Review results
For authors of accepted contributions
The following table shows which submissions have been accepted and in what format. In the coming days, possibly tonight, you will also get the notification of acceptance/rejection via e-mail. Please note, that the presentations and workshops will be given different time slots (see Presentation Formats section below). The decisions on the durations of individual presentations/workshops have not yet been made, and the actual program has not yet been compiled. We will return with this information as soon as it is available. We apologize for the delays.
Please provide us with the following supplementary information as soon as possible:
- Whether you plan to attend Wikimania and make your presentation/panel/workshop/tutorial. We ask you to confirm your presentation by putting the "x" mark in the "Confirmed" column in the table below.
- You are also required to provide a short summary of your presentation/panel/workshop/tutorial. It will be used in the final program to help people decide what sessions to go see. We request you to include a 30-word contribution & benefits statement in the "Summary" column in the table with the results (see also Examples of good summaries that are listed below).
To add this information, please either edit this page from your Wikimania or SUL account, or send the information via wiki e-mail to User:Jacek Jankowski or User:Yaroslav Blanter.
- Presentation Formats
- Presentations. Wikimania presentations discuss significant contributions to research and practice in all aspects of wiki collaboration. We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a clear concise message to the audience about the relevance of the work. Each presentaion will be given a 20-minutes (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes for Q&A session) or 30-minutes (25 minutes talk + 5 minutes for Q&A session) time slot.
- Workshops. Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and learn about topics that require extended engagement such as new systems, research methods, standards and formats. A workshop should require participants to engage with each other. Time frames: 45min or 1.5h or 3h
- Tutorials. Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for teaching the new wiki technology than showing and using it. Tutorials give presenters an opportunity to show running systems and gather feedback. We encourage creating interactive tutorials where participants follow on-screen step-by-step instructions. Each tutorial will be given a 45min time slot.
- Panels. Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the panelists and audience members in a lively discussion. Each panel will be given a 45min time slot.
- Posters. Poster presentations allow to present work that is best communicated in conversation. Wikimania's lively poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. Successful applicants will be invited to display a poster - 1x2m in size. They will also have an opportuniy to give a short 5-minutes talk at a special session.
- Examples of good summaries
- Accessibility Workshop - "Gain a first-hand experience on how disabled people use your code. With a little help, you will test with screen readers and magnifiers, using Braille displays and speech output."
- Brainstorming Wikimedia and social media - "Discussion and sharing of practices regarding use of social media to pursue our mission; Identification of benefits, opportunites, risks etc; Hopefully, some seeds for a future strategy or at least discovery of new uses or new tools."
- Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World - "This session is about the future of chapters and affiliation. We will analyse where things stand, and discuss concrete plans for growing Wikimedia projects by contributions from around the world."
- Conflicts between chapters and communities - "This panel will let you understand the conflicts between your local chapter and your editor community, or avoid them if you're planning to start a chapter."
- Wikimania Madness
As you start getting ready for your Wikimania presentation, we invite you to prepare a 30-second preview of your work to present at Wikimania Madness. Wikimania Madness is one of the only events at Wikimania that brings all attendees together. You can find detailed information at Madness. We will follow up closer to the conference with additional information about your madness presentation.
Registration will be open shortly and we urge you to register early at Registration. You can also find the Advance Program shortly at Program.
We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference in Gdansk.
Congratulations!
Wikimania Program Committee
List of presentation proposals
- PaC - People and Community
- KaC - Knowledge and Collaboration
- Inf - Infrastructure
1 - 10
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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1 | 4G Technologies | Arjun.M | KaC | - | Rejected | |
2 | AMBA | Ariel Lomban Gaston Gattas | ? | - | Rejected | |
3 | Batuta's Army: From polish biggest hoax to polish biggest struggle for credibility | Bartosz Kosinski | KaC | During presentation You shall gain knowledge about Henryk Batuta, famous polish hoax and how it inspired the Batutas Army movement for credibility. This will be a start point for more general dialogue about truth on Wikipedia | Talk | |
4 | Doctor Who | Rhain c | KaC | - | Rejected | |
5 | Having Wikipedias compete on equal footing | Gerard Meijssen | KaC/Inf | Languages representing hundreds of millions of people are not able to be written in the way we expect for languages like English, Dutch, German.. Once the technical issues are solved, we can expect languages like Hindi, Bengali, Arabic to do much better. | Talk | |
6 | Out from the shadow of Wikipedia: PlanetMath at Ten | Joseph Corneli | KaC/Inf | My contention is that Wikimedia, PlanetMath, and others should work together over the next decade to create the next landmark project for open online collaboration: a functioning platform for crowdsourced education. | Talk | |
7 | Libre Planet 2010 | Francisco Treviño | ? | - | Rejected | |
8 | Wikicarta: an interactive atlas of world history (project) | Charles Alexis Gérard | Inf | No response | Talk | Cancelled |
9 | Project Management best practices for WikiProjects. | Arjuna Rao Chavala | KaC | Many WikiProjects can't be even called Projects, as there are no start and end dates. The best practices in Project management like the concept of iteration, predefined scope are discussed. | Talk | |
