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Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications
by Cary Bass 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 <https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/>in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, complete and submit the application form: https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/ For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ Please share this announcement with your mailing lists. Thank you. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuqlScACgkQyQg4JSymDYkexACffxr57jQrvsYhu6iTDGHKWdSd ojwAni3Kdmc742iZn93DZGAGXg3WcDvf =2R8g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fwd: Wikimania 2009]
by Patricio Lorente 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Wikipedians, Wikimedians, participants and contributors: In the name of the Wikimania 2009 organization team, I would like to thank you all for being part of Wikimania 2009. We enjoyed very much hosting last years conference, but needed some rest after so much work. So now, after the austral summer vacations, we would like to share with you our review of the organisation and realization of Wikimania 2009. This Post Mortem[1] includes the survey we conducted, a very simple statistical analysis of it, and our conclusions from both the survey and internal review. Everyone is invited to take a look at our closing work and leave any comments[2] you'd like to share. We hope organizators of future Wikimanias and Wiki-conferences will find all this information useful. I would like to thank again everyone who made Wikimania 2009 possible, including the participants who made an big effort to assist, the hard working local team, and all those who contributed to make things work. Hoping to see you in Gdańsk, Patricio Lorente, President of Wikimedia Argentina [1]http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem [2]http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Postmortem/Comments - -- Patricio Lorente Mensajería Instantánea: patricio_lorente(a)jabber.org Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkubgl8ACgkQ+c/5IYTykduL+QCdGsbL7DcuIJ9oKcblOw01vOY1 /fcAnRYFS8GaQYklGJGLNswJdlA518V2 =rSP1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Assistance to participate in event.
by José Enrique Anzures Becerril. 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Dear Friends: I would like someone to help me know how I can go with a couple of colleagues to present a project we have in our university. I need to know who to contact to request a space to exhibit our project, and how we apply and the deadline. Greetings

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Bid teams FAQ
by Cary Bass 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi all, I have recently been asked to see if we can't put together some easy-to-find FAQ for recommendations to teams who want to bid for Wikimania. Rather than recreate the wheel, I wanted to see if anyone could remember any previous efforts that have gone toward such a work, and if anyone from current or previous bidders want to help out in putting a list of questions together that bidding teams would want answered. I know that many requirements have never been set in stone, and we've generally picked on a "best bid" basis, as a combination of all that the local area has to offer. Cary

