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Day One
Friday - August 4, 2006
| Time |
Session - Ames |
Session |
Session |
Session |
Discussions |
Workshops |
Open space |
| 9:00–10:15 |
Welcome and Jimbo Wales plenary |
| 10:15–10:45 |
Break, open space introduction |
| 10:45–noon Session 1 |
Benjamin Mako Hill: Toward a definition of freedom
A conversation with Ward Cunningham
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Judith Donath (invited speaker): Identity, anonymity and the wiki
Cathy Ma: Trust and Wikipedia
|
Derek Lackaff and Alexander Halavis: Sins of omission? An exploratory evaluation of Wikipedia's topical coverage
Jim Giles: Comparing Wikipedia and Britannica: The story behind Nature's encyclopaedia story
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Chris Messina: All the world's a wiki: how Barcamp was planned in 6 days using a wiki, IM, IRC, blogs and word of mouth
Alexis Rondeau and Stan Wiechers: Semapedia.org - The physical Wikipedia (workshop)
|
Copyright basis and Wikipedia: A workshop
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Betsy Megas: Wiktionary: Nuts and bolts, bells and whistles
|
|
| 12:00–1:30p |
Lunch (Ropes Gray) |
breakout bofs and lightning talks; press conference |
| 1:30–2:15p |
Plenary: Lawrence Lessig -- The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (Ames) Audio and Video |
| 2:15–2:30p |
Break |
| 2:30–3:30p Session 2 |
Eben Moglen: Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture
|
Wikipedia and social roles:
♦ Adriana Amaral - Subcultures and Wikipedia
♦ Daniel Caeton: Perpetual negotiation machine
♦ Panagiota Alevizou: Encyclopedia or cosmopedia?
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♦ Elijah Meeks: Criticism of Wikipedia
♦ Martin Walker: Wikipedia 1.0
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Lodewijk Gelauff: Localization, on a global project BoF
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Rob Lanphier: Enterprise MediaWiki BoF
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Jessica Baumgart and Gary Price: Tips for conducting research and evaluating information
|
|
| 3:30–4:00p |
Afternoon break |
| 4:00–5:15p Session 3 BoFs |
Section 230: At the Gates between Liability for Harmful Speech and Wikipedia (panel)
|
Wiki projects:
♦ Jack Herrick: How to transition from a static content site to a wiki: The wikiHow experience
♦ Evan Prodromou: Wiki and open content travel guides: past, present, future
♦ Chris Bronk: Diplopedia: Application of the Wiki Model for Collaborative Drafting in Foreign Affairs
|
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web (panel)
|
Jessica Baumgart and Gary Price: Tips for conducting research and evaluating information, cont.
|
Finne Boonen: Fighting vandalism with Vandalfighter (workshop)
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Martin Walker, Paul Kobasa: Validation on Wikipedia: How do I know this article is accurate? (panel discussion)
|
Lightning talks #1
|
| 5:15–5:30p |
Break |
| 5:30–7:00p(?) |
Ropes Gray: Wrap-up (summary of day's sessions); Poster reception |
Day Two
Saturday - August 5 2006
| Time |
Session - Ames |
Session - Pound 101 |
Session - Pound 102 |
Session - Pound 100 |
Discussions - Pound 335 |
Workshops - Pound 107 |
Open space |
| 9:00–9:15 |
Welcome, daily announcements and overview |
| 9:15–9:30 |
Break |
| 9:30–11:00 Session 4 |
Views on collaboration:
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (invited speaker)
Rishab Ghosh: 200 years of collaborative ownership: from open source steam engines to free genetics, Linux and Wikipedia (invited speaker)
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What can Wikipedia learn from Open Source Software Development? (panel discussion)
|
Wikis in Education: Wiki uses in learning and teaching (panel)
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Wikis in libraries: Wikis: Enabling library knowledgebases (panel)
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Laurence Parry: A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities
Angela Beesley: Cross-wiki policy and features discussion
|
Wikisource workshop: editorial choices
|
|
| 11:00–11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30–12:30p |
Plenary: Brewster Kahle - Universal Access to All Knowledge (Ames) (Video) |
| 12:30–2:00p |
Lunch (Ropes Gray) |
j Baumgart: Librarianesque birds of a feather session, Pound 200;
Kat Walsh: OTRS discussion session
(Pound 335)
|
| 2:00–3:30p Session 5 |
Michael Eisen (invited speaker): Open academic publishing
Jenny Preece (invited speaker):Community, Social Interaction and Wikipedia
|
Wikidata:
♦ Betsy Megas: Defining WiktionaryZ
♦ Erik Moeller: Wikidata: Creating the structured wiki
|
Wikis in Education:
♦ Piotr Konieczny: Wikimedia projects as a teaching tool
♦ Jan-Bart Devreede: The use of wikis and Wikipedia in Dutch Education
♦ Salvor Gissurardottir: Wikibooks, webquests and Wikipedia
|
Wikipedia community dynamics:
♦ Alex Schenck: Observations From The Bridge: Why Wikipedia Is So Attractive
♦ Seth Anthony: Contribution patterns among active Wikipedians
♦ Srinivas Gunta: Role of trust in an open system - The process of RfAs
|
Language and cultural barriers and challenges to Wikipedia (discussion)
|
Kasper Souren: The Wiki Party bof, a political party based on wiki
Olin panel: Creating a wiki-like college
|
Lightning talks #2
|
| 3:30–4:00p |
Afternoon break |
| 4:00–5:30p Session 6 |
Karen Christensen, Paul Gazzolo, Erin McKean (invited speakers): Publishing dead-trees encyclopedias
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Technical infrastructure:
Brion Vibber: What's cooking in MediaWiki: Single sign-on, version tagging, and other goodies
Hacking days review
|
A Q&A session with the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (panel)
|
Technical Infrastructure:
♦ Christoph Sauer: What you see is wiki - Questioning WYSIWYG in the internet age
♦ Darniet Jennings: Why WYSIWIKI?
♦ Chris Luer: Disambiguation: the key to information architecture?
|
Wikis and the news:
♦ Wikinews discussion
♦ Dan Gillmor - citizen journalism BoF
|
Wikis in Education Discussion: Free the curriculum: Supporting educators with open content (discussion)
|
|
| 5:30–5:45p |
Break |
| 5:45–6:00p |
Daily wrapup, session summary |
| Saturday evening |
outside activities, attendee party |
Day Three
Events
see also Wikimania events
Hacking Days August 1-3, 2006
Citizen Journalism unconference August 7, 2006
Registration
Registration will be open in Pound Hall before the conference sessions begin each day and on Thursday, August 3.
- Thursday, August 3: 12-6 pm
- Friday, August 4: 8 am - 6 pm
- Saturday, August 5: 8 am - 6 pm
- Sunday, August 6: 9 am - noon