10 | A Review of Google Translation project in Tamil Wikipedia: Role of voluntarism, free and organically evolved community in ensuring quality of Wikipedia | A. Ravishankar | PaC | Google is translating English Wikipedia articles and uploading them in Tamil Wikipedia. This talk will cover the operational, translational and philosophial issues in this project. | Talk | Travel plan confirmed. Waiting for Visa |
11 - 20
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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11 | A history of silversmiths' mathematics | Chalkou Maria | ? | - | Rejected | |
12 | A Living survey of public interest and opinion | Rob Beasley | Inf | Poster | ||
13 | Academic Freedom, Internet Freedom and Wiki Freedom | LI Zhengrong | KaC | Visa Problems | Talk | |
14 | Academic Freedom, Net Freedom and Wiki Freedom | Zhengrong Li | ? | - | Duplicate of 13 | |
15 | Acehnese Wikipedia | Ignatius Yordan | PaC | Aceh was strucked by a huge catastrophe six years ago. As reconstruction is going, Acehnese wikipedia was born 2 years ago. The presentation will introduce and explain about Acehnese wikipedia, from the effort of a small community to Acehnese Wikipedia SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threats). | Talk | |
16 | www.wm-fussball.ch | Jürg Krämer userhelp/userlearn.ch | ? | - | Reject | |
17 | AskTheWiki - A User Interface for Structured Questions and Answers | Daniel Herzig | Inf | In this presentation, AskTheWiki, a system, which allows to pose questions using keywords to a semantic MediaWiki will be presented. | Talk | |
18 | Blue note - MediaWiki for enterprises | Markus Glaser | Inf | The talk will cover enterprise wiki use cases and their differences to wiki use out in the wild internet. Blue note, which is designed to account for enterprise demands, will be presented. | Talk | |
19 | Collaborating on Collaborative Video for Wikipedia | Michael dale | KaC/Inf | - | Merged with workshop - see W29 | |
20 | Collaborative Lesson Planning | Charles Jeffrey Danoff | KaC | This talk explores the idea of teachers posting lesson plans on Wikiversity pertaining to common textbook chapters or topics for simultaneous checking, editing, and copying from colleagues the world over. | Talk |
21 - 30
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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21 | Comparing the structure of tagging in a protein-protein interaction network, a co-authorship network and the English Wikipedia | Illes J. Farkas, Gergely Palla, Peter Pollner, Imre Derenyi, Tamas Vicsek | KaC | This talk discusses tagging in three networks. For Wikipedia the category DAG is taken into account, a loop removal algorithm is suggested and carried out. All data available from http://CFinder.org. | Talk | |
22 | Connectivity | Anastasiya Lvova | KaC | "Connectivity" project studies and enhances the coherence of Wikipedia, or, in other words, it improves hypertext navigation between articles. The project deals with deadends, isolated articles, non-categorized articles, transitivity of the category tree, etc. | Poster | |
23 | Context and Linearity: Representing Structure in Wikis | Jani Patokallio | KaC/Inf | Moving wikis beyond a bunch of unsorted pages: how can books, taxonomies and other structured and/or ordered content be represented in, edited in, and exported from MediaWiki? | Talk | |
24 | Culture Can Save Us | oskashred | PaC | - | Rejected | |
25 | Defining possible objectives on Spanish Wikinews | Iván Martínez | PaC | The talk seeks to find best practices in the Spanish Wikinews (Wikinoticias), analyzing and reviewing the actual objectives of the project, aims to expand its reach and increase the project collaborators. | Talk | |
26 | Designing Tools for Supporting Wikiversity Courses: the Case of EduFeedr | Hans Põldoja, Teemu Leinonen | KaC | The presentation focuses on open courses where Wikiversity is used with blogs and social software. We present a tool for following and supporting student activities in this kind of courses. | Talk | |
27 | Diplopedia: The Evolution of a Wiki | Tiffany Smith Liccardi , Linda G. Green | KaC | Learn about the dramatic growth and evolution of the United States Department of State’s internal wiki of foreign affairs information, Diplopedia, as well as plans for its future. | Talk | |
28 | Dynamics of Wikipedia Talk pages: serving the article, showing the community | Jodi Schneider | KaC/PaC | Talk pages are supposed to provide a space for improving the article. Are they as useful as they could be? I'll briefly describe some ways Talk pages go wrong, then share some prototype systems. Your feedback is encouraged! | Talk | |
29 | Edit & Revert Trends | Erik Zachte | PaC | I will present a per project visualization of revert trends similar to earlier presented edit trends, but with more detail. |
Talk | |
30 | Enciclopedia Chilena: Bringing it back alive using Wikisource | Osmar Valdebenito | KaC | Presentation of a project developed by the Chilean Library of the Congress to publish an encyclopedia using Wikisource as platform. | Talk |
31 - 40
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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31 | MediaWiki Extension Management | Jeroen De Dauw | KaC/Inf | Reinventing MediaWiki administration - This presentation goes over the goals of a 2010 Google Summer of Code project with as goal the creation of a set user friendly administration interfaces for configuration and extension management. | Talk | |
32 | Federating Wikipedia | V. Grishchenko | KaC/Inf | I will discuss the possibility of federating Wikipedia by the means of adopting a distributed version control system, very much like it is done with the Linux kernel development. In general, scaling large software development projects consistently led to greater decentralization/autonomy. Is it possible to decompose Wikipedia into a network of peer repositories that exchange edits? | Talk | |
33 | Feudal Wikipedia: The emergence of Government on Wikipedia | Marc A. Pelletier | PaC | Lessons learned from the emergence of government and society structures in medieval societies: can we learn from history to improve governance on Wikimedia projects? | Talk | |
34 | First steps towards accessibility | Rodan Bury | PaC/KaC/Inf | How Wikipedia can become accessible : improvements needed in Mediawiki's core and extensions, and how to guide users into producing accessible content. Yes we can! ;-) | Talk | |
35 | Fitnesse – an UAT tool beyond compare for ETL testing | Ashwin Kumar I R | KaC | A practical knowledge sharing session on Fitnesse. The ease with which I used Fitnesse would be discussed interactively. Would be sharing about the user friendliness about this wiki tool. | Poster | |
