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Featured activity – Ethnology Without Borders 2018
On November 16-17, 2018, we co-organized the International Scientific Conference. The conference took place with the title ‘Ethnology Without Borders – Field(s) without borders: anthropological reflections on the nature of contemporary world’. The conference topics were ‘focused on the digital aspects of reality’ (Book with abstracts). The keynote of the event was how to use Wikipedia as an anthropological tool. The conference was addressed to all academic units, institutes and departments of ethnology from the countries of the Visegrád Group. The conference was an opportunity to develop relations and contacts with academic anthropological units of Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to our long-term cooperation with ethnologists, we have created a recognizable brand of WMPL in the academic community.
The huge financial and organizational contribution from the other conference co-organizers (Ethnological Association of Wrocław and Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Univeristy of Wrocław) allowed Wikimedia Polska to fully engage in the meritorical preparation of workshop and lectures. After lecture expert titled ‘We have knowledge, there are tools - let's make Wikipedia more ethno! EthnoWiki projects as an example of creative and needed work’, we invited our GLAM’s partner – National Library of Poland – to the conference. During a separate lecture, the partner presented Polona – a repository of digital files. The longest part of the conference was a wikiworkshop. A dozen or so students and PhD students from the Visegrad countries have set up their accounts in Wikipedia and have been trained in editing articles.
By organizing workshops as part of the Ethnology Without Borders conference, Wikimedia meet the needs of young researchers who are looking for new forms of presenting their knowledge. The organized conference is part of a larger project called EtnoWiki, which for many years has been a community of ethnologists in Poland undertaking various initiatives.
