WikiSym 2007

Program at a Glance

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Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Open Space (8:00-17:30), 510D

Organizer: Ted Ernst

You can think of Open Space as a meeting that consists exclusively of good coffee breaks. With this format, issues that are MOST important to the participants are raised and addressed by those most qualified and capable of getting something done on each of them.

Wiki Creole Workshop (9:00 - 12:00), 510C

Organizers: Christoph Sauer, Chuck Smith, Tomas Benz

Over the past year we have been working together to create a "Creole" markup which would not be a replacement to current wiki markup, but rather a markup to be used alongside existing markup, to make it easier for people to work across multiple wikis with a unified syntax. Now we need to work together to spread this spec and popularize it among wiki users worldwide. We will discuss Creole's current status, implementations, testing, relation to other markups, promotional materials, user education, and how to involve more people in the effort.

Wikis for SE Workshop (13:30 - 17:00), 510C

Organizers: Ademar Aguiar, Paulo Merson, Uri Dekel

• Invited talk by Ward Cunningham
• Short presentations and demos
• Posters time (coffee-break)
• Open discussion
• Group discussions and conclusions

Wiki Film Festival (19:00 - 20:15), 510B

Organizer: Chuck Smith

• Truth in Numbers: Wikipedia by Nic Hill (30 min)
• The Wiki Way by Rory O'Connor and Global Vision (15 min)
• Wikis in Plain English by Common Craft (4 min)
• Open Frame: Cinema Verite Conference Video of RecentChangesCamp2006 by Geri Weis-Corbley (20 min)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Open Space (8:00-17:30) 510D

Organizer: Ted Ernst

You can think of Open Space as a meeting that consists exclusively of good coffee breaks. With this format, issues that are MOST important to the participants are raised and addressed by those most qualified and capable of getting something done on each of them.

WikiSym Keynote (8:30 - 10:00), 510B

"Living Without Parental Control"

• Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research

Papers: Wiki Technology (10:30 - 12:00), 510A

Session Chair: Alain Désilets

Full papers

• C. Sauer, C. Smith, & T. Benz. WikiCreole: A Common Wiki Markup.
• R. Witte & T. Gitzinger. Connecting Wikis and Natural Language Processing Systems.

• J. C. Morris & C. Lüer. DistriWiki: A Distributed Peer-to-Peer Wiki.
• M. Sabel. Structuring Wiki Revision History.

Panel: Wiki Patterns: What Works and What Doesn't? (10:30 - 12:00), 510B

Moderator: Stewart Mader

Panelists

• Anne Goldenberg
• Ted Ernst
• Eugene Kim
• Sunir Shah
• Angela Beesley
• Dirk Riehle

Short papers

• S. Guth. Wikis in Education: Is Public Better?
• C. Roth. Viable Wikis.

Tutorial: Wikis in the Workplace (13:30 - 17:00), 510A

Instructor: Peter Thoeny.

Learn exactly what a wiki is from the founder of TWiki, the leading wiki for corporate collaboration and knowledge management. In this overview session, Peter Thoeny will review how you can use a wiki to enhance your corporate communications within your organization and between organizations for a competitive advantage.

Wiki in Education (13:30 - 15:00), 510B

Session Chair: Mark Bernstein

Full Papers

• A. Forte & A. Bruckman. Constructing Text: Wiki as a Toolkit for Learning.
• A. Bruns & S. Humphreys. Building Collaborative Capacities in Learners: The M/Cyclopedia Project, Revisited.

• X. de Pedro. New method using Wikis and forums to assess individual contributions.
• M. Cubric. Wiki-based Framework for Blended Learning.

Wiki Communites (15:30 - 17:00), 510B

Session Chair: Phoebe Ayers

Full Papers

• J. M. Reagle. Do As I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia.
• J. F. Ortega & J. G. Gonzalez-Barahona. Quantitative Analysis of the Wikipedia Community of Users.

• D. M. Wilkinson & B. A. Huberman. Cooperation and Quality in Wikipedia.
• R. Priedhorsky, B. Jordan, & L. Terveen. How a Personalized Geowiki Can Help Bicyclists Share Information More Effectively.

WikiSym Posters and Demos (17:30 - 19:00), 710

Session Chairs: Angela Beesley and Andrea Forte

Held at same time as the ooPSLA welcome reception and posters session. Look for specially identified WikiSym section.

Tuesday, October 23rd

Open Space (8:00-17:30) 510D

Organizer: Ted Ernst

You can think of Open Space as a meeting that consists exclusively of good coffee breaks. With this format, issues that are MOST important to the participants are raised and addressed by those most qualified and capable of getting something done on each of them.

ooPSLAKeynote (8:30 - 10:00), 517A

"Once Upon a Time: Like Never Before: The Challenge of Telling the Next Story"

• Peter Turchi, author of "Maps of the Imagination"

Collaborative Technologies (10:30 - 12:00), 510A

Session Chair: Ademar Aguiar

Full papers

• D. Frankowski et al. Recommenders Everywhere: The WikiLens Community-Maintained.
• J. Rick. AniAniWeb: A Wiki Approach to Personal Home Pages.

• W. Xiao, C. Chi, M. Yang. On-line Collaborative Software Development via Wiki.
• U. Dekel. A Framework for Studying the Use of Wikis in Knowledge Work Using Client-Side Access Data.

Panel: Political Wikis (10:30 - 12:00), 510B

Session Chair: Robert Biddle

Short Paper:

• Renée-Marie Fountain. Conceptual enhancement via textual plurality: a wiki genuflect towards “intra-textuality”

ooPSLA Invited Talk (13:30-15:00), 517A

"Second Life: The World's Biggest Programming Environment"

• Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner

WikiSym Invited Talk (15:30-17:00), 510B

"Agile Trust, Wiki Nature, and Business Logic Futures"

• Ward Cunningham, AboutUS

Open Space and Conference Wrapup (17:00-17:30), 510B