Dear all,
Many thanks to all those who nominated themselves for the four vacancies on
the FDC; we have an excellent slate of candidates.
The shortlist of candidates has been posted on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/No…
In the coming week, the Board of Trustees will select four members to the
FDC from the interviewed shortlist. We will announce these appointments by
close of day UTC 11 July 2014.
Best
Bishakha and Patricio
Board liaisons, FDC
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Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering
- *Featured speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and new
Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Lila Tretikov; Thousands of Wikimedia
volunteers; Leaders in Technology, Culture and Society. From August 8th to
10th at the Barbican Centre; Tickets go on sale today.*
- *Wikimania programme to focus on Social Machines, The Future of
Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship & Open Data*
Wikimania’s 2014 team today announce the programme for this year’s historic
event. Wikimania 2014 will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from
8th to 10th August, with a two day pre-conference held August 6th and 7th.
Over 4,000 attendees are expected; more than twice the number at any
previous Wikimania.
The future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, forms the central
theme. As technological advances promise big changes on the platform,
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales will delve into what the future has in store
for the world’s fifth most popular website.
“Wikipedia is the largest knowledge base in the world, consulted by over
half a billion people each month,” says Wales. “However, we’ve only just
begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it. Through
international expansion, a new focus on open data, and a big investment in
technology development, our movement is charting exciting new territory.”
Attendees will also welcome Wikimedia’s new executive director, Lila
Tretikov. Her keynote will focus on the impact of Wikipedia in our changing
world and its potential for our future.
Tretikov sees Wikipedia, a top five website, as an opportunity to for
unlocking and democratizing knowledge globally: “I’d like us to think
beyond what we know today. Think beyond our accomplishments, towards
opportunities. Opportunities for all our collective minds to build the
future of knowledge, collaboration and trust.” Recent developments have
included plans focused on overhauling Wikipedia’s user experience for
readers and editors, a programmatic approach to grant-making and community,
and establishing a development platform for knowledge building.
Open to the public, Wikimania is a five-day, community-organised event
focusing on new projects in the world of MediaWiki, transparency, and open
knowledge. Themes include collaborative working, natural language
processing, crowdsourcing, education, journalism, scientific and medical
research, open data, and multimedia.
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Programme Summary
The conference is organised around five questions with massive implications
for the future.
- Social Machines: How Can Online Communities Unlock Humanity’s
Potential?
- The Future of Education: Now That Wikipedia Has Done Everyone’s
Homework, What’s Left to Teach?
- Democratic Media: Must All Media Be Commercially Driven?
- Open Scholarship: What Happens When The Cutting Edge of Human
Knowledge is Available To All?
- Open Data: What Can We Build When The Sum Of All Human Knowledge is
Machine Readable?
Lectures from prominent leaders across technology and media will include
the following.
- Jack Andraka, inventor – At the age of 15 Andraka invented a possible
new test for pancreatic cancer by using scientific research available he
found on Wikipedia.
- Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems
Institute – Bar-Yam will explore how the complex system of Wikipedia
applies to exposition of scientific enquiry and socio-cultural issues.
- Professor Dariusz Jemielniak – Jemielniak will present an academic's
perspective on Wikipedia's cultural and community structures via research
from his book*Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia*.
- Benjamin Mako Hill, researcher – Hill will give an overview of major
research discoveries about Wikipedia from the past year.
- Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, Public Library of Science – Marincola will
share an update about PLOS ONE, the world’s largest open access journal.
- Carl Miller, Research Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media,
Demos – Miller will share findings from Demos’ efforts to engage citizens
and increase voter participation by experimenting with using Wikipedia-like
systems.
- Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science – Neylon
is a longtime advocate for open access and unrestricted online access to
peer-reviewed scholarly research.
- Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager, Wikidata – Pintscher will present
Wikidata, the free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and
machines alike. Wikidata centralises access to, and the management of
structured data.
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute
(ODI); Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and
Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton; Principal
Investigator for the Theory And Practice of Social Machines Working Group.
- David White, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of
the Arts, London – Now that Wikipedia’s done everyone’s homework, what’s
left to teach?
- Lila Tretikov, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation – The impact
of Wikipedia in our changing world and its potential for our future.
Notes to editors
The conference takes place from 8th to 10th August at The Barbican Centre,
London, with a programme of fringe events already underway. Alongside will
run a pre-conference on education (6th and 7th August) and a hackathon (6th
to 10th August), with the opening ceremony on the evening of the 7th. The
main conference website is: www.wikimanialondon.org; where tickets are now
on sale for £30/45/55 (1 day/3 days/5 days).
There are a number of complimentary tickets available for journalists who
would like to attend. Please contact press(a)wikimanialondon.org.
The conference is being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, Google,
Ask.com, Mathworks, Tupperware, and Wikimedia UK.
For Wikimedia UK press enquiries please contact Stevie Benton, Head of
External Relations, on 020 7065 0993 or 07803 505 173 or
stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk.
For Wikimedia Foundation (non UK) press enquiries please contact Katherine
Maher, Chief Communications Officer, on kmaher(a)wikimedia.org.
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Hi, folks,
Recently Lila had talk about #1 challenge in this mail-list which is
related to participation. I want to recall Ward Cunningham's idea
of observability in the very early days of wiki invention to address the
possibility to enhance participation of Wikipedia today.
If you visit the early page of c2.com, you will find the idea
of observability is one pillar principle of wiki software, and just follow
the idea, Ward invent the RecentChanges for all wikis.
At that time c2 is very small; now Wikipedia is so big. The original idea
of RecentChanges is not very effective today. We had made some extension
for the original idea in our mediawiki software, but I think the step is
too small.
Let's first take a look of what we had already invented are similar to
RecentChanges but more effective:
* Wikizine or Signpost: community stories every week
* some part of a Portal: recent changes under a subject compiled by human
Still possible for other kind of RecentChanges which is not invented yet,
for example:
* References and external links are very valuable resources, why not
extract them from articles and compile them into a timeline?
Content is only one aspect to observe, people are another:
* Who are the experts on some topics?
* Who are my buddies on some articles?
* Who did help me to improve an article originally I wrote?
In all, we may reshape our technical infrastructure in this direction for
new spaces of participation. And finally, one open question for the system
designer:
* Towards better content and community, what is the most important things
we want our user to observe?
Regards,
Mingli
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