Hi, some FOSDEM news:

The Wikis devroom accepted sessions have been announced: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-December/000015.html (also pasted below)

Erik Moeller has also been accepted as speaker of a main track session:

The Wikipedia Stack https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/the_wikipedia_stack/

Finally, Dimitar Parvanov from communicated that the Wikimedia stand has been accepted!

I will update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM soon. Can someone start a list of participants, please?

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Initial list of accepted sessions Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:48:53 -0800 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org To: wikis-devroom@lists.fosdem.org

Hi, we have a you have the list of sessions accepted for the Wikis devroom at FOSDEM.

Speakers must confirm their participation and polish the descriptions of the sessions. In some cases we will contact the speakers to fine tune the topic or the time available for their session. We will schedule the sessions as they are confirmed. All in a very wiki fashion, only on a tool (FOSDEM's Pentabarf) that we don't control quite yet.

We will also start a discussion in this list to organize a panel session. Your feedback about this panel and your ideas to improve the schedule are welcome.

SESSIONS

* A comparison between MediaWiki, TWiki and XWiki communities Using metrics to measure communities

* A web development runtime platform based on the wiki paradigm

* Addressing the long tail of applications

* Counting (on) views — Page views on Wikipedia

* Coverage for basic language support components -- A Dashboard view

* Crowdsourced translation using MediaWiki

* Developing the XWiki software

* Force Multiplication Victory through external tool writing

* Hatta Wiki A Mercurial-based wiki engine

* show.tiki.org project: facilitate bug reporting and solving The new Tiki infrastructure for facilitating bug reporting and solving

* Useful and Necessary Mediawiki Gadgets

* VisualEditor Wikipedia's new editing system for wikis and for the web

* Wikidata What we learned in its first 2 years and what is in store for the future