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386: 117: 107: 342: 157: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 363:, "a quick tour of scholarship and academic research over the last year that has focused on Knowledge and other Wikimedia projects" (intending it to become an annual Wikimania tradition). Ortega will focus on published results from WikiSym, the academic conference on wikis (held in Gdansk just before Wikimania), where he is Program Chair. 491:
Wikimedia presentations, & then upload them? In most cases, not even as much as the presenter's abstract of the talk is published. Not all Wikimedians can attend these conferences for one or more reasons (e..g, money, time, other commitments), but we are still interested in a number of these
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This year, the Wikimania-l mailing list saw more than the usual share of complaints about delays and other organizational issues (even the Wikimedia Foundation's executive director observed that "Wikimania in Gdansk this year has had some problems", in the context of a recent discussion of
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process, where interested attendees could comment on submissions while they were being selected for the program, and also sign up for a talk to indicate they are interested in attending it. A byproduct of this is the
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that the filmmaker had already spent a "year filming Mr. Wales as he traveled around the world" by then. A Knowledge article about the film had existed for years and was finally deleted in December 2009 after
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which might also touch some questions about the relationship between the community and staff developers that were raised last month in the debate about the display of Interwiki links (see
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session at the beginning of each day, where speakers can give a 30-second preview of their presentation. Also different from previous Wikimanias was the open
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on Saturday joins Michael Dale, who has been working on MediaWiki's video capabilities since 2008 (sponsored by
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I'd like to repeat here the perennial request that would people please either transcribe or take notes of
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All talks were streamed online in real time, and they will all be uploaded to Commons, as last year.
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presentations & are very interested in knowing what was said. Thanks in advance --
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Several Foundation employees will talk about the usability initiative on Friday, in a
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will present findings from an ongoing study commissioned by Wikimedia Germany (see
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about the Foundation's Public Policy initiative, which also introduced itself in
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Research group to evaluate impact of flagged revisions on German Knowledge
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readers might recognize from earlier issues. There is a separate overview
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Seconded. It would be nice if they could just tape them or something.
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list of submissions sorted by number of interested attendees
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campaign launched in March by the Open Video Alliance (see
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Saturday will see two invited talks, by Felipe Ortega and
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Beyond the Encyclopedia: The frontiers of free knowledge
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Allow, invite, encourage: growing Wikimedia in the world
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establishing a permanent Wikimania oversight committee
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The Baltic Philharmonic, site of this year's Wikimania
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The program will also feature poster sessions and an
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