Wikimania 2006 begins
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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Dedalus said,
August 6, 2006 at 22:31
Start with WikiAngela; seperate WikiA from ngela, so Wikia is WikiAngela without “ngela”.
WikiAngela » WikiSym 2006 said,
August 19, 2006 at 12:41
[...] 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. [...]
WikiAngela » End of 2006 said,
December 31, 2006 at 13:08
[...] My third trip to the US this year was for Wikimania (blog post), Wikimedia’s second annual conference, which was held at Harvard. Tim and I stopped in New York for a few days before it and I rushed back after it for the X|Media|Lab event in Melbourne - it was last year’s event in November which led to me staying in Australia so it was great to be there again. I fitted in a second trip to Brisbane this month, for an Open Innovation Round Table discussion. Next in August, I made a very long trip to Denmark for WikiSym where I gave a keynote on how and why Wikipedia works. Then it was back to Melbourne to talk about Future Directions for Free Content at the Churchill Club (blog post). Mindspillage and Solensean left Wikia this month and Splarka joined as a permanent staff member. [...]