7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

WikiSym 2011

Mountain View, California
October 3-5, 2011


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Sponsors

National Science Foundation


Microsoft

Creative Commons

CosmoCode GmbH

Sunday Oct 2nd

Doctoral Consortium, Stanford University

Monday Oct 3rd

Morning

8:00-9:00Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:30Welcome & Keynote: Cathy Casserly, Creative Commons (Galileo)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:00Open Space Agenda Setting (Mercury)
12:00-1:00Lunch

Afternoon

Mercury Galileo Jupiter
1:00-2:30Open Space Using Wikipedia in
Education Workshop
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Wikipedia Research
Literature Workshop
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2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30Open Space Using Wikipedia in
Education Workshop
Wikipedia Research
Literature Workshop
4:30-5:00Evening News
5:00-6:30 Reception at MSR café and terrace (free buffet + bar)

Tuesday Oct 4th

Mercury Galileo Jupiter
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:00Morning News
9:00-10:30Open Space Papers: Understanding Wikipedia

WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance
~ S.K. Lam, A. Uduwage, Z. Dong, S. Sen, D.R. Musicant, L. Terveen and J. Riedl
Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing
~ J. Antin, R. Yee, C. Cheshire and O. Nov
Finding Patterns in Behavioral Observations by Automatically Labeling Forms of Wikiwork in Barnstars
~ D. McDonald, S. Javanmardi and M. Zachry
What Wikipedia Deletes: Characterizing Dangerous Collaborative Content
~ A. West and I. Lee
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30Open Space Papers: Collaboration in Diverse Contexts

Quality is a Verb: The operationalization of data quality in a citizen science community
~ S.A. Sheppard, L. Terveen
Online and Offline Interactions in Online Communities
~ W. Mccully, C. Lampe, A. Sreenivasan, A. Velasquez and C. Sarkar
Don’t leave me alone: effectiveness of a framed wiki-based learning activity
~ N. Tselios, P. Altanopoulou and V. Komis
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00Open SpacePapers: Designing for Open Collaboration

A Meta-reflective Wiki for Collaborative Design
~ L. Zhu, I. Vaghi and B. R. Barricelli
Wiki Grows Up: Arbitrary Data Models, Access Control, and Beyond
~ R. Priedhorsky and L. Terveen
Design and Implementation of the Sweble Parser: Unlocking the Structure within Wikipedia
~ H. Dohrn and D. Riehle
Invited Panel - Learning in a WikiWorld: How new media and open collaboration are changing what we know and how we know it

Morgan Ames (Stanford), Mike Ananny (Microsoft Research), Heather Ford (Ushahidi), Andrea Forte moderating
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00Open Space Keynote: Jeff Heer (Galileo)
Posters and Demos (Jupiter, after keynote)
5:00-5:30 Evening News

Wednesday, Oct 5th

Mercury Galileo Jupiter
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:00Morning News
9:00-10:30Open Space Papers: Wiki Tools and Interfaces

Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: A High-Performing, Feature–Rich Model and its Reduction Through Lasso
~ S. Javanmardi, D. W. McDonald and C. V. Lopes
Autonomous Link Spam Detection in Purely Collaborative Environments
~ A. West, A. Agrawal, P. Baker, B. Exline and I. Lee
NICE: Social translucence through UI intervention
~ A. Halfaker, B. Song, D. A. Stuart, A. Kittur and J. Riedl
Papers: Wikipedia as a Global Phenomenon

Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices, and Structures in Wikipedia’s Coverage of the Tōhoku Catastrophes
~ B. Keegan, D. Gergle, N. Contractor
Collective memory building in Wikipedia: the case of North African revolutions
~ M. Ferron, P. Massa
Wikipedia World Map: Method and Application of Map-like Wiki Visualization
~ C. Pang, R. Biuk-Aghai
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30Open SpacePanel: Apples to Oranges?: Comparing across studies of open collaboration/peer production

Jude Yew (organizer), Ed Chi (Google), Judd Antin (Yahoo!), Sharoda Paul (Parc), Aaron Shaw (Berkman), Cliff Lampe (U Mich), Andrea Wiggins (Syracuse)

More details and participate on our panel's wiki
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00Open SpacePapers: Wikis in the Workplace

The success of Corporate Wiki Systems: An end user perspective
~ Z. Bhatti, S. Baile, H. Yasin
ICKEwiki: Requirements and Concepts for an Enterprise Wiki for SMEs
~ S. Voigt, F. Fuchs-Kittowski, D. Huettemann, M. Klafft, A. Gohr
Scaffolding For Organizational Wikis
~ O. Diaz, G. Puente
Papers: Sustaining Open Collaboration

Don't bite the Newbies: How Reverts Affect the Quantity and Quality of Wikipedia Work
~ A. Halfaker, A. Kittur and J. Riedl
Mentoring in Wikipedia: A Clash of Cultures
~ D. Musicant, Y. Ren, J. Johnson and J. Riedl
“How should I go from _ to _ without getting killed?”: Motivation and Benefits in Open Collaboration
~ K. Panciera, M. Masli and L. Terveen
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Keynote: Ed Chi, Google
4:30-5:30Conference Closing Activities and 2012 Announcements