Hi all,
The deadlines for submitting a presentation to Wikimania
2006, the
annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation, have been
extended.
Please see below, and re-distribute widely.
Thank you,
Phoebe Ayers
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Call for Participation -- Wikimania 2006 -- Aug. 4 - Aug. 6,
Cambridge, MA
For more information, see the Wikimania website:
http://wikimania20
06.wikimedia.org
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About Wikimania
Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikipedia and
other
Wikimedia projects. It is both a scientific conference and a
community
event, open to the public. Wikimania is a place for users
and editors
of the projects to gather from around the globe, to meet
each other,
to exchange ideas, and to report on research and projects.
This year's
conference will be held from 4-6 August, 2006, on the
Harvard Law
School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
We are accepting submissions for papers, posters,
presentations,
workshops, and discussion groups. We are also accepting
nominations
for speakers and speaker panels, and suggestions for other
activities.
Everyone is welcome to submit abstracts and ideas. Be bold
in your
submissions!
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Important dates:
* 15 April 2006: Proposal deadline for workshops and
tutorials
Notification of acceptance: by April 30
* 30 April 2006: Abstracts due for panels, papers, posters
and presentations
Notification of acceptance: by May 15
* 1 July 2006: Final submissions due
* 4-6 Aug 2006: Wikimania
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Conference Themes
Submissions should address one or more of the following
themes:
* Technical infrastructure -- Issues related to Mediawiki
development
and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for
development
(including case studies from other wikis or similar
projects).
* Wikimedia projects and content -- Presentation of
interesting
projects and results; future aims of the projects and types
of
distribution; ways to improve content quality. New uses for
project
content: in education, journalism, research, &c.
* Free knowledge and access to information -- Present and
future free
knowledge initiatives; related library and archival projects
around
the world and input from librarians and archivists; ways to
gather and
distribute knowledge.
* Wiki social science -- The contributors and users (who are
they?
Where do they come from?); reputation and identity issues;
conflict
resolution and community dynamics; scaling digital
communities.
Languages and cultures and their interactions online;
multilingualism
via wikis. Linguistics studies on wiki communities.
* Law and Policy -- Copyleft, collective copyright, special
issues
pertaining to communal editing and distribution; other legal
areas for
which Wiki[mp]edia is an interesting case study. Policy
creation
within individual projects.
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Submissions
Types of Submissions:
* Panels (Suggest a group of 2-5 speakers on a specific
subject)
* Workshops (From 30-120 minutes)
* Presentations (10-30 minute presentations/papers)
* Posters (Printed presentations or visual displays that can
stand on their own)
* BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather/discussion sessions - 45-60
minutes of
group discussion)
We are also accepting artistic submissions, especially
visualizations
or other representations of some aspect of the projects.
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Submission format
* All submissions must include a title and an abstract of
100 to 300
words. They should also list the full name (and wiki name if
appropriate) of the submitter, with contact information and
affiliations. Special requirements for the presentation
(equipment for
a workshop or panel) should be noted. The abstracts should
be provided
as plain text, and not as file attachments.
* Workshop submissions should include a 1-2pp overview of
the areas to
be covered or taught.
* Speaker panel submissions should include short biographies
of each
suggested panelist.
* Paper and Presentation submissions may include a link to a
draft of
the paper or slides, if available. State clearly whether the
submission concerns a specific wiki project, and whether the
presentation is intended to be a specific length.
* BOF proposals should describe the significance of and
community
interest in the topic, and name the proposed discussion
leader(s).
To process your submission, please see our submission system
-
http://cfp.wikim
ania.wikimedia.org/. Send questions or
suggestions to cfp <at> wikimedia.org .
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Final Submissions
Final submissions must be provided in an open format
(OpenOffice,
LaTeX sources, HTML...) and licensed under a free content
license (GFDL
or CC-BY-SA).
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Stipends
A limited number of stipends will be available to those
unable to
obtain funding to attend the conference. Accepted presenters
are
encouraged to apply if assistance is needed.
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