[wos] Call for Papers: Wikimania Aug 4-8 2005, Frankfurt am Main

[Erik Moeller]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Call_for_papers

Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference will be
held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 4 August 2005 to 8 August 2005.
Wikimedia is the non-profit organization operating Wikipedia,
Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and
the Wikimedia Commons.

We are now accepting papers and other submissions (from everyone within
and outside the Wikimedia communities) for presentations, workshops, and
discussion groups. We are also accepting nominations for speaker panels
and keynote speakers, and suggestions for other activities.  Mail all
submissions to cfp at wikimedia.org.  For more conference information, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Main_Page (work in progress).

==IMPORTANT DATES==

 Apr 15  - Proposals due for speaker panels, workshops and tutorials;
 May 15  - Submission deadline for full papers and presentations*
      [Notification: by early June]
 Jun 5   - Submission deadline for posters and short presentations 
 Jun 20  - Final copy of papers and posters due (for printing and
translation).
 Aug 4-8 - Wikimania!

==SUBMISSIONS==

Everyone within and without the Wikimedia communities are invited to
suggest panel discussions they would like to see; submit abstracts for
lectures, workshops, and tutorials; and submit abstracts for brief
papers or posters they would like to present. Everyone is also welcome
to submit a full paper or presentation they would like to give at one of
the conference sessions.  The audience will consist primarily of active
Wikimedia users from all over the world.

===Topics===

Original research is welcome, but not required.  '''Be bold in your
submissions!'''    Wikimania is meant to be both a scientific conference
and a social event.  Relevant topics include:

* Wiki research: How do wikis, and the Wikimedia wikis in particular,
operate? Which processes scale and which ones don't?  What kinds of
people or social structures are well-suited to wikis?  How does
introducing a wiki into existing project groups change group dynamics?
* Wiki sociology: What motivates Wikimedians and what drives them away?
Who are they, anyway? And where do they come from?
* Wiki critics: Critical positions are welcome: why Wikipedia will never
be an encyclopedia, why Wikinews can never substitute newspapers, why
amateurs shouldn't be allowed to edit, and so forth.
* Wiki technology ideas: What can we do to address perceived and real
problems, for example, peer review?  How can we provide better-nuanced
or more immediate user feedback?
* Wiki software ideas:  What cutting edge wiki technology is out there?
How can wikis be designed to fit better into corporate, political,
legal, or other environments?
* Wiki community ideas: How can we deal with small-scale and large-scale
conflicts? How can we bring the community closer together and build a
shared belief in our mission?
* Wiki project ideas: Which successful projects in your Wikimedia
project exist that other languages and projects don't know about? What
new projects may we want to start?
* Wiki content ideas: How could content be distributed to places that do
not have Internet access? What other content creators could we cooperate
with?
* Multimedia: How do we get photographers and artists involved? Which
existing communities should we tap into?
* Free knowledge: How far are we from a world of free scientific
journals? What can be done to get more existing knowledge under a free
license?  How can we help to preserve and distribute this knowledge, and
provide universal access to it? 
* Collaborative writing: What is the status of collaborative writing
outside the wiki world (Everything2, H2G2, etc.)? Do wiki projects raise
the writing skill of the people involved?  
* Multilingualism: How can wikis help to bridge the subtle culture gaps
across languages?  How do other international bodies cope with language
diversity?  What linguistics uses are there for Wikimedia's multilingual
corpus?  How should we handle minority languages?

==LANGUAGES==
The official languages of the conference will include English, German,
and French.  Abstracts and papers may be submitted in any living
language, ideally with an accompanying translation into one of those
three languages.  The conference will have limited translation services
available between official languages.

==TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS==
You may submit the following types or abstracts:

* Paper/Presentation (30-45 minutes to present and discuss a topic)
* Short presentation (max. 10 minutes to present a topic)
* Poster (display of some work related to one of the tracks)
* Workshop (a lecture with more audience-participation)
* Tutorial (where the goal is to ''teach'' people things)

===Submission Details===
Each submission should include:
 + an abstract (a 300-word / 1 page outline)
 + the type of submisson (Poster, Short pres, Workshop, Lecture, other)
 + the language(s) of the submission
 + its primary author(s) (you may include hyperlinks and/or wiki
usernames)
 + the target audience (any previous knowledge required?)
 + a license (GFDL, CC-by, PD, normal copyright, ...)
 + which days the authors can participate in the conference (NB: you may
submit work even if you cannot come to the conference in person)

Full papers and presentations should also include:
 + a draft of the paper or slides for your presentation