Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects
around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews,
Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The
conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users
and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each
other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and
collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open
to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers,
programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the
Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the
Wikimedia projects.
This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk,
Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please
visit the official Wikimania 2010 site:
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/
Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space
meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks.
Submissions will be discussed and selected in an informal process
on the wiki. If your submission is not added to the schedule, you
will still have many opportunities to bring topics forward
on-site.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Deadline for submitting workshop, tutorial, panel and
presentation proposals: May 20
* Notification of acceptance: May 25 (workshops), May 31
(panels, tutorials, presentations)
* All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the
Open Space track of the conference, whether or not they
are accepted in this initial process.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Submissions will be reviewed informally by a team of volunteers.
TRACKS
This year Wikimania will offer three tracks for submissions for
members of wiki communities and interested observers to share
their own experiences and thoughts and to present new ideas:
People and Community
The People and Community track provides a unique forum for
discussing topics related to people using/building wikis.
Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the
following:
* Wiki Community: Conflict resolution and community dynamics;
reputation and identity;
* Wiki Outreach: Promotion of wikis and Wikimedia projects among
the general public;
* North meets south, east meets west: How can people of a
different cultural background create an encyclopedia according
to common rules? Same subject in the eye of different cultures.
* Special: Wikipedia in Central/Eastern Europe: this theme will
provide a forum to present and discuss the latest progress of
Wikis in the central/eastern European community.
Knowledge and Collaboration
The Knowledge and Collaboration track aims to promote research
and find exciting ideas related to knowledge...
* Wiki Content: New ways to improve content quality, credibility;
legal issues and copyrights (is free knowledge free?); use of
the content in education, journalism, research;
* Semantic Wikis: The use of semantic web technologies, linked
data; semantic annotation and metadata (in particular manual
vs. automated approaches).
Infrastructure Track
The Infrastructure track at Wikimania will provide a forum where
both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches,
applications, and explore how to make Wiki access ever more
ubiquitous:
* MediaWiki development: issues related to MediaWiki development
and extensions;
* Moving beyond MediaWiki: what other Wiki-like platforms exist;
what tools and features do we need for collaboration on
different types of knowledge?
* Mobile Wikis: The Web is moving off the desktop and into mobile
phones, how we use wikis on mobile devices?; wiki-based
Augmented Reality (AR) applications, location based services
* User Interface Design: Usability and user experience;
accessibility, adaptive interfaces and personalization; novel
UI designs.
WIKISYM 2010
Please note that Wikimania 2010 is co-located with WikiSym, The
International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. More
information about WikiSym can be found on the conference website:
http://www.wikisym.org/
SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
To submit a proposal for a presentation, workshop, panel or
tutorial, please visit:
http://bit.ly/Submit2010
Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!
--
Marcin Cieslak
Wikimania 2010 Gdansk
I'm afraid I haven't been keeping up with posts to the list so I hope
this hasn't already been broadcast.
It's plausible to regard Britannica as a competitor to Wikipedia,
although I doubt whether many of us actually wish them harm. They've
come to an agreement with Fora.tv. I've viewed quite a lot of material
on Fora. It's a great site, well worth a search or five.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3932324.htm
User:Bodnotbod
http://www.copyrightcode.eu/
The European Copyright Code is the result of the Wittem Project that
was established in 2002 as a collaboration between copyright scholars
across the European Union concerned with the future development of
European copyright law. The project has its roots in an International
Network Program run by three Dutch universities (Radboud University of
Nijmegen, University of Amsterdam and Leiden University), and
sponsored by the government-funded Dutch ITeR Program.
The aim of the Wittem Project and this Code is to promote transparency
and consistency in European copyright law. The members of the Wittem
Group share a concern that the process of copyright law making at the
European level lacks transparency and that the voice of academia all
too often remains unheard. The Group believes that a European
Copyright Code drafted by legal scholars might serve as a model or
reference tool for future harmonization or unification of copyright at
the European level. Nevertheless, the Group does not take a position
on the desirability as such of introducing a unified European legal
framework.
The Code was drafted by a Drafting Committee composed of seven
members. Each chapter of the Code was originally drafted by one or two
members of the Drafting Committee, acting as rapporteurs. The
rapporteurs for each chapter were: Prof. Quaedvlieg (Chapter 1:
Works), Prof. Hugenholtz (Chapter 2: Authorship and ownership), Prof.
Strowel (Chapter 3: Moral rights), Prof. Visser (Chapter 4: Economic
rights) and Professors Dreier and Hilty (Chapter 5: Limitations).
