Language Diversity & Knowledge Equity in Research

Presentation and discussion held at the Wikimedia Germany event "Principles and barriers of knowledge equity in science" as part of the Open Science Fellows Program en.wikiversity.org input highlights different facets of linguistic diversity in science: English as a lingua franca and applied languages in different disciplines, linguistic diversity in everyday scientific life as well as via translation software and technical options to publish multilingually. With a subsequent reflection: what are the possibilities for inclusion arising from applied language diversity in everyday scientific life? German Translation Dieser Input beleuchtet unterschiedliche Facetten von Sprachenvielfalt in der Wissenschaft: Englisch als Lingua Franca und angewandte Sprachen in verschiedenen Disziplinen, Sprachenvielfalt im wissenschaftlichen Alltag sowie via Übersetzungssoftware und technische Optionen multilingual zu publizieren. Mit einer daran anschließenden Reflexion: Welche Möglichkeiten der Inklusion ergeben sich aus der angewandten Sprachenvielfalt im wissenschaftlichen Alltag? For more inputs visit the Learning unit 'Knowledge Equity' at lernraumfreieswissen.de You are welcome to join the decentral & international working group Translate Science - translatescience.org - "We are a new working group that wants to exchange information, lobby and build tools to make translations of scientific articles/reports/books, abstracts, titles and terms more accessible and (thus) stimulate the production of such translations."