Worlds of Wikimedia 2019

WOW2019

The Worlds of Wikimedia communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures held 2-14 June 2019 at the University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales

Wednesday 12 June 2019 Opening Event

SSB Lecture Theatre 200, Social Science Building. ​Co-hosted by Worlds of Wikimedia Conference and Sydney Ideas.

• 6-7.30pm Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, in conversation with Professor Jaky Troy, University of Sydney, hosted by Dean Annamarie Jagose.
• 7.30-8.30 Welcome drinks for conference delegates and registration.

Thursday 13 June 2019 Day 1

​Room S226, Department of Media and Communications, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd.

• 9.15-9.30 Welcome to country with Uncle Alan, a Gadigal man from the Eora nation.
• 9.30-10.30 Keynote Professor Jaky Troy
• Special Sufi performance by Adnan Bhatti

• 10.30-11.00 Morning tea

• 11.00-12.30 Dr Bunty Avieson - Minority language Wikipedias for cultural resilience
• Adrian Estevez Iglesias - Galician Literature in Wikipedias: from Middle-Age lyric to contemporaneous crime fiction
• Ivonne Kristiani - Encouraging Knowledge Production by Women in Arts & Culture in Indonesia

• 12.30-1.30 Lunch

• 1.30-2.30 Keynote Dr Carwil Bjork-James
• 2.30-3.15 Dr Frances Di Lauro - Wikipedia and languages
• 3.15-3.45 Afternoon tea
• 3.45-4.45 GLAM presentations, host Liam Wyatt, founder and coordinator for GLAMwiki Europeana.
• Kerry Raymond - Creating Wikipedia articles from CC-BY content; how hard can it be?
• 4.45-5.45. Dr Toby Hudson - Wikidata and how it is helping to overcome language biases
• 6.00 Drinks and Conference dinner, Holmes Courtyard.

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Friday 14 June 2019

• 9.15-10.00 Keynote Ingrid Cumming, Noongarpedia
• 10.00-11.00 Caddie Brain and Joel Liddle - Developing Indigemoji - the political tensions of combining some of the newest and oldest languages in the world in an app.
• Carrol Quadrio - How digital technology enables literacy for Indigenous peoples
• 11.00-11.15 Morning Tea
• 11.15-12.15 Jacinta Sutton - Libraries, Wikipedia and the yield of knowledge
• Jedidiah Evans - Wikiprisons: Carceral education and the limits of knowledge
• 12.15-1.00 Keynote Liam Wyatt - Wikipedia as Palimpsest
• 1.00-1.30 Lunch
• 1.30–3pm. Roundtable
• 3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea and finish.