Schedule

July 2010
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See also Events. Note: All times are CEST +2 UTC

For authors of accepted submissions

Our Conference Guide

The following table shows all submissions that have been accepted for the Wikimania 2010 program. If you have questions regarding this schedule please contact Jacek Jankowski.

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 presentation will be given a 20-minutes (sp → 15 minutes talk + 5 minutes for Q&A session) or 30-minutes (lp → 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.

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.

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.

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 – 1×2m in size. They will also have an opportunity to give a short 5-minutes talk at a special session.

Main Tracks

PaC – People and Community
KaC – Knowledge and Collaboration
Inf – Infrastructure

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.

Session Moderation

Regarding session moderation – we need your help! If you are going to attend a session "X" and you are knowledgeable in the area covered in this session you can sign up below next to the session "X". Session moderation duties include making sure speakers are where they need to be, keeping track of time, asking difficult questions, etc.

Unconference

We decided to set aside some time for ad-hoc sessions, and presentations of new things that have come up since the submission deadline. The time was set up early in the meeting, so that you can find others who share your interests, and pursue those connections / follow up with informal meetings throughout the rest of the conference.Learn more about unconference sessions.

Registration

Registration is open and we urge you to register early at Registration.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference in Gdansk.

Program at a Glance

Friday

Friday details on a separate page

Friday, July 9 – Baltic Philharmonic
	Concert hall (Stream)	Jazz hall (Stream)	Green hall (Stream)	Oak hall (Stream)
08:00 – 09:00	On-Site Registration
09:00 – 11:00	Opening Ceremony (10 min for organizers) + Opening Plenary (Sue Gardner + WMF Board) + Wikimania Madness (last 15 min)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
11:30 – 13:00	Panels: Chapters: Collaboration and Coordination Chair: Lodewijk Gelauff	Workshop: Brainstorming Wikimedia and Social Media Chair: Florence Devouard	Talks: Wikiversity Chair: Jan-Bart de Vreede	Talk+Workshop: Accessibility Workshop Chair:
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1
14:30 – 16:00	Talks: MultiWikiMedia: Multimedia on Wikimedia Chair:	Talks: Talk Pages / LiquidThreads Chair: Erik Moeller	Talks: Governance in Wikipedia & Wikimedia Chair: Liam Wyatt	Workshop: Creating offline version of Wiki content Chair: Manuel Scheider
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
16:30 – 18:00	Talks+Q&A-Session: Usability Initiative & Informing Design with Data Chair: Jacek Jankowski	Talks: About Us – Wikipedians: Motivations, Identities, Traits Chair: Stuart Geiger	Talks+Panel: Open Educational Resources (OER) Chair: Melissa Hagemann	Workshop: Community driven publishing of Wikipedia Books Chair: Heiko Hees
18:00 – 18:45	Polish Dinner
18:30 – 18:45	Wrapup, intro to strategy discussion (Dinner area)
18:45 – 19:45	Concert Preparations	Facilitated strategy discussion		Chapter Meetings: Sign Up!
19:45 – 20:00	Break
20:00 – 22:00	Concert (70min) followed by a reception

Saturday

Saturday details on a separate page

Saturday, July 10 – Baltic Philharmonic
	Concert hall (Stream)	Jazz hall (Stream)	Green hall (Stream)	Oak hall (Stream)
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Wikimania Madness
09:00 – 11:00	Panels: Chapters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Chair: User:Coren	Talks+Workshop: Wikipedia Offline e.g. Books Chair: Beatriz Busaniche	Talk+Workshop: Scripting, Testing, Extension Management Chair: Markus Glaser	Talk+Workshop: Wiki-based Scientific Writing Chair:
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
11:30 – 13:00	Talk+Workshop: Wiki Community Best Practices Chair: Brianna Laugher	Workshop: Getting Video on Wikipedia #1 Chair: Arno Bakker	Talk+Tutorial: Semantic MediaWiki #1 Chair: Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)	Talk+Panel: Internationalization Chair: User:Millosh
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1 (including Wikichix lunch)
14:30 – 16:00	Invited Talks: Ortega & Möller Chair: Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)	Workshop: Getting Video on Wikipedia #2 Chair: Arno Bakker	Talks: Semantic MediaWiki #2 Chair: Frank Dengler	Talks: Translation Chair: Tim Moritz Hector
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
16:30 – 18:00	Talks: Exodus: Is Wikipedia Dying or Maturing? Chair: Liam Wyatt	Talks+Panel: Wikipedias Are NOT Equal Chair: Gomà	Talks: Maps and Geo-information & SMW-based Language Wikis Chair: Fabrizio Orlandi	Talk+Workshop+Tutorial: For Developers: Free Software, Batch Uploading Chair:
18:00 – 18:30	Polish Dinner
18:30 – 18:45	Wrapup, lightning talks and open sessions			Talks: Libraries, Governments, and Enterprises Chair:
18:45 – 19:45	Screening Preparations	Open sessions	Chapter Meetings: Sign Up!	Talks: Libraries, Governments, and Enterprises Chair:
20:00 – 22:00	Screening of the movie "Truth in Numbers" followed by a panel discussion
21:45	Bus to Wikimania Party leaving from the Philharmonic

