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
Languages<https://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
EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wow2019> by March 12. Acceptance
of papers by March 20.
Website
wow2019.net<http://wow2019.net/>
Dr Bunty Avieson | Lecturer
The University of Sydney
Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Rm N225, John Woolley | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
+61 2 8627 0201
bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au<mailto:bunty.avieson@sydney.edu.au> |
sydney.edu.au<https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php>
I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation
as the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work
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