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Wikimania recap
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This week, the Signpost lists the discussions that took place at Wikimania 2006.
Wikimaniacs just finished three days of intense and joyful collaboration and discussion, including a day of discussing citizen journalism on Monday and a few scattered Wikimedia Foundation meetings. Please browse the full program and proceedings, and leave notes for the presenters and poster creators where possible -- discussions begun at Wikimania were in many cases only the beginning.
The proceedings, and an alpha-by-author list of all entries, can be found on the Wikimania site. The schedule is reproduced below in full.
Friday, August 4
Saturday, August 5
Time | Session - Ames | Session - Pound 101 | Session - Pound 102 | Session - Pound 100 | Discussions - Pound 335 | Workshops - Pound 107 | Open space |
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9:00–9:15 | Welcome, daily announcements and overview | ||||||
9:15–9:30 | Break | ||||||
9:30–11:00 Session 4 | Views on collaboration:
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (invited speaker)
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What can Wikipedia learn from Open Source Software Development? (panel discussion) |
Wikis in Education: Wiki uses in learning and teaching (panel) |
Wikis in libraries: Wikis: Enabling library knowledgebases (panel) |
Laurence Parry: A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities
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11:00–11:30 | Break | ||||||
11:30–12:30p | Plenary: Brewster Kahle - Universal Access to All Knowledge (Ames) (Video) | ||||||
12:30–2:00p | Lunch (Ropes Gray) |
j Baumgart: Librarianesque birds of a feather session, Pound 200;
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2:00–3:30p Session 5 |
Michael Eisen (invited speaker): Open academic publishing
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Wikidata:
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Wikis in Education:
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Wikipedia community dynamics:
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Language and cultural barriers and challenges to Wikipedia (discussion) |
Kasper Souren: The Wiki Party bof, a political party based on wiki
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3:30–4:00p | Afternoon break | ||||||
4:00–5:30p Session 6 |
Karen Christensen, Paul Gazzolo, Erin McKean (invited speakers): Publishing dead-trees encyclopedias |
Technical infrastructure:
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A Q&A session with the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (panel) |
Technical Infrastructure:
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Wikis and the news:
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Wikis in Education Discussion: Free the curriculum: Supporting educators with open content (discussion) |
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5:30–5:45p | Break | ||||||
5:45–6:00p | Daily wrapup, session summary | ||||||
Saturday evening | outside activities, attendee party |
Sunday, August 6
Time | Session - Ames | Session - Pound 101 | Session - Pound 102 | Session - Pound 100 | Discussions - Pound 335 | Workshops - Pound 107 | Open space |
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9:00–9:15 | Welcome, daily announcements and overview (Ropes Gray) | ||||||
9:15–9:30 | Break | ||||||
9:30–11:00 Session 7 |
Mitch Kapor: I'd Like to Have an Argument: Inspiration from the Wikipedia about Collaborative Advocacy and Politics (archive recordings)
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Wikis in enterprises:
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Technical infrastructure:
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Research and data visualization:
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Semantic wiki:
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11:00–11:30 | Break | ||||||
11:30–12:30p | Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel (Ames) (archive recordings) | ||||||
12:30–2:00p | Lunch (Ropes Gray) | Future of Wikimedia discussion | |||||
2:00–3:15p Session 8 |
Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, Ben Shneiderman: Can Visualization help? (panel) |
International projects:
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Betsy Devine: Schrödinger's Wiki: The quantum challenge of media attention
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Gerard Meijssen: Differentiation of authentication regimes to prevent more vandalism
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Kelly Martin: Consensus as a governing principle: Does consensus scale? BoF |
Wikimedia legal issues discussion |
Lightning talks #3 |
3:15–3:30p | Break | ||||||
3:30–4:15p | Ropes Gray: David Weinberger: What's happening to knowledge? (Archive recordings) | ||||||
4:15–4:30p | Break | ||||||
4:30–5:30p | Ropes Gray: Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony (Archive recordings) |
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