Wikimania

See also: Wikimania_2006_Call_for_Participation, Wikimania_2006/Program_Team

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Speaker suggestions
Outside keynote ideas first:


 * here are lists from other conferences, potential names to mine:, ,

Technical infrastructure
Scalability, distribution of load:
 * Brad Fitzpatrick, livejournal (2/4 program meeting)
 * Facebook devs (workshop?) (2/4 program meeting)
 * Beowulf clustering : Donald Becker key Linux developer (network drivers and such) and CEO of Scyld Computing.

Web pioneers
 * Tim Berners-Lee frenetic founder of WWW, W3C, semantic web project, now prof at Southampton (UK) as well as researcher at MIT (Wikimania talk); how to get in touch with him for talks (current?) **
 * Ted Nelson IT pioneer, prof at Oxford (hostile to all embedded markup/HTML?)(from Wikimania talk)

Archiving infrastructure
 * Brewster Kahle founder of the Internet Archive, Open Library projects**
 * Archiving : Jason Scott Sadofsky BBS/text archiving, has BBS documentary that could be shown, from Mass. (Wikimania talk)

Wiki infrastructure
 * A Confluence core dev (Mark, et al)

Tech stars from other fields
 * Google : Brin &/or Page; Digitization: a G-Print presenter; Machine translation: Franz Och, G-trans hacker
 * Cal Henderson from Flickr
 * Linus Torvalds
 * D-Space hackers (MIT)

Wikipedia & MediaWiki helper-tools
 * Fernanda Viegas / Martin Wattenberg from IBM, created a visualization of Wikipedia over time called History Flow. (submitting a paper or two)

What it all means
 * Jon "Maddog" Hall, Author of 'Linux for Dummies' - Amongst other benefits, Jon lives about 50 miles from Boston.
 * Joi Ito

Wikimedia projects and content

 * Jimbo.
 * A board session
 * Someone who opposes the wiki-principle, to hear another sound once as well.
 * professional encyclopedia editors. Ed Poor on mailing list, Jorge Caus of Britannica, also [one from Brockhaus, Columbia, Universalis, ??]
 * Community bodies:
 * Arbcom panel (already proposed; see submission)

Writers
 * Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
 * also: Stockwell, F. (2001). A history of information storage and retrieval. Macfarlane, Jefferson, North Carolina; McArthur, T. (1986). Worlds of reference: lexicography, learning, and language from the clay tablet to the computer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; Yeo, R. R. (2001). Encyclopedic Visions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
 * Jim Giles, author of the article about the Nature study,
 * Declan Butler, reporter on Wikipedia for Nature and contributor to study

Creators (people, projects)
 * Wikimedia Project panel: Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews
 * Wiki[p]edia language panel: 6 major language groups; on the state of wikis in those groups
 * Cousin projects
 * Wikicities :)
 * Wikitravel
 * Memorywiki (Marshall Poe)
 * Rev. Moon, other serious wikis? See also the encyclopedia panel, above.
 * Unserious wikis, unwikis?

News and current events
 * Dan Gillmor on the impact on traditional MSM and freelance producers

Processes
 * library best practices wiki (Meredith Farkas)

New project ideas 
 * Wikiversity: panel with online educators? Eve Andersson
 * Wikipeople: panel of current attemptors, on- and off-wiki

Partner content providers? someone for:
 * Jan-Bart de Vreede from Kennisnet.
 * Michel Rocard, French Representative

Quality concerns, editorial Future of the projects
 * Measures of quality and coverage
 * Verification and quality control
 * Citation projects and methods
 * Incorporation of third-party reviews
 * Anthere
 * see also opening remarks
 * Statistical overview & visualizations (presentation, not techniques)

Free knowledge and access to information
Librarianship
 * James Billington, Librarian of Congress. To speak on the World Digital Library would be cool. Even someone to speak on other LoC matters might be interesting.  --  user:zanimum
 * Or another speaker from a branch of the LOC.
 * jessamyn, others will be in attendance.  Interested audience.
 * Brewster Kahle founder of the Internet Archive, Open Library projects brassratgirl
 * Jean-Noel Jeannennet, Head of the French National Library
 * someone from the California Digital Library


