Worlds of Wikimedia 2019
Twitter hashtag #WOW2019
Photographs on Wikimedia Commons: Worlds of Wikimedia 2019
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.
Wednesday 12 June 2019 Opening Event
Cultural power in the online world: Are we being skewed
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
Room S226, Department of Media and Communications, John Woolley Building, Manning Rd.
- Welcome to country with Uncle Alan, a Gadigal man from the Eora nation.
- Keynote Professor Jaky Troy
- Special Sufi performance by Adnan Bhatti
- 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
- Keynote: Dr Carwil Bjork-James - 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 - Trends in cultural partnerships: GLAM-Wiki at 10
- Dr Kerry Raymond - Creating Wikipedia articles from CC-BY content; how hard can it be?
- Dr Toby Hudson - Wikidata and how it is helping to overcome language biases
Friday 14 June 2019
- Keynote 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
- Keynote Liam Wyatt - Wikipedia as Palimpsest
- Roundtable
Gallery
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Ingrid
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Jacky, Ingrid, Bunty
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Ingrid Cumming, Bunty Avieson and Jaky Troy
Outcomes
A special focus on WOW 2019 was published in Volume 27, Issue 3 (2021) of 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