Photographs on Wikimedia Commons: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Worlds_of_Wikimedia_2019 Worlds of Wikimedia 2019]
[https://www.wow2019.net/ The Worlds of Wikimedia Conference] theme was 'communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures'. The conference was held 2-14 June 2019 at the University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, and was a partnership between [https://sydney.edu.au/arts/writing_studies/staff/profiles/frances.dilauro.php Dr Frances Di Lauro], Department of Writing Studies, and [https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php Dr Bunty Avieson], Department of Media and Communications, and Wikimedia Australia.
[https://www.wow2019.net/ The Worlds of Wikimedia Conference] theme was 'communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures'. The conference was held 2-14 June 2019 at the University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, and was a partnership between [https://sydney.edu.au/arts/writing_studies/staff/profiles/frances.dilauro.php Dr Frances Di Lauro], Department of Writing Studies, and [https://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/bunty.avieson.php Dr Bunty Avieson], Department of Media and Communications, and Wikimedia Australia.
== Wednesday 12 June 2019 Opening Event ==
== Wednesday 12 June 2019 Opening Event ==
SSB Lecture Theatre 200, Social Science Building. Co-hosted by Worlds of Wikimedia Conference and Sydney Ideas.
[[File:InConversation.jpg|thumb|In Conversation: Martin Dittus, Jaky Troy and Annamarie Jagose]]
* 6-7.30pm Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, in conversation with Professor Jaky Troy, University of Sydney, hosted by Dean Annamarie Jagose.
[https://soundcloud.com/sydney-ideas/cultural-power-in-the-online-world '''Cultural power in the online world: Are we being skewed''']
* 7.30-8.30 Welcome drinks for conference delegates and registration.
''How does language determine what we know or how we experience the world? As the online realm increasingly converges with our offline experiences, it raises an important question: whose knowledge dominates these new spaces? Whose voices are missing, and what are the consequences of these inequities?''
Audio of Martin Dittus talk on SoundCloud recorded at the SSB Lecture Theatre 200, Social Science Building.
Co-hosted by Worlds of Wikimedia Conference and Sydney Ideas.
Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, in conversation with Professor Jaky Troy, University of Sydney, hosted by Dean Annamarie Jagose.
== Thursday 13 June 2019 Day 1 ==
== Thursday 13 June 2019 Day 1 ==
Room S226, Department of Media and Communications, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd.
[[File:Frances_Simon.jpg|thumb|Frances di Lauro and Simon presenting]]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.
* Welcome to country with Uncle Alan, a Gadigal man from the Eora nation.
* 9.30-10.30 Keynote Professor Jaky Troy
* Keynote Professor Jaky Troy
* Special Sufi performance by Adnan Bhatti
* Special Sufi performance by Adnan Bhatti
* 10.30-11.00 Morning tea
* Dr Bunty Avieson - Minority language Wikipedias for cultural resilience
* Adrian Estevez Iglesias - [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Galician_literature_in_Wikipedias_WoW.pdf Galician Literature in Wikipedias: from Middle-Age lyric to contemporaneous crime fiction]
* Ivonne Kristiani - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DoiwSbjCcMcfKaHZ4pN6O2HKadCvHqBt-hMPRCBZwzU/ Encouraging Knowledge Production by Women in Arts & Culture in Indonesia]
* Keynote: Dr Carwil Bjork-James - [https://woborders.blog/2019/06/18/new-maps-for-an-inclusive-wikipedia-slides/ New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: Plotting strategies to counter systemic bias]
* Dr Frances Di Lauro - Wikipedia and languages
* Liam Wyatt, founder and coordinator for GLAMwiki Europeana - [https://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/trends-in-cultural-partnerships-glamwiki-at-10 Trends in cultural partnerships: GLAM-Wiki at 10]
* 11.00-12.30 Dr Bunty Avieson - Minority language Wikipedias for cultural resilience
* Dr Kerry Raymond - [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Creating_Wikipedia_articles_from_CC-BY_content.pdf Creating Wikipedia articles from CC-BY content; how hard can it be?]
* 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
* Dr Toby Hudson - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18LUc_CEXcTJn1y50JBjN94snzjsMCwGQdHCK_DCrumM/mobilepresent?slide=id.g4188d2a365_0_1128 Wikidata and how it is helping to overcome language biases]
* 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.
== Friday 14 June 2019 ==
== Friday 14 June 2019 ==
* [[File:Australian_presenters.jpg|thumb|150px|Australian presenters]]Keynote Ingrid Cumming, Noongarpedia - [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WOW2019_Keynote_Ingrid_Cumming,_Noongarpedia.webm Video]
* 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.
* 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
* 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
* Jacinta Sutton - Libraries, Wikipedia and the yield of knowledge
* Jedidiah Evans - Wikiprisons: Carceral education and the limits 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
* Keynote Liam Wyatt - [https://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/wikipedia-the-infinite-palimpsest-149427992 Wikipedia as Palimpsest]
* 1.30–3pm. Roundtable
* 3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea and finish.
* Roundtable
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:WOW2019 Keynote Ingrid Cumming, Noongarpedia.webm|Ingrid
File:Sydney University 140619 gnangarra-105.jpg|Jacky, Ingrid, Bunty
File:Ingrid Bunty Jaky.jpg|Ingrid Cumming, Bunty Avieson and Jaky Troy
</gallery>
== Outcomes ==
A special focus on WOW 2019 was published in Volume 27, Issue 3 (2021) of [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tham20/27/3 New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia]. It included the following chapters:
* Introduction: Special issue on the worlds of Wikipedia, Bunty Avieson and Frances Di Lauro
* New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias, Carwil Bjork-James
* Wikipedia and open recognition: writing the future of work, Robert E. Cummings
* Encouraging indigenous knowledge production for Wikipedia, Ivonne Kristiani
* Gratis and Libre: Wikipedia's role in free and open history production and dissemination, Liam Wyatt
The Worlds of Wikimedia Conference theme was 'communicating and collaborating across languages and cultures'. The conference was held 2-14 June 2019 at the University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, and was a partnership between Dr Frances Di Lauro, Department of Writing Studies, and Dr Bunty Avieson, Department of Media and Communications, and Wikimedia Australia.
How does language determine what we know or how we experience the world? As the online realm increasingly converges with our offline experiences, it raises an important question: whose knowledge dominates these new spaces? Whose voices are missing, and what are the consequences of these inequities?
Audio of Martin Dittus talk on SoundCloud recorded at the SSB Lecture Theatre 200, Social Science Building.
Australian presentersKeynote Ingrid Cumming, Noongarpedia - Video
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
Jacinta Sutton - Libraries, Wikipedia and the yield of knowledge
Jedidiah Evans - Wikiprisons: Carceral education and the limits of knowledge