 * library best practices wiki (Meredith Farkas), see also

Intellectual commons, philosophy
 * Philippe Aigrain Intellectual property/commons author, at Society for Public Information Spaces in Paris
 * David Weinberger, great speaker, is writing a book on knowledge mgmt called Everything is Miscellaneous.. **
 * Dan Gillmor **
 * Cory Doctorow
 * Sebastien Paquet (blog)

Journals and science
 * Stevan Harnad science open access, founder of cognotes, prof at Southampton (Wikimania talk)
 * arXiv.org (Paul Ginsparg, founder)
 * PLOS : Michael Eisen (see )
 * BioMedCentral: who?

Governments and int'l orgs
 * Govdocs leaders (see the GPO) : Judy Russell, Superintendent of Documents (reorg plan)

Digitization projects
 * Someone for Google Print.

Distribution/Printing/Wireless projects
 * Wizzy.za

Wiki social science
Social networks, memes and interfaces
 * Christophe Prieur and/or Dominique Cardon, CNRS director of research, specialized on the study of social networks in telecommunications
 * Danah Boyd (see also: )
 * Rebecca Blood
 * Clay Shirky writer on social/economic aspects of Internet tech, NYU prof
 * Judith Donath social aspects of Internet, prof at MIT (Wikimania talk)
 * David Weinberger, said to be a great speaker, is writing a book on knowledge mgt called Everything is Miscellaneous..

Other researchers
 * Barry Wellman sociologist at U. of Toronto
 * Sara Kiesler, CMU
 * Eric Von Hippel
 * Serge Proulx
 * Jenny Preece
 * Marshall Poe / memorywiki.
 * Marc Smith, Microsoft
 * Steven Pinker (2/4 program meeting)
 * special needs: body armor

Visualizations
 * Fernanda Viegas (history flow, Mk II)
 * Visualization research panel

Social science and Business
 * Fiona Murray *
 * Siobhan O'Mahony
 * see SCS2005

Social science and tech -- better for Tech?
 * Mohammad Al-Ubaydli *

Law and Policy

 * Larry Lessig free software supporter, Stanford Law prof (Wikimania talk), perhaps with Eben Moglen
 * representative from free culture (poster)
 * Someone from EFF (besides Lessig and Kahle, that is)

Wikipedia policies
 * Wikipedia policies -- the use and future of policy on wiki projects (panel? debate? pillowfight?)

Law and Digital communities
 * James Grimmelmann
 * Yochai Benkler, Yale Law
 * Jonathan Zittrain, the [growing] generativity of the commons

Art projects

 * Visualization poster display (long)
 * Christian Wirth RaDMan, computer artist, from California (Wikimania talk)
 * Jason Scott Sadofsky has BBS/text archiving documentary that could be shown, from Mass. (Wikimania talk)

Tutorials
Use of tools
 * Creating SVG illustrations with Inkscape Gmaxwell
 * A Photo/Video Commons Workshop (vloggers : Steve Garfield, nevlog)
 * Introduction to a Linux as a Free desktop enviroment (yea, it's not a linux conference but a lot of Wikipedians end up interested in Linux and I often find myself helping people get started with it in IRC). Gmaxwell
 * audio recording tutorial (eg. for spoken Wikipedia articles) Alkivar (all from Wikimania talk)

Specifical tools for use with Wikimedia
 * Editing Wikipedia with EMACS (spelling and syntax highlighting oh my!) Gmaxwell
 * Editing Wikipedia with jedit?

Accessibility and Content/Format Seperation
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 * As reader-base grows, proportional disenfranchisment rises. What can we do to minimise this and make the content and services of wikimedia more accessible to special interest groups (replace with better term)?
 * People who use wikimedia corpus content are locked into the mediawiki presentation format. What can be done to free the content for external format and editorial regurgitation? How does this affect licencing obligations?
 * Can we untie ourselves from the article container system so that sections and subsections can be freely collated and resources pertaining to various categorising/tagging criteria be grouped and "dug/mined"?