Hello all,

As previously announced, the Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place on July 1-2, with the goal of gathering participants from various groups working on minority languages on the Wikimedia projects. In this update, we would like to share with you some exciting news about the format, the onsite events, and how your community can contribute to the program of the conference.

If you know people or groups who are working on minority languages and could be interested in this event, feel free to share this message with them!

☘ Contribute to the “News from the Language Communities” 

For this year’s edition of the conference, the main call for contributions from the community takes the shape of a series of lightning talks called “News from the Language Communities”. The goals of these short presentations are to give an overview of ongoing projects and work related to minority languages and the Wikimedia projects, to give an update about what happened in the past year, to share lessons learned that could be useful to other groups working on similar projects, and to start conversations among participants.

Individuals or groups who would like to contribute to this part of the program are welcome to prepare and send their presentation in the form of a 5-minute pre-recorded video, before May 31. You will find more information about the content, requirements and support offered by the organizers on this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Online_program 

☘ Format 

Although international events and travels are possible again, we made the decision to stick to a hybrid format. The main program will take place online on July 1-2, and we will actively encourage communities who want to organize local gatherings as satellite events of the conference. Although restrictions have loosen up in several countries, we want to acknowledge that the pandemic is still going on in most of the world, and that international travel remains difficult from many countries, especially for financial or paperwork reasons. Therefore, we believe that an online format remains the best solution in order to ensure the best possible diversity of participants.

☘ Onsite events and scholarships

We are offering two kinds of scholarship around the conference: scholarships to help with online participation and scholarships to help with organising onsite events. The aim is to help people take part in the live conference, and to give people a way to organise events in their area related to the Celtic Knot.

Onsite event grants are for up to £1,000, with some ideas and more detail on this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Satellite_events

Online attendance scholarships are for up to £80 per person. Full details of the process, and a link to the application form are on this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Attend#Scholarships 

We’re looking forward to your contribution to the Celtic Knot! If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me, Daria Cybulska or Richard Nevell.

For the organizing team,