Hello,
The deadline for submitting proposals to the Wikimania 2006 conference
has been extended, to April 15 for workshop and tutorial submissions,
and April 30 for presentation submissions.
For more information, visit http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org. The
Call for Participation is attached below.
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Call for Participation -- Wikimania 2006 -- Aug. 4 - Aug. 6, Cambridge, MA
About Wikimania
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects. It is both a scientific conference and a community
event, open to the public. Wikimania is a place for users and editors
of the projects to gather from around the globe, to meet each other,
to exchange ideas, and to report on research and projects. This year's
conference will be held from 4-6 August, 2006, on the Harvard Law
School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org for more information.
We are accepting submissions for papers, posters, presentations,
workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations
for speakers and speaker panels, and suggestions for other activities.
Everyone is welcome to submit abstracts and ideas. Be bold in your
submissions!
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Important dates:
* 15 Apr 2006 (extended): Proposal deadline for workshops and tutorials
Notification of acceptance: by April 30
* 30 Apr 2006 (extended): Abstracts due for panels, papers, posters
and presentations
Notification of acceptance: by May 15
* 4-6 Aug 2006: Wikimania
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Conference Themes
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
* Technical infrastructure -- Issues related to Mediawiki development
and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development
(including case studies from other wikis or similar projects).
* Wikimedia projects and content -- Presentation of interesting
projects and results; future aims of the projects and types of
distribution; ways to improve content quality. New uses for project
content: in education, journalism, research, &c.
* Free knowledge and access to information -- Present and future free
knowledge initiatives; related library and archival projects around
the world and input from librarians and archivists; ways to gather and
distribute knowledge.
* Wiki social science -- The contributors and users (who are they?
Where do they come from?); reputation and identity issues; conflict
resolution and community dynamics; scaling digital communities.
Languages and cultures and their interactions online; multilingualism
via wikis. Linguistics studies on wiki communities.
* Law and Policy -- Copyleft, collective copyright, special issues
pertaining to communal editing and distribution; other legal areas for
which Wiki[mp]edia is an interesting case study. Policy creation
within individual projects.
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Submissions
Types of Submissions:
* Panels (Suggest a group of 2-5 speakers on a specific subject)
* Workshops (From 30-120 minutes)
* Presentations (10-30 minute presentations/papers)
* Posters (Printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own)
* BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather/discussion sessions - 45-60 minutes of
group discussion)
* We are also accepting artistic submissions, especially visualizations
or other representations of some aspect of the projects.
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Submission format
* All submissions must include a title and an abstract of 100 to 300
words. They should also list the full name (and wiki name if
appropriate) of the submitter, with contact information and
affiliations. Special requirements for the presentation (equipment for
a workshop or panel) should be noted. The abstracts should be provided
as plain text, and not as file attachments.
* Workshop submissions should include a 1-2pp overview of the areas to
be covered or taught.
* Speaker panel submissions should include short biographies of each
suggested panelist.
* Paper and Presentation submissions may include a link to a draft of
the paper or slides, if available. State clearly whether the
submission concerns a specific wiki project, and whether the
presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BOF proposals should describe the significance of and community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion leader(s).
To process your submission, please see the Wikimania website -
http:/cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org. Send questions or
suggestions to wikimania-cfp <at> wikimedia.org .
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Final Submissions
Final submissions must be provided in an open format (OpenOffice,
LaTeX sources, HTML...) and licensed under a free content license (GFDL
or CC-BY-SA).
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Stipends
A limited number of stipends will be available to those unable to
obtain funding to attend the conference. Accepted presenters are
encouraged to apply if assistance is needed.
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- phoebe s. ayers
brassratgirl(a)gmail.com | 530-756-2551
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org
Upon request I created a new CafePress shop for Wikipedia that only features the Wikipedia logo -
no text or anything else. See
http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/1330270
I also uploaded Tlogmer's neat designs for two bumper stickers: One sticker has an abstract of the
English Wikipedia's [[Bumper sticker]] article and another has an abstract of the [[Automobile]]
article. I've already asked him to create [[Mousepad]] and [[T-shirt]] article designs. Hopefully
many more article designs will follow that will be suitable for placement on shirts (an abstract
of the [[Exploding whale]] article on a shirt, for example).
See:
http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia.53160509http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia.53159981
Tlogmer's neat 'wiki-swoosh' design is still waiting for me or somebody else to figure out what to
use it for or even what to name it (I'd like to avoid using the 'swoosh' name for obvious
trademark reasons with a certain shoe company). Might be a good logo for the whole Wikimedia
community in order to distinguish it from the foundation....
For those of you not familiar with it, the design is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_ideas/Cafe_Press#New_Logo_for_cl…
All rights to that logo have already been assigned to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Another great thing Tlogmer created was a very unique design for possible Wikimania logo. You can
see it here:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/mockup
No matter what logo is used, I do think that it would be a bit boring to use the Wikimedia logo
again for Wikimania. Something unique is needed. However, we need to choose a logo fast so that we
can promote it for Wikimania and order plenty of shirts and other items with it.
-- mav
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Hello,
I would like to read what you think of the following:
When someone copies some text that is under the GFDL to a wikipedia article, the
rule is to write about it on the bottom of the article to pay attribution. I
think this is not fair for users of wikipedia, as for them the only attribution
is in the History section. Take as an example an article of five paragraphs, two
from some other GFDL source and three from a user contributions. The X source
will me mentioned in the article, while the user will be mentioned only in
history, among minor edits and bot edits. Remember that the GFDL says that
authors should be mentioned in a section entitled "History" not in the
Document.
I think we would follow the GFDL better, if there was a feature in MediaWiki
that would allow a user to make a contribution, and put a note and/or a weblink
instead of his username to the history (independent of the summary note). I mean
something like:
* (cur) (last) 23:13, 19 February 2005 User1 (→This)
* (cur) (last) 23:12, 19 February 2005 128.205.218.14 (→Something -
translating a paragraph)
* (cur) (last) 18:15, 18 February 2005 66.134.120.164 (→That - partial
English translation)
* (cur) (last) 15:17, 16 February 2005 '''FOLDOC''' (copied text from FOLDOC)
* (cur) (last) 10:05, 16 February 2005 UserX (some edits)
Instead of having a history like this:
* (cur) (last) 23:13, 19 February 2005 User1 (→This)
* (cur) (last) 23:12, 19 February 2005 128.205.218.14 (→Something -
translating a paragraph)
* (cur) (last) 18:15, 18 February 2005 66.134.120.164 (→That - partial
English translation)
* (cur) (last) 15:17, 16 February 2005 UserX (copied text from FOLDOC)
* (cur) (last) 10:05, 16 February 2005 UserX (some edits)
And having to put a note on the article (''This article is based on...'')
It would be nice for all users to be able to make contributions like this, or at
least sysops or bureaucrats to be able to change attribution of some edit to
something other than just a username (this would be very useful: many times
there are new articles from anonymous IPs from copyrighted sources and we
receive permission under the GFDL when we check about the copyrights).
What do you think? Is this possible?
Konstantinos (geraki(a)el.wikipedia)