<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div lang="NL" link="#203878" vlink="#203878" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="556" style="width: 417pt; "><tbody><tr><td width="556" style="width: 417pt; padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 19px; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><a href="http://www.knaw.nl/shared/resources/actueel/bestanden/150115-invitation-wikipedia" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 56, 120); ">Download the print version of this invitation</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="556" style="width: 417pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr style="height: 11.25pt; "><td width="556" colspan="3" style="width: 417pt; padding: 0cm; height: 11.25pt; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> <o:p></o:p></div></td></tr><tr><td width="28" style="width: 21pt; padding: 0cm; "></td><td width="500" valign="top" style="width: 375pt; padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><img border="0" width="500" height="157" id="_x0000_i1025" alt="Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.gif@01CFF83E.9B49CE80"><o:p></o:p></div></td><td width="28" style="width: 21pt; padding: 0cm; "></td></tr><tr><td width="28" style="width: 21pt; padding: 0cm; "></td><td width="500" style="width: 375pt; padding: 0cm; "><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 500px; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 33px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Wikipedia as a research tool<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Most people use Wikipedia as an encyclopedia – a digital reference work for looking up facts and information about people, issues and past and present events. But Wikipedia is much more than that: it has become a collaborative tool for writing and rewriting history, a cultural reference work and a negotiation tool. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is one of the lecturers at this mini-symposium about Wikipedia as a research tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500" style="width: 375pt; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width="110" valign="top" style="width: 82.5pt; padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Date and time</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td width="380" valign="top" style="width: 285pt; padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">15 January 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Venue</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Trippenhuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Registration</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><a href="http://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/agenda/registration-wikipedia" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 56, 120); ">Academy website</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><img border="0" width="500" height="224" id="_x0000_i1026" alt="Wikipedia Foundation" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFF83E.9B49CE80"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm; "><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Wikipedia Foundation</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><br>At this mini-symposium, four experts will discuss how Wikipedia has become a rich source of cultural research. How does this online encyclopedia also mediate in disputes? How does Wikipedia maintain its neutral point of view as an arbiter of encyclopedic content? And how can we use Wikipedia as a valuable research tool?<br><br>Lecturers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam – Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Esther Weltevrede and Erik Borra, University of Amsterdam –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Wikipedia and the value of dispute</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; ">The open nature of Wikipedia</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Cambria, serif; ">For more information about the programme and how to register, please visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.knaw.nl/en/news/calendar/wikipedia-as-a-research-tool" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(32, 56, 120); ">our website</a>.<br><br>You are very welcome to attend this symposium. 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