this is fantastic !!
thank you for all who make wikimedia and all the areas
so cool.
I'm so thankful to be a part and be a Wikipedian!
--- Frank Schulenburg <frank.schulenburg(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
Last week, Wikimedia Deutschland announced the
second Wikipedia Academy
to be held in Mainz on August 24th and 25th, 2007.
This year the
conference will focus on the humanities in
Wikipedia, aiming for a
dialogue between researchers and Wikipedians.
Wikimedia Deutschland
organizes the conference in cooperation with the
Mainz Academy of
Sciences and Literature, one of the seven great
German Academies of
Sciences.
For the first time, the Wikipedia Academy will be
sponsored by the
German Ministry for Education and Research.
Wikimedia Deutschland was
chosen as an official partner of the "Year of the
Humanities", an annual
event organized by the ministry that started in 2000
and focuses on a
different discipline each year. The conference will
be opened by Doris
Ahnen, Minister of Education, Research, Youth und
Culture in
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and Elke
Lütjen-Drecoll, President of the
Academy of Sciences and Literature.
One of the conference highlights will be the award
ceremony for the
"Johann Heinrich Zedler Medal". Wikimedia
Deutschland and the Mainz
Academy of Sciences and Literature award this prize
for an outstanding
encyclopedia article in the area of the humanities.
The Zedler Medal
comes with 3,000 Euro and is sponsored by the German
scientific journal
"Gehirn&Geist". The selection jury consists of seven
renowned scientists
(among them Johannes Fried, former president of the
Association of
German Historians, and Michael Stolleis, former
president of the
Max-Planck-Institute of European Legal History), a
journalist of
"Gehirn&Geist" and a German Wikipedian. The award
ceremony starts with a
lecture by Professor Ulrich Johannes Schneider,
director of the Leipzig
University Library, on "Johann Heinrich Zedler's
Universal-Lexicon and
the premature attempt to start Wikipedia in the 18th
century".
On Saturday, August 25th, the conference will end
with a panel
discussion on "Perspectives to communicate sciences
for a large audience
in the New Media".
More information about the second Wikipedia Academy:
http://www.wikipedia-academy.de (official website)
(with photo)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Zedler
(featured article
about Zedler)
Regards,
Frank Schulenburg
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
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