Each draft Chapter, accompanied by an explanatory memorandum, was
discussed in a plenary session with the members of the Wittem Advisory
Board and other experts that were invited ad hoc. The proceedings of
these plenary sessions were fed into the second versions of each
chapter, and thereafter redacted and integrated into a final
consolidated version by the Drafting Committee. Although discussions
with the Advisory Board and experts have greatly influenced the final
product, responsibility for the Code lies solely with the Drafting
Committee.
While drafted in the form of a legislative instrument and thereby
exceeding the level of detail normally associated with common
principles of law, this Code is not comprehensive. It concentrates on
the main elements of any codification of copyright: subject matter of
copyright (Chapter 1), authorship and ownership (Chapter 2), moral
rights (Chapter 3), economic rights (Chapter 4) and limitations
(Chapter 5). The Code does not, for instance, treat such remuneration
rights as public lending right and droit de suite, nor does it deal
with the legal protection of technical measures. Also, the Code does
not contain rules on copyright liability or enforcement, nor does it
touch upon neighbouring (related) rights and database right.
This Code is not a recodification of EU copyright law tabula rasa.
Since European copyright law must operate within the confines of the
international commitments of the European Union and its Member States,
the Code takes account of the substantive norms of the Berne
Convention and the TRIPs Agreement. Also, the members of the Group
have found it hard to ignore the aqcuis communautaire in the form of
seven Directives that the European legislature has produced in this
field since 1991. However, the Code does on occasion deviate from the
acquis, and therefore cannot be considered a mere restatement or
consolidation of the norms of the directives.
The members of the Wittem Group hope that this European Copyright Code
will contribute to the establishment of a body of transparent and
consistent copyright law that protects the moral and economic
interests of creators, while serving the public interest by promoting
the production and dissemination of works in the field of literature,
art and science.
The European Copyright Code is available at www.copyrightcode.eu
Great! Thank you for posting this.
(Both expressing my sincere appreciation, and testing the replies to
wikimediaannounce-l :) )
phoebe
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Veronique Kessler
<vkessler(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Please note that the 2008 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2008
> through June 30, 2009 has been posted to the Wikimedia Foundation
> website at:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_2008_2009_Form_990.pdf
>
> Also posted are questions and answers which can be found at:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Form_2008_Questions_and_Answers
>
> Of course I am available to answer questions as well.
>
> Veronique
>
> _______________________________________________
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> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l
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A number of editors at Wikiproject:Medicine are working on a collaborative
paper regarding Wikipedia and Medicine. We are currently writing it using
Google docs but would prefer to do it in a wiki environment. Does anyone
know if it is possible to set up a semi private wiki with Wikimedia
foundation?
James Heilman
"The primary function of the Wikipedias is to educate in the sciences,
philosophy, technology and all that truly useful stuff. Nevertheless
there's an argument for a Featured Article on South Park because it
brings in new blood. Such an article can pique the interest of teens
and twenties and get them involved. Discuss."
My reply would be:
There's a difficulty in that you get trapped. At the moment, the task
I've set myself is to review Featured Article candidates. You might
set yourself a task and find yourself dealing with stuff that,
frankly, isn't very educational. I proofread an article on a Bob Dylan
album because it came up for review. But should I really be
proofreading articles on biology, chemistry and physics?
I don't have expertise in those areas but I may at least change an
"its" to an "it's" or vice versa.
I think at the heart of the question is; do you find yourself sticking
to a routine without questioning the relative value of what you're
doing? Is fighting vandalism on a South Park article equal to fighting
vandalism on science? We all only have a certain number of hours in
the day.
User:Bodnotbod
someone asked me about wikimania 2011 and I realized I only sent this
to wikimania-l -- sorry.
-- phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] 2011 delay
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
The ashcloud disrupted many things, including the chapters meeting...
and among other things it distracted a bunch of people who are on the
wikimania jury :) We're not going to reach a decision by the original
announcement date (next Tuesday)... I'm guessing discussions can be
wrapped up in two weeks from now. Stay tuned. Sorry guys (especially
since I know all the bids have worked really really hard).
As always, questions to the jury can go through me or to individual
jury members.
best,
Phoebe
2011 Wikimania Jury moderator (non-voting, cat-herder)
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on
launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is
going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of
the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and
informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're
calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will
be owned and managed by the Facebook community.
Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free
knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users,
and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US.
Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also
be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors.
Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more
ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at
other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future.
Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English
Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems
likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook
members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add
more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the
web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the
article provided is not correct or has any display problems.
It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see
how this goes.
--Kul
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Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Head of Business Development
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
kul(a)wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 ext. 603