[Foundation-l] Second Wikipedia Academy

[dan harp]

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 at 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)
>
http://www.wikimedia.de/2007/07/wikipedia-trifft-geisteswissenschaftler/
> 
> (in German)
> 
> More information about the Zedler Medal:
>
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zedler-Medaille
> (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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