Please find the WikiSym 2007 call for papers below.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007) Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007 In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB
Archived * Peer Reviewed * ACM Sponsored
OVERVIEW
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2007!
We recognize the online world is always evolving, and we also welcome contributions which are about other online media consistent with the wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory.
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers (long and short): due 7 May 2007 * workshops: due 7 May 2007 * panels: due 7 May 2007 * posters: due 9 July 2007 * demonstrations: due 9 July 2007
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis, we invite contributions from researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields including:
* business, marketing, law * communications and media studies * computer science, human-computer interaction * history, political science, geography * information and library science * linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies * natural sciences, medicine
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wiki technologies and implementations * wiki in the workplace; for business use * wiki as social software for collaboration and work group processes * wiki user experiences, usability, discourse analysis * wiki for non-text media (images, video, audio) and spatial systems * wiki content dynamics and evolution, wiki metrics * wiki journalism; wiki archiving * wiki reputation systems, quality assurance processes * wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse * wiki scalability, social and technical * wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit-knowledge * wikis for specific domains (education, genomics, politics, etc.) * wikis written by and for small audiences (ex: family wikis) * wiki legal issues (copyright, licensing) * wiki translation and multilingual wiki content
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research or novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience (including case studies) or experimentation. They will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of presentation. Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be referenced as papers that appeared in the "Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)". We invite full papers (recommended length of 10 to 15 pages with maximum of 20 pages, and a 30 minute presentation time) and short papers (maximum 6 pages, with a 15 minute presentation time). Papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Workshop and Panels submissions will be reviewed and selected for their interest to the community. A submission should consist of two pages describing what you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. It should include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the submission. Workshops will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own (depending on your request). Panels will be given a 90 minutes time slot and a room of their own.
Poster submissions will be reviewed on their merits and may describe research projects or experience reports. A submission should consist of two page extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will be invited to bring a poster for display at the symposium. Posters must be flat and within 1mx2m in size.
Demos will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one page in length, with a title, a short description of the demo, as well as a description of any special technical needs you may have (ex: wireless connectivity).
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective deadline through our submission system, which will be available through the WikiSym website. Questions should be directed respectively at papers@wikisym.org (research papers and practitioner reports), workshopsandpanels@wikisym.org (workshops and panels), or demosandposters@wikisym.org (posters and demos).
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2007. A special hotel rate has been negotiated at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. WikiSym 2007 will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2007 conference, and participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly register for WikiSym and OOPSLA 2007. Registration is handled through the ACM OOPSLA website: http://oopsla.org/
If you have any questions, please contact Alain Desilets through chair@wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Alain Désilet, NRC-CNRC, Canada (Symposium Chair) Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada (Program Chair)
Phoebe Ayers, U. of California Davis, USA (Wikimedia Liaison and Publicity) Angela Beesley, Wikia / Wikimedia, USA (Posters and Demos Chair) Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA (Panels and Workshops Chair) Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, USA (Honorary Chair) Ted Ernst, Open Space World (Open Space Chair) Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Publicity Chair) Dirk Riehle, SAP, USA (Treasurer and Corporate Sponsorships) Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org and StructuredWikis LLC, USA (Web Master)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Phoebe Ayers, University of California Davis, United States Angela Beesley, Wikimedia / Wikia, United Kingdom Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, United States Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand Alain Désilets, National Research Council, Canada Mark Gaved, The Open University, United Kingdom Brian Greenspan, Carleton University, Canada Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern, Switzerland Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany Elizabeth Da Lio, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, United States Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Michele Notari, University of Applied Sciences Berne, Switzerland Alejandro Ramirez, Carleton University, Canada Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, United States Hugh Robinson, The Open University, United Kingdom Cristoff Sauer, Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany Till Schuemmer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany Sunir Shah, BibWiki.com, Canada Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Brion Vibber, Wikimedia Foundation, United States Max Völkel, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany Jacob Voß, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong, China
On 26/02/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada
<snip> Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
That seems like a good way to ensure it remains a strictly North American affair...
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
That seems like a good way to ensure it remains a strictly North American affair...
