Should the name of HomePage be changed, I would strongly argue for "Main Page" over "Home Page". Most people
think of "Home Page" as the place where the browser goes when you start it up, and others use the term as in "personal
home page", i.e. where you put the pictures of your kids.
Axel
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Populist Editing
December 9, 2001
By STEVEN JOHNSON
Despite the popular conception of the Internet as our most
interactive medium, on the great majority of Web pages the
interaction all goes in one direction. But an intriguing
new subgenre of sites, called WikiWikiWebs, really are
interactive: users can both read and write. If you dont
like the perspective of the article you are perusing, you
can go in and rephrase the concluding paragraph. If you
stumble across a spelling mistake, you can fix it with a
few quick keystrokes. Wikis are like communal gardens of
data: some participants do a lot of heavy planting, while
others prefer to pull a weed here and there.
The most ambitious Wiki project to date applies this
governing principle to the encyclopedia, that
Enlightenment-era icon of human intelligence. The result is
the Wikipedia, created in early 2001 by a philosophy Ph.D.
named Larry Sanger and billed as a collaborative project
to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch.
Wikipedia has attracted more than 1,000 new entries a month
on everything from astronomy to the visual arts. With a
total of 16,000 articles in the database, the Wikipedia is
already large enough to be a source of generally reliable
information, though stronger in some areas (Star Trek
spinoffs) than others (the novels of Charles Dickens).
Wikipedia differs from conventional encyclopedias in that
each article is a work in progress: a visitor will draft a
new entry, sometimes merely jotting down a few random data
points, with a handful of links to other related entries; a
few weeks later, another visitor might add a paragraph or
two or a few more hyperlinks. Each entry has a revision
history, like those featured in modern word processors,
that lets you see at a glance any changes that have been
made to the document.
What prevents a crank or a saboteur from deliberately
undermining the quality of entries? Only the steady force
of constant revisions, doled out by thousands of
contributors. A few jokers in the mix will invariably get
washed out by the overwhelming number of contributors who
are genuinely interested in the sites meeting its
objectives. There is a saying in the open-source software
community (from which the Wiki movement borrows more than a
few moves): given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
The slogan works for programmers collectively writing an
operating system like Linux, so why shouldnt it work for
hobbyists and armchair enthusiasts stringing together an
encyclopedia?
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Today's New York Times Magazine has a long list of ideas which they
call "The Year in Ideas". One of those ideas is "Populist Editing",
which , you guessed it, is about Wikis in general and Wikipedia in
particular. Very positive writeup.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09POPULIST.html
Axel
There were some questions raised about the new software that I'd like to
answer:
Jimbo: I designed the software with international versions in mind, so
there's *no* hardcoded English at all in my current version. There's a
single file (wikiText.php) which contains all the language-specific
functions and texts as PHP variables (all starting with "$wiki"). It also
contains the name of the database for that language, the location of the
logo etc.
Larry: The script will be the same for all wikipedias, except for the file
mentioned above.
Tomasz: Jimbo is right, I didn't worry much about the copyright notice on
the upload page. This will be changed.
Pawel: The PHP code is open for you to study (at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wikipedia/phpwiki/fpw/). I'd
give you write access, but IMO it would be better to wait until the English
Wikipedia is changed to the software and Jimbo set up the CVS repository at
bomis. There'll be an upload page for everybody (like meta.wikipedia.com),
and I'll include a page counter directly into the database soon. The
alphabetically grouped article lists would be nice, too. For the style
differences, I'd suggest we create a "Rozeta" skin (like the Star Trek skin
in the test versions). That way, everyone can choose his/her own favourite
layout. I'm looking forward to work with you on this!
I hope I could clarify most issues. Let's get to work!
Magnus
Searching for 'blues' or 'the blues' (without the quotes) doesn't return the
page http://wikipedia.com/wiki/Blues, which it probably should :(
(Especially since I received many music reference books I wish to precis as
Christmas gifts...)
This seems applicable to the Wikipedia universe.
McKean's Law: Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain
at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.
-- Erin McKean, American lexicographer, "VERBATIM", 2001
Hi all,
Please read and comment and/or edit:
http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia's_first_press_release--draft_for_comment
Note that the draft presently calls for an appropriate quotation from one
of our resident academics. :-)
Larry
About the "International Conference on Ontology's, ...", I
was going to ask how seriously we should take a conference
that can't spell its own name correctly, but the main page
on the site is OK--it's just the call for papers that gets
it wrong, and I suppose UC Irvine counts as a reasonably
respectable institution. I don't see an obvious fit offhand,
but I'm sure there's something relevant in our experience
that might be useful to them. I'll have to think about it.
