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Save the date: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, September 2024 is coming to Ireland![edit]
Hello all, We are very happy to announce that the conference dedicated to minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects will be back for its 7th edition, to be held in Waterford City, Ireland, in September 2024. The exact date will be announced as soon as possible.
Getting back to its roots, in the Celtic languages and nations, the event gathers people from communities and languages that are underrepresented on the Wikimedia projects. It is a place where people working on growing and maintaining their communities can meet, learn from each other, and support each other on topics like community growth, technical tools, or collaboration with partners.
Celtic Knot 2024, will be an in-person event, held in Waterford, Ireland's oldest city which has an abundance of cultural heritage and history. We are currently exploring options to make conference resources (talks, panels, etc.) available to those who are unable to attend in person.
We are currently gathering input from the community to build a conference tailored to your needs: whether you attended a previous edition of the Celtic Knot or not, if you are involved in underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia Projects, please take a few minutes to fill in the community survey (available in English, Irish and Welsh), and make sure to share the information with your local group. The survey is open until January 21st. Many thanks in advance! As we are starting to build the concept and the program, we will regularly improve the existing event pages on Meta and post updates on the talk page of the event.
The core organizing team is composed of Amy O’Riordan (WCI), Sophie Fitzpatrick (WCI), Daria Cybulska (WMUK), Richard Nevell (WMUK), supported by Léa Lacroix (community engagement consultant). If you have ideas or suggestions, if you would like to get involved in the conference, feel free to contact any of us.
Le gach dea-ghuí, Sophie Project and Communications Manager Wikimedia Community Ireland Cailínréalta (talk) 14:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Celtic Knot 2024 Survey Reminder[edit]
Interested in coming to the Celtic Knot Conference in Ireland this September? Have your say! Tell us what you'd like to see on the programme, by completeing the our survey.
We are currently gathering input from the community to build a conference tailored to your needs: whether you attended a previous edition of the Celtic Knot or not, if you are involved in underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia Projects, please take a few minutes to fill in the community survey, and make sure to share the information with your local group. The survey is open until January 21st. Many thanks in advance! Cailínréalta (talk) 14:33, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
New languages! German, Silesian, Polish, Hungarian, Malay, Dusun-Bundu-liwan, Japanese and Russian![edit]
Hello Celtic Knot fans! Today i'm going to show a brand new update, who you introduced then. Languages: - German [Deutsch] - Silesian [Slonsko godka] - Polish [Polski] - Hungarian [Magyar] - Russian [Pусский] - Malay [Bahasa Melayu] - Dusun-Bundu-liwan [Dusun-Bundu-liwan] - Japanese [日本語] More languages coming soon! I'm very sorry, Celtic Knot fans, that my topic is so short and have the grammar problems, but don't worry, i'm will edit or make more topics in the future! Bug and translation fixes. And also you can comment your translation fixes, why the translation is so bad, i will fix it!
Nowe języki! Niemiecki, śląski, polski, węgierski, malajski, dusun-bundu-liwan, japoński i rosyjski! Po polsku![edit]
Witajcie fani Celtic Knot! Dzisiaj mam zamiar pokazać zupełnie nową aktualizację, którą wprowadziliśmy. Języki: - Niemiecki [Deutsch] - Śląski [„Ślōnsko godka”] - Polski [Polski] - Węgierski [Magyar] - Rosyjski [Pусский] - Malajski [Bahasa Melayu] - Dusun-Bundu-liwan [Dusun-Bundu-liwan] - Japoński [日本語] Więcej języków wkrótce! Bardzo mi przykro, fani Celtic Knot, że mój temat jest tak krótki i ma problemy z gramatyką, ale nie martwcie się, będę edytować lub tworzyć więcej tematów w przyszłości! Poprawki błędów i tłumaczeń. A także możesz skomentować swoje poprawki tłumaczenia, dlaczego tłumaczenie jest tak złe, naprawię to!
New languages! Irish and French![edit]
Hello Celtic Knot fans! I want to say for adding 2 brand new languages on your mind. When i see it a French version of Celtic Knot 2024/Knot Together, so i decided to translate a main menu into French and Gaelic or Irish to expand and make more languages than you think it. So the brand new languages there are: - French [francais] - Irish [Gaeilge] And i'm so sorry about the English grammar, but don't worry! Also i forgot, there's also a brand-new picture, where in the site it have!
Celtic Knot Conference: date, proposal for the program and scholarships[edit]
Hello all,
On behalf of the Celtic Knot Conference organising team, I have plenty of exciting news to share about the event dedicated to Celtic languages on the Wikimedia projects!