36 | Five Years of Structured Wiki Data with SMW: Experiences and Directions | Markus Krötzsch | KaC | A simple introduction to SMW (a.k.a. Semantic MediaWiki), the popular data management extension to MediaWiki. The talk includes some lessons learnt about using SMW effectively in practice (and avoiding common pitfalls), and gives an outlook on the future of SMW. | Talk | |
37 | Flagged revisions study results | Felipe Ortega | Inf | Relevant results and lessons learned from the study of impact of flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia, sponsored by Wikimedia Deutschland. Accessible level (even if you don't like stats). | Talk | |
38 | Forbidden love or the case of collaborative knowledge in an Argentinian University | Gabriela Mejias | KaC | The conflict between traditional education and the way students try to approach collaborative knowledge in an Argentinian university. How some possible usages of Wikipedia could promote collaboration in academic research. | Talk | |
39 | Why do Editors Leave Wikipedia? A Survey of Casual Contributors | Howie Fung | PaC | Why do editors leave Wikipedia? What can we do as a community to encourage promising newbies to stay? This presentation will review the findings of a survey of 1,200 casual contributors to the English Wikipedia who left during 2009. The survey was aimed at getting a better understanding of why editors leave Wikipedia and how factors such as community, complexity, and personal circumstances affect their decision to stay or leave. | Talk | |
40 | From Russia with love and squalor: an overview of Russian Wikipedia | Vicki Doronina | PaC | Look inside one of the biggest Wikipedia chapters community usually separated by the language barrier. Learn from the past and present of the Russian Wikipedia. | Talk |
41 - 50
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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41 | Using wikis for sharing in real life | Kasper Souren | PaC | Poster | ||
42 | General Tso's Chicken Song | Gabriel Espinal | ? | - | Reject | |
43 | Geodatas in Wikimedia projects | Kolossos | KaC | Starting with the WikiProject Geographical coordinates the presentation will show the usage of wikipedia content on a map. Also geocoding on Commons will be a topic. Finally the possible future of Wikipedia-geocoding by referencing to OpenStreetMap objects will shown. | Talk | |
44 | Google translation | Michael Galvez | PaC | We will present Google's Wikipedia translation projects, including motivations, methodology, data, and tools. We also want to hear from Wikipedians to see how Google can help grow Wikipedia content around the world. | Talk | |
45 | History in Wikipedia: towards processes explanations, rather than simple data | Iván Martínez | KaC | The talk will discuss the specific proposal for improve the writing and research of key historical articles, focused in explanation of processes, rather than simple factual descriptions. This multifactor explanations necessarily affects the quality, improvement and growth in the number of articles on the same topic and related. | Talk | |
46 | Improving Usability Collaboratively | Erik Moeller, Parul Vora, Trevor Parscal, Howie Fung | Inf | Talk | Cancelled | |
47 | Increasing multimedia participation on Wikimedia websites | Guillaume Paumier | Inf | We will present our new upload interface for Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, based on research including videos of users testing the interface, and discuss future improvements to the user experience related to multimedia. | Talk | |
48 | Informing Design with Data | Micah Alpern | KaC/Inf | Data is a powerful tool to inform and inspire new user experiences. Hear stories of how LinkedIn, Yahoo!, eBay, and the Wikipedia Fundraising team used analytics to improve decision making. | Talk | |
49 | Innovative Training Methods for Technical Studies in India | D J Joel Lazarus | ? | Poster | ||
50 | Interlanguage links in Wikipedia: current problems and future development | Innocenti V. Maresin | Inf/KaC | Current standing of interlanguage links in WP. Problems: lack of attention, technical and conceptual flaws. Traditional approach and proposed alternatives. Ways of extension: redirects as target, sections as source. Integration with categories. | Talk | I will do my best to keep this presentation in the program, with or without me. |
51 - 60
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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51 | Jus Internet - Wikipedia and the future of law of Internet | Joanna Kulesza | PaC | Jus Internet is a new proposal for Internet governance. It combines ius gentium – the root of international law with the self-adopted regime of cyber-communities, that Wiki-community is prime example of. | Talk | |
52 | Let's Get Video on Wikipedia | Richard Knipel, Ben Moskowitz | PaC | Merged with workshop - see W29 | ||
53 | Indian Language Wikipedias - A Comparison study & Malayalam wiki projects - Current status and future strategy | Shiju Alex | PaC | This is a comparative evaluation of Indic language Wikimedia projects with the focus on Malayalam. The factors that get ml-wikipedia high on quality indicators and future plans of mlwiki projects are investigated. The issues faced by Malayalam wikimedians due to the changes in the unicode standard will also be presented. | Talk | |
54 | Maps and Semantic Maps | Jeroen De Dauw | Inf | Mapping on MediaWiki - A introduction to the capabilities of the Maps and Semantic Maps extensions and how you can use them to enrich your wiki. | Talk | |
55 | Structure of the German Mentoring Program and international comparison | Tim Moritz Hector | PaC | "Best practices in mentoring programs": Introduction to the structure of the German mentoring program and mentoring programs in other language-versions. Includes a short discussion about other approaches and the most important components to build a good mentoring program. | Talk | |
56 | Wikimedia's Mobile & Offline initiatives | Tomasz Finc | ? | One of the strategic investment areas that the Wikimedia movement has decided on is a focus on Mobile and Offline. Come by to find out and discuss the areas where we are doing active research, development and collaboration. This will include both Wikimedia software projects along with stragtegic partnerships that are being explored. | Talk | |
57 | OTRS: Wikimedia's customer service department | Jim Redmond | PaC | Talk | Cancelled | |
58 | Open Linked Language Data: Building a Collaborative Database for Hanzi and Kanji | Christoph Burgmer, Hans-Jörg Happel, Jens Wissmann | KaC | Working with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages requires good quality data on characters. We present CharacterDb, a Semantic Wiki for editing and querying character data which can be consumed by external tools. | Talk | (not on Sun afternoon please and disjoint from W20) |