0
Wikipedia,
The following is a "call for papers" for a conference to be held in
Irvine, California, this fall. Wikipedia might fit as a topic for a
paper. Any takers? Can a paper be coauthored as a wiki page? :-)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002
--
Lars Aronsson
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Subject: ODBASE 2002 -- Call for Papers
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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International Conference on
Ontology's, DataBases, and Applications of
Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE)
October 29 - November 1, Irvine, California
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2002
Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press
A key challenge in making the Internet and the Web a more friendly and
productive place is to fill more meaning to the vast and continuously
growing amount of data on the Net. This is a vision that is shared
both by the Worl Wide Web community, incarnated by the notion of the
ôSemantic Webö coined by Tim Berners Lee, and researchers from a
number of areas including data and knowledge engineering, databases,
intelligent agent systems, information retrieval, information sciences
and linguistics. The claim is that the emergence of meaning that is
associated with data and documents found on the Internet will boost
diverse applications such as e-commerce, enterprise and information
integration, knowledge engineering, geographic information systems,
digital libraries, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent information
access. Data semantics and ontologies for large-scale information
systems have become an important topic in research communities across
several displines, research funding agencies, as well as various
industries.
The international conference on Ontology's, DataBases, and
Applications of Semantics intends to create a forum to exchange views,
ideas and experiences on ontologies and data semantics from different
disciplines. A goal of the ODBASE conference is to bring researchers
from databases, Semantic Web, and knowledge management together to
discuss specific problems and promising approaches to providing more
meaning for the growing amount of data on the Internet and in
ubiquitous computing. A unique character of the ODBASE conferences is
its specialization on data semantic issues for very large ontology and
Internet systems, and its strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and
practical applicability of systems, tools and methods for supporting
semantics in large-scale information systems. The program committee of
ODBASE 2002 consists of leading experts from diverse discplines
including formal ontology, databases, geographic information systems,
library science, logic, and knowledge management. We have special
interest in papers that bridge traditionally separated areas such as
databases, intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering, and papers
that address issues of scalability in data semantics on the Internet
and ubiquitous computing systems.
ODBASE'02 is part of the Federated Symposium Event that is organized
within the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
and Ubiquitous Computing 2002". This federated event co-locates three
related and complementary successful conferences in the areas of
Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in Data
and Web Semantics (ODBASE'02), Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and
Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'02), and Workflow,
Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'02), as required for the
deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations
and for e-business. More details about this federated event can be
found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.
Areas of interest of ODBASE'02 include but are not limited to:
* Representation and Storage:
Information, Data and Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Languages
Hypertext and Hypermedia
Semi-Structured Data
Multimedia Data and Metadata
Semantics of E-Services
Management of Large Knowledge Repositories
Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases
Metadata Repositories
Semantic Middleware
* Construction and Methodologies:
Database Integration
E-Service Integration
Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents
Data and Web Mining
Intelligent Information Agents
Information Retrieval
Filtering and Summarization
Multimedia Metadata Annotation
Ontology Extraction and Learning
Self-organization in Information Systems
* Applications and Evaluation:
Semantic Web
Domain/Application Ontology
Ontology of Information Processing
Electronic Commerce
Digital Libraries
Media Archives
Enterprise-wide Information Systems
Web-based Information Systems
Location-dependent information services
Web Services and Service Interoperability
Information Dissemination
Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002
Final Version Due: August 20, 2002
Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Papers
that bridge two or more areas should be marked as BRIDGE papers. They
will be reviewed jointly by the appropriate PC sub-areas. All
submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed
8,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf
format and should be done through the following URL
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html
The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Failure to
commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a
paper from the proceedings.
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Robert Meersman Zahir Tari Mike Papazoglou
STARLab RMIT University Tilburg University
Free University of Department of Infolab
Brussels Computer Science PO Box 90153
Building F-G 10, City Campus, GPO Box NL-5000 LE TILBURG
Pleinlaan 2 2476V The Netherlands
B-1050 Brussels Melbourne, VIC 3001 mikep(a)kub.nl
Belgium Australia
meersman(a)vub.ac.be zahirt(a)cs.rmit.edu.au
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Karl Aberer Ling Liu Robert A. Meersman
LSIR (Distributed College of VUB (Vrije
Information Systems Computing, Universiteit
Laboratory) Georgia Tech Brussel)
EPFL, CH-1015 801 Atlantic Dr. Department of
Lausanne, Atlanta, GA Computer Science
Switzerland 30332-0280, USA STARlab, Building
karl.aberer(a)epfl.ch lingliu(a)cc.gatech.edu F-G/10
Pleinlaan 2 B-1050
Brussels Belgium
meersman(a)vub.ac.be
Tutorial Chair
Vipul Kashyap
Telcordia, USA
Organising Chair
Douglas Schmit
University of
California, Irvine
Publicity Chair
Ugur Cetintemel
Department of
Computer Science
Brown University,
USA
ugur(a)cs.brown.edu
Program Committee Members (TBA)
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