Sunday

Sunday details on a separate page

Sunday, July 11 – Baltic Philharmonic
	Concert hall (Stream)	Jazz hall (Stream)	Green hall (Stream)	Oak hall (Stream)
09:30 – 11:00	Welcome, Plenary Session – Jimmy Wales (1h+Q&A) Wikimania Madness (last 15 minutes)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
11:30 – 13:00	Panels: Academic Researchers and Wikipedia Chair:	Talks: From WMF with Love: Update for Developers Chair: Jacek Jankowski	Talk+Panel: Free Culture and Humanities Chair:	Talks: Next generation Hypertext structures for Wikipedia Chair: Jakob Voss
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch Break at Baltic Philharmonic: Gdańsk salon and foyer level 1
14:30 – 16:00	Talks+Panel: Strategy Chair: User:Coren	Tutorial+Workshop: Research on Wikipedia: HowTo Chair: Jodi Schneider	Talks: Education Chair: Jan-Bart de Vreede	Talks: Cultural Heritage and Wikipedia Chair: User:Benjamin Mako Hill
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break + Spotlight on Posters
16:30 – 17:50	Talks: Outreach Chair: User:Benjamin Mako Hill	Talks: Wikipedia Credibility Chair: User:Coren	Talks: Role of Women & WikiProjects Management Chair: Brianna Laugher	Talks: Wikis of the World Chair: Asaf Bartov
18:00 – 19:00	Closing Ceremony + Wikimania 2011 Presentation + Panel: How to Make a Wiki Event
20:00 – 24:00	!!! World Cup Final + After Party (City of Angels? Sopot?) !!!

Friday details on a separate page

Talks and workshops on Friday

Friday: 11:30 – 13:00

Chapters: Collaboration and Coordination

Session Chair: Lodewijk Gelauff

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
P10	Creative Commons global affiliate network–origin, role, future, including collaboration and shared learnings with Wikimedia chapters	Mike Linksvayer, Michelle Thorne, Alek Tarkowski	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, 45min	x
P22	Wikimedia Asia Project	Morgan Chan, Jeromy-Yu Chan, Ting Chen, Bishakha Datta, Josh Lim, Srinivas Gunta	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, 45min	x

Brainstorming Wikimedia and Social Media

Session Chair: Florence Devouard

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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, 1.5h	x

Wikiversity

Session Chair: Jan-Bart de Vreede

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
115	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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
116	Creating free audio for Wikimedia projects	A1	KaC	What can we do to make a collection of audio files in wikimedia useful for educational purposes	sp	x

Accessibility Workshop

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
34	First steps towards accessibility	Rodan Bury	ALL	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! ;-)	lp	x
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, 1h	x Fri/Sat

Friday: 14:30 – 16:00

MultiWikiMedia: Multimedia on Wikimedia

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	40min	x
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.	40min	x
120	Taking Wikipedia to the Third Dimension	Jacek Jankowski	Inf	Interactive three-dimensional web technologies are evolving quickly. Can we take Wikipedia to the third dimension? In the talk I will report on my research on novel 3D Web interaction techniques.	10min	x

Talk Pages / LiquidThreads

Session Chair: Erik Moeller

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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!	lp	x
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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x

Governance in Wikipedia & Wikimedia

Session Chair: Liam Wyatt

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
106	Wikimedia: Striving for an International Organisational Scope, The Importance of Culture	Delphine Ménard	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.	lp	x
51	Ius 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.	sp	x
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?	sp	x
110	Wikipedia eco-system: Power embedded in the governance infrastructure	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.	sp	x

