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The Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '09)
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- Frontmatter (including foreword) - PDF
- Symposium Committee - PDF
- Program Committee - PDF
- Additional Reviewers - PDF
- Best Paper Committee - PDF
Invited Talks
Opening Keynote
- 101. Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts? by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg (IBM Research) - PDF
Closing Keynote
- 102. Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site? by Brion Vibber (Wikimedia Foundation) - PDF
Research Papers
Session: Learning and Social Context
- 103. Understanding Learning - the Wiki Way? by Joachim Kimmerle, Johannes Moskaliuk, and Ulrike Cress (University of Tuebingen) (Germany) - PDF
Session: Visualization
- 104. rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History? by Michael D. Ekstrand, and John T. Riedl (University of Minnesota) (USA) - PDF
- 105. Bipartite Networks of Wikipedia's Articles and Authors: a Meso-level Approach? by Rut Jesus (University of Copenhagen), Martin Schwartz (University of Denmark), and Sune Lehmann (Northeastern University/Dana Farber Cancer Institute) (Denmark, USA) - PDF
- 106. SAVVY Wiki: A Context-oriented Collaborative Knowledge Management System? by Takafumi Nakanishi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT), Koji Zettsu (NICT), Yutaka Kidawara (NICT), and Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University) (Japan) - PDF
Session: Understanding Wikipedia
- 107. Herding the Cats: The Influence of Groups in Coordinating Peer Production? by Aniket Kittur, Bryan Pendleton, and Robert E. Kraut (Carnegie Mellon University) (USA) - PDF
- 108. The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia? by Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli (Palo Alto Research Center) (USA) - PDF
Session: Programming and Analysis Tools
- 109. Lively Wiki - A Development Environment for Creating and Sharing Active Web Content? by Robert Krahn (Hasso-Plattner-Institut), Dan Ingalls (Sun Microsystems), Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut), Jens Lincke (Hasso-Plattner-Institut), and Krysztof Palacz (Sun Microsystems) (Germany & USA) - PDF
- 110. AdessoWiki - On-line Collaborative Scientific Programming Platform? by Roberto Lotufo, Rubens C. Machado, Andre Korbes, and Rafael G. Ramos (University of Campinas (UNICAMP)) (Brazil) - PDF
- 111. Analyzing the Wikisphere? by Jeff Stuckman and James Purtilo (University of Maryland, College Park) (USA) - PDF
Session: Interface Tools
- 112. An Architecture to Support Intelligent User Interfaces for Wikis by Means of NLP? by Johannes Hoffart?, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universitat Darmstadt) (Germany) - PDF
- 113. Social Search and Need-driven Knowledge Sharing in Wikis with Woogle? by Hans-Jorg Happel (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies) (Germany) - PDF
- 114. Wikibugs: Using Template Messages in Open Content Collections? by Loris Gaio (University of Trento), Matthijs den Besten (Ecole Polytechnique), Alessandro Rossi (University of Trento), and Jean-Michel Dalle (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) (France, Italy) - PDF
Session: Quality and Credibility
- 115. A Jury of Your Peers: Quality, Experience and Ownership in Wikipedia? by Aaron Halfaker (University of Minnesota), Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University, CMU), Robert Kraut (CMU), and John Riedl (University of Minnesota) (USA) - PDF
- 116. Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles with Lifecycle Based Metrics? by Thomas Wohner and Ralf Peters (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) (Germany) - PDF
Short Research Papers
Session: Quality and Credibility
- 117. Wiki Credibility Enhancement? by Felix Halim, Wu Yongzheng, and Roland Yap (National University of Singapore) (Singapore) - PDF
Session: Understanding Wikipedia
- 118. Organizing the Vision for Web 2.0: A Study of the Evolution of the Concept in Wikipedia? by Arnaud Gorgeon and E. Burton Swanson (UCLA) (USA) - PDF
Experience Reports
Session: Learning and Social Context
