Dear Friends and Colleagues

Many thanks for your messages and apologies for the slow response.

I've discussed the situation with my colleagues and everyone agrees that we could certainly consider waiving the fee in the right circumstances, and we've updated the conference website (https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/) to reflect this. I haven't yet made a rapid grant request but I'll certainly follow that up, and I'm also wondering if that suggestion that Anne made earlier was still possibly on the table? Unfortunately it would be difficult to reschedule the conference at this stage to allow an application via the Conference Grants round though.

Anyone with an interest in translation on Wikipedia would be very welcome to submit a paper proposal. The Call for Papers assumes that paper proposals will be research-based but I think it would be really excellent to have contributions from practitioners as well, and if we have enough we could for example dedicate a session to them. I also think the opportunity that the conference could potentially give for stimulating exchanges between practitioners and researchers would be very exciting.

Best regards

Mark

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 21:59, Oby Ezeilo <oby.ezeilo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Mark. Wonderful idea. I am Oby Ezeilo of The Igbo Wikimedia User Group in Nigeria, Just want to ask, if we are to join online do we need to pay the same amount?
Regards

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 2:21 PM Chen Almog <calmog@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Mark,

If you are willing to consider postponing the event just a bit, to January, you can also apply for the upcoming Conference Grants round. The deadline for submission will be in early September. 

I'm happy to help and answer any questions.

Chen

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 16:16 Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
This looks lovely, thank you for organizing it Mark.  
You can submit a rapid grant request for support for online participation. 

This seems like something of interest to developers of Translate + Content Translation + translatewiki, the current WMF language & translation team, and the people working on Lexicographical data in Wikidata :)  You might want to explicitly invite some of those networks.

SJ

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:48 AM Mark SHUTTLEWORTH <markshut@hkbu.edu.hk> wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues

Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one or two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:

1. the conference will now be 100% online
2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th June 2021

Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/.

Best regards

Mark Shuttleworth

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH <markshut@hkbu.edu.hk> wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues

Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.

The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals, and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit reference to translation issues.

The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for Papers.

I hope to see some of you there!

Mark

Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University
Phone: +852 3411 6641
http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk

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