Thanks Ewan for the message! Please note that a minor mistake has been made in the participants' info list regarding my presentation: the topic mentioned is the title of a paper I co-authored with a fellow Wikipedian two years ago, and which I had shared with the Celtic Knot committee to offer a "gist" of what I wanted to present. The caption of my photo on the Celtic Knot website much better reflects what I will be presenting in Edinburgh, i.e. the Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary <https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1:%CE%9A%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF_%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1> and how Wikitherapy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikitherapy> addresses social equality in open-source language projects <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2016/Argostoli_Evening_School_students_and_a_Wikitherapy_participant_turn_Wiktionary_project_into_Android_app> .
Will do my best to disseminate to my network, looking forward to an exciting event! All the best, Mina Theofilatou (User:Saintfevrier) Kefalonia, Greece On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:04 PM, MCANDREW Ewan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Please disseminate this open invitation to a University of Edinburgh and > Wikimedia UK conference to interested colleagues as appropriate. > > How can technology support language communities? > > Join us at the Celtic Knot conference<https://wikimedia. > org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July > 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Our > programme is now live! > Keynote speakers > > * Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org. > uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of > Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh< > http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of > Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be > speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an > opportunity’. > * Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_ > Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National > Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/ > Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales> will discuss > his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to > develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, > data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies. > > > Confirmed speakers also include: > > * Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog. > wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national- > library-of-scotland-announce-new-gaelic-post/> at the National Library of > Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins> > * Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon- > arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b6d-9199-15a05d214165%29.html> - Research > Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL > project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th > July. > * Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth > will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, > Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh > Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives. > * Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor > University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why > text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important > in our digital world. > * Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive > Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_ > Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project. > * Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From > corpus expansion to outreach. > * Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on > Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize > the Northern Sami Wikipedia. > * Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent > developments supporting the Welsh language community. > * Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘Adult Learners from the Ionian > Islands of Corfu and Kefalonia sharing Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia > Commons and Wiktionary’. > * Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur. > com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of > life’. > * Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre > project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording. > * Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of > Estonia’s 100th anniversary. > * Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital > Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites > connected with Celtic culture in the Alps. > > The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of > practitioners in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds of > those working to support language communities into a 'knot' and leading > into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, > linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media > professionals, 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. > > To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to > join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/ > wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page. To assist with seeing areas of > commonality and links between your work and the Wikimedia projects< > http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the- > celtic-knot-wikipedia-language-conference/> you can click here< > http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the- > links-at-the-celtic-knot-wikipedia-language-conference/>. > > It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of > Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please > feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. > > If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > > Very best regards, > > > Ewan McAndrew > Wikimedian in Residence > > Tel: 07719 330076 > Email: [email protected] > Subscribe to the mailing list: [email protected] > My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. > Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh > > The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson > Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. > www.ed.ac.uk > > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