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WikiSym 2010 CFP: One Week Left!
by phoebe ayers 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Reminder: the research paper deadline for WikiSym is **March 7**. Please don't hesitate to contact myself, Felipe Ortega, or the appropriate track chair (listed below) with questions. ====== CALL FOR PAPERS ====== W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland. Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org). Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library. SUMMARY WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples. Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds. As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge the contributions from such a diverse community: * Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology, wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind of initiative pivoting around wiki software. * Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration projects/products/initiatives. * Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way" of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities, and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions from participants with a range of interests and motivations. Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks. However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in your manuscript before submitting. IMPORTANT DATES * March 7th: Submission deadline for research papers. * March 21st: Submission deadline for Doctoral Symposium proposals, posters, demonstrations, workshops, panels, tutorials. * May 4th: Notification of acceptance for research papers. * May 11th: Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Symposium proposals, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels. * July 7-9: WikiSym 2010! Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields. TOPICS OF INTEREST: WIKI TRACK * Wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis * Reputation systems and quality assurance processes * Scalability -- social and technical * Wiki technologies and implementations * Translation and multilingual wiki content * Educational applications * Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio) * Content dynamics and wiki evolution * Wiki archiving and versioning * Wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict * Wikis and the semantic web, knowledge management and tacit knowledge * Wikis for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) * Legal issues (copyright, licensing) * Visualization of wiki structure TOPICS OF INTEREST: INDUSTRY TRACK * Business opportunities around wikis and open collaboration * Best practices to adopt wikis and open collaboration in industry * Information disclosure: practices and experiences * Community building and support * Open publishing and open licensing in the industry * Wikis and open collaboration entrepreneurship * Coopetition: best practices * Interaction and synergies between industries and open communities * Open innovation: strategies and experiences for leaders/followers * Promotion, support and funding of open collaboration initiatives * Knowledge management TOPICS OF INTEREST OPEN COLLABORATION TRACK * Social software for collaboration and work group processes * Open online communities * Technologies for networked collaboration * Social interactions on the web * Open and citizen journalism * Social networks * Collaborative content creation * Distributed development of software * Cooperation for problem resolution * Information disclosure strategies * Open call working environments * Crowdsourcing and information synthesis * Collaborative multimedia collections * Distributed content categorization/tagging * Open publishing * Commons projects and repositories * Distributed selection of content RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, or in the development or deployment of novel systems. We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a clear concise message to the audience about the relevance of the work. The paper must place your work in context within the field, citing related work and indicating clearly what aspects of the work are new. Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. They should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages (for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference in order to present the paper. Accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium is an interactive forum for doctoral students to receive present and discuss their doctoral work. Students who are at least one year away from dissertation completion are invited to submit to the Doctoral Symposium. Students beginning their research are especially invited to attend. To submit a proposal send a 2-3 page description of your dissertation research, including: * A description of your work * The goals---what contributions will your research generate? * The approach---what is being performed to achieve the goals? How will results be validated? Additionally, your adviser must send a brief statement of your dissertation progress to date and a statement of recommendation to the Doctoral Symposium chair. WORKSHOPS Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about topics that require extended engagement such as new systems, research methods, standards and formats. A workshop should require participants to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shorter sessions, please consider WikiSym's open space format. A workshop proposal should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract, proposed time frame (half-day, full-day) and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the submission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each workshop will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room. PANELS Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the panelists and audience members in a lively discussion. Proposals for panels should consist of approximately two pages describing what you intend to do and how your session will meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise abstract and one-paragraph biographies of all panelists. A panel submission will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot. POSTERS Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in conversation. WikiSym's lively poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. Poster proposals may describe original research, engineering, or experience reports. Submissions should consist of a two-page extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will be invited to display a poster, 1x2m in size, at a special plenary session of the Symposium. DEMONSTRATIONS Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for demonstrating the utility of new wiki research and technology than showing and using it. If you would like to demonstrate new features or products, this is the place! Demonstrations give presenters an opportunity to show running systems and gather feedback. Demo submissions will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one page in length, with a title and a short description of the demo. The description should include what you plan to demonstrate, what you hope to get out of demoing, and how the audience will benefit. A short note of any special technical requirements may be included. HOW TO SUBMIT Please submit your research papers in PDF format through our research paper submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2010). For all other papers and proposals, please email the respective chair (see below). All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted work in all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair using the following email addresses: * Workshops: workshops(a)wikisym.org * Demonstrations/Tutorials: demos(a)wikisym.org * Posters: posters(a)wikisym.org * Doctoral Symposium: docsym(a)wikisym.org General questions should be directed at chair(a)wikisym.org. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Programme Chair * Dirk Riehle, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Treasurer * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Wiki Track Chair * Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada; Industry Track Chair * Giota Alevizou, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK; Open Collaboration Track Chair * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Thailand; Posters Chair * Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University, USA; Workshops Chair * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Wikimedia Liason * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Publicity Co-Chair (Academia-US) * Yoshifumi Masunaga, Aoyama Gakuin University; Publicity Co-Chair (Asia-Pacific) * Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Publicity Co-Chair (Africa) * Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute, Italy; Publicity Co-Chair (Open Collaboration) * Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham & Cunningham, USA; Honorary Member * James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Honorary Member * Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA; Open Space Facilitator * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada; Webmaster PROGRAM COMMITTEE Please visit http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date list of reviewers and collaborators included in our Programme Committee.

