Please find the WikiSym 2007 call for papers below.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007
In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB
See http://www.wikisym.org/
Archived * Peer Reviewed * ACM Sponsored
OVERVIEW
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki
researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to
explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a
rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space
for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. Anyone who
is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to
WikiSym 2007!
We recognize the online world is always evolving, and we also welcome
contributions which are about other online media consistent with the
wiki philosophy of being open, organic and participatory.
We are seeking submissions for
* research papers (long and short): due 7 May 2007
* workshops: due 7 May 2007
* panels: due 7 May 2007
* posters: due 9 July 2007
* demonstrations: due 9 July 2007
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis, we invite contributions
from researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields
including:
* business, marketing, law
* communications and media studies
* computer science, human-computer interaction
* history, political science, geography
* information and library science
* linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies
* natural sciences, medicine
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* wiki technologies and implementations
* wiki in the workplace; for business use
* wiki as social software for collaboration and work group processes
* wiki user experiences, usability, discourse analysis
* wiki for non-text media (images, video, audio) and spatial systems
* wiki content dynamics and evolution, wiki metrics
* wiki journalism; wiki archiving
* wiki reputation systems, quality assurance processes
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit-knowledge
* wikis for specific domains (education, genomics, politics, etc.)
* wikis written by and for small audiences (ex: family wikis)
* wiki legal issues (copyright, licensing)
* wiki translation and multilingual wiki content
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program 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 (including case studies) or experimentation. They will be
reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and clarity of
presentation. Note that authors of accepted papers are expected to attend
the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be canceled.
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 2007
International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)". We invite full
papers (recommended length of 10 to 15 pages with maximum of 20 pages,
and a 30 minute
presentation time) and short papers (maximum 6 pages, with a 15 minute
presentation time). Papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format,
see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Workshop and Panels submissions will be reviewed and selected for
their interest to the community. A submission should consist of two
pages describing what you intend to do and how you meet this
criterion. It should include a 100-word abstract and one-paragraph
bios of all people relevant to the submission. Workshops will be
allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own (depending
on your request). Panels will be given a 90 minutes time slot and a
room of their own.
Poster submissions will be reviewed on their merits and may describe
research projects or experience reports. A submission should consist
of two page extended abstract outlining the content of the
poster. Successful applicants will be invited to bring a poster for
display at the symposium. Posters must be flat and within 1mx2m in
size.
Demos will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A
submission should be one page in length, with a title, a short
description of the demo, as well as a description of any special
technical needs you may have (ex: wireless connectivity).
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective
deadline through our submission system, which will be available
through the WikiSym website. Questions should be directed respectively
at papers(a)wikisym.org (research papers and practitioner reports),
workshopsandpanels(a)wikisym.org (workshops and panels), or
demosandposters(a)wikisym.org (posters and demos).
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Palais
des Congrès in Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2007. A special hotel
rate has been negotiated at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. WikiSym 2007
will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2007 conference, and
participants may register for the symposium alone, or may jointly
register for WikiSym and OOPSLA 2007. Registration is handled through
the ACM OOPSLA website: http://oopsla.org/
If you have any questions, please contact Alain Desilets through
chair(a)wikisym.org.
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
Alain Désilet, NRC-CNRC, Canada (Symposium Chair)
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada (Program Chair)
Phoebe Ayers, U. of California Davis, USA (Wikimedia Liaison and Publicity)
Angela Beesley, Wikia / Wikimedia, USA (Posters and Demos Chair)
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA (Panels and Workshops Chair)
Ward Cunningham, Eclipse Foundation, USA (Honorary Chair)
Ted Ernst, Open Space World (Open Space Chair)
Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Publicity Chair)
Dirk Riehle, SAP, USA (Treasurer and Corporate Sponsorships)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org and StructuredWikis LLC, USA (Web Master)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Phoebe Ayers, University of California Davis, United States
Angela Beesley, Wikimedia / Wikia, United Kingdom
Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, United States
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Alain Désilets, National Research Council, Canada
Mark Gaved, The Open University, United Kingdom
Brian Greenspan, Carleton University, Canada
Beat Doebeli Honegger, UAS Northwestern, Switzerland
Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany
Elizabeth Da Lio, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California, United States
Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Michele Notari, University of Applied Sciences Berne, Switzerland
Alejandro Ramirez, Carleton University, Canada
Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, United States
Hugh Robinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Cristoff Sauer, Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany
Till Schuemmer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Sunir Shah, BibWiki.com, Canada
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Brion Vibber, Wikimedia Foundation, United States
Max Völkel, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany
Jacob Voß, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany
Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong, China
Hoi,
I met Rob Savoye of OLPC and GNASH fame at FOSDEM. Rob received a lot of
attention as a OLPC developer. Rob had one of the first systems with him. It
was really cool to hold one of these early systems and, I can really imagine
myself using it as an E-book reader :)
The reason why I write about this meeting is that Rob mentioned that he is
also involved in a search engine that will become available under a GPL
license. Rob expects that the software will debut around October. He is
looking for people with an interest in working on such a system.. If you are
interested .. rob at lulu dot com.
