[Foundation-l] WikiSym 2006 - short report

[Delphine Ménard]

Catching up on email.
Thank you Jakob, very interesting.

Delphine

On 9/8/06, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss at nichtich.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Two weeks ago I attended WikiSym 2006, the Second Symposium on Wikis, in
> Odense, Denmark. Finally here is a short report on what was relevant to
> me and maybe relevant for Wikimedia, Wikimedians, and Wikipedia research
> (that's the reason for crossposting).
>
> With me there were some (but little) Wikimedians, so Sj and
> Brion Vibber. Participants (around 70) were scientist and community
> leaders or very active community members from different wikis, for
> instance Sunir (Meatball), Evan (Wikitravel), and Angela (Wikia).
> Compared to Wikimania WikiSym is both more academic and more broad in
> terms of wiki communities, while Wikimania is very centered to Wikipedia
> (and other Wikimedia communities) and free content. To my impression
> many people forget about the rich world of wikis beside Wikipedia or
> even think Wiki=Wikipedia. Some argued at WikiSym that Wikipedia may
> kill other Wikis because of that - there is no other Wiki of its size
> anymore.
>
> Anyway - there is a large overlap between Wikimedia world and Wiki world
> in general. Sj and me agreed upon that the place for academic,
> peer-reviewed Wikipedia research is better WikiSym and not Wikimania, so
> both should collaborate, for instance asking academic Wikimedia
> submission to better submit at WikiSym instead.
>
> Max Völkel has also written a short report about WikiSym at the swikg
> mailing list[1] for the Semantic Wiki community - he compared WikiSym
> and and the first workshop on Semantic Wikis at the European Semantic
> Web Conference - the latter is even more academic to his impression. But
> WikiSym was a real place where science and practise meet.
>
> There were a lot of "open space sessions" with many discussions, for
> instance about the future of wikis in general, and interoperability
> between wikis. Have a look at the proceedings at
>
> http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/proceedings
>
> Some more reports are at
>
> http://ws2006.wikisym.org/space/Symposium+Reports
>
> in the symposium wiki[2] - many particpants took notes there to document
> the sessions (yes, it's a wiki although it does not look like MediaWiki ;-)
>
> The workshop on Wikipedia Research was very fruitful and I only got
> positive feedback. If your interested in Wikipedia research you should
> definitely have a look at the slides:
>
> http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007102/
>
> I'm looking forward to WikiSym 2007 which will probably be in Montreal
> (as far as I remember, no guarantee)!
>
> Greetings,
> Jakob
>
> [1] http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig
> [2] http://ws2006.wikisym.org
>
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