Creating Offline Version of Wiki Content (technical: tools, openZIM, wiki2cd)

Session Chair: Manuel Scheider

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
W28	Creating offline version of Wiki content – Solutions and Challenges (Merge of W16,W22,W23)	Manuel Schneider, Santhosh Thottingal, Shiju Alex, Martin Walker	KaC/Inf	This workshop examines the available technologies for Creating Offline versions of wiki content and is divided into the following three sessions: 1. Extraction, 2. Storage, 3. Reading	Workshop, 1.5h	x

Friday: 16:30 – 18:00

Usability Initiative & Informing Design with Data

Session Chair: Jacek Jankowski

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
P19	The future of User experience at Wikimedia	Guillaume Paumier	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.	Q&A session	x
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 Wikimedia Fundraising team used analytics to improve decision making.	sp	x

About Us – Wikipedians: Motivations, Identities, Traits

Session Chair: Stuart Geiger

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x
108	Editing 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. Presentation	sp	x Fri/Sat-Mor
P14	Social identity enactment and roles creation in Wikipedia community	Dariusz Jemielniak	PaC	I will discuss the different roles taken by Wikipedians and try to interpret them through power/knowledge twixt.	sp	x

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Session Chair: Melissa Hagemann

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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, 50min	x Fri
118	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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x Sat/Sun

Community driven publishing of Wikipedia Books

Session Chair: Heiko Hees

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
W19	Publishing Wikipedia Books: Implementing a community driven process to get Wikipedia into book stores	Heiko Hees	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, 1,5h	x

Saturday details on a separate page

Talks and workshops on Saturday

Saturday: 09:00 – 11:00

Chapters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Session Chair: User:Coren

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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, 1h	x Fri/Sat
P8	Conflicts between local Wikimedia chapters and their respective editor communities	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, 1h	x Sat/Sun

Wikipedia Offline e.g. Books

Session Chair: Beatriz Busaniche

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
W30	Strategies to select and assess content for offline versions like published books or offline readers (Split/Merge of W28,W19)	Shiju Alex, Martin Walker, Heiko Hees	KaC/Inf	This workshop examines the selection process' necessary for Creating Offline versions of wiki content. The tools and technology used for meeting the challenges at each stage will be discussed.	Workshop, 1,5h	x

Scripting, Testing, Extension Management

Session Chair: Markus Glaser

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x Fri/Sat
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.	sp	x Sat/Sun
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, 1h	x Sat/Sun

Wiki-based Scientific Writing

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	sp	x
W27	power to the writing process	Henning Klein, Matthias Wernicke, Frederic Matthe	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, 90	x

Saturday: 11:30 – 13:00

Wiki Community Best Practices

Session Chair: Brianna Laugher

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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, 60	x

Getting Video on Wikipedia #1

Session Chair: Arno Bakker

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	Workshop, 3h	x

Semantic MediaWiki #1

Session Chair: Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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.	Tutorial, 60min	x Fri/Sat/Sun-Mor (58!)

Internationalization

Session Chair: User:Millosh

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
P16	Mediawiki internationalization and community feedback (tentative)	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, 50min	x
50	Interlanguage links in Wikipedia: current problems and future development	~~Innocenti V. Maresin~~ Kalan and/or Amir E. Aharoni	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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x

Saturday: 14:30 – 16:00

Ortega & Möller

Session Chair: Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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).	30min + 15min Q&A	x Sut/Sun (P4!)
78	Beyond the Encyclopedia: The Frontiers of Free Knowledge	Erik Möller	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?	30min + 15min Q&A	x

Getting Video on Wikipedia #2

Session Chair: Arno Bakker

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	Workshop, 3h	x

Semantic MediaWiki #2

Session Chair: Frank Dengler

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x Fri/Sat/Sun-Mor
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x

Translation

Session Chair: Tim Moritz Hector

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x Fri/Sat
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.	lp	will not attend[1]
64	Reciprocal Enrichment between Wikipedia and Machine Translators	Mikel Iturbe, 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.	lp	x

Saturday: 16:30 – 18:00

Exodus: Is Wikipedia Dying or Maturing?