Thanks,
GerardM
I'll be replying to many people at once...
Claudio Mastroianni wrote on Thu Feb 8 10:38:25 UTC 2007:
>We found it (images with permission), WMF told this is not valid. We
>have no alternatives. Saying the "the italian is free to develop an
>exemption policy", then, is false.
I'm sorry, but with permission is by no means an alternative. Under
the "fair dealing" (or in the US "fair use") laws of most countries we
can use works even with the explicit disapproval of the copyright
holder, we can use works with whom we can not contact the copyright
holder, and most importantly *this ability is not limited only to us*.
Because out full goals go beyond running a website for the world to
look at, we must find solutions better than "with permission".
Claudio Mastroianni wrote on Thu Feb 8 11:27:21 UTC 2007:
>Il giorno 08/feb/07, alle ore 12:08, Gunnar René Øie ha scritto:
>> Because if the fair use claim is valid and strong enough, then
>> commercial re-users can use those fair-use images.
>Not in Italy, and in other coutries too I think.
>Gatto Nero
***Your claim that Italian copyright law does not permit fair dealing
is incorrect: ***
Under Italian law you are permitted 'abridgment, quotation or
reproduction of fragments or parts of a work for the purpose of
criticism or discussion, or for instructional purposes.'
(see Italian Copyright Act Article 70; Nimmer and Geller (1998-),
Italy, §8[2][a])
Note that parody is not permitted. But since Wikipedia should not be
performing parody, this difference is likely not material.
You will be hard pressed to find a country which does not permit
excerpting for scholarly purposes, if not by the written law then by
the actions of the courts. Such an exception from copyright is
utterly necessary for a free society. While a few such places might
exist, it is not in Wikimedia's or that world at large's interest to
allow the policies of nations which do not respect the basic
intellectual freedom of their citizens to have too much influence on
our policy.
Jon Harald Søby wrote on Thu Feb 8 12:00:15 UTC 2007:
>Wrong. If the fair use claim is valid and strong enough, then
>commercial re-users can use those fair-use images IN THE USA.
It takes some really selective reading to draw this conclusion from
the orignal post: Whenever it mentions "fair use" it also specifies
[[fair dealing]] which is the name of the same general concept in the
law of many other countries.
We can't expect, nor should we want, the board to micromanage every
detail of every action of ours. If we read the rationale of the board
post it seems clear to me that in order to meet our mission our usage
should conform to the "fair deailing"/"fair use" available in most of
the world.
More than half of the Wikimedia board is from outside the United
States. You are picking the wrong organization to blame of US
centricism.
Andre Engels wrote on Thu Feb 8 12:21:46 UTC 2007:
>Sorry, I don't think I made my point clear. What I meant was:
>"If there is a Wikipedia page with a fair use image, and the presence of
>that fair use image is (because of a strong enough fair use rationale) no
>impedence to further copying of the Wikipedia page, then having an ND image
>instead of the fair use one would definitely not be an impedence. Yet
>including the image as fair use is allowed, but including the ND image is
>not.
When we permit an image as "fair dealing" or "fair use" we do not care
what other licenses it is available under. As such, ND images are
permitted when they would be permitted as "fair dealing" / "fair use"
images no matter what their license. This is made clear in the boards
statement "Some works that are under licenses we do not accept (such
as non-derivative) may meet these conditions."
This sort of thinking about the handling of non-free licenses is not
new, Jimbo posted about it years ago.
