---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@wikimedia.no Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:51 PM Subject: [Languages] Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021: Save the dates (June 24–25) To: languages@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello, everybody!

The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Knot_Conference_2021 will take place online 24–25 June 2021.

At the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference we want to look at the future of indigenous and underrepresented languages and their presence and use on the Wikimedia projects. The conference will provide space and focus for indigenous and underrepresented language communities to connect, learn from each other, and collaborate.

With 20 billion page views every month, Wikipedia is one of the first stops when people search for information. It is a cornerstone of the digital age, but the information within it is not evenly represented across languages. The Wikimedia movement is about to start implementing the 2030 movement strategy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030 and the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages https://en.unesco.org/news/upcoming-decade-indigenous-languages-2022-2032-focus-indigenous-language-users-human-rights will start in 2022. The Decade of Indigenous Languages points to the potential of digital technologies in supporting the use and preservation of indigenous languages. These two milestones give us the opportunity to look into our future efforts for language diversity on the Wikimedia projects, and during the conference discuss how we can work together to make indigenous and underrepresented language communities grow.

More information about the conference will be shared on the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference page over the next few weeks. Registration will open in May. We hope you will join the conference!

The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is part of the Wikimedia UK Celtic Knot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference series of conferences. Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is led by Wikimedia Norge in collaboration with The Arctic University of Norway https://en.uit.no/startsida, Wikimedia UK https://wikimedia.org.uk/ and Wikimedia Deutschland https://www.wikimedia.de/, and will focus on Arctic and Sámi languages. We are also happy to have Wikitongues https://wikitongues.org/ and Art+Feminism https://artandfeminism.org/ as part of the organization team for the conference.

We hope to see many of you there!