Wikimania-l July 2006

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Conference registration
by Austin Hair 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi folks, Registration is now open, and I'd like to get the "in crowd" processed before the onslaught brought on by the press release. If there are any fundamental problems be encountered in the process, I'd rather you guys find them, rather than some random dude who read about Wikimania in a magazine. So by all means, register, but only if your schedule is firm and you're prepared to shell out the fee for admission: http://wm06reg/wikimedia.org/ Austin

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Moderators still needed
by Angela 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Moderators are still needed for the following sessions. Please let me know if you can do any of these. Some of these sessions weren't in my last email because the people I'd planned to moderate them dropped out, so please look at the new list below and see if any of these seem interesting. It's not a demanding job, so if you were intending on attending any of these anyway, you may as well moderate while you're there. :-) Chris Messina in session 1. Alexis Rondeau and Stan Wiechers in session 3. Paul Sponagl and Kasper Souren in session 7. Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, and Ben Shneiderman in session 7. Discussion sessions during Sunday lunch. Betsy Devine and Joe Reagle in session 8. Wikimedia legal issues discussion in session 8. James Forrester in session 8. Benjamin Martin, Hari Nadig, and Kasper Souren in session 8. David Weinberger - Sunday Keynote. Organisers for all Lightning Talk sessions are also needed. Angela

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Wikimania session discussions, Q&A
by Samuel Klein 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Dear all, The proceedings for Wikimania are almost complete. Phoebe and Nick : you are manic demideities. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Index The proceedings this year are available online ahead of time, so that you can start discussing the topics and asking questions of the authors and speakers now -- and so that this can inform their presentations and the questions asked at the end. One of the goals of Wikimania is to actually reach some high-bandwidth comparison of similar questions and ideas, and resolution of some difficult but solvable issues that it can be hard to work through without a concerted push by many people at the same time. If there is a topic you want to discuss or see discussed at Wikimania, please find relevant presentations, or create discussions and link to them from the Discussions page. Don't forget to link out to existing conversations on other wikis and mailing lists, and to let those conversants know that there is a wikimania page (and potentially a bof or f2f discussion) about the topic. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions Looking forward to seeing many of you next week, SJ -- SJ Klein sj(a)laptop.org +1 617 529.4266 Wikimania 2006 in Cambridge: wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/

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Wikimania moderators
by Angela 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I'm going to be co-ordinating Wikimania moderators. If you would like to volunteer, please let me know as soon as possible, along with details of whether there are any times you can't do, or any sessions on http//wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule that you have a preference for moderating. Moderating basically involves introducing the speaker and then making sure they finish on time, and sometimes handling questions from the audience at the end when there's time for a Q&A session. You will also need to find the speaker before the event and make sure they're happy with the arrangements and know where they're going. You don't need any technical knowledge since other people will be available for making sure any recording devices and projectors are set up. Angela.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikitech-l] Wikimania moderators
by The Cunctator 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I'd love to moderate Brion's session. On 7/22/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry to those who already read this on wikimania-l, but I'm > especially looking for people who will understand the tech sessions at > Wikimania to act as moderators for those. > > If you would like to volunteer, please let me know as soon as possible. > > Moderating basically involves introducing the speaker and then making > sure they finish on time, and sometimes handling questions from the > audience at the end when there's time for a Q&A session. You will also > need to find the speaker before the event and make sure they're happy > with the arrangements and know where they're going. > > The "Technical infrastructure" sessions that need moderating include: > > Session 4 (Saturday) > * Brion Vibber: Hacking MediaWiki > * Hacking days review > > Session 6 (Saturday) > * Christoph Sauer: What you see is wiki - Questioning WYSIWYG in > the internet age > * Darniet Jennings: Why WYSIWIKI? > * Timothy Chklovski: Collecting Computer-useable knowledge from > volunteer contributors > * Chris Luer: Disambiguation: the key to information architecture? > > Session 7 (Sunday) > * Technical lightning talks/future of search > * Paul Sponagl: Device independent access to Wikipedia > * Kasper Souren: Wikipedia on the Nokia 770 > > Angela > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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Wikimania 2006 scholarships available; early registration notes
by Samuel Klein 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Dear all, Some scholarships (and visa support) will be available for community members hoping to attend Wikimania. Please apply or encourage suitable people you know to apply. Details available here : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Early registration for the conference will be open through July 9; so sign up before then if you are planning to attend. http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/ Hacking Days registration is separate (please register for the normal conference first; if only coming to hacking days, you might want to write to wikimania-registration(a)wikimedia.org and explain). http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org/hacker/register There will be a sitewide notice about Wikimania this week as well; you can help translate it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/June_notice And comment on the implementation of the notice here: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007382.html http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-June/007876.html Looking forward to August, SJ PS - As the program is finalized, you will be able to find out more about speakers and presenters from the conference site (which still needs work...) : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index Feel free to add comments and questions for presenters on those talk pages; and ideas for open discussions at the conference here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas

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Wikimania events
by Samuel Klein 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

There will be a few events at Wikimania. Among them : * A Friday evening poster reception, with some cool new demonstrations * A Saturday night party, with robots, holograms, and a Web 1.0 theme * The World Calvinball Championship * The Wikimania Awards, with prizes for the best free-content media and writing uploaded to the projects over the past year * A free-content film festival, including a presentation of a clip of the documentary of last year's Wikimania presented by the filmmaker, Rory O'Connor (with some thoughts on why he came to think a community-edited Wikimentary would be a great idea; cf. [[m:Wikimentary]] ) * Outings into the city on Monday; rumours of a beer-sampling run. * A 40th birthday party for Jimbo, Friday night ...and a few other satellite parties. Keep an eye on the events page, and update it with events you know of that are planned for Wikimania. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events All the best, SJ

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wikimania discussions
by phoebe ayers 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi all, this is just a reminder that almost all presentations now have abstracts up at http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Index. All of these abstracts have a discussion page, as well... please use it to list comments or questions you have about specific presentations before the conference begins. Presenters will use comments on these pages to help shape their presentations, and having a list of questions beforehand will be useful in q&a. Let's get the discussions started! There are a couple of special requests for questions beforehand: 1) the panelists on the reference work publishing panel (two encyclopedists and a dictionary editor, from Berkshire, World Book, and Oxford Dictionaries) would like to know what specific questions you have about their work as editors of these reference works. The abstract is here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:KC1; please add comments to the talk page. 2) Larry Lessig and Eben Moglen will be presenting; Lessig on free culture and Moglen on GFDL updates and more. We are hoping that in the second hour they will be able to take questions on free licenses. Please add questions to the talk page here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:EM2 3) Finally, we are very pleased to announce that Ward Cunningham will be giving an on-stage interview on Friday. Please leave questions for this session on the talk page here: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:WC1 thank you, phoebe -- - phoebe s. ayers / brassratgirl(a)gmail.com http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org

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Please take me off of this mailing list.
by M Metcalf 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi, I didn't realize that I would get constant discussion threads. If this is not the correct way to remove my name, please let me know. Thank you, mgmetcalf(a)hotmail.com

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Promotion, graphics, and parties
by Samuel Klein 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

A few notes on sharing the wikimania love, before and during the conference : * Attached is a draft pamphlet for spreading the word about Wikimania, care of Reid Offringa. On a less sacrilegious note, there is also a lovely hacking-days poster image about (Brett, what's the latest version like?) which would make a good printout to bring to other related events. * There are three entries so far in the t-shirt competition; and while they are pretty darn good, more are wanted! And other image suggestions, including icons/buttons of various sizes, are welcome. * A Wikimania party Saturday night is being planned for the MIT Museum, which is a proper tardis of a building. You can prepare by practicing your DDR skills... http://web.mit.edu/museum/collections/index.html * Friday there will be, among other things, a party hosted by wikitravel; who is encouraged to put more details up on the wiki, where that and other events are noted: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events ( SJ )

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