The Celtic Knot Language Conference is a gathering that acknowledges the diversity of Celtic language communities and their presence within the global Wikimedia ecosystem. Rooted in the spirit of collaboration and community empowerment, this event serves as a nexus for language enthusiasts, Wikimedia contributors, cultural advocates, academics and researchers to come together and explore innovative approaches to language preservation, promotion, and recognition of Celtic and minority languages in the digital space.
The conference will take place on September 25-27, 2024, onsite in Waterford City, Ireland. Keep an eye on the event page for more updates including details about the venue, program and registration soon! details about the venue, program, registration and other updates will be added to the event page in due time.
As we are currently building the program for the conference, we would love to invite community members to contribute to the event by giving a presentation, a lightning talk, running a workshop or submitting a poster. The call for program proposals is now open until Sunday, July 14th. You can make a proposal directly on Wiki or using a form. You will find all the details and instructions on the Call for submissions page.
To support participants coming from Ireland or Europe to attend the event, we are offering scholarships to cover event tickets, travel and accommodation. For people located in other areas of the world or people who cannot join onsite, we are offering e-scholarships covering data packages to watch the conference from home. The scholarship application process is now open until Sunday, June 30th. You can find the form and the instructions on the Attend page.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions to the program and scholarship requests!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the organising team. Best, Auregann (talk) 10:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Can you check {{Celtic Knot open submission}} in the pre-populated form? It says "This is an open submission for the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference 2021". OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:13, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed, thanks for spotting it! Auregann (talk) 12:43, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
New languages! Vietnamese, Chinese, Welsh and Serbian![edit]
Hello Celtic Knot fans! So i want to annouce a brand-new update about languages again and again and again, who are waiting for it. The new languages there are: - Vietnamese [Tieng Viet] - Chinese [Hànyǔ or Zhōngwén] - Welsh [Cymreag] - Serbian [Srpski] 2A01:114F:61B:A600:B57A:F793:104B:9342 19:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Online participation?[edit]
Hi, it's great to see that this conference will be taking place later this year, as this is a really important topic. Will online participation (presentation/attendance) be possible? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Mike, thanks for your message! It will be possible for people to watch the conference contents remotely, although there will not be a lot of possibilities for direct interaction with onsite participants during the event. By the way, in the frame of the scholarships, we are offering the possibility to cover internet costs for remote attendees. Auregann (talk) 12:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Celtic languages or languages in general[edit]
Despite the title, some of the past editions of this conference were about minority languages in general.
Is this one more centered specifically on Celtic languages? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Amir, thank you for the question. The answer ended up being longer than I expected, but I hope that's ok since it's an important question.
- The balance in the focus of the conference is one that we as an organising team gave a lot of thought to. One of the strengths of the conference has been its inclusiveness, connecting communities from across the globe. It has been inspiring to hear about the Dagbani community’s use of television to reach new communities or the work of Kashmiri Wikimedians training others and invigorating their editors.
- 2024 is the first time since 2019 that the Celtic Knot has been held in-person. Historically, the in-person conferences have been located in one of the Celtic Nations and with that there has come a natural focus on the host-culture as well as featuring of the Celtic Languages in the programming in addition to other minoritised languages. This year’s location allows us to revisit the work of Wikimedia Community Ireland and the linguistic diversity of the island. We took the opportunity to sharpen the focus on Celtic languages as a thematic approach to the in-person programming and extra-curricular activities, but not to the exclusion of other minority and minoritised languages which will be featured in the programming.
- The European geographic focus arises partly from WCI's ongoing work with the WikiWomen Erasmus+ project connecting Basque, Frisian and Irish speakers - the conference will be the results dissemination for this project which will be the sharing of toolkits ready for translation to use with any language Wiki to provide the resources for students, educators and GLAMs to run a Wikipedia course with second level students to introduce Wiki to the classrooms in as many languages as possible. The results of the community survey also factored into this decision to refocus, with a third of the responses being from Ireland and the UK. Considerations are being made with programming submissions on ensuring a diverse range of representation and that, where topics are focused on a single language, the overall takeaway and key learning will be applicable across language communities.
- The programme will feature keynote speakers talking about Celtic languages within the context of small language Wikis and also language policy and planning in Digital Spaces, which we hope will be useful for a wide audience. We are also looking forward to community updates in a format used in previous years - it’s always a highlight.
- With an in-person event, in considering what kind of support we can offer to attendees, wee decided on offering two options: scholarships for people attending in-person and scholarships for people watching online. We are also in discussions about satellite events for those who will not be able to travel to Ireland to attend in person but still facilitate a social space for those interested in minoritised languages within the Wiki World and we are in discussion about how we can support these events. It is also our plan to host some online sessions ahead of the conference also.
- We hope that the conference will appeal to people involved with minority and minoritised language communities, and that in particular this can showcase the work with the Irish language and boost Celtic language communities. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 08:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)