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 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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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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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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The technical session Wiki Tools and Interfaces will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: A High-Performing, Feature-Rich Model and its Reduction Through Lasso Sara Javanmardi, David W. McDonald, Cristina V. Lopes User generated content (UGC) constitutes a significant fraction of the Web. However, [...]

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The technical session Designing for Open Collaboration will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. A Meta-reflective Wiki for Collaborative Design Lu Zhu, Ivan Vaghi, Barbara Rita Barricelli This paper presents MikiWiki, a meta-reflective wiki developed to prototype key aspects of the Hive-Mind Space model. MikiWiki is aimed [...]

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The technical session Collaboration in Diverse Contexts will feature three presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. Quality is a Verb: The Operationalization of Data Quality in a Citizen Science Community S. Andrew Sheppard, Loren Terveen Citizen science is becoming more valuable as a potential source of environmental data. Involving [...]

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The technical session Understanding Wikipedia will feature four presentations. See the schedule for details on when and where to go. WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, Anuradha Uduwage, Zhenhua Dong, Shilad Sen, David R. Musicant, Loren Terveen, John Riedl Wikipedia has rapidly become an invaluable destination for mil- lions of [...]

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