From WikiSym 2008

Contents 1 Conference Program 2 Program Day by Day 3 Program Overview 3.1 OpenSpace 3.2 Keynote and Invited Speakers 3.3 Research Papers and Practitioners Reports 3.3.1 Session "Innovative Wikis" 3.3.2 Session "Wiki and Language" 3.3.3 Session "Wiki Writers" 3.3.4 Session "Knowledge Representation and Learning" 3.3.5 Session "Models, Architecture, and Other Vexations" 3.3.6 Session "Wiki Analysis, Growth, and Trust" 3.4 Workshops 3.5 Panels 3.6 DoctoralSpace 3.7 Posters 3.8 Demos 3.9 WikiFest 3.10 Tutorials 4 How The Program Is Chosen 5 More information

Conference Program

WikiSym 2008 offers a rigorously reviewed research paper track, as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, workshops, panels, demonstrations, tutorials, and informal but lively OpenSpace and WikiFest sessions.

In addition, WikiSym 2008 will have a set of invited talks.

For the first time this year, there will be a DoctoralSpace, an interactive forum for doctoral students to provide guidance on their doctoral work, a WikiFest and a WikiWalk.

The social program will help participants know more about each others and Porto city.

Program Day by Day

Conference Days

• Monday, September 8: Opening, OpenSpace, Workshops, Tutorials, DoctoralSpace, Welcome Reception, Posters
• Tuesday, September 9: Keynote, OpenSpace, Research Papers, Invited Talk, Demos, Social Event (bus sightseeing, boat trip, Port Wine Cellars, Dinner, Music, etc...)
• Wednesday, September 10: Keynote, OpenSpace, Research Papers, Demos, Panel, Closing

Post-conference

• Thursday, September 11: WikiWalk

Program Overview

The conference committee is concluding the program and schedule. Meanwhile, we can advance some of the information that is already defined. More details will be available soon.

OpenSpace

The OpenSpace will wrap all WikiSym 2008 program. It will be three full days of OpenSpace. A lot of (un)conference space for you, your topic, and all the ideas that will emerge during WikiSym.

Everything will start and end in the OpenSpace.

• 1 OpenSpace Opening
• 2 Morning News
• ~12 OpenSpace Sessions addressing many possible topics, some of which will be certain: WikiMetrics and Wikipedia Studies, Wiki Law, Semantic Wiki, Wikis in Education, Application Wikis, and surely all the topics you would like to discuss.
• 2 Afternoon News
• 1 OpenSpace Closing

As a post-conference event, WikiWalk will let you walk and talk about wikis and the city of Porto, while visiting some of the historical streets and places of Porto. It will be an open event that all interested on joining will be welcome!

Keynote and Invited Speakers

• George T. Landow, Professor of Art and History at Brown University
• Stewart Nickolas, IBM Emerging Technologies
• Dan Ingalls, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Research Papers and Practitioners Reports

Session "Innovative Wikis"

• "LBWiki: A Location-Based Wiki", David E. Millard, Rebecca Lewis, and Yvonne Howard
• "Socs: Increasing Social and Group Awareness for Wikis by Example of Wikipedia", Claus Atzenbeck and David L. Hicks
• "ShyWiki-A Spatial Hypertext Wiki", Carlos Solis and Nour Ali
• "ThinkSpace: the collaborative process of designing new technologies for the classroom", Jane Alexen Shuyska and Chris Davies

Session "Wiki and Language"

• "Translating the DEMGOL Etymological Dictionary of Greek Mythology with the BEYTrans Wiki", Kyo Kageura, Christian Boitet, Francesca Marzari, Yousef Bey
• "The Cross-Lingual Wiki Engine: Enabling Collaboration Across Language Barriers", Louis-Philippe Huberdeau, Sébastien Paquet, and Alain Désilets
• "Enabling Community Creation of Linguistic Data", A.Kumaran and K. Saravanan

Session "Wiki Writers"

• "Measuring Author Contributions to the Wikipedia", B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Ian Pye, Vishwanath Raman
• "A Method for Measuring Co-authorship Relationships in MediaWiki", Libby Veng-Sam Tang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, and Simon Fong
• "A Study of Ontology Convergence in a Semantic Wiki", Chrysovalanto Kousetti, David E. Millard, and Yvonne Howard

Session "Knowledge Representation and Learning"

• "A Motivating and Enabling Collection: Building Organizational Memory with a Workgroup Wiki", Sean Munson
• "Visualizing Wiki-Supported Knowledge Building: Co-Evolution of Individual and Collective Knowledge", Andreas Harrer, Johannes Moskaliuk, Joachim Kimmerle , Ulrike Cress
• "Wiki-based Collaborative Learning: Incorporating Self-Assessment Tasks", Ben Liu, Hehie Chen, and Wei He

Session "Models, Architecture, and Other Vexations"

• "A Grammar for Standardized Wiki Markup", Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Rama Gurram, Matthias Kaiser, Mário Lopes, Umit Yalcinalp
• "A bliki model to support political discourse formation", Rui Pedro Lourenço
• "Security of Community Developed and 3rd party Wiki Plug-ins", Andy Webber

Session "Wiki Analysis, Growth, and Trust"

• "Wiki Trust Metrics based on Phrasal Analysis", Mark Kramer, Andy Gregorowicz, Bala Iyer
• "WikiChanges - Exposing Wikipedia Revision Activity", Sergio Nunes, Cristina Ribeiro, Gabriel David
• "Assigning Trust to Wikipedia Content", B. Thomas Adler, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faella, Ian Pye, and Vishwanath Raman
• "Measuring Wiki Viability", Camille Roth ,Dario Taraborelli , Nigel Gilbert

Workshops

• Babel Wiki '08; Cross-Lingual Collaboration, Seb Paquet, Alain Désilets, Xavier de Pedro
• Wikis For Software Engineering, Ademar Aguiar, Paulo Merson, Uri Dekel
• Interdisciplinary Research on Wikipedia and Wiki Communities, Joseph Reagle, Felipe Ortega, Antonio J. Reinoso, Rut Jesus

Panels

• "Application Wikis", Stewart Nickolas, Peter Thoeny, Ludovic Dubost, Dirk Riehle, (tba)

DoctoralSpace

TBA

Posters

TBA

Demos

TBA

WikiFest

TBA

Tutorials

• "How to effectively deploy an application wiki at work", Peter Thoeny, TWiki.net
• "TikiWiki CMS/Groupware: when a Wiki is not enough", Marc Laporte, TikiWiki.org
• "Grow Your wiki", Stewart Mader, Atlassian
• "TiddlyWiki"

How The Program Is Chosen

"The primary duty of the program committee is to ensure the integrity and the reliability of the research literature. People who attend the conference, or who consult its Proceedings in the future, must be confident that the results reported here are honest, accurate, and may be relied upon."

"This differs from the duty of a commercial conference like TED, which must consider first what might best attract and entertain its customers. It differs, too, from conferences that cultivate movements, such as SEED or An Event Apart, where the program seeks to advance a professional goal, or where the intent is to train people in the techniques that have made some of their colleagues particularly successful."

Program chair Mark Bernstein is writing a series of notes on the way program committees work. See http://www.markbernstein.org/May0801/WikiSymPlanning.html

More information

If you are not finding the information you look for, please don't hesitate to contact Ademar Aguiar through chair@wikisym.org.