Session Chair: Liam Wyatt

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x Cancelled
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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?	sp	x

Wikipedias Are NOT Equal

Session Chair: Gomà

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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, and German. Once the technical issues are solved, we can expect languages like Hindi, Bengali, Arabic to do much better.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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, 50min	x Fri/Sat

Maps and Geo-information & SMW-based Language Wikis

Session Chair: Fabrizio Orlandi

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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.	lp	x
74	The Language Commons Wiki	Ed Bice, Steven Bird, Kurt Bollacker, Gary Simons, Laura Welcher	KaC	Building a structured wiki of open data for all of the world's languages	sp	x
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.	sp	x

For Developers: Free Software, Batch Uploading

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
W2	Free Software for Users	Francisco Treviño	Inf	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, 40min	x
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.	lp	x

Saturday: 18:30 – 20:00

Libraries, Governments, and Enterprises

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
119	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?	lp	x
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.	sp	x
97	Wiki Platforms in High Assurance Environments: Beyond Intellipedia	Nathan Singleton, Peter Gehres, John Hale	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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x Sat/Sun

Sunday details on a separate page

Talks and workshops on Sunday

Sunday: 11:30 – 13:00

Academic Researchers and Wikipedia

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
75	The State of Wikimedia Scholarship 2009-2010: WikiSym and Beyond	Benjamin Mako Hill, Felipe Ortega and Jodi Schneider	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.	45min	x Sat/Sun
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, 45min	x

From WMF with Love: Update for Developers

Session Chair: Jacek Jankowski

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
56	Wikimedia's Mobile & Offline initiatives	Tomasz Finc	Inf	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 strategic partnerships that are being explored.	lp	x
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.	lp	x
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, 30min	x

Free Culture and Humanities

Session Chair: Jan-Bart de Vreede

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
P20	Towards a free culture and access to knowledge movement?	Simona Levi, Mayo Fuster Morell	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, 1h	x

Next generation Hypertext structures for Wikipedia

Session Chair: Jakob Voss

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	sp	x
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?	lp	x
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?	sp	x
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. View and download PowerPoint slides	sp	x

Sunday: 14:30 – 16:00

Strategy

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x
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?	User:WereSpielChequers	KaC	Discussion of one of EN Wiki's more turbulent areas with a diverse panel of Wikipedians.	Panel, 40min	x

Research on Wikipedia: HowTo

Session Chair: Jodi Schneider

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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, 45min	x Sat/Sun
W4	Understanding Wikimedians: Practical Tools for Academic Research	Jonathan Morgan (presenting author), Jamie Ourada, 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, 45min	x

Education

Session Chair: Jan-Bart de Vreede

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x

Cultural Heritage and Wikipedia

Session Chair: User:Benjamin Mako Hill

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
113	Submissions/Wikipedian in Residence	Liam Wyatt	KaC	Outcomes and lessons learned from being the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum	lp	x
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.	sp	x
117	Submissions/Digitization of cultural heritage in Argentina	Beatriz Busaniche,	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.	sp	x
W13	Houbraken Project	Jane023	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!	sp	x

Sunday: 16:30 – 18:00

Outreach

Session Chair: User:Benjamin Mako Hill

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
81	Wikiexpedition – an approach to mix outreach and data colecting social activites	Kocio and Przykuta	PaC	Wikiexpedition – 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.	sp	x
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.	lp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x

Wikipedia Credibility

Session Chair:

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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?	lp	x Sat/Sun
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	sp	x

Role of Women & WikiProjects Management

Session Chair: Brianna Laugher

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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?	lp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x

Wikis of the World

Session Chair: Asaf Bartov

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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.	sp	x
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.	sp	x
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).	sp	x (10min)
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.	sp	x
25	A Proposed Agenda for the Wikimedia Movement in Developing Nations	Asaf Bartov (WMIL)	PaC	The talk will present the results of a working group from the Chapters Conference in Berlin 2010, on how to further the Wikimedia Vision in developing nations ("The Global South"). This paper is the basis of a new open-to-all interest group that's forming these days. Join the group here	sp	x

Posters

Bib	Title	Presenter (first author)	Track	Summary	Type	Confirmed
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	x
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	x
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	x
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	x
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	x
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	x
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	x
W18	Poop patrol	WereSpielChequers	KaC	Find typos that spellcheckers can't spot and vandalism that Huggle can't hinder.	Poster	x