The underlying rationale goes something like this: When we talk about
a machine, we can show a picture of it to help people understand, when
we talk about a place we can show a picture of it to help people
understand... some times we will talk about a copyrighted work, and
we should be able to show a picture of it to help people understand
what we are saying. Copyright would prevent us, but the lawmakers or
courts of most countries have realized that stifling public discourse
in this way would be a terribly blow to freedom and the ability to
educate the public. So the law permits it in many places... and we
tolerate it because we have no other choice if we are to do a really
good job of educating people.
There mere existence of a ND license for a work is substantial
evidence that we may have another choice... It is evidence that we can
probably reach the copyright the copyright holder, and it is evidence
that they are willing to consider terms that differ from "all rights
reserved".
If they are releasing under and ND license, it may even be because we
already talked to them and failed to help them understand that a basic
strong copyleft licenses will take care of most of the things that
they really care about, such as preventing the fraud of someone making
new versions and blaming them on the original author.. Whenever we see
ND (and NC alike) we are seeing evidence of our own failure to
advocate truly free licenses.
David Strauss wrote on Thu Feb 8 12:42:52 UTC 2007:
>Yes, but I would want to see the ND license *and* the old fair-use
>rationale side-by-side for the image.
I would rather we not mention the ND license for an image that we use
as fair use. By doing so we would be sending the wrong message: That
ND licenses are somehow acceptable to us, even if only
conditionally... that they aren't usually a result of a
misunderstanding, and that we don't think the creative commons has
made a mistake by mixing Free Content licenses under the same brand as
far more restrictive licenses. We face a constant issue where people
ask us "Why did you delete this? I released it under creative commons
licensing so it is free!". People submit what they see, and if they
see ND they will submit more of that.
Although, I don't think it's the end of the world that we do mention
it.. it is a matter of fact, and because most of our permissible
non-free images will come from the all-rights-reserved camp, I
seriously hope we'll never see many NC / ND + "fair use" images. If
we do, then we will know what a grave mistake for the world that the
Creative Commons folks made by introducing so many licenses which are
not free enough.
Yay! It's Wikipedia Day again! Rejoice!
And just to give you a little help with that, Wikimedia Foundation and
deviantART.com bring you the Wikipedia Day Art Contest:
http://news.deviantart.com/article/25101/
We ask deviantART users to submit an artistic representation of "a
world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge." If you couldn't visualize the idea till now, the
entries in this contest are bound to change that!
You will see the entries shortly (I hope) under:
* http://browse.deviantart.com/projects/contests/2007/wikipediaday/wikipediao…
(images)
* http://browse.deviantart.com/projects/contests/2007/wikipediaday/wikipedial…
(literature)
Please, spread the word to your local Wikipedia communities and join
the fun if you have an account on deviantART (if you don't you can
easily create one for free).
Hope you have a blast out of this! Happy editing and keep on dreaming!
Questions? Ask away.
--
Łukasz 'TOR' Garczewski
These folks allow you to use a version of Yahoo! search where 50% of
ad revenue goes to a charity of your choice:
http://www.goodsearch.com/
On your first visit, you can choose the charity (Wikimedia is among
those supported). You can also review how much money has been raised
so far (apparently $3 in January). Pretty cool, IMHO. I've set it as
my default search and will see if it makes a difference. I _do_ search
a lot. :-)
Now let's hope Yahoo! doesn't suck too much compared to Google .. ;-)
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
In a message dated 2/23/2007 7:21:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cbrown1023(a)comcast.net writes:
Is your point that we should remove all "fair use images", causing the
articles to be without an image making someone donate a free one?
Cbrown1023
More or less. My point is that we don't *need* fair use images, and in this
particular instance, a fair use image would have prevented us from obtaining a
free one.
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I have tried to work out such issues with Mr. Merkey before, however he
proved unable to follow directions of any kind, so it was a waste of
both our and his time to do so.
If someone other than Mr. Merkey is experiencing these problems, I would
very much like them to contact me to get them sorted out as soon as
possible.
I will not be available during the coming week, however, as I am in the
process of moving; I will be available during US east coast office hours
from March 5.
