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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: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish
July 17, 2008The official theme or slogan for this year’s Wikimania is “the knowledge revolution that is changing wisdom.” I think this phrase – especially the difference between knowledge and wisdom – was chosen very carefully and I think it is an excellent distinction to make. This morning’s opening ceremony began with a speech from the Egyptian [...]
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Wikimania 2008
July 16, 2008I am currently in Egypt for Wikimania 2008, which is being held this year at the Library of Alexandria. On Sunday, I will be presenting my ethnographic analysis of conceptions and misconceptions academics hold about Wikipedia. This presentation was going to be about old, computer-illiterate professors but has turned into something much more interesting: a [...]
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Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?
May 23, 2008Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?
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A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute
March 28, 2008This presentation was adapted from a chapter in my Senior thesis on Wikipedia’s legal system that focused on a dispute over the inclusion of images of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in an article about him, using a methodology of communicative ethnography. Most who opposed the image were not familiar with Wikipedia’s unique method of content [...]