the various Wikimedia projects, as well as language and cultural diversity.

Please submit abstracts up to 250 words via EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wow2019 by March 12. Acceptance of papers by March 20.

Website wow2019.nethttp://wow2019.net/

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