WikiSym 2006

2006 International Symposium on Wikis

August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark
Co-located with ACM Hypertext 2006

Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB

See http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006

Archival • Peer Reviewed • ACM Sponsored


WIKISYM 2006 IS OVER!

Thanks to everyone who helped and who participated!


GENERAL INFORMATION

This year's Wiki Symposium brings together wiki researchers and practitioners in the historic and beautiful city of Odense, Denmark, on August 21-23, 2006. Participants will present, discuss, and move forward the latest advances in wiki contents, sociology, and technology. The symposium program offers invited talks by Angela Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug Engelbart and Eugene Eric Kim ("The Augmented Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information") and Ward Cunningham ("Design Principles of Wikis").

The research paper track presents and discusses breaking wiki research, the panels let you listen to and contribute to topics like "Wikis in Education" and "The Future of Wikis", and the workshops let you get active and contribute to on-going research and practitioner work with your peers. (Many workshops accept walk-ins, so it is not too late!) Equally important, Gerard Muller of the Danish Open Space Institute and Ted Ernst will facilitate an on-going open space track at the Wiki Symposium. So you can get active and involved in an organized fashion on any wiki topic you like. We believe this is how to get the most out of your experience at WikiSym 2006!

And, of course, if you can't wait, please join our conversation on wiki research and practice on the symposium wiki! For the program, please see the WikiSym 2006 program information. For an overview of time slot allocations, please see the time grid. For the proceedings, please see the WikiSym 2006 conference proceedings.


PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Keynotes and invited talks:

Panels on:

Research papers and practitioner reports on:

Workshops on:

Open space facilitated by Gerard Muller of the Danish Open Space Institute together with Ted Ernst.

And, of course: Demos! We have pre-set demos, but please feel free to bring your own notebook! We will provide space for you to demo on-the-spot in our Monday night demo session, a favorite from WikiSym 2005.

For the proceedings, please see the WikiSym 2006 conference proceedings.


SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS

Handled through the Hypertext 2006 website:


SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany (Symposium Chair)

Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, U.S.A.
Kouichirou Eto, AIST, Japan (Publicity Co-Chair)
Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A.
Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern Switzerland (Workshop Chair)
Matthias L. Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany (Panel Chair)
Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software, Austria (Publicity Co-Chair)
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Sebastien Paquet, Socialtext, U.S.A. (Demonstrations Chair)
Sunir Shah, University of Toronto, Canada (Publicity Co-Chair)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)

Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Alain Désilets, NRC, CNRC, Canada
Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany