One of the traditions of WikiSym is “Open Space”. Our facilitator this year is Ted Ernst, a long-time member of the WikiSym community. Starting in 2005 as an attendee, Ted has subsequently served as an Open Space facilitator or co-facilitator in 2006, 2007, and 2008. What does Ted do when he’s not at WikiSym? “You [...]

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Last but not least, the posters session will feature the 15 posters listed below, along with 8 more from the doctoral consortium selectees, with authors available and excited to chat with you about their work. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Wikipedia Category Visualization Using Radial Layout. Robert P. Biuk-Aghai [...]

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The demos session will feature four awesome demonstrations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Wikiotics: The Interactive Language Instruction Wiki Ian Sullivan, James R. Garrison, Matthew Curinga While most existing wiki systems are geared toward editing text documents, we have built Wikiotics to enable the collaborative creation of interactive multimedia [...]

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The closing keynote at WikiSym 2011 will be delivered by Dr. Ed Chi, a staff research scientist at Google and a well-known figure in the HCI community, with over 80 research publications. Model-Driven Research in Social Computing Research in Augmented Social Cognition is aimed at enhancing the ability of a group of people to remember, [...]

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The WikiSym 2011 Doctoral Symposium will be held as a pre-conference event on October 2nd, 2011 on the campus of Stanford University. Accepted PhD students have been invited to present their dissertation work and participate in discussions and feedback sessions with three faculty mentors: Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota Coye Cheshire, University of California at [...]

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In partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, we are pleased to announce the winners of WikiViz 2011, a visualization contest focused on exploring how Wikipedia, in concert with other open data sources, has made the world a better place. The contest solicited “the most effective, compelling, and creative data-driven visualizations of how Wikipedia impacted the world [...]

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The technical session Sustaining Open Collaboration will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Don’t Bite the Newbies: How Reverts Affect the Quantity and Quality of Wikipedia Work Aaron Halfaker, Aniket Kittur, John Riedl Reverts are important to maintaining the quality of Wikipedia. They fix mistakes, repair vandalism, [...]

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Just in time for the International Day of Being Awesome, we are pleased to announce the Best Paper awards for WikiSym 2011. One long paper and one short paper have been selected on the basis of outstanding reviews and evaluation by our awards committee. By coincidence only, both papers address similar themes. The Best Full [...]

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The technical session Wikis in the Workplace will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. The Success of Corporate Wiki Systems: An End User Perspective Zeeshan Ahmed Bhatti, Serge Baile, Hina Mahboob Yasin With the ever increasing use of Web 2.0 sites on the internet, the use of [...]

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The technical session Wikipedia as a Global Phenomenon will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices, and Structures in Wikipedia’s Coverage of the Tōhoku Catastrophes Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle, Noshir Contractor Wikipedia editors are uniquely motivated to collaborate around current and breaking [...]

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