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Welsh Wikipedia Thinking Big - Keynote address by Jason Evans at the Celtic Knot 2017 conference

Celtic Knot 2017 keynote presentation - Jason Evans (Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales) Welsh Wicipedia – Thinking big Jason Evans will discuss his strategy for…

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Celtic Knot 2017 Conference Opening - Robin Owain (Wales Manager for Wikimedia UK)

Conference Opening - Robin Owain (Wales Manager for Wikimedia UK) A glimpse into some of the milestones in the development of Wicipedia Cymraeg, starting with Marc Haynes residence at the Coleg…

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Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference 2017 - Welcome from Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal for Online Learning

The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 was the first Wikipedia Language conference organised in collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK focusing on supporting Celtic &…

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Translating articles between different language Wikipedias: the new Content Translation tool

Title: Translating articles between different language Wikipedias: the new Content Translation toolDate: 6 July 2017Speakers: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.…

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Celtic Knot 2017 - Panel discussion & closing plenary: The Politics of Language Online

Title: The Politics of Language Online - Plenary Panel Date: 6 July 2017Chair: Lorna Campbell, OER Liaison - Open Scotland, Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division at the University of…

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The Scottish Gaelic Uicipeid project - Susan Ross at the Celtic Knot 2017

The Scottish Gaelic Uicipeid project: a talk discussing the role of the Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland and the success/failures of encouraging Gaelic speakers to make the…

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A state of the question - the Catalan language project - Àlex Hinojo, Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia

Sharing our model on how we do things to promote the Catalan language project and why we do it and how we engage with language activists and also which are our challenges. Did you know that…

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Welsh-language technology and digital media - Gareth Morlais (Welsh Language Unit, Llywodraeth Cymru - Welsh Government)

This presentation will share with the conference what we’ve discovered about the importance of the number of Wikipedia pages in a language in getting better services for that language from…

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Project Miljon+ and Vikipeedia in Estonian language - Käbi Suvi at Celtic Knot 2017

Strategies for Estonian Wikipedia for getting more articles in Estonian language include a new big project, Miljon+. The main goal for the project is to get 1,000,000 articles on Estonian…

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Welsh/Celtic speech technology in Wikipedia - Delyth Prys and Dewi Jones at Celtic Knot 2017

Text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world. Major languages such as English are well catered for, but smaller languages such as Welsh and the…

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Bilingualism in Minority Languages - Professor Antonella Sorace at the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference 2017.

Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity Research on the bilingual mind shows that bilingualism in any languages, regardless of their status, prestige, and worldwide…

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The Celtic Knot: a Wikipedia Language Conference at the University of Edinburgh

The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 is the first Wikipedia Language conference organised in collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK focusing on supporting Celtic &…

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