Hi all, as part of our global education programme, both the Foundation and Wikimedia UK are working with an Oxford University project that Jimmy Wales is helping to launch tomorrow. Specifically, they will be improving articles related to free speech in multiple languages on Wikipedia.
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Free Speech Debate (www.freespeechdebate.com), a multi-lingual (13 languages!) website for the discussion of free speech in the age of mass migration and the internet has now launched.
The research project is being run by Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian columnist and professor of European Studies at Oxford University, with help from a team of graduate students who are native speakers in all 13 languages.
Draft principles are laid out on the website, together with explanations and case studies - all for debate. Prominent individuals from a variety of backgrounds are interviewed and asked to comment through video, audio and text. The English site is now up and running, with the other language pages to be rolled out over the coming days. Please register to comment and receive updates.
Free Speech Debate will be holding its launch event on Thursday 19 January 2012 at 5pm UK time. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will be in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash, with a contribution from Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi. We will be live streaming and live blogging the event on our website. Wikipedians are warmly invited to join us online for the event.
You can also follow us on Twitter (@onfreespeech), Sina Weibo (@言论自由大讨论), LiveJournal (onfreespeech) and Mixi (freespeechdebate).
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