59 | Open-source knowledge, the history, the present and the future. | V. V. P. S. | PaC/KaC | The culture aspect of open source knowledge. Wikimedia foundation vs. the world cultures. Impact on scientific research. | Talk | Sat/Sun please |
60 | Why your extension will not be enabled on Wikimedia wikis in its current state and what you can do about it; performance, scalability and security for extension developers, | Roan Kattouw | Inf | This presentation warns (extension) developers of common pitfalls associated with writing software that will run efficiently on the massive scale of Wikipedia, and describes how to avoid them. | Talk |
61 - 70
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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61 | Personality traits of Polish Wikipedia members | Psychology | PaC | Presentation on personality of Polish active Wikipedia members and their openness in the Internet compared to real life. Comparison with similar research among English Wikipedians. | Talk | |
62 | Pushing MediaWiki Internationalization: Insights into MediaWiki i18n at a large multi-language service provider | Tim 'Avatar' Bartel | KaC/Inf | Using the cooperation between Wikia and translatewiki.net as case study, we will focus on internationalization issues facing online communities, highlighting both benefits and challenges in a corporate and volunteer collaborative endeavor. | Talk | |
63 | Open Educational Resources: Brazilian Challenges and Perspectives | Carolina Rossini | PaC/KaC | Talk | ||
64 | Reciprocal Enrichment between Wikipedia and Machine Translators | Mikel Iturbe (Janfri), Unai Fdz. de Betoño, Galder Gonzalez, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Iñaki Alegria, Gorka Labaka, Kepa Sarasola | KaC | We will present the details of the Machine Translation OpenMT-2 project, showing the positive aspects of a collaborative work among Wikipedia and universities, with the aim of increasing available resources for information treatment and generation. | Talk | |
65 | Reclaiming the Public Metadata Commons, Starting With Video | Kurt Bollacker, Richard Martin | KaC |
Corporations often control our tags and comments on web content. This is a presentation of a new project to extract and create a public metadata commons from proprietarily hosted media. |
Talk | |
66 | Reflect: A Tool for Discussion Summarization and Active Listening | Jonathan T. Morgan (Presenting Author), Travis Kriplean, Lance Bennett, Alan Borning and Deen Freelon, Michael Toomim | Inf | This talk will introduce a new tool designed to encourage active listening and reflection in online comment threads. The presenter will demonstrate Reflect and present an overview of the problem space, design rationale and potential use cases for the tool. | Talk | |
67 | Reflections on Wikimedia Commons | Michael Snow | KaC | This talk will offer an assessment of Wikimedia Commons as a media resource, covering both strengths and weaknesses, and incorporating the perspective of an end-user operating outside the Wikimedia environment. | Talk | |
68 | Secrets to the success of the Swedish Wikisource | Lars Aronsson | KaC | No response | Talk | Cancelled |
69 | Semantic Search on Heterogeneous Wiki Systems | Fabrizio Orlandi | KaC | We propose a system to enable searching and browsing capabilities across different wikis in a unified way just using Semantic Web technologies, W3C recommendations and Linked Data principles. | Talk | |
70 | Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Revision Metadata and the STiki Anti-Vandalism Tool | Andrew G. West | PaC | STiki is a tool applying machine-learning over spatio-temporal features of revision metadata to detect likely instances of vandalism. A real-valued “vandalism score” determines presentation order to a crowd-sourced user-base. | Talk | (A July 9 or 10 slot is preferred) |
71 - 80
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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71 | State of the art on Wikipedia research | Felipe Ortega | KaC | Overview of recently published research works on Wikipedia, focusing on connections and related lines, showing what we can learn from these contributions to leverage our understanding of Wikipedia. | Talk | Merged into 75 |
72 | Tamil Wikipedia: A Study of Challenges and Potentials in Relation to the Socio-Cultural Context of the Tamil Community | R. Mayooranathan | PaC | Analysis of Tamil Wikipedia in its socio-cultural context. Covers challenges faced, strategies adopted and identifies potentials of the project in spreading knowledge through Tamil Language. This would help in developing strategies for many other language wikipedias too. | Talk | |
73 | Opasnet Base: Mediawiki as a database UI | Juha Villman | KaC | How to create a database that is flexible enough to store information in almost any format and how to use and integrate that data into Mediawiki. | Poster | |
74 | The Language Commons Wiki | User:Lbwelch | KaC | Building a structured wiki of open data for all of the world's languages | Talk | |
75 | The State of Wikimedia Scholarship 2009-2010: WikiSym and Beyond | Benjamin Mako Hill, Felipe Ortega, Mayo Fuster Morell | PaC | This talk offers a tour of the last years scholarship on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects aimed at at Wikimedians and touching on several of the years most important findings. | Talk | 71 merged into this talk |
76 | The Wiki as an Organism (with examples from Wikipedia) | Maysara Omar | PaC | IF a wiki, any wiki, was a living organism that is always dependent on others to live; what the "environment" in which this living organism grows and prospers would be like? And what possible elements and factors in that environment would cause it to diminish and decay, and how to handle them? | Talk | |
77 | An SMW-powered Analytic Encyclopedia | Mark Greaves | KaC | We will describe our experiences building a prototype SMW-based encyclopedia, which supports consensus over data elements as well as over text, and supports encyclopedia authors in writing visually compelling, data-rich articles. | Talk | |
78 | Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge | Erik Moeller | KaC | The Wikimedia community has successfully built the most comprehensive encyclopedia in human history. Will free culture succeed in other domains - like news, dictionaries, textbooks, maps, or 3D objects? | Talk | |
79 | Wikimedia and the A/H1N1 flu: a documented pandemic. | Vladimir Herman Miguel | KaC/PaC | A review with Wikimedia's approach about the pandemic that it shook to the world during 2009. What happened indeed and which are the consequences that it leaves us for the future? | Poster | |
