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| Registration has opened for our second conference about education projects, [[EduWiki_Conference_2013|EduWiki]].
| | Wikimedia UK recently lent its support to an innovative project to record the voices of notable people as an accompaniment to their Wikipedia articles. The project, being led by Wikipedian Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) and supported by a Wikimedia UK microgrant, involves taking a sound recording of article subjects introducing themselves and adding the file to the Wikipedia article. Recent examples that you can listen to include television mogul [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bazalgette Sir Peter Bazalgette] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knight Lord Weymouth], a former MP and the project’s first peer of the realm. |
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| The conference takes place in Cardiff on 1 & 2 November and will be covering a range of broad themes such as Open Educational Resources, the Wikipedia Education Program, assessment and accreditation, and critical thinking, digital literacy & wiki literacy.
| | Andy explained the project in a little more detail. He said: “The idea is to let Wikipedia readers find out what the people we write about sound like, and how they pronounce their names. It’s great that we can hear the voices of people like [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M._K._Gandhi_speech_IARC.ogg Gandhi] and [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Graham_Bell's_Voice.ogg Alexander Graham Bell], but what about all the other historic figures, whose voices are lost forever? We shouldn’t let that happen when we have the technology and resources so easily available. Sure, some of our subjects are known for media appearances, but those aren’t necessarily available globally nor under an open licence. And most have never appeared on radio or TV.” |
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| Tickets for the full conference cost £40 or £20 for a single day. Some scholarships are available.
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