- 119. Wiki for Law Firms? by Urs Egli (Egli Partners Attorneys-at-Law, Zurich, Switzerland) and Peter Sommerlad? (HSR Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil, Switzerland) - PDF
- 145. knowIT, a Semantic Informatics Knowledge Management System? by Laurent Alquier, Keith McCormick, and Ed Jaeger (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC) (USA) - PDF
Posters
- 120. Visualizing Intellectual Connections among Philosophers Using the Hyperlink & Semantic Data from Wikipedia? by Sofia J. Athenikos and Xia Lin (Drexel University) (USA) - PDF
- 121. Cosmos: A Wiki Data Management System? by Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu and Danesh Irani (Georgia Institute of Technology) (USA) - PDF
- 122. WiSyMon: Managing Systems Monitoring Information in Semantic Wikis? by Frank Kleiner, Andreas Abecker and Sven F. Brinkmann (FZI Research Center for Information Technology) (Germany) - PDF
- 123. Wikis to Support Collaborative Web Spaces to Promote Youth Well-being? by Shahper Vodanovich, Max Rohde, Ching-shen Dong and David Sundaram (University of Auckland) (New Zealand) - PDF
- 124. Wikipublisher: A Print-on-Demand Wiki? by John Rankin (Affinity Limited), Craig Anslow, James Noble, Brenda Chawner, Donald Gordon (Victoria University of Wellington) (New Zealand) - PDF
- 125. DynaTable: A Wiki Extension for Structured Data? by Carrie Arnold, Todd Fleming, David Largent, Chris Lüer (Ball State University) (USA) - PDF
- 126. Leveraging Crowdsourcing Heuristics to Improve Search in Wikipedia? by Yasser Ganjisaffar, Sara Javanmardi and Cristina Lopes (University of California, Irvine) (USA) - PDF
- 127. Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Articles through Quality and Credibility? by Sai T. Moturu and Huan Liu (Arizona State University) (USA) - PDF
- 128. Comparison of Middle School, High School and Community College Students' Wiki Activity in Globaloria-West Virginia (Pilot Year-Two)? by Rebecca Reynolds (Syracuse University) and Idit Harel Caperton (World Wide Workshop Foundation) (USA) - PDF
- 129. The Social Roles of Bots and Assisted Editing Programs? by R. Stuart Geiger (Georgetown University) (USA) - PDF
- 130. Incremental Knowledge Acquisition in Software Development Using a Weakly-Typed Wiki? by Filipe F. Correia, Hugo S. Ferreira, Nuno Flores and Ademar Aguiar (Universidade do Porto) (Portugal) - PDF
- 131. Pre-service Teachers’ Experiences with Wiki: Challenges of Asynchronous Collaboration? by Diler Öner (Boğaziçi University) (Turkey) - PDF
- 132. Increasing the Accuracy of Wiki Searches Using Semantic Knowledge Engine and Semantic Archivist? by Gretchen Lowerison and Michael Lowerison (Coreidea Innovation Inc.) (Canada) - PDF
- 133. Collective Intelligence Approach for Formulating a BOK of Social Informatics, an Interdisciplinary Field of Study? by Yoshifumi Masunaga, Yoshiyuki Shoji, Kazunari Ito (Aoyama Gakuin University) (Japan) - PDF
- 134. Understanding Information Sharing in Software Development through Wiki Log Analysis? by Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak and David G. Hendry (University of Washington) (USA) - PDF
Panels
Workshops
- 136. Why Wikis Work? by Christoph Schneider (City University of Hong Kong) (China) - PDF
- 137. The Value of Corporate Wikis? by Lakshmi Goel (University of North Florida) and Iris Junglas (University of Houston) (USA) - PDF
- 138. Wikis for Software Engineering? by Ademar Aguiar (Universidade do Porto) (Portugal) - PDF
Tutorials
- 139. Measuring Wikipedia? by Luca De Alfaro (University of California, Santa Cruz) (USA) and Felipe Ortega (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) (Spain) - PDF
- 140. Wikis for Software Engineering? by Ademar Aguiar (Universidade do Porto) (Portugal) - PDF
- 141. Wiki Entrepreneurship? by Stewart Mader (Independent) (USA) - PDF
Demos
- 142. 3DWiki: The 3D Wiki Engine? by Jacek Jankowski, Marek Jozwowicz, Yolanda Cobos, Bill McDaniel, Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland) (Ireland) - PDF
- 143. ProveIt: A New Tool for Supporting Citation in MediaWiki? by Kurt Luther, Matthew Flaschen, Andrea Forte, Christopher Jordan, Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology) (USA) - PDF
- 144. Suffr: Democratic Control of Computing Infrastructure? by Kirk Zurell (Independent) (Canada) - PDF
Backmatter
- Author Index - PDF
- Sponsors and Supporters - PDF