Comments on: Wikimania 2006 begins

By: WikiAngela » End of 2006

WikiAngela » End of 2006 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:08:08 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: WikiAngela » WikiSym 2006

WikiAngela » WikiSym 2006 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:41:08 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Dedalus

Dedalus — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:31:41 +0000

Start with WikiAngela; seperate WikiA from ngela, so Wikia is WikiAngela without “ngela”.