The same rule applied last year when WikiSym was held in what was possibly the worst place for international travelers to get to (37 hours for me) yet certainly wasn't a Danish-only, or even European-only, affair. I don't think it's unusual for conferences to require that people attend the conference if they want to have their paper published in the proceedings is it?
Angela
On 26/02/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
That seems like a good way to ensure it remains a strictly North American affair...
The same rule applied last year when WikiSym was held in what was possibly the worst place for international travelers to get to (37 hours for me) yet certainly wasn't a Danish-only, or even European-only, affair. I don't think it's unusual for conferences to require that people attend the conference if they want to have their paper published in the proceedings is it?
Probably not... good point.
This is the only kind of peer reviewed publication that centres on wikis, is it not? (And the only other publication at all being Wikimania, AFAIK...)
cheers, Brianna
Angela wrote:
Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
That seems like a good way to ensure it remains a strictly North American affair...
The same rule applied last year when WikiSym was held in what was possibly the worst place for international travelers to get to (37 hours for me) yet certainly wasn't a Danish-only, or even European-only, affair. I don't think it's unusual for conferences to require that people attend the conference if they want to have their paper published in the proceedings is it?
Yeah, this is pretty much standard for academic conferences, for better or worse. Conferences want to ensure that: 1) they'll get paid the registration fee, which supports their costs; and 2) that a conference with presentations actually happens, rather than people just using the proceedings as a place to publish a paper.
There's occasional debate in computer science, where conferences are considered a major publication venue (unlike most other fields, which mainly use journals) about whether this is good, bad, or neither. On the plus side, it promotes collaboration and more direct peer review by encouraging/forcing annual face-to-face meetings with presentations, panels, and question/answer sessions. The annual nature with submission deadlines also tends to promote more timely publication of results, even preliminary ones, and researchers at academic institutions usually can also get a grant or institution pay for the trip. On the minus side, it raises the financial cost of publication for independent researchers (compared to journals, which are usually free to publish in). Not a debate we're likely to resolve on this mailing list, since it's been going on (in CS anyway) for decades...
-Mark
The same rule applied last year when WikiSym was held in what was possibly the worst place for international travelers to get to (37 hours for me) yet certainly wasn't a Danish-only, or even European-only, affair.
How is Denmark the worst place for international travelers to get to? I can't see how it's any worse than anywhere else in Europe (other than London and Paris, I suppose). I'm sure you could have done it in less than 37 hours had you wanted to - I would guess you took an indirect flight to save money (I did the same thing when I last flew long haul - turned a 13 hour flight into a 16-17 hour flight and saved about £300).
Dear colleagues, I am new to this forum. A few days ago I have proposed a new Wiki project and it is my understanding that as a first step, I have to announce it, to the forum. The link to my suggested project is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Esabo I hope I did it the right way. Your input will be very much appreciated. Thank you. Edmond
Sabo, Edmond wrote:
The link to my suggested project is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Esabo
I think you can help your chances by describing exactly why this should be a new project under the Wikimedia Foundation instead of just another wiki hosted by yourself or a company such as Wikia. Is there any international/multi-lingual dimension? Is there any open content dimension? How big is it supposed to become?
And why is the Subject of this message "WikiSym 2007"?
I'm not speaking for the foundation.
Thanks Lars, I will try to improve the proposal, addressing your comments. This proposal is mainly for biologists and Pathologists who struggle with variability, when quantifying biological shapes, textures, colors and patterns observed in cells and tissues. I have no special interest in any company. There are some commercial programs from companies who claim they have better algorithms for that. The reality is that all programs fail to accurately perform tissue pattern analysis. This is an unsolved issue. Only a global effort involving expert pathologists (like we are), working toigether with experts in computer vision, may solve these kind of problems. We have ideas but we need to collaborate with software people. Thanks again, Edmond
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From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Lars Aronsson Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 2:21 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WikiSym 2007 Call for Papers
Sabo, Edmond wrote:
The link to my suggested project is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Esabo
I think you can help your chances by describing exactly why this should be a new project under the Wikimedia Foundation instead of just another wiki hosted by yourself or a company such as Wikia. Is there any international/multi-lingual dimension? Is there any open content dimension? How big is it supposed to become?
And why is the Subject of this message "WikiSym 2007"?
I'm not speaking for the foundation.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se http://aronsson.se/
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