[Air-L] [CFP] Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation

[TzuChiang Liou]

Dear all,

Apologies for cross posting.

Though the deadline is close, please do consider to submit the abstract
if you are interested and let me know if you have any question or
suggestion, thanks.

Please also circulate this call among Wikimedia communities, researchers
and other people that may be interested! This call is also online at
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

Best regards,

Tzu-Chiang

============ Wikimania 2008: Call for Participation =============

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects
around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews,
Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and Wikimedia Commons)
and for its editors and users to gather, meet each other, exchange ideas,
and report on research and projects. It is a community event, which is
also open to the public and to researchers. This year's conference will
be held from July 17-19, 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt at the new Library of
Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina).

For more information, please visit the Wikimania 2008 Home page at
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org

We are accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters,
open spaces, and artistic artifacts. Please carefully follow the submission
guidelines below. Submissions can be sent via the following link:

https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission/wikimania2008


================== Important dates ======================

* 1 February – 16 March : Submission

* 17 March – 30 April : Review, feedback and notification of acceptance

* 17 – 19 July 2007 : Wikimania


================== Conference Tracks  ===================

Submissions should address one or more of the following themes:

Wikimedia Communities :

Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy
creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community
dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages and
cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local
Wikimedia project's community.

Free Knowledge :

Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge,
usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways
to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal
areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in the
Middle-East/Africa.

Technical infrastructure :

Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia's
technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including case
studies from other wikis or similar projects).

Scientific track :

Papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation,
community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia
projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers
submitted to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing
committee regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and
accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published
in proceedings afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality
of the submissions, a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific
track papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words
(or 15 pages LNCS).

Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their
communities, or to the creation of free content in general.


=================== Types of Submissions ==================

We are seeking submissions for

* presentations (10–30 minute talks with discussion afterwards)
* workshops (60–120 minute session with more involvement of the audience)
* panels (group of 2-5 speakers to discuss on a specific subject)
* posters (printed presentations or visual displays that can stand on their own)
* artistic artifacts (plays, competitions, comedy, visualizations, or
   other representations of some aspect of the projects)

In addition there will the possibility to give lightning talks (5
minute short presentations). These will be organized on the Wikimania
2008 wiki without need to submit via the submission system.

For more information about Submission Guidelines, please see:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission


======================= Submissions ========================

Once you are sure you have included all of the required information,
please send your submission before the respective deadline through our
submission system at https://wikimedia.pentabarf.org/submission


== See also ==
* About the venue: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venue
* Brainstorming page for program ideas:
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas
* Editable list of attendees: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees

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