80 | We were promised Xanadu. The original hypertext system and how Wikimedia projects can benefit from its concepts. | Jakob Voss | KaC/Inf | A description of Ted Nelson's original Hypertext system "Xanadu": It will be shown which of its features are important especially for open Wikimedia projects that contain a lot reuse and referencing. | Talk |
81 - 90
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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81 | Wikiexpedtion - an approach to mix outreach and data colecting social activites | Kocio | PaC | Wikiexpedtion - an expedition around one of the regions of Poland focused on gathering photo documentation. We want to share our experience with Wikimedia community to spread our idea. | Talk | |
82 | Essential Tenets for the Maintenance of our Common Good | Alan Page | ? | - | Reject | |
83 | Virus vs. antivirus presentation | subhendu ghosh | ? | - | Reject | |
84 | Growing in Knowledge and Creativity | Victoria | PaC | - | Reject | |
85 | Threaded discussions on Wikimedia sites with LiquidThreads | Andrew Garrett | Inf | MediaWiki's ad-hoc discussion system has proved difficult to use and difficult to scale. I present the work that I have been doing with the Foundation's support, to implement a more usable and scalable system, without sacrificing the flexibility that we enjoy with our current ad-hoc system. | Talk | |
87 | Life As We Know It | not provided | ? | - | Reject | |
88 | Wikiversity: problems and possible solutions | Daniil Alexeev, Alina Matlashenko | KaC | Why Wikiversity did not self-developed so well as Wikipedia or even Wikibooks? How make WV financial independent from worldwide political founds? We will try to answer this and more questions in our panel. | Poster | |
89 | The role of Women in the Wikipedia community. A case study from Spanish Wikipedia. | Ivana Lysholm, Valeria Mina | PaC | We intend to explore the particularities of female involvement in es.wikipedia. We'll discuss an apparent paradox: few women, but a strong group leading the community. Why? What do women have to offer? How to tackle the sex divide? | Talk | |
90 | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - Software made the wiki way | Marc Laporte | Inf | The Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features. How? Wiki community, All-in-one codebase, Dogfood & Scheduled releases -> http://tikiwiki.org/Model PHP/MySQL/Zend Framework/Smarty/jQuery. | Poster |
91 - 100
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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91 | TraduXio: Translation and Multilingual Content Management | Philippe Lacour | KaC | Talk | ||
92 | Trends in Wikipedia Communities | Ronald Beelaard | PaC | Numerical analysis of database dumps shows a definite shrink of Wikipedia on certain key parameters, mainly related to changes in community demographics. This applies to the largest as well as smaller projects. | Talk | Preferably a 30 min. time slot on Saturday |
93 | Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool – the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative and the path to an effective and sustainable collaborative environment with the world of higher education | Pete Forsyth, Rod Dunican, Frank Schulenburg | PaC | This session will give an overview about a 17-month pilot program that will help inform how to best engage new contributors in the improvement of subject-specific articles on Wikipedia; it will introduce the new concept of "Wikipedia Ambassadors" as well as new software features and concepts that will help new contributors through their first 100 edits. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion about the future of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education. | Talk | |
94 | WIKI Answers Unanswered WHYs. | Piyush Singh | KaC | - | Rejected | |
95 | Why not all Wikipedias are equal: My experiences on English and Telugu Wikipedias | User:Gurubrahma | PaC | In comparing the largest Wikipedia with a smaller one (the 48th largest in article count), I build on my personal experiences and try to explore why contributions to Wikipedias differ. | Talk | |
96 | Wiki Lima | Juan Carlos Mujica | PaC | Poster | ||
97 | Wiki Platforms in High Assurance Environments: Beyond Intellipedia | Nathan Singleton | Inf | This session will cover concerns and issues related to sharing information in a collaborative Wiki type environment between organizations requiring integrity and confidentiality of data, and briefly provide potential solutions. | Talk | |
98 | WikiCause-Proposal for a Wikimedia Sister Project for Creating a Social Platform for promoting Internet Activism | Vineeth Sandadi | KaC | Poster | ||
99 | WikiProjects and Automation: Be lazy so you can work hard | Gaëtan Landry | KaC | In this talk, I will share my experience with some medium to large-scale collaborations on the English Wikipedia and the bots used to make them possible. | Talk | |
100 | WikiQuiz - automatic generation of multiple choice question sets using the Wikimedia projects, raw text processing and metadata tags | Kristoffer Mellberg | KaC | A draft for a system which would automatically generate multiple choice questions based on Wikipedia text and meta-tags, and use feedback from quiz games front-ends to improve the question set and algorihtms. | Poster |
101 - 110
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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101 | Wikievolution: on Growth of Complexity and Diversity of Wikimedia Projects. | Sebastian "Przykuta" Skolik, Michał "Aegis Maelstrom" Buczyński | PaC | Ideas emerging in one place, elsewhere may thrive or die. No common path of evolution makes a growth of particular wikiprojects unpredictionary. Let us discuss together these differences, opportunities and limits of interproject co-operation. | Talk | |
102 | Wikimedia Germany's Software and Infrastructure Projects | Daniel Kinzler | Inf | This session will provide an overview of Wikimedia Germany's software development and hardware infrastructure activities. There will be some insight into onloing projects, the medium and long term strategy, and discussion of challanges. | Talk | |
103 | Wikimedia in Japan: Acculturation and Outreach | KIZU Naoko | PaC | This presentation will show you how Wikimedia culture and Japanese culture have interacted on Japanese language Wikimedia projects and what Japanese Wikimedians nowadays begin to give back to the Japanese society. | Talk | |
104 | Wikimedia's Five Year Strategic Plan | Eugene Eric Kim | PaC | I'll discuss the five year, movement-wide strategic plan, describe how it emerged, and facilitate a discussion on opportunities and next steps for Wikimedia. | Talk | |
