W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

WikiSym 2010 website

July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland.

Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikimania 2010 website).

Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates

Please refer to Important dates for details about the scheduling for submissions and events.

Summary

WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples.

Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds.

As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge the contributions from such a diverse community:

• Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology, wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind of initiative pivoting around wiki software.
• Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration projects/products/initiatives.
• Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way" of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities, and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions from participants with a range of interests and motivations.

Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks. However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in your manuscript before submitting.

Topics of interest

Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields to any of the 3 available tracks.

Topics of interest Wiki Track

• Wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis
• Reputation systems and quality assurance processes
• Scalability — social and technical
• Wiki technologies and implementations
• Translation and multilingual wiki content
• Educational applications
• Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio)
• Content dynamics and wiki evolution
• Wiki archiving and versioning
• Wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict
• Wikis and the semantic web, knowledge management and tacit knowledge
• Wikis for small audiences (departmental and family wikis)
• Legal issues (copyright, licensing)
• Visualization of wiki structure

Topics of interest Industry Track

• Business opportunities around wikis and open collaboration
• Best practices to adopt wikis and open collaboration in industry
• Information disclosure: practices and experiences
• Community building and support
• Open publishing and open licensing in the industry
• Wikis and open collaboration entrepreneurship
• Coopetition: best practices
• Interaction and synergies between industries and open communities
• Open innovation: strategies and experiences for leaders/followers
• Promotion, support and funding of open collaboration initiatives
• Knowledge management

Topics of interest Open Collaboration Track

• Social software for collaboration and work group processes
• Open online communities
• Technologies for networked collaboration
• Social interactions on the web
• Open and citizen journalism
• Social networks
• Collaborative content creation
• Distributed development of software
• Cooperation for problem resolution
• Information disclosure strategies
• Open call working environments
• Crowdsourcing and information synthesis
• Collaborative multimedia collections
• Distributed content categorization/tagging
• Open publishing
• Commons projects and repositories
• Distributed selection of content