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WikiSym 2009: Demos and Posters session (2008)
The following video is a tour around very lively conversations for Demos and Posters last year.
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It’s a fairly noisy video due to the intensity of conversation. Many of these researchers, are booked to be participants this year so if you have favorites you’ll have the opportunity to get an update this year. Hopefully we’ll hear of some collaboration opportunities and perhaps some promising research projects having successfully made their way into commercialization.
This particular video clip is open for collaborative edits: we’ve set up Kaltura to permit registered blog subscribers to remix the video. So, in the spirit of open collaboration, feel free to experiment with the video, and clip the best bits. I’m sure a 30 second version wouldn’t take too long to put together.
If you want to see the posters themselves, see Last year’s program
Best,
Martin.
WikiSym 2009: Are you presenting? Leave us a video!
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Time at WikiSym is precious: so many people focused intently on such a broad array of issues. You can’t see everyone, so how do you choose?
This year we are proud to be sponsored by Kaltura.com – an online video remixing facility. Their part of the deal is that we have access to their delivery network (their tools are open source).
So, let’s give it a go: leave a video comment about something you are presenting or someone you’d like to meet. Keep it to 60 seconds or less, please.
Thanks,
Martin.
WikiSym 2009: 6 minutes of WikiSym 2008!
Liked last year’s conference? Check out the full-length trailer!
From Open Space, to a fuller set of testimonials, to our great Social Events: watch the video and re-live your enjoyment.
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Why do participants attend WikiSym?
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Last year, I interviewed attendees why they attended WikiSym. Over the next few days drop in and see why this conference is a must for Companies, Consultants, Academics and Practitioners alike.
Martin Cleaver
Special Kudos to Kaltura.com for sponsoring the Media portion of WikiSym 2009.
WikiSym 2009 Paper: The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia
Authors: Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli (Palo Alto Research Center) (United States)
Prior research on Wikipedia has characterized the growth in content and editors as being fundamentally exponential in nature, extrapolating current trends into the future. We show that recent editing activity suggests that Wikipedia growth has slowed, and perhaps plateaued, indicating that it may have come against its limits to growth. We measure growth, population shifts, and patterns of editor and administrator activities, contrasting these against past results where possible. Both the rate of page growth and editor growth has declined. As growth has declined, there are indicators of increased coordination and overhead costs, exclusion of newcomers, and resistance to new edits. We discuss some possible explanations for these new developments in Wikipedia including decreased opportunities for sharing existing knowledge and increased bureaucratic stress on the socio-technical system itself.
WikiSym 2009 Paper: Wiki Credibility Enhancement
Authors: Felix Halim, Wu Yongzheng, and Roland Yap (National University of Singapore) (Singapore)
Abstract: Wikipedia has been very successful as an open encyclopedia which is editable by anybody. However, the anonymous nature of Wikipedia means that readers may have less trust since there is no way of verifying the credibility of the authors or contributors. We propose to automatically transfer external information about the authors from outside Wikipedia to Wikipedia pages. These additional information is meant to enhance the credibility of the content. For example, it could be the education level, professional expertise or aliation of the author. We do this while maintaining anonymity. In this paper, we present the design and architecture of such system together with a prototype.
WikiSym 2009 Paper: SAVVY Wiki: A Context-oriented Collaborative Knowledge Management System
Authors: Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara(NICT)(Japan), and Yasushi Kiyoki(NICT/Keio University)(Japan)
Abstract: This paper presents a new Wiki called SAVVY Wiki that realizes context-oriented, collective and collaborative knowledge management environments that are able to reflect users’ intentions and recognitions. Users can collaboratively organize fragmentary knowledge with the help of the SAVVY Wiki. Fragmentary knowledge, in this case, implies existing Wiki content, multimedia content on the web, and so on. Users select and allocate fragmentary knowledge in different contexts onto the SAVVY Wiki. Owing to this operation, it is ensured that related pages belong to the same contexts. That is, users can find correlations among the pages in a Wiki. The SAVVY Wiki provides new collective knowledge created from fragmentary knowledge, depending on contexts, in accordance with the users’ collaborative operations. Various collaborative working environments have been developed for the sharing of collective knowledge. Most current Wikis have a collaborative editing mode to every page, as a platform to enable a collaborative working environment. In order to understand an arbitrary concept thoroughly, it is necessary to find correlations among the various threads of content, depending on the users’ purpose, task or interest. In a Wiki system, it is important to realize a collaborative editing environment with correlation among pages depending on the contexts. In this paper, we present a method to realize the SAVVY Wiki, and describe its developing prototype system.
WikiSym 2009 Panel: Creating “the Wikipedia of pros and cons”
Debatepedia Founder Brooks Lindsay will host a panel focusing on projects and individuals attempting to build what amounts to “the Wikipedia of debates” or “the Wikipedia of pros and cons”. The panel will bring together Debatepedia founder Brooks Lindsay, Debatewise founder David Crane, Opposing Views founder Russell Fine, and ProCon.org editor Kambiz Akhavan. We will discuss our successes and failures over the past three years, and the way forward for clarifying public debates via wiki and other technologies.
Practioner, Researcher, Consultant, Vendor: Do You Run a Wiki or Knowledge Management Event?
Every month in Toronto I co-run http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/ and http://www.knowledgeworkers.org/: our events have covered wiki public sites, vendor-specific implementations led by practitioners, in many fields, including Law, Education, and Industrial Design. Our events lined up for the next couple of months include the Toronto Public Library, TV Ontario, and Microsoft Sharepoint. These events help attendees to network, consultants to share ideas, practitioners to validate their convictions and researchers to ground their assumptions.
Do you attend a local wiki-related or knowledge group?
Whereever you are in the world: e.g. London, New York, Paris, Mumbai, Sydney; or whatever the specialism: e.g. Wiki-based intranets, Wiki-based Competitive Intelligence or Crowd Sourcing or Collaborative Book writing, or whatever the solution, whether as software: e.g. whether Confluence, Deki, Foswiki, Socialtext, Tiki-Wiki, Thoughtfarmer, Traction Software, TWiki, or XWiki, or hosted, e.g. Pbwiki, Wetpaint, Wikia, WikiDot, WikiHow, WikiSpaces, or a site taking a wiki-centric approcach, e.g. Productwiki: we want to work with you.
Certainly there’s competition within our industry. But before there’s competition there’s getting attention for the industry. Let’s get the wiki message loud and clear and collectively validate and show depth and breadth the worth of the industry.
Practioner, researcher, consultant, vendor: We have a world of opportunity ahead of us.
Contact us, either in the comments or to me privately, and WikiSym will find ways to help you coalesce local interest in your local events.
Martin Cleaver
Blended Perspectives Inc.