Current shortlist, and suggested topics for each
speaker:
Ray Chan, co-founder of
9gag.com
Creating an online user-generated community and how it's similar to
Wikipedia
Just to reiterate, that this is probablzy one of the worst possible
choices and would most likely make us the laughing stock of the rest
of the internet. In particular the comunity building aspect is highly
questionable with ample evidence that 9gag is in large part a fake
community, with institutionalized repost accounts
(
http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_machine_explained/)
and no community that actively generates original content. Also 9gag
is known for blatant copyright violations (see the recent 'the
oatmeal' case). This is absolutely not a website that I would like to
see Wikimedia assosiate with in any way.
Dschwen