105 | Wikimedia's Point of View. On Various Truths and Methodologies to Reach Them. | Michał Buczyński | PaC | High quality and civil Wikimedia need a clear, possibly non-arbitrary method of establishing what is true, complete and well-balanced. Unfortunately, we have different ideas what precisely "NPOV" is. We will examine together the key differences and challenges in meeting consensus. | Talk | |
106 | Wikimedia: Striving for an International Organisational Scope, The Importance of Culture | Delphine Ménard - notafish | PaC | This presentation will be looking at Wikimedia and outside organisations to outline ideas of what models are desirable or possible to expand Wikimedia's outreach internationally, while pointing out the cultural differences that may hinder or foster development of an accepted chapter model. | Talk | |
107 | Wikipedia Books: How Offline Improves Online | Gaëtan Landry | KaC | Wikipedia Books are a new way to visualize Wikipedia content. I will explore the several ways the production of offline content affects the quality of the online content. | Talk | |
108 | Wikipedia as an alternative to traditional civic activism | Jerzy Celichowski | PaC | Contributioning to wikipedia can be seen as voluntary work. Traditional indicators of volunteering culture serve as a poor indicator for predicting active wikipedias (number of articles per number of speakers of given language using internet) in the EU. I will try and explain why this is so. | Talk | |
109 | Wikipedia at schools. The Catalan experience. | Joan Ramon Gomà, Pau Cabot | KaC | The presentation will explain a experience of aplying Wikipedia at Balearic Islands schools. The obtained results and its evaluation will be presented as well as improvements foreseen for course 2010-2011 and the enlargement to schools of other Catalan speaking territories. | Talk | |
110 | Power embedded in the governance infrastructure of online communities: Wikipedia as a digital common in contrast to other cases | Mayo Fuster Morell | PaC | The term COMMON-base peer production is used to refer to Wikipedia, but also to other type of online communities. From an analysis of power embedded in the five main models of governance of online communities (which not only consider the community, but also the infrastructure providers – i.e., the Wikimedia Foundation for the case of Wikipedia), I will argue that Wikipedia can be defined as a digital commons, however, other types of online communities (such as Flickr) can not be defined as digital common. | Talk |
111 - 119
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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111 | Submissions/Wikipedia in the Brazilian press - The growth of trust | Betty VH | PaC | Talk | Cancelled | |
112 | Submissions/Wikipedia is not the sum of all human knowledge: do we need a wiki for open data? | Finn Årup Nielsen | KaC | Scientific knowledge we want to collect in wikis is not always suitable for Wikipedia. I will give examples on specialized data that is entered and utilized in neuroscience wikis, showing the limitations of our present conception of Wikipedia. | Talk | |
113 | Submissions/Wikipedian in Residence | Liam Wyatt | KaC | Outcomes and lessons learned from being the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum | Talk | |
114 | Submissions/Wikis In Print 2010 | Heiko Hees | Inf | This talk gives an overview of the book tool which got deployed on all major WMF projects. Demo of the features, how to get printed books, technical background, community adoption, open issues, development roadmap, how to help | Talk | (before Sat 10th 14:00 or after Sun 11th 14:00) |
115 | Submissions/Wikiversity: a project struggling with its scope and identity | Cormac Lawler | KaC | This talk will give an overview of Wikiversity's development as a Wikimedia project, detailing the problems that it has faced over its first few years, particularly the challenges of defining what a wiki-based space for learning should be and do. | Talk | |
116 | Submissions/Creating free audio for Wikimedia projects | A1 | ? | What can we do to make a collection of audio files in wikimedia usefull for educational purposes | Talk | |
117 | Submissions/Digitization of cultural heritage in Argentina | Beatriz Busaniche, Maximiliano Tocco | KaC | Argentine Public Television is digitizing its old archives. Our goal is publishing them in Wikimedia Projects. This presentation will talk about this project and the legal issues we are dealing with. | Talk | |
118 | Submissions/Polish and New York open education alliances: the future model for broader cooperation? | Tomasz Ganicz & Pharos | KaC | Polish Coalition for Open Education and Free Culture Alliance NYC are semi-formal agreements of non-governmental organizations working in the field of education. Our current achievements and similarities will be discussed. | Talk | |
119 | wm2010:Submissions/Libraries_and_Wikipedia | John Dove | KaC | How can publishers, aggregators, and others with a commercial interest in libraries, and even libraries themselves work with Wikipedian editors in such a way as to strengthen Wikipedia entries and content while also serving libraries? | Talk |
List of panel proposals
Bib | Title | Presenter (* = first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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P1 | Issues with the numbers game that is the strategy project | Gerard Meijssen | KaC/Inf | The numbers that underpin the strategy for the next five years can be interpreted in many ways. This is partly due to sources that have provided incomplete data. This is partly due to a bias for the big Wikipedia languages. In this way the smaller projects and languages do not get the attention that they need. | Talk | |
P2 | Restricted websites in Pakistan.China wasn't the half of it. | Nadia Siddiqi | ? | Poster | ||
P3 | The Search Box that Follows You | David Grogan | Inf | Poster | ||
P4 | Academic Researchers in Wikimedia Communities: Ethics, Methods, and Policies | R. Stuart Geiger | PaC | Researchers in my wiki? It’s more likely than you think. This panel will foster dialog between wiki researchers and the community over various logistical, ethical, and policy-related concerns. | Panel | |
P5 | Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World | Achal Prabhala, Erik Möller, Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff, Phoebe Ayers, Arne Klempert, Milos Rancic | PaC | This session is about the future of chapters and affiliation. We will analyse where things stand, and discuss concrete plans for growing Wikimedia projects by contributions from around the world. | Panel | (Please give us adequate time (>1 hour), and please schedule this on the first day or first half of second day) |
