So, what sort of workshops are people thinking about for the WikiSym
conference (if you haven't heard, I've appended the conference info at
the end)? This friday is the due date for submitting workshop
proposals.
Here are three of my ideas. If you would be interested in hosting or
attending any of these, please let me know:
* InterWiki workshop: discuss how to make wikis interoperate with
each other and with other software; also topics like
WikiMarkupStandard (although if there is a lot of interest in
WikiMarkupStandard, that could be its own workshop)
* PICA workshop: PICA is an idea for an organization like IETF but
for rapid, non-intimidating, semiformal proto-standards development
(that is, probably like what IETF used to be). See
http://communitywiki.org/PICA
* Wiki moderation/filtering workshop: to discuss potential
technologies for conserving the attention/time of wiki users in a busy
world. Examples: SubscribedPages, PageCluster, RecentChanges digests
in various forms, WebOfTrustModeration, ViewPoint, RatingGroups.
thanks,
-- bayle
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
2005 International Symposium on Wikis
Oct 17-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005
http://www.wikisym.org <http://www.wikisym.org/>
OVERVIEW
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki
researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of
the
symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a
rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space
for
practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored
to
announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original
WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005.
Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is
invited to WikiSym 2005!
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers
* practitioner reports
* demonstrations
* workshops
* panels
Research paper and practitioner report submissions are due
April 29, 2005
Workshop, and panel submissions are due
April 8, 2005
Demonstration submissions are due
July 1, 2005
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wikis as social software
* wiki user behavior, user dynamics
* wiki user experiences, usability
* wiki implementation experiences and technology
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* domain-specific/special-purpose wikis
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the committee to meet rigorous
academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to
advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research
or
novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience or
experimentation. They are reviewed both with respect to conceptual
quality and clarity of presentation.
Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference
proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be
referenced as papers that appeared in the /Proceedings of the 2005
International Symposium on Wikis./ At the symposium, the presenter
will
be given a 25min + 5min Q&A presentation slot. Research papers should
not be longer than 10000 words and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings
Format, see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Practitioner reports will be reviewed for suitability of presentation
to
the community. The primary evaluation criterion is the interest to the
community. Practitioner reports will be provided as part of the
companion to the conference proceedings handed out at the symposium
and
can be referenced as papers that appeared in the /Companion to the
Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis./
Practitioner
reports should not be longer than 6000 words and should meet the ACM
SIG
Proceedings Format.
Demonstration, workshop, and panel submissions will be reviewed for
their interest to the community. Submit two pages of description of
what
you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. Please include a
100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the
submission. Demonstrations will get 45min slots in a booth of their
own,
workshops will get a half-day and a room of their own, and panels will
get a 90min slot at the symposium.
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format (or postscript,
if
you must) by the respective deadline to submissions(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Town and
Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California, on Oct 17
and
18, 2005. WikiSym 2005 will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2005
conference, and participants may register for the symposium alone, or
may jointly register for OOPSLA 2005.
If you have any questions, please contact Dirk Riehle through
chair(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Dirk Riehle, Independent (chair)
Ward Cunningham, Microsoft
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington
David Ornstein, Microsoft
Sebastien Paquet, National Research Council of Canada
Stephan Schmidt, Fraunhofer FIRST
Sunir Shah, University of Toronto