[kaltura-widget wid="erfbxuyt8g" width="400" height="365" addpermission="" editpermission="" /] Last year, I interviewed attendees why they attended WikiSym. Over the next few days drop in and see why this conference is a must for Companies, Consultants, Academics and Practitioners alike. Martin Cleaver Special Kudos to Kaltura.com for sponsoring the Media portion of WikiSym 2009.

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Authors: Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli (Palo Alto Research Center) (United States) Abstract: Prior research on Wikipedia has characterized the growth in content and editors as being fundamentally exponential in nature, extrapolating current trends into the future. We show that recent editing activity suggests that Wikipedia growth has slowed, and [...]

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It is less than two weeks now until the September 17th early registration deadline for WikiSym 2009, which will give you reduced fees and guaranteed participation! Check out the WikiSym 2009 program full of research and experience talks, open space collaboration, tutorials and workshops, panels, demos, etc. You’ll get to see and meet the leaders [...]

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Authors: Felix Halim, Wu Yongzheng, and Roland Yap (National University of Singapore) (Singapore) Abstract: Wikipedia has been very successful as an open encyclopedia which is editable by anybody. However, the anonymous nature of Wikipedia means that readers may have less trust since there is no way of verifying the credibility of the authors or contributors. [...]

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Authors: Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara(NICT)(Japan), and Yasushi Kiyoki(NICT/Keio University)(Japan) Abstract: This paper presents a new Wiki called SAVVY Wiki that realizes context-oriented, collective and collaborative knowledge management environments that are able to reflect users’ intentions and recognitions. Users can collaboratively organize fragmentary knowledge with the help of the SAVVY Wiki. Fragmentary knowledge, in [...]

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Debatepedia Founder Brooks Lindsay will host a panel focusing on projects and individuals attempting to build what amounts to “the Wikipedia of debates” or “the Wikipedia of pros and cons”. The panel will bring together Debatepedia founder Brooks Lindsay, Debatewise founder David Crane, Opposing Views founder Russell Fine, and ProCon.org editor Kambiz Akhavan. We will [...]

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