Hello all,

A reminder that WikiSym 2009 will be in Orlando, Florida, from October 25-27. The deadline for submitting papers, workshops and panel proposals is March 27; April 24th is the deadline for posters, demonstrations and WikiFest (practical experience) proposals. Topics of interest include: * social software for collaboration and work group processes * wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis * reputation systems, quality assurance processes * scalability---social and technical * wiki technologies and implementations * translation and multilingual wiki content * educational applications * wiki for non-textual media (images, video, audio) * content dynamics and wiki evolution * wiki journalism * wiki archiving and versioning * wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict * wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit knowledge * wiki for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) * legal issues (copyright, licensing) * visualization of wiki structure * wiki fiction

For more information, see the Call for Papers: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php?page=Call+for+Papers

WikiSym is an annual conference devoted to research into all aspects of wikis, including wiki communities, wiki software and technology, and using wikis in education and organizations. Research papers about the Wikimedia projects are welcome! Papers are peer reviewed and archived in the ACM digital library (see past proceedings: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11299&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&typ...

The conference is colocated with OOPSLA 2009. For more, see: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/

-- Phoebe Ayers (2009 Wikimedia Liason)