Wikimedia Language engineering/Events/2019-Barcelona-Language-Workshop

Language Workshop - Barcelona 2019

A general interest workshop about language support within Wikimedia projects to share knowledge about translation, language related tools, language promotion, and collaboration opportunities. The one day local event will be co-hosted by Amical Wikimedia, and WMF Language team.

Objective

Amical Wikimedia and WMF Language team have collaborated on several language related Wikimedia projects, including the Content Translation tool. During this one day workshop, WMF Language team members, relevant members from Amical Wikimedia members and other local Wikimedians who have participated or are interested in Wikimedia language projects will come together for some focused conversations and collaboration work related mainly to the following topics:

• Content Translation
• Global Templates & Multilingual Templates
• Language auto-correction
• Lexicographical data
• Language promotion

Participants

Due to limitation of space we will be able to accommodate a total of 30 participants. If the topics are of interest to you, and you are in Barcelona you can add your name to the list below. Please ping us here on the talk page if you are interested to join in the workshop and need more information.

1. Amador Alvarez
2. Jaume Ortola
3. Ester Bonet
4. Ton Creus
5. Antoni Oliver
6. Abijeet Patro
7. Amir Aharoni
8. Eli Asikin-Garmager
9. Kartik Mistry
10. José Pita
11. Niklas Laxström
12. Pau Giner
13. Petar Petković
14. Runa Bhattacharjee
15. Santhosh Thottingal
16. Àlex Hinojo (Kippelboy)
17. Guillem Gómez (Fobizan)
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Notes

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/lang-bcn

Event Details

• Date: November 26, 2019
• Time: Sessions from 10:00 to 16:00
• Venue: Hotel Casa Bonay, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 700 Barcelona, Spain (near Tetuan metro station)