On Wednesday right before lunch, we have a great panel: Apples to Oranges? Comparing across studies of open collaboration/peer production Panelists: Judd Antin, Ed H. Chi, James Howison, Sharoda Paul, Aaron Shaw, Jude Yew This panel seeks to begin a discussion of how we can meaningfully compare and contrast between the diverse instances of open [...]

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Over the next 26 days, we’ll be publishing a series of posts that highlight the awesome content that forms the WikiSym 2011 program. We’ll include titles, authors, and in some cases abstracts. Today’s installment: workshops! There will be three workshops, all on Monday, October 3. An important thing to note about WikiSym workshops is that [...]

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As you may know, at the same time WikiSym 2010 was taking place in the beautiful city of Gdańsk (Poland), last July, the WikiSym 2010 Proceedings were made available in the ACM Digital Library. We want to encourage open access to research information, so like in prior years we have uploaded all papers and submissions [...]

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In the run-up to WikiSym 2010, our sixth WikiSym, we shortly wanted to look back at our five years of successful prior WikiSym history, 2005-2009. To this end, here are links to papers, proceedings, and the event wikis. All proceedings have been archived in the ACM digital library for permanent availability to scholars and practitioners [...]

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WikiSym 2009 concluded successfully today after three days full of research and experience reports, workshops and tutorials, invited talks and keynotes, and, of course, open space. The proceedings as one record of the conference are available on the event wiki as well as the ACM Digital Library. To that official record, the WikiSym 2009 event [...]

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The WikiSym 2008 proceedings are now available on the WikiSym server at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings. These pages contain the accepted research papers and more. They will be provided through the ACM Digital Library as soon as we have gathered the workshop reports. For the time being, please help yourself at ws2008/proceedings!

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WikiSym 2007 took place in Montreal, Canada: WikiSym 2007 Website WikiSym 2007 Proceedings WikiSym 2007 Wiki The 2007 conference chair was Alain Desilets and the program chair was Robert Biddle.

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WikiSym 2006 took place in Odense, Denmark: WikiSym 2006 Website WikiSym 2006 Proceedings WikiSym 2006 Wiki (now read-only) The 2006 conference chair was Dirk Riehle and the program chair was James Noble.

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With a new website, here a bit of history on prior WikiSyms. WikiSym 2005 took place in San Diego, CA. WikiSym 2005 Website WikiSym 2005 Proceedings WikiSym 2005 Wiki (now read-only) The 2005 conference and program chair was Dirk Riehle.

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