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But what’s the future of it? I’m giving a talk about this in Melbourne in a couple of days, so if you want to contribute to that, feel free to share your ideas on this topic in the comments below, or on my wiki.
Mike Linksvayer points to two related talks at Wikimania on the Creative Commons blog;Â “if you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes) and Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture, which also features Q&A with both Moglen and Lessig.”
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Much too soon after Wikimania, I’m off to the other wiki conference - WikiSym in Odense, Denmark. I’ll be giving the opening keynote on Monday about How and Why Wikipedia Works - the same topic that Dirk Riehle, the organiser of WikiSym interviewed me, Elian, and Aphaia about last month. I’m dreading the journey, which is 34 hours with a whole bunch of pointless restrictions on what I’m allowed to take on the plane.
Let me know in the comments below or on my wiki if you have any ideas about how and why Wikipedia works (or doesn’t!). I’d be interested in other thoughts on this.
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Wikimania 2006 started today. This is the second annual conference by The Wikimedia Foundation, being held at Harvard in Cambridge.
Jimmy Wales opened the conference with a presentation on the past, present, and future of wikis. His talk included two announcements - The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) will make Wikipedia part of their content repository, and the Wikiversity project has gained Board approval to be launched this month. See Ethan Zuckerman’s post for full details of this talk.
Read the Wikimania blog for reports throughout the conference, or watch the conference via the video streams which are linked from the schedule. Some sessions are being transcribed, and there are ongoing discussions about the sessions on IRC.
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