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Re: [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania2010] Fwd: A few questions/remarks about Wikimania 2010
by Delphine Ménard 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

This Google lab translation thing Phoebe pointed out is amazing :) 2010/2/23 Wulfstan <wiki.wulfstan(a)gmail.com>: > Zwracam tylko uwagę, że każde małe dziecko powinno mieć > opiekuna, z którym będzie się w stanie swobodnie dogadać w > swoim języku. > > Chyba nie wyobrażamy sobie sytuacji, w której dziecko jest > pozostawione część dnia z ludźmi, którzy nie potrafią nawet > zrozumieć treści jego płaczu (boli brzuch, nie ma mamy, > chce do toalety, piciu, gdzie się podział ukochany misio itp). > So I'll just summarize this email in case the translation was really bad: you're saying you can't imagine a kid spending part of the day with someone who does not understand their language. Well, I have one kid (and a half), and frankly I can imagine that the babysitter does not speak French or German. We can't expect babysitters to speak all the languages our kids will speak, and that's fine with me. If they're good, fun people, and the kids are not all alone in their language (ie. they have a sister, brother or even just a way to talk to their parents when they need to), I think it should be fine. So don't worry too much about that. The way I see it, is we need a few people (students, whatever) who will be there and be able to keep our kids for an to two hours at the time. I don't expect we'll leave the kids for 8 hours in a row, because, as was pointed out elsewhere, what would be the point of taking them at all to a techno-conference ;). But one hour at a time, when we are interested by one or the other presentation. I'm ok if it costs money, but please not too much and also not per hour. I want to be able to pay at the beginning of the conference and be done with it, and be able to use the "service" whenever I want, not have to think how much the next hour is gonna cost me. For the record, I would find German prices a bit expensive while being in Poland :P Important too would be to have the possibility of having evening babysitting (ie. people we can call if we need them to take care of the children during the time we go to dinner. That can be "separate" from the conference babysitting "fees" or "contract". I can't imagine that there aren't students that are ready to do this for a price during the summer and who have done that before. I am not sure we need an "experienced day care" at all, especially if it's not "onsite". If help is needed from the parents, then we can also work on that, but I don't want to have to drive my kids to a daycare somewhere outside the conference perimeter. That's not why I bring my kids to Wikimania :) Hope that helps to have an idea of what we're looking for. (cc'ing the wikimania-l list because others are there.) Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org

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A few questions/remarks about Wikimania 2010
by Delphine Ménard 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello dear Gdansk team. I asked those questions in the IRC channel, but I'm not sure they got heard there (although I'm also not sure they get heard here either). So here they are for posterity: 1) what about our babysitting question? A few of us have expressed interest in having babysitting opportunities during Wikimania. What are the possibilities? 2) Can we please have anything relating to Wikimania happen on the official Wikimedia website? I've noticed, by accident, that there is a http://www.wikimania2010.pl/ website. Very nice, but Wikimania is an international conference and for the sake of consistency across the years (and archiving purposes), it would be much more logical that the website be hosted (like the previous editions) at http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org 3) Finally (but this question is irrelevant if 2) is taken care of) can the default language for the website be English, and not Polish? Wikimania is an international conference, and navigating in Polish is well... sorry, but very difficult :) Thanks for your answers/comments. Cheers, Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org

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Call for Volunteers, Wikimania 2010 scholarships
by Cary Bass 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hello everyone! Cross posting this to several lists, forgive me if you get it a number of times. Wikimania 2010 is going to require will be requiring a number of volunteers to handle scholarship applications. Details of the Volunteer commitments are at <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarships_rev…>, <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarships_com…> and <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarships_tec…> We are looking for people to fill these volunteer positions soon! Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[wikimania 2010] Babysitting?
by Delphine Ménard 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hi there, I plan to come to Gdansk with my (then) two kids, and would like to know if it is possible to plan some kind of babysitting for people like me who would love to participate in the conference but still would like to take their kids along. Thanks! Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org

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map of wikimania places
by phoebe ayers 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi all, I started a map of Wikimania/Wikisym places: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&source=embed&msa=0&msid=100096… Please feel free to edit, correct, add to the website, etc. Note the color coding :) Also note that it's incomplete; I started with hotels from the Wikimania bid that I'm also recommending for WikiSym. Here's the equivalent area in openstreetmap if anyone wants to get to work on that: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.34645&lon=18.65945&zoom=15&layers=B000… -- phoebe - http://phoebeayers.info | phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com

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