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Sunday, 25th October 2009

The Fifth International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration Begins Today

WikiSym begins today in Orlando, FL. at Disney's Contemporary Resort.

From the Web Site:

WikiSym is a symposium (conference) series dedicated to wiki and open collaboration research and practice.

Here's a link to the program and another link to the proceedings.

Here are links to abstracts for some of the sessions that we found most interesting:

+ Opening Keynote: Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg (IBM Research)

+ Closing Keynote: Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site by Brion Vibber (Wikimedia Foundation)

+ Understanding Learning - the Wiki Way by Joachim Kimmerle, Johannes Moskaliuk, and Ulrike Cress (University of Tuebingen) (Germany)

+ rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History by Michael D. Ekstrand, and John T. Riedl (University of Minnesota) (USA)

+ The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia by Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli (Palo Alto Research Center) (USA)

+ Analyzing the Wikisphere by Jeff Stuckman and James Purtilo (University of Maryland, College Park) (USA)

+ Social Search and Need-driven Knowledge Sharing in Wikis with Woogle by Hans-Jorg Happel (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies) (Germany)

+ A Jury of Your Peers: Quality, Experience and Ownership in Wikipedia by Aaron Halfaker (University of Minnesota), Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University, CMU), Robert Kraut (CMU), and John Riedl (University of Minnesota) (USA)

+ Organizing the Vision for Web 2.0: A Study of the Evolution of the Concept in Wikipedia by Arnaud Gorgeon and E. Burton Swanson (UCLA) (USA)

+ Practitioner Report: Wiki for Law Firms by Urs Egli (Egli Partners Attorneys-at-Law, Zurich, Switzerland) and Peter Sommerlad (HSR Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Note: We were able to access the full text of the paper (PDF) and slides.

+ Leveraging Crowdsourcing Heuristics to Improve Search in Wikipedia by Yasser Ganjisaffar, Sara Javanmardi, and Cristina Lopes (University of California, Irvine)

+ Creating “the Wikipedia of pros and cons” by Brooks Lindsay (Debatepedia) (USA)

Access the WikiSym Web Site and Archives

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