Wikimania-l May 2019

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Wikimania 2019 Early Bird Registration is Now Open!
by Isabel Cueva 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

Attention Everyone (and please spread the word): Early Bird Registration is now open for Wikimania 2019 on our Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikimania-2019-registration-60631780287> page. This discount pricing ends on May 24th so don’t delay! Online registration will be open from today to July 30th, 2019. For more information please visit: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration Wikimania 2019 will be held at Stockholm University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_University>, Sweden <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden>, from 14th to 18th August 2019. The venue will host the majority of the conference, hackathon, meetups, and pre-events. We would like to encourage all speakers and attendees to register early and book their flight and travel as soon as possible. If you have questions about visas, please visit our wiki visa page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas>. If you have any questions with regard to the conference, please contact: wikimania-info(a)wikimedia.org Don’t forget: If you want to make a presentation, run a workshop, or display a poster during Wikimania, the Call for Submissions is NOW OPEN <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> We hope you can join us in Stockholm this summer! Isabel Cueva, WMF Event Program Manager on behalf of the Wikimania ‘19 Organizing Team -- *Isabel Cueva* Event Program Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Announcing the Spaces and call for submissions for Wikimania 2019 Stockholm
by Liam Wyatt 29 May '19

29 May '19

Dear Wikimaniacs, Wikimedians, and friends of the Wikiverse! On behalf of the Wikimania 2019 Stockholm organising team, I am pleased to announce two things: - The list of accepted "Spaces". - That the Call for Submissions is now OPEN. https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions Please join me in congratulating the Leaders of each of the accepted Wikimania 2019 Spaces! As per the program design[1], Wikimania this year has the format of "Spaces", each with its own group of "Leaders" - all of who made a proposal to host a Space back in March. The core team has been working with the Leaders since then to prepare an interesting, diverse, and coherent conference. Each Space has its own topic area, and in their own way they all of them help address the conference theme: "Stronger together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals".[2] Each Space will have its own room for a period of time in the conference to curate and coordinate as they see fit.[3] You can read about what each Space is planning to achieve, and who is Leading it, at the link above. In English-alphabetical order they are: - Accessibility (A11y): Components and Standards - Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities - Community Growth - Diversity - Education - Environmental sustainability - GLAM - cultural partnerships and Wikimedia - Growing Wikimedia’s readership worldwide - Health - Languages - Libraries belong in Wikimedia projects - Multimedia knowledge - Partnerships - Quality - Research - Thriving in Safety - Strategy for Wikimedia 2030 – The path towards our future - Transcription - Technology outreach & innovation And of course the Poster session, which will be a plenary event. For 2019, there is no 'central' program committee nor a single submission form. To make a submission, visit the page of the Space which most relates to your proposal, read its instructions for what kinds of submissions the Leaders of that Space wish to receive. Then click the submission button. Each Space is looking for different kinds of content or format. So it is important that people wanting to propose a presentation/workshop/panel/etc at Wikimania read the information that the Leaders of each Space have provided. Once again, the link to the list of all the accepted Spaces, each with its own submission form, is here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions#Spaces Please feel free to share/forward this email. Sincerely, - Liam Wyatt (Volunteer program chair), and Eric Luth (Conference Manager, Wikimedia Sverige) [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design [2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme [3] Note that the Spaces do NOT all have the same room capacity, or duration. Thus the content of the Wikimania program is not intending to be 'evenly spread' across these topic areas.

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Blocked rooms to discounted price
by Eric Luth 09 May '19

09 May '19

Hi all, For your information, there is now a page on the Wikimania Wiki <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Accommodation> about accommodation for Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, and how to book rooms at a hotel to a discounted price. If you want to use that hotel, book as soon as possible as there is a limited amount of rooms to book. Also note that the rooms are available until 13 July. Best, *Eric Luth* Conference Manager, Wikimedia Sverige eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se

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Regarding Wikimania Scholarships
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 09 May '19

09 May '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. Since 2014, I have been applying for the Wikimania Scholarship. Every year, my application is not accepted. It cannot be explained since I am active online and offline for 10 years. I am a member of Wikimedia TN User Group, Wiki Project Med, WikiResearch and Wikimedia and Libraries User Group. I am also a test wiki administrator in Wikimedia Incubator. If I am blacklisted or there is any issue regarding me that do not let me have the scholarship every year, please tell me because there is not an objective reason behind this decision. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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