Category Archives: Wikimedia

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Author: Urs Egli (Egli Partners Attorneys-at-Law, Zurich, Switzerland) and Peter Sommerlad (HSR Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil, Switzerland) Abstract: This practitioner report gives an overview the experiences of a law firm with adopting Wiki Webs for knowledge management and collaboration over … Continue reading →

Authors: Johannes Hoffart and Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych Abstract: We present an architecture for integrating a set of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques with a wiki platform. This entails support for adding, organizing, and finding content in the wiki. … Continue reading →

Authors: Joachim Kimmerle, Johannes Moskaliuk, and Ulrike Cress (University of Tuebingen) (Germany) Abstract: Learning “the wiki way”, learning through wikis is a form of self-regulated learning that is independent of formal learning settings and takes place in a community of … Continue reading →

The registration for WikiSym 2009 is open! Please register first on the wiki and then for the (physical) event, if you want to attend in person. 1.  2.  The event registration is handled by the OOPSLA registration system. If you … Continue reading →

WikiSym 2009, Closing Keynote, Tuesday October 27, 2009 Speaker: Brion Vibber (CTO, Wikimedia Foundation) Abstract: Collaborative communities such as those building wikis and open source software often discover that their human interactions have just as many scaling problems as their … Continue reading →