Celtic Knot Conference 2018

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The Celtic Knot Conference 2018 is the second Wikipedia language conference focusing on supporting Celtic & Indigenous Languages
This year the conference will be organized in collaboration between the National Library of Wales and Wikimedia UK

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Celtic Knot Conference 2018 at The National Library of Wales (Coordinates: 52.414444°, -4.068889°) 5th & 6th of July 2018 - 9am to 5pm Convened by Jason Evans for the National Library of Wales and WMUK Contact: Jason.evansllgc.org.uk, +44 (0)1970 632 405 Hashtag: #CelticKnot

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  Accommodation

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  Travel

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  Registration

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  Call for papers

Objectives

The main objective for Celtic Knot 2018 is the coming together of people working to support language communities in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. Attendees can expect to learn about and discuss innovative approaches to open education, open knowledge and open data that support and grow language communities.

Conference Themes

• Building language confidence: participation, public engagement & social equality.
• Putting our language on the map: preserving & opening up our cultural heritage.
• Languages on the road to open: ongoing or new projects and initiatives in open knowledge, open education and open data.
• The politics of language: Local, national, and international policy and practice; advocacy for funding, institutional and community support and investment
• Hacking; making; sharing

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Confirmed Speaker!

Eluned Morgan, AM, Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning, will open the conference on Thursday morning

Programme

This programme is a draft and is subject to change and improvement. Day 1

Time	Details	Room
9:00	Registration and coffee	National Library of Wales - DRWM Atrium
10.00	Welcome - Jason Evans	DRWM
10.05	Opening speech by Eluned Morgan AM, Minister for Welsh and life long learning (Welsh with simultaneous translation)	DRWM
10.30	Robin Owain, Wales Manager for Wikimedia UK. From 1,000 to 100,000 articles - milestones of the Welsh Wikipedia. (Welsh with simultaneous translation)	DRWM
11:00	Coffee break	DRWM Atrium
11:20	Parallel sessions DRWM 11.20 Mark Trevethan. Cornish language and Wikipedia - finding ways to make Wikipedia work for a small language community 11.45 Aaron Morris - WiciMôn’s work within Education. (Welsh with simultaneous translation) 12.10 Iñaki Lopez deLuzuriaga - Basque Education Program. 12.35 Gwenno Griffith - (lightning talk) Wiki Caerdydd. (Welsh with simultaneous translation) Education Room 11.20 Ewan Mc Andrew - Building Bridges Not Walls - Translation workshop. Workshop.	DRWM and Education Room.
12:45	Lunch	Council Chamber
13:45	Parallel sessions DRWM 13.45 Gareth Morlais - A Digital Survival Kit for Your Language; the key part Wikipedia and Wikimedia content and data can play. (language, text analytics, speech, translation) 14.10 Astrid Carlsen - Kickstarting a dead Wikipedia (Sami) – where are we one year after? 14.35 Dr Dafydd Tudur - Measuring the impact of Wiki activities on the Welsh Language 15.00 Adrian Estevez Iglesias - Galician Literature in Wikipedias: from Middle-Age lyric to contemporaneous crime fiction (Community projects around literature) 15.25 Koldo Biguri - Txikipedia, the first Wikipedia version for children integrated within the Basque Wikipedia Education Room 13.45 Léa Lacroix - Introduction: What is Wikidata, and how can we support the minority language communities? 14.10 Hady Elsahar - ArticlePlaceholder: support the communities and help small Wikipedias to grow 14.35 Léa Lacroix - Lexicographical data: when words enter Wikidata 15.00 Nicolas Vigneron - Translathon: improve Wikidata in your language in a few minutes (Workshop)	Drwm and Education Room
15.50	Coffee break	Drwm Atrium.
16:10	Parallel sessions DRWM 16.10 Duncan Brown - Y BYWIADUR AND WICIPEDIA: ( a dictionary of living things) FLESHING OUT THE BONES 16.35 Michael Graaf - South Africa's Wikipedias 17.00 Daria Cybulska - Wikimedia UK and minority languages. Education Room 16.10 Pau Cabot - Workshop: create an automatic infobox on your wiki	DRWM and Education Room.
17.15	Everyone to the Drwm - End of Day 1	DRWM
19.00	Dance, Buffet and party	Y Consti, Aberystwyth

Day 2

Time	Details	Room
9:00am	Registration and coffee	National Library of Wales - DRWM Atrium
9.30am	Welcome - Jason Evans	DRWM
9.40am	Rebecca O'Neill, Meghan Dowling, Abigail Walsh, Vicipéid in Ireland (case study of work so far)	DRWM
10.05am	Simon Cobb, Wikidata Visiting Scholar, NLW - Language gaps in Wikidata	DRWM
10:30am	Coffee break	DRWM Atrium
10:50am	Parallel sessions DRWM 10.50 Subhashish Panigrahi - How to create a digital archive for indigenous languages and not let them die (Video presentation) 11.10 Nicolas Vigneron, Breton Wikisource - Wikimammenn, How to transcribe all the world's books with a small community? (Lightening talk) Education Room 10.50 Neil Rowlands - Parallel.cymru: Creating side-by-side Welsh-English digital magazine articles and resources. Workshop.	DRWM and Education Room.
11:20am	Shuffle time	DRWM
11.30pm	Unconferenced planning session	Drwm
12.00	Lunch	Council Chamber
13:00pm	Parallel sessions DRWM 13.00 - 15.00 Unconferenced presentations Education Room 13.00 - 15.00 Unconferenced Workshops Council chambers 13.00 - 15.00 Unconferenced discussion groups	DRWM, Education Room & Council Chambers.
15.00	Break	DRWM Atrium
15.30	Group discussion - What is the future for minority languages on Wikipedia?	DRWM
16.00	Linda Tomos, National Librarian - Closing presentation	DRWM
16.30	End of Conference	DRWM