P6 | deletion sprees to sticky prods - What has been happening to Biographies of Living People on EN wiki, and what can be learned from it? | WereSpielChequers | KaC | Discussion of one of EN Wiki's more turbulent areas with a diverse panel of Wikipedians. | Panel | |
P7 | CRACK A DROGA MALDITA E O HOMEM ZUMBÍ | Snitram Notlimah | ? | - | Rejected | |
P8 | Conflicts between local Wikimedia chapters and their respective editor communities | User:Harel | PaC | This panel will let you understand the conflicts between your local chapter and your editor community, or avoid them if you're planning to start a chapter. | Panel | (Saturday or Sunday only please) |
P9 | Documentary Screening: Truth in Numbers, Covering the Wikimania community | Andrew Lih, Nic Hill | PaC | Special evening session | Panel | |
P10 | Creative Commons global affiliate network–origin, role, future, including collaboration and shared learnings with Wikimedia chapters | User:Mike Linksvayer | PaC | Creative Commons' 100+ affiliates are sometimes cited in Wikimedia chapter discussions. We'll discuss the reality of the network, how we've been inspired by Wikimedia chapters, future collaboration and lesson sharing. | Panel | |
P11 | How information on Wikipedia spreads to other media | MADe | KaC | Wikipedia content circulates online and spreads to other media. How does this happen, how do we stimulate and control this, and how do we prevent other sources from copying our mistakes? | Talk | I'm only flying in on friday so friday is not possible. I'd prefer sunday |
P12 | Lessons learned from the development of national OER strategies | Melissa Hagemann, Jan-Bart de-Vreede, Everton Zanella Alvarenga, Alek Tarkowski | KaC | We will look at the experiences of the development of national open educational resources (OER) strategies in the Netherlands, Poland and Brazil and discuss what lessons can be learned to support further expansion of OER globally. | Panel | |
P13 | Minority Languages and Wikipedia | Arto Lanamäki | KaC | This panel will discuss what is the current status of minority languages in Wikipedia. What is the right path for future development? | Panel | Place this either for Friday or Saturday please. |
P14 | Social identity enactment and roles creation in Wikipedia community | Dariusz Jemielniak (User:Pundit) | PaC | I will discuss the different roles taken by Wikipedians and try to interpret them through power/knowledge twixt. | Talk | |
P15 | Template scripting | Victor Vasiliev | Inf | Presentation of a programming language which may be embeddable to MediaWiki templates. Review of other possible solutions to the problem of growing template complexity. | Talk | (please put it on second or third day) |
P16 | Mediawiki internationalization and community feedback | Siebrand Mazeland, Kizu Naoko | PaC/Inf | A panel discussion with interaction with the attendees about the current state of Wikimedia and MediaWiki globalisation efforts that are coordinated from Wikimedia Meta and translatewiki.net, and brainstorming on possible process improvements. | Panel | |
P17 | Panel Discussion for Knowledge Sharing: How to make a Wiki Event | Manuel Schneider | PaC | Sharing experience and best-practices on how to organise events with volunteers. Organiser and participants from different Wikimedia events from different countries and cultural regions will answer questions. | Panel | |
P18 | The organization of lusophone Wikipedia | Pietro Fornitano Roveri | PaC | Results of interviews performed with 18 major contributors of Pt Wikipedia. The interviews addressed: activities outside the Wikipedia, political motivations, characteristics of work on Wikipedia and perception of the importance of Wikipedia in society. | Talk | |
P19 | The future of User experience at Wikimedia | Danese Cooper, Erik Möller, Guillaume Paumier*, Howie Fung, Parul Vora, Priyanka Dhanda, Roan Kattouw, Trevor Parscal | Inf | This panel is an opportunity for the community to engage in a dedicated, general Q&A session about user experience with the WMF team, and to discuss our short- and longer-term projects. | Panel | |
P20 | Towards a free culture and access to knowledge movement? | Mayo Fuster Morell, David Harris & Beatriz Busaniche | PaC | In order to preserve the digital citizens rights an urgent question needs to be address in regards of counteracting the influences of the powerful lobbies of the copyright industries on governments. The panel means to map the state an international movement on free culture and access to knowledge and contribute to develop a common agenda and actions. | Panel | |
P21 | WikiTV: The Open Media Project | Tony Shawcross | KaC | Talk | Cancelled | |
P22 | Wikimedia Asia Project | Morgan Chan (Wikimedia Hong Kong, Wikimedia Asia Project), Jeremy-Yu Chan (Wikimedia Hong Kong), Ting Chen (Wikimedia Foundation), Bishakha Datta (Wikimedia Foundation), Josh Lim (Wikimedia Philippines), Srinivas Gunta (Wikimedia India) | PaC | The Wikimedia Asia Project is an effort by chapters in the Asian region (population ~3 billion) to coordinate in sharing knowledge, pooling resources, hosting events and promoting Wikimedia across Asia. | Panel | |
P23 | Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as a Learning Aid in Secondary Education (with an example from Slovenia) | Ines Zgonc | KaC | How can Wikimedia projects be used to further the comprehension of history and the socialization of the secondary-level youth? Based on an example of teaching about the Polish World War II history in Slovenian schools. | Talk |
List of workshop proposals
Bib | Title | Presenter (first author) | Track | Summary (30 words) | Result | Confirmed |
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W1 | BUD Branding Campaign ( Be Uniquely Different ) | Ray Tjhin | ? | - | Rejected | |
W2 | Free Software for Users | Francisco Treviño | ? | Is about freedom, and human rights too!, computer systems are just a great tool to trigger all this energy, its connections and possibilities. We'll explore the power of free software hands-on. | Workshop | |
W3 | .NET Technology | Rajesh Kumar Ranjan | ? | - | Rejected | |
W4 | Understanding Wikimedians: Practical Tools for Academic Research | Jonathan Morgan (presenting author), Jamie Ourada, Doug Devine, Mark Zachry | KaC | This workshop will stimulate conversation on tool-based methods and best practices for researching online collaboration, and will demonstrate one approach to this type of research through a demonstration of the QBox tool. | Workshop | |
W5 | A Selenium testing framework for MediaWiki | Markus Glaser | Inf | Learn how to write and execute user interface tests for core and extensions using the MediaWiki selenium framework. We will also talk about the further evolution of the framework in order to suit your needs. | Workshop | |
