Semantify Wikipedia! Final CfP: The 2006 Wiki Symposium

WikiSym 2006 is upon us in two weeks. To get an 
idea of what the conference will be like, please view the WikiSym program:

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/program.html

You may also enjoy the "How and Why Wikipedia 
Works" interview with our keynoter:

http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html

Finally, I expect semantic wikis to be an important topic at the conference.


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

WIKISYM 2006: THE 2006 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIKIS

August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark

CO-LOCATED WITH ACM HYPERTEXT 2006

See http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006

Archival - Peer Reviewed - ACM Sponsored

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING: June 19, 2006



GENERAL INFORMATION

This year's Wiki Symposium brings together wiki 
researchers and practitioners in the historic and 
beautiful city of Odense, Denmark, on August 
21-23, 2006. Participants will present, discuss, 
and move forward the latest advances in wiki 
contents, sociology, and technology. The 
symposium program offers invited talks by Angela 
Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug 
Engelbart and Eugene E. Kim ("The Augmented 
Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information") 
and Ward Cunningham ("Design Principles of 
Wikis"). The research paper track presents and 
discusses breaking wiki research, the panels let 
you listen to and contribute to topics like 
"Wikis in Education" and "The Future of Wikis", 
and the workshops let you get active and 
contribute to on-going research and practitioner 
work with your peers. (Many workshops accept 
walk-ins, so it is not too late!) What's more, 
for the first time, we will have an on-going 
openspace track (to replace BOFs) so you can get 
active and involved in an organized fashion on 
any wiki topic you like. We believe this is how 
to get the most out of your experience at WikiSym 2006!

And, of course, if you can't wait, please join 
our conversation on wiki research and practice on 
the symposium wiki at http://ws2006.wikisym.org



PROGRAM OVERVIEW

See http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/program.html

Keynotes and invited talks:

* Angela Beesley: How and Why Wikipedia Works
* Doug Engelbart and Eugene E. Kim: The Augmented Wiki
* Mark Bernstein: Intimate Information
* Ward Cunningham: Design Principles of Wiki

Panels on:

* Wikis in Education
* The Future of Wikis

Research papers and practitioner reports on:

* wiki technology
* wiki sociology and philosophy
* wiki uses, for example, in software, education, and politics

and many more, see http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/program.html#Papers

Workshops on:

* wikis in education
* wikipedia research
* wiki markup standards
* wikis and the semantic web

And, of course: Demos! We have pre-set demos, but 
please feel free to bring your own notebook! We 
will provide space for you to demo on-the-spot in 
our Monday night demo session, a favorite from WikiSym 2005.



SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS

Handled through the Hypertext 2006 website:

* Conference registration: 
http://hypertext.expositus.com/information.asp?Page=76&menu=13
* Conference hotel: 
http://hypertext.expositus.com/information.asp?Page=93&menu=13
* Travel information: 
http://hypertext.expositus.com/information.asp?Page=91&menu=13



SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany (Symposium Chair)
Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, U.S.A.
Kouichirou Eto, AIST, Japan (Publicity Co-Chair)
Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, U.S.A.
Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern Switzerland (Workshop Chair)
Matthias L. Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany (Panel Chair)
Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software, Austria (Publicity Co-Chair)
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Sebastien Paquet, Socialtext, U.S.A. (Demonstrations Chair)
Sunir Shah, University of Toronto, Canada (Publicity Co-Chair)



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Program Chair)
Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Alain Désilet, NRC, CNRC, Canada
Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Samuel J. Klein, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Received on Monday, 7 August 2006 10:40:59 UTC