Hi
Sorry for the spam like email but this is just an email to let you all know
about the Wikimania 2008 Call for Participation. I have included this
below, and the page can also be found on the Wikimania wiki @
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Mark
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Call for Participation
[image: Image:Wikimania logo with text
2.svg]<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Wikimania_logo_with_text…>
Wikimania <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> is an annual global event
devoted to Wikimedia
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page>projects around the
globe (including
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page>,
Wikibooks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/b:en:Main_page>,
Wikisource <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/s:en:Main_page>,
Wikinews<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Main_page>,
Wiktionary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:en:Main_page>,
Wikiversity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/v:en:Main_page>,
Wikiquote <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/q:en:Main_page>,
Wikispecies<http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page>,
and Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page>) and for
its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas, and report
on research and projects. It is a community event, which is also open to the
public and to researchers. This year's conference will be held from *July
17-19, 2008* in Alexandria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria>,
Egypt<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt>at the new Library of
Alexandria (Bibliotheca
Alexandrina <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina>).
[image: The Wikimedia Foundation
projects]<http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_logo_family.png>
For more information, please visit the Wikimania 2008 Home page at
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org
We are accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters,
open spaces, and artistic artifacts. Please carefully follow the submission
guidelines below. Submissions can be sent via the following link:
https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission/wikimania2008
Important dates
- 1 February – 16 March : Submission
- 17 March – 30 April : Review, feedback and notification of
acceptance
- 17 – 19 July 2008 : *Wikimania*
Conference Tracks
Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:
Wikimedia Communities Interesting projects and particularities within the
communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution
and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages
and cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local
Wikimedia project's community. Free Knowledge Open access to information;
ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia
projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality
and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with
Wikimedia projects. Free Content in the Middle-East/Africa. Technical
infrastructure Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions;
Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including
case studies from other wikis or similar projects). Scientific track Academic
papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation,
community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia
projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers submitted
to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing committee
regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and accepted or
rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings
afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality of the submissions,
a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific track papers must be in
English, and must not exceed 7,500 words (or 15 pages LNCS).
Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their
communities, or to the creation of free content in general.
Types of Submissions
We are seeking submissions for
- presentations (10–30 minute talks with discussion afterwards)
- workshops/open discussions (60–120 minute session with a discussion
leader and more involvement of the audience)
- panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
- posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on
their own)
- artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
other representations of some aspect of the projects)
In addition there will the possibility to give lightning
talks<http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talks>(5
minute short presentations). These will be organized on the Wikimania
2008 wiki without need to submit via the submission system.
Submission Guidelines
Wikimania is organized by volunteers, so please help us minimize wasted
effort by submitting via the
submission<http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission>system
and following these guidelines. All submissions MUST explicitly
include the following:
1. an English "Event title"
2. a short English "Abstract" of your event in 50 to 100 words. The
abstract will be used for the public schedule.
3. the "Track" your submission fits in best (Wikimedia Communities,
Free Knowledge, Technical infrastructure, or Scientific)
4. the "Event type" (presentation, workshop, panel, poster,
artistic...)
5. information about the speaker (full name, email, a short
description of at least 2 sentences...)
6. for submissions to the scientific track: set "Submission of paper
for proceedings" to "yes" and upload a paper instead of the "Description"
below as "Attachment". Papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500
words.
In addition you can add some more information like a a subtitle of the
event, an image (will be resized to 128x128px) and private "Submission
notes" for reviewers and conference organisation. In particular you should
give:
- a more detailed "Description" of your event in English or Arabic.
The description is essential for review: please give an overview of the
areas to be covered or taught. The better you describe your submission, the
more likely it will get accepted. State clearly the relevance to the
Wikimedia projects and whether submission concerns a specific wiki project.
You can also include links. The description will later be used for the
public schedule but you can edit it before.
- special requirements (such as equipment for a workshop or panel) if
needed
- the language used for presentation
- whether you want to submit a paper for proceedings
- whether you want to submit presentation slides
- whether the presentation is intended to be a specific length
- the target audience you are going to reach and what previous
knowledge is needed
- images or sketches of the poster or artistic artifact if available
- for panel submissions a suggested moderator and short biographies of
each suggested panelist
In the "Submission notes" you should tell us whether you will attend to
Wikimania (a) surely, (b) probably, (c) only if your submission is accepted,
or (d) only if we provide travel and/or accommodation. You can also add
yourself to the public list of attendees at the Wikimania 2008 wiki:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees
Please note that all submissions must be dual licensed under the GNU Free
Documentation License version 1.2 or later *and* the Creative Commons
Attribution License! By submitting for Wikimania 2008 you agree to this
condition.
For more information see the submission guidelines at
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission
Submissions
Once you are sure you have included all of the required information, please
send your submission before the respective deadline through our *submission
system*:
https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission
See also
- About the venue: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue
- Brainstorming page for program ideas:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas
- Editable list of attendees:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees
Dear All,
we have just released in open-source format the code of WikiTrust, the tool
we use for the Wikipedia trust coloring.
The project homepage is http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ , and from there, you can
follow a link to a live demo.
The code itself is available from http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust .
The code is suitable to the trust-coloring of a static dump of a wiki; the
code for the coloring of edits in real-time, as they happen, is under
development.
The code is extensible, and it provides a platform over which it is
(relatively) easy to write wiki analysis tools... for instance, we wrote
small analysis procedures that measure the inter-edit time distribution, and
the amount of text contributed by authors of various reputation ranges.
As the text analysis engine and the dump traversal engines are already
built, it is relatively easy to add other analysis modules.
We hope this will be of interest!
All the best,
Luca de Alfaro
(message sent on behalf also of Bo Adler and Ian Pye)
Dear All,
we have just released in open-source format the code of WikiTrust, the tool
we use for the Wikipedia trust coloring.
The project homepage is http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ , and from there, you can
follow a link to a live demo.
The code itself is available from http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust .
The code is suitable to the trust-coloring of a static dump of a wiki; the
code for the coloring of edits in real-time, as they happen, is under
development.
The code is extensible, and it provides a platform over which it is
(relatively) easy to write wiki analysis tools... for instance, we wrote
small analysis procedures that measure the inter-edit time distribution, and
the amount of text contributed by authors of various reputation ranges.
As the text analysis engine and the dump traversal engines are already
built, it is relatively easy to add other analysis modules.
We hope this will be of interest!
All the best,
Luca de Alfaro
(message sent on behalf also of Bo Adler and Ian Pye)
I'm just testing the latest FlaggedRevs code to see what kind of
configurations we should set up for Wikimedia. Thanks to Aaron for
continuing to work on it. FYI, we'll have a face-to-face meeting in
the Wikimedia office next week with Brion, myself, Philipp Birken &
Luca de Alfaro (Aaron can't make it) to discuss some of the open
issues.
>From what I can tell, the current code will still show a link to the
sighted version, even if current & sighted are fully identical. I
consider this highly confusing behavior, and I don't really see that
we can go live with this, even as an experiment.
Is there any option regulating this behavior, or another way around it?
If not: I would really like us to figure out a solution to this. I do
believe the situation where a page is current and sighted (and where
any included templates are unmodified from the sighted state, or have
been edited by trusted users & auto-reviewed), will be quite common,
because this is after all the situation we're trying to optimize
towards. A UI that makes a fully reviewed version look unreviewed
seems like a major problem to me.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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