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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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Thank you all, and litlle bit more...
by OTA Takashi 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

The conference is over today, and I would like to appreciate all conference staff, Harvard staff, attendees, and anyone who involved. Thank you. It was totally interesting conference. BTW, I still need your help. I lost my eyeglasses. It has emerald colored stems with black covers. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/takot/208422648/ If you know something about that, please tell me. As far as I remember, I wore it during sessions of the 1st day, but I realised I didn't have it on Friday night. I have stayed the 4th floor of Ames dorm so I think it is may be there, but could be some other sites. Sorry to bother you. Thanks in advance. --OTA Takashi

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Event ended, edits continued
by Aphaia 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hello again online, thank you for your all efforts to realize the conference. Perhaps I might be nice for waiting someone more involved to address gratitude, but so what? <grin> So, thank you again for your all efforts. We did it. There are however something to do still now. The Website still needs your care. Perhaps we might better to modify some pages, just blanking them or hide 'em at least from the front page? (like [[registration]]) I am not sure the current situation, so want to know how you think - specially [[staff]] on ground. If we edit the site or not, [[Wmania:Main page]] was already updated. Changes are very slight, but each language page needs to care (you could turn it into redirect to English page, if you are too busy or just before going out for holiday ...). URL is: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Cheers, -- Kizu Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *

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WM06 : Website monitoring and vandalism...
by Samuel Klein 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Please help keep an eye out on the conference site's RC; it has been the target of vandalism a few times today. --SJ

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WM06 : Hacking Days notes & events tonight
by Samuel Klein 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

WM06 updates : We are in the middle of the last of the hacking days. All 40-50 people together have somehow stayed in relatively high-bandwidth harmony at OLPC each day, with a minimum of media disturbance... tonight it's time to kick back. == Events tonight == The first conference-wide party is being held at Redline in Harvard Square, hosted by the Sunlight Foundation. Come by from 9-11 to enjoy an open bar and say hello to Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Ethan Zuckerman, Micah Sifry, and many others. For details and directions, see : http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events#Thursday == Upcoming events == Check out the events page above for other things going on; including calvinball, a GdGdR danceathon, and the conference party Sat. night at the MIT Museum with robots and holographs. == Other notes == Marshall Poe's "The Hive" essay in the September Atlantic Monthly is a good historical read; if you want to see a paper copy, a few will be available at the poster/demo session tomorrow night. Cheers, SJ

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Proceedings
by Nick Boalch 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Dear Wikimania contributors, (...and others on the list, but this mail is principally directed at people giving presentations...) As you may have noticed if you've been keeping an eye on the Wikimania site, we've been working on building this year's Proceedings. We're now ready to start adding your slides, the full text of your papers, the full images for your posters and so on to the Proceedings. You can send in submissions to us at wikimania-program(a)wikimedia.org; please send them here rather than uploading them directly to the Wiki so that we can make sure they end up in the right places and in the right formats. If you're unsure about what we want these submissions for, where we're going to put them, what we're going to do with them, then please take a look at our Guidelines for contributors. This explains in detail where and in what format to send submissions, what the editing process will be and how the final result will be licensed. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Guidelines_for_contribu… We've also produced a Style Guide to help you as you prepare your submissions: this isn't 100% binding as it would be with an academic publisher, but for the sake of consistency within the Proceedings we'd like to stick with it as much as possible. Citing sources properly is, as it should be, non-negotiable. http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:Style_guide If you have any questions then please just let me know. (Unfortunately I'm going to be away from the 5th to the 21st of August, but I'll do my best to reply quickly.) Best wishes, N. -- Nicholas Boalch School of Modern Languages & Cultures Tel: +44 (0) 191 334 3456 University of Durham Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 3421 New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT, UK WWW: http://nick.frejol.org/

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Wikimania Blog
by Aphaia 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Greetings, Wikimaniacs. And also all ye nerds already lurking the town now. [OT] /me is curious those guys have visited Gallery of Hacks @ MIT. Recently (oh shame) I found a page on meta: Wikimania:Blog. Even after one year almost, it was fun to read it. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Blog We will have a similar page/blog for this year? Or it exists already? -- Kizu Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *

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Moderators still needed
by Angela 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '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 27 Jul '06

27 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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