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Video: Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
August 15, 2008The good folks at the Library of Alexandria and Kaltura have made available videos of a good number of presentations from Wikimania 2008. Luckily, mine was one of the ones up! So without further ado:
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Wikimania 2008: New Paradigms for New Tomorrows with Ismail Serageldin
July 20, 2008Director of the Library of Alexandria, Dr. Ismail Serageldin gave a keynote speech on the first day of Wikimania 2008 titled, New Paradigms for New Tomorrows. It was quite thoughtful and inspiring – the man is one of the most amazing individuals I have heard. He is learned in so many different areas of academic [...]
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Wikimania 2008: Collaborative research on Wikiversity with Cormac Lawler
July 20, 2008Collaborative research on Wikiversity by Cormac Lawler (user Cormaggio on Wikimedia projects) at the University of Manchester. Wikiversity is a relatively young project in the Wikimedia umbrella, but I think it is a natural development and a great space to realize the potential of all the educators currently on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and all the [...]
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Wikimania 2008: State of the Mediawiki
July 20, 2008State of the Mediawiki, a presentation give at Wikimania by some developers of Mediawiki and maintainers of the Wikimedia installation of it
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Wikimania 2008: Wikipedia as Real Utopia with Edo Navot
July 20, 2008Wikipedia as Real Utopia: Governance, knowledge production, and the institutional structure of Wikipedia – Edo Navot, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology. Here follows my rough transcription of his speech, followed by my comments. The fact that his is the only presentation I have so far commented on should be taken as a sign of respect, [...]
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Wikimania 2008: Closing Ceremony
July 20, 2008Here are my notes from the closing ceremony of Wikimania. It was really an amazing conference and I was very honored to be there.
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Wikimania 2008: Flagged Revisions with Philipp Birken
July 20, 2008From “Flagged Revisions,” a presentation at Wikimania 2008 by Philip Birken. In my opinion, flagged revisions realize the concept of stable versions without making the article actually stable. It is not a system of voting to approve new revisions – a new revision is approved when only one autoconfirmed user says it is vandalism-free. Yes, [...]
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Wikimania 2008: Wikipedia Administrators / Arbcom Panel
July 20, 2008This panel was at Wikimania 2008, and featured James Forrester, Andrew Lih, Kat Walsh, and Charles Matthews. Everyone except for Lih is or has been on the Arbitration Committee, and this turned into a discussion about admins.
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Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
July 18, 2008As an ethnographer, I enter into communities, learn their customs, beliefs, and practices, then report back to the academy to share what I have discovered. In this presentation, I wish to do the opposite, presenting to the Wikipedian community an ethnography of academics as they relate to Wikipedia.
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Wikimania 2008: Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East
July 18, 2008Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East, Dr. Ahmed Tantawi, Technical Director, IBM Middle East and North Africa. Another copy of my notes from Wikimania 2008 – this was the keynote speech on the second day of the conference. He began by warning us that, “I’ve changed this presentation, and I’ll change it [...]