W6 | Hear and feel your MediaWiki code at work: An accessibility workshop | Maria Schiewe and Danny B. | Inf | Gain a first-hand experience on how disabled people use your code. With a little help, you will test with screen readers and magnifiers, using Braille displays and speech output. | Workshop | not after Sunday 1 pm |
W7 | Adding books to Wikisource | Lars Aronsson | KaC | No response | Tutorial | Cancelled |
W8 | An interdisciplinary approach to Wikipedia: literary criticism, linguistics, anthropology, and sociolinguistic research. | J. Gustavo Góngora | KaC | The aim of this talk is to provide a series of examples concerning the humanities and Wikipedia. It will focus on the issue of Copyright vs. Free Contents, a crucial point in all Wikimedia sister projects. | Talk | |
W9 | Bold video? Confronting multimedia content in the Wikipedia Manual of Style, NPOV and Be bold! guidelines | David Evan Harris | KaC/Inf | Merge of W9,W11,19,52 - see W29 | ||
W10 | Brainstorming Wikimedia and social media | Florence Devouard | PaC | Discussion and sharing of practices regarding use of social media to pursue our mission; Identification of benefits, opportunites, risks etc; Hopefully, some seeds for a future strategy or at least discovery of new uses or new tools. | Workshop 1,5 hours ? | |
W11 | Community P2P/CDN for Wikipedia video delivery | Arno Bakker, Michael Dale, Jan Gerber, Victor Grishchenko, Riccardo Petrocco, Johan Pouwelse, Diego Rabaioli | Inf | Merge of W9,W11,19,52 - see W29 | ||
W12 | Participating in Product Development | Parul Vora, Trevor Parscal, Howie Fung | KaC/Inf | The work of the Wikipedia Usability Initiative has brought new features to MediaWiki and new processes to the Wikimedia Foundation, presenting new and unique ways for the community to participate. | Talk | |
W13 | Houbraken Project | Jane023 | PaC/KaC | Wikipedia is illustrated with 17th century maps and paintings, painted by Dutch masters. Arnold Houbraken published biographies of Flemish painters in 1720, mentioning nearly 1000 names. Let’s wikify it! | Presentation | |
W14 | How we make Wiki use in mobiles friendly? | Kevin Armstrong, Zhao (Weiming Zhao) | Inf | This is one thing that I will tell you how to use the Wikipedia on your cell phone easily and friendly to develope it on plant of cell phone. | Talk | |
W15 | Mining Wikipedia public data | Felipe Ortega | KaC | Accessible introduction to methodology, tools and some practical advice on best approaches for mining Wikipedia public data. Focused both on needs of high-tech profiles and audience with non-tech backgrounds. | Tutorial | |
W16 | Offline & alternate versions of WikiMedia Wiki content | Shiju Alex, user:Walkerma | Inf | Merge of W16,W22,W23 - see W28 | ||
W17 | Online Entrepreneurship Development Program | Vivek Sharma | ? | Rejected | ||
W18 | Poop patrol | WereSpielChequers | KaC | Find typos that spellcheckers can't spot and vandalism that Huggle can't hinder. | Poster | |
W19 | Publishing Wikipedia Books: Implementing a community driven process to get Wikipedia into book stores | He!ko | PaC | The goal of this workshop is to draft a viable community driven process to get selected parts of Wikipedia into bookstores. The basic idea is to provide and utilize the necessary tools (like the Book Tool) which allow the community to independently create, assess and publish books based on wiki content. | Workshop | (before Sat 10th 14:00 or after Sun 11th 14:00) |
W20 | Semantic Result Formats: Automatically transforming structured data into useful output formats | Hans-Jörg Happel, Frank Dengler | KaC | SRF can visualize or export structured query results in Semantic MediaWiki. We describe existing result formats and explain the implementation of query result processing in order to enable users to improve existing and develop novel result formats. | Workshop | (not on Sun afternoon please and disjoint from Talk#58) |
W21 | Batch uploading at Commons | Multichill | KaC | Uploading one image to Commons can be difficult, but what about uploading a thousand images to Commons? In this session I will explain how to upload large amounts of images to Commons. | Tutorial | |
W22 | Wiki2cd: A tool for creating offline wiki repository for CD/DVD | Santhosh Thottingal | Inf/PaC | Merge of W16,W22,W23 - see W28 | ||
W23 | Wikipedia Offline | Manuel Schneider | Inf | Merge of W16,W22,W23 - see W28 | ||
W24 | Wiki community best practices.Why are less people contributing? | Kim Bruning | PaC | Explanation of wiki best practices and why more people don't use them, followed by discussion on how to improve the situation. | Workshop | |
W25 | Wikimob Teaching by Doing | Richard Knipel, Ben Moskowitz | KaC | Workshop | ||
W26 | Unique Qualities of Wikiversity in Higher Education | Juha Suoranta (wm2010:Special:Emailuser/Juha Suoranta, other accounts) | KaC | No response | Workshop | Cancelled |
W27 | power to the writing process | Henning Klein, Matthias Wernicke, Frederic Matthe (wm2010:Special:EmailUser/Scholarwiki, other accounts) | KaC/Inf | Short overviews a.) of didactical approaches dealing with MediaWiki-based scientific writing using reference management and/or b.) of necessary technical solutions to support writing processes (reference management, card index, outlining). Following by discussions about didactical requirements on the use of Wikis in this way and/or possibilities of connecting additional tools/softwares to MediaWiki. | Workshop | |
W28 | Creating offline version of Wiki content - Solutions and Challenges (Merge of W16,W22,W23) | Shiju Alex, Manuel Schneider, Santhosh Thottingal, Martin Walker | KaC/Inf | This workshop examines the process (selection, extraction, storage, and reader format) of Creating Offline versions of wiki content. The tools and technology used for meeting the challenges at each stage will be discussed. | Joint Workshop, 1.5h | |
W29 | Joint Video Workshop (Merge of W9, W11, 19, 52) | Arno Bakker, Richard Knipel, Ben Moskowitz, Michael Dale, Jan Gerber, Victor Grishchenko, Riccardo Petrocco, Johan Pouwelse, Diego Rabaioli, David Evan Harris | KaC/Inf | In this workshop we present and discuss all aspects of getting video on Wikipedia, from content creation to scalable hosting. | Joint Workshop, 3h | Arno |
W30 | Strategies to select and assess content for offline versions like published books or offline readers (Split/Merge of W28,W19) | Shiju Alex, Manuel Schneider, Santhosh Thottingal, Martin Walker, Heiko Hees | KaC/Inf | The goal of this workshop is to discuss the challenges and solutions of selecting and assessing content for offline versions, like mobile readers, DVDs or published Wikipedia Books. | Joint Workshop, 1.5h |