Dear colleagues,
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conferencehttp://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/02/17/save-the-date-celtic-knot-conference-at-edinburgh-university-5-6-july/ will take place 5 & 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Wikimedia UK. Please save the date.
The event will focus on Celtic Languages and Indigenous Languages, showcasing innovative approaches to open education, open knowledge and open data that support and grow language communities.
“If you want to know what’s important to a culture, learn their language.” Joanne Harris The call for ideas closes on 10th March 2017. Our vision is for diverse participants working in Celtic and Indigenous languages ranging from Wikimedians, educators, researchers, information professionals, linguists, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event.
At this time we are asking people to save the date, and suggest ideas (no longer than 100 words); showcasing the best of your work and linking in with your ideas & suggestions for speakers and sessions. All presentations and discussions are encouraged to be as engaging and interactive as possible and facilitate learning and sharing by the attendees.
To find out more about the conference themes visit and the format of sessions please visit the Celtic Knothttp://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/02/17/save-the-date-celtic-knot-conference-at-edinburgh-university-5-6-july/ page. Email your session proposal to ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.ukmailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk indicating the session type by no later than Friday 10th March.
Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. If you would like to more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.ukmailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk Very best regards,
Ewan
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On 22 February 2017 at 22:47, MCANDREW Ewan Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk wrote:
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference will take place 5 & 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh
Hi Ewan,
Good to see you on Monday.
The Australian editor I mentioned, who is heavily involved in Noongarpedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noongarpedia
is Gideon Digby:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra
He or one of his colleagues from that project would be an excellent speaker for your event.
We've mentioned this to Nicolas Belett Vigneron, a Breton speaker in Rennes and long term Wikipedian and Wikisourceian, and also Rebecca O'Neill of Wikimedia Community Ireland (not a native Irish Gaelic speaker, but interested in promoting the language) and I will also reach out to some Irish Gaelic speakers in the west of Ireland that were interested in working with Wikipedia as an education tool.
Best
S
On 23 February 2017 at 13:51, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 22 February 2017 at 22:47, MCANDREW Ewan Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk wrote:
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference will take place
5 &
6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh
Hi Ewan,
Good to see you on Monday.
The Australian editor I mentioned, who is heavily involved in Noongarpedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noongarpedia
is Gideon Digby:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra
He or one of his colleagues from that project would be an excellent speaker for your event.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Has anyone got in touch with the Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath people who ran a session at Mozfest last year?
I can't find a more useful URL about the session than https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2016/issues/825 and I've failed miserably to type up any of my notes or collate the tweets, but they're www.ceut.scot and have a "virtual museum" and a bunch of 360 photography http://www.ceut.scot/360/ and VR stuff they did with support from the University of St Andrews. I don't remember the details, but there was a bunch of it involving Gàidhlig (oddly enough, given they're a Hebridean organisation).
Probably worth someone getting in touch, at least.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 at 15:27 Stuart Prior stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We've mentioned this to Nicolas Belett Vigneron, a Breton speaker in Rennes and long term Wikipedian and Wikisourceian, and also Rebecca O'Neill of Wikimedia Community Ireland (not a native Irish Gaelic speaker, but interested in promoting the language) and I will also reach out to some Irish Gaelic speakers in the west of Ireland that were interested in working with Wikipedia as an education tool.
Best
S
On 23 February 2017 at 13:51, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 22 February 2017 at 22:47, MCANDREW Ewan Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk wrote:
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference will take place
5 &
6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh
Hi Ewan,
Good to see you on Monday.
The Australian editor I mentioned, who is heavily involved in Noongarpedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noongarpedia
is Gideon Digby:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra
He or one of his colleagues from that project would be an excellent speaker for your event.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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Hi Owen,
I’m a Hebridean so I can help out here :) Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath is the North Uist Historical Society (there are many local historical societies throughout the islands) and they’re based in Taigh Chearsabhagh the museum and arts centre in Lochmaddy. I don’t personally know any of the people involved (I’m from Lewis, a couple of islands further north) but their contact details are here http://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/heritage/ceut-north-uist-historical-societ... Several of the historical societies are involved in really innovative local history and language projects.
Le dùrachdan, Lorna
On 15 Mar 2017, at 12:58, Owen Blacker <owen@blacker.me.ukmailto:owen@blacker.me.uk> wrote:
Has anyone got in touch with the Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath people who ran a session at Mozfest last year?
I can't find a more useful URL about the session than https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2016/issues/825 and I've failed miserably to type up any of my notes or collate the tweets, but they're www.ceut.scothttp://www.ceut.scot/ and have a "virtual museum" and a bunch of 360 photographyhttp://www.ceut.scot/360/ and VR stuff they did with support from the University of St Andrews. I don't remember the details, but there was a bunch of it involving Gàidhlig (oddly enough, given they're a Hebridean organisation).
Probably worth someone getting in touch, at least.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 at 15:27 Stuart Prior <stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.ukmailto:stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: We've mentioned this to Nicolas Belett Vigneron, a Breton speaker in Rennes and long term Wikipedian and Wikisourceian, and also Rebecca O'Neill of Wikimedia Community Ireland (not a native Irish Gaelic speaker, but interested in promoting the language) and I will also reach out to some Irish Gaelic speakers in the west of Ireland that were interested in working with Wikipedia as an education tool.
Best
S
On 23 February 2017 at 13:51, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukmailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: On 22 February 2017 at 22:47, MCANDREW Ewan <Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.ukmailto:Ewan.McAndrew@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference will take place 5 & 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh
Hi Ewan,
Good to see you on Monday.
The Australian editor I mentioned, who is heavily involved in Noongarpedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noongarpedia
is Gideon Digby:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra
He or one of his colleagues from that project would be an excellent speaker for your event.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.ukhttp://pigsonthewing.org.uk/
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