Again, if *anyone* *other* than Mr. Merkey is experiencing these
problems, please contact me; I would very much like to get them sorted
out if they actually exist and affect current release versions of
MediaWiki and mwdumper.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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This is posted here for the foundation to consider rather than on
Wikitech as these issues affect the credibility of the Foundation.
Posts on these issues to Wikitech get ignored and/or are not responded
to at all. I am writing this in response to requests to GFDL enable the
wikigadugi.org sites. I am unable to complete the process at present
because of severe problems with MediaWiki and the Foundations dumps. I
have an extensive set of tools for mirroring wikipedia and they work
very well, provided I spend a lot of needless time cleaning up after the
MediaWiki developers.
1. The current Mediawiki releases have had breakage with importDump.php
since 1.7. I have been unable to make any progress in getting
complete runs of the Foundation XML dumps to post without modification
to MediaWiki and/or writing programs to clean up NULL titles
and other problems with the dumps. Bottom line is that the mediaWiki
software DOES NOT WORK with standard XML dumps provided by the
foundation AT ALL through its sites, despite the Foundation's clear
messages this is in fact the case. This harms the reputation and
credibility of the Foundation. It needs to be addressed and fixed.
2. mwdumper does not import the dumps. It processes the files and
NOTHING shows up in the database. If these tools do not work, the Meta
pages discussing them should say so and the programs should be removed
and/or other alternatives suggested or a disclaimer should be placed
there that states this. As it stands, the information is misleading and
results in a lot of folks wasting a lot of time trying to make tools
work which clearly do not. I have found dozens of blog entries and bug
reports on these issues and the developers ignore them.
3. The Foundation needs to ask Brion Vibber and the developers to
cease posting dumps which are incompatible with MediaWiki releases and
which the developers KNOW do not work and force compliance of these
processes and mediaWiki compatibility.
In other words, I do not think its too much to ask that the XML dumps
posted by the Foundation work with the released MediaWiki versions. It
needs to be mandated and complinace required. At present, you almost
need a degree in advanced computer science to be able to fix this
stuff. I have spent several weekends debugging Brion's PHP code and
writing programs to correct these issues just so I can run import on the
latest dumps. It would be much nicer if this stuff just worked.
Posts and emails to Wikitech are typically ignored on a lot of these
issues. They need to be elevated and corrected.
Jeff
On 2/24/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> Is your point that we should remove all "fair use images", causing the
> articles to be without an image making someone donate a free one?
>
> Cbrown1023
>
Close I would suggest replaceing them with this (click the image):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet
--
geni
On 2/23/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> Is your point that we should remove all "fair use images", causing the
> articles to be without an image making someone donate a free one?
>
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
> daniwo59(a)aol.com
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:18 PM
> To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] a new free image!
>
> Today we got a nice new image on the English Wikipedia--see [[Dennis
> Johnson]], a star of the NBA, who died recently. The image has a story, and
> the
> story has a moral. I want to tell it.
>
> The creator is an established sports photographer who has worked for the
> NBA
> professional as a photographer. He is also one of the many thousands of
> uknown (to us) fans of Wikipedia who visit teh site regularly. When Johnson
> died,
> he went to the article, and noticed there was no picture, so he decided to
> donate one that he took. He called the office to ask how to do it.
>
> After speaking with him briefly, I realized that we have a potential
> treasure trove of FREE images here, which he was willing and eager to share
> with us,
> from the NBA and many other areas. I asked Greg Maxwell to speak with him
> about licensing, and the rest is history. He selected an image and released
> it
> under the GFDL license. Hopefully, there will be more to come.
>
> As for the moral of the story: we were missing an image, and someone
> decided
> to release one of his own--a high quality professional image at that. As
> for
> now, I can only wonder at the argument that we keep fairuse images until we
>
> find free ones. The fact that we did not have an image encouraged someone to
>
> "fix the problem" and provide a free one. There will likely be many more to
>
> come.
>
> So, I just want to say thank you to the photographer, who understood the
> value in what we are doing, and to Greg Maxwell, for spending time with him
> and
> explaining the free license philosophy. And I also want to thank all the
> contributors who did NOT rush to post a fairuse image. Because of that, a
> magnificent image is now free.
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The point is that fair use only applies when no free replacement can
be obtained. Yet rushing to post a fair use without first actually
trying to find some free image, discourages finding out it later