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!
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Marcin Cieslak
Wikimania 2010 Gdansk
Hi everyone,
The next strategic planning office hours are:
Tuesday, 6 April, from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is:
-Tuesday (1-2pm PDT)
-Tuesday (4-5pm EDT)
Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's
happened as well as the work to come.
As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
This might seem a little callous against our SR brethren, but SRWN is dead.
Take a look at Recent Changes
http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE:Rece…
It is a serious fight to find anything happening that isn't a bot.
Yes,
the article count is increasing, scarily so... but that is only because news
is being copied wholesale from other sites. In the end, 99.9% of their
articles never get touched by a human.
Take a look at
http://sr.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Hju_D%C5%BEekmen_i_Ali%C5%A1a_Silv…
example. One bot uploads it, another fixes it... that's the entire
wiki.
The real truth in death I think comes from the Wikimedia Stats page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaSR.htm - Take a look
at the new reporters chart. The last new reporter they had was in December.
Sure, it is great they have a lot of articles, gaining at the rate of about
100 a day... but wow can we even say that this project NPOV when all the
stories are bot imported, and never touched by human hands?
Food for thought.
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Jon
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http://snowulf.com/
Howdy All,
For those that don't know, we've at the tech center have been working on a
"Reader" application for Wikinews. Just like there are Wikipedia
applications for the iPhone, this application would function much the same
way (on Android), except for Wikinews. Of course it is tailored for our
specific use case, in the fact that it gives you the ability to easily read
(on your mobile device) the latest news (and not the entire site). Noting
fancy or complicated (at least not for 1.).
If you're interested in learning more, you can stop by
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Tech/Android_Reader and find out about
the goals/roadmaps/screen shots/etc.
The reason I'm writing today is that I'm hoping to drum up some help from
the community in testing the application & getting some feedback. At this
point in time we've completed all the necessary features for 1.0, and I've
worked out a few major bugs. The 1.0 release wont be anything complicated
or fancy, but I would like a solid base from which we can build upon. So,
if you happen to own an Android powered device, I'd love to get you to
install the app and give it a spin. The instructions are all on wiki:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Tech/Android_Reader#Installing_Pre-Rel…
If you're interested in helping out, I'd appreciate it if you pop'd me a
message off list.
Thanks!
PS. Feel free to FW'd this app to anyone you know that uses Wikinews, has
Android and you think might like to help. This isn't a "public" release,
but right now we've got very little in the way of beta-testing help.
--
Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ
http://photo.snowulf.com/ - Buy a pic, feed a photog.
http://snowulf.com/
The Content scope Task Force at strategy.wikimedia.org is at the
moment compiling a "List of things that need to be free". The purpose of
this list is to list all kinds of content that ought to be available
for free, to see what other organizations provide such content, and to
judge in which areas WMF can help providing such content. Any help in
filling this list in would be very much appreciated.
You will find it at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
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All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any
group. We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets.
One of the problems with all our toys is that the source code is
stored...everywhere. Some of the scripts aren't even published publicly.
This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what if a person leaves the
project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to them.
So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center. Really, the
core goal of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our
goodies in one place. That happens to be setup at
http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ . If you aren't familiar with Google
Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki and bug tracker all rolled
into one.
For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and
Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech . Some have asked the
usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List. It may or may not be useful, but at
least this way we can send more regular emails about technical things
(bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not irritate everyone.
.......
So, how does this effect you? If you care about technology, write scripts,
apps and etc... feel free to stop by. I'm happy to give anyone that wants
to code, commit access. You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever.
If you don't care about technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel
free to ignore us.
--
Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ
http://photo.snowulf.com/ - Buy a pic, feed a photog.
http://snowulf.com/