Submissions/Covering the Wikimania community
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010. |
- Title of the submission
- Documentary Screening: Truth in Numbers, Covering the Wikimania community
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
- Presentation, film, panel
- Author of the submission
- Andrew Lih and Nic Hill
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
- andrew@andrewlih.com
- Country of origin
- United States
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
- University of Southern California
- Personal homepage or blog
- http://andrewlih.com
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
We propose a screening of the just completed feature documentary, "Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story" [1] [2] by Nic Hill and hold a panel discussion afterwards about the experience of chasing and covering Wikipedians all over the globe. Andrew Lih, author of "The Wikipedia Revolution" will lead a panel with Nic discussing the experience of filming Wikipedians around the globe, and the challenge of covering the community of Wikipedia and Wikimedia contributors in the context of recent developments. A teaser trailer was shown at Wikimania 2008 to warm reception by the audience in Taiwan. It would be a great event to have all the attendees in a venue large enough for a screening all together.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
- People and community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- Yes
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