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Wikimania 2008
Wikimedia International Conference

Event	Speakers
Analyzing Interlanguage links of Wikipedias Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Tomohiro Fukuhara Yoshiaki Arai
BA Tour I A guided tour through the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Event type : Track : Official event Language used for presentation : en	Nada Rady
BA Tour II A guided tour through the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Event type : Track : Official event Language used for presentation :	Nada Rady
Beyond encyclopedias The rest of the library Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Angela Beesley
Board Panel Event type : panel Track : Official event Language used for presentation : en	Jimbo Wales Domas Mituzas Stuart West Kat Walsh Jan-Bart de Vreede Ting Chen Michael Snow
Building Arabic Engineering Knowledge Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Hussein Ghaly
CheckUser and editing patterns Balancing privacy and accountability on Wikimedia projects Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	HaeB
Closing Ceremony Event type : Track : Official event Language used for presentation : en	Brian McNeil Mohamed Ibrahim Patricio Lorente Sue Gardner Jimbo Wales
Clustering of scientific citations in Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Finn Årup Nielsen
Collaborative Higher Education Platform: EduWiki 2.0 Event type : panel Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Boris Mamlyuk Golnoosh Hakimdavar
Collaborative research in Wikiversity Implications of wikis for doing research Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Cormac Lawler
Communication issues: musings of a dinosaur Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Florence Devouard
Community Collaboration Promoting the global spread of free knowledge Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Elizabeth Stark Hani Morsi
Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia An Ethnography of Academics for the Wikipedian Community Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	sgeiger
Content creation strategies for emerging countries Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Jürgen Galler
Copernicus – Adding the Third Dimension to Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Jacek Jankowski
Creating the structured semantic wiki Event type : workshop Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Yaron Koren
Creative Commons Panel challenges of community based organisations in the middle east Event type : panel Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	William Ward Jimbo Wales Benjamin Mako Hill Dannatella Dell eratte
Cross-cultural dialogue through Wikipedia Wikipedia as a crossroad between cultural and political views Event type : workshop Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Dror_K
Digital sovereignty: a wikimedian approach The CRC (Arbitration Comitee) as the most developed expression of the constitutional power from an organized community on the Internet Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Mariano Araujo
Diplopedia: Wiki Culture in the U.S. Department of State Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Eric Johnson
Education and the Wiki paradigm; a tug of war? Event type : presentation Track : Language used for presentation : en	Hoda Baraka
eIFL Open Access: Use, Share and Remix Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Iryna Kuchma
Election committee panel Event type : panel Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Maria Fanucchi Jon Harald Søby
Federating Wikipedia as Open Educational Resource Presentation detailing Technology, Policy, and Content Suitability for sourcing Wikipedia Contents to develop Textbook Materials Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Murugan Pal
Flagged Revisions: Development and experiences State of the new review system Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Philipp Birken
Freedom of speech, human rights, and free culture Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Jimbo Wales
Free Knowledge & Wikimedia projects: is the Law an ally? legal risks and opportunities encountered by Free Knowledge in general and the Wikimedia projects Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Olivier Hugot
Free Network Services Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Benjamin Mako Hill
Hey, I think perhaps we should Disciplinary interactions in Wikipedia's articles and talk pages Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Muhammad
Inkscape SVG workshop Event type : workshop Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Brianna Laugher Adam Hyde
Integrating Wikipedia into a global network of Semantic Web for advanced information access Wikipedia, Semantic Web, Advanced Information Access Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Ka Kan Lo
Keeping the Media accountable Why Media watchdog groups depend on Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Rhonda Shearer
Keep the Community Open while Wikipedia matures Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Ting Chen
LibraryThing and Social Cataloging Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Tim Spalding
Lightning talks Session 3 Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	LT Speakers
Lightning Talks Session 1 Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	LT Speakers Cary Bass
Lightning Talks Session 2 Event type : presentation Track : Language used for presentation : en	LT Speakers
Linguistic issues and the Arabic Wikipedia Progress of the Arabic Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Aude
Localisation, not just for the software Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Gerard Meijssen
Making MediaWiki Usable for Youth in Africa Lessons Learned from UNICEF’s Experience with Wiki Platforms Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Merrick
Mapping the geographic information in Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Aude
MetaVidWiki: Video Searching, Tagging & Sequencing for your Wiki A look at MetaVidWiki and community participation with large scale audio/video archives Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Michael Dale
New paradigms for new tomorrows Event type : presentation Track : Language used for presentation : en	Ismail Serageldin
Objects of Ethnographic Museums in Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Raoul Weiler
Offline Wikipedia and OLPC Event type : Track : Language used for presentation :	sj
Open Access: How to Create Change Event type : workshop Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Iryna Kuchma
Open culture and the Internet in the Middle East Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Ahmed Tantawy
Open educational resources and globalization Event type : panel Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Teemu Leinonen
Opening Ceremony Event type : presentation Track : Official event Language used for presentation : en	Florence Devouard Mohamed Ibrahim
Open Scholarship Synergies between Open Access and Open Education Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Melissa Hagemann
Open-sourcing Online Video Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Elizabeth Stark Shay David
OpenStreetMap: Mapping for the Masses Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Mikel Maron
OTRS Wikimedia's customer service Event type : workshop Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Cary Bass Jay Walsh
Poster Session Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Jakob Voss
Recent Developments in Search Technology Web, Mobile, and Implications for Social Networks Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Usama Fayyad
Should librarians cross the Wikipedian border to reach young users? How the Swedish language Wikipedia can be improved by regional networks of school librarians Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Einar Spetz
Social attitudes for Wikipedia in Latin America Event type : workshop Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Damian Finol
Sock puppets: not just for checkuser anymore Event type : artistic Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Phoebe Ayers
State of the MediaWiki Tech roadmap 2008-2009 Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Brion Vibber
Telling our global wiki story How to maximize your opportunities Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Jay Walsh
The future of the commons Wikipedia, Creative Commons, "piracy" and the WIPO Development Agenda Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Heather Ford
The Global Educators’ Open Course How do we educate the teachers of the 21st Century Event type : Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Eliane Metni
The Global Survey of Wikipedia Contributers and Readers Initial results Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Philipp Schmidt Ruediger Glott Rishab Ghosh
The Javanese language Wikipedia – A neglected Wikipedia? A case study of a non national and a non official language on Wikipedia. Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Revi
The quality of scientific articles on the English Wikipedia Wikipedia in scientific outreach and education Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Bill Wedemeyer
The state of Semantic MediaWiki A roundup of SMW and current implementations Event type : workshop Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	Yaron Koren Denny Vrandečić Markus Krötzsch
Translation in Wikimedia Projects Event type : panel Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	KIZU Naoko Maria Fanucchi
Use of wikis for political participation Three initiatives in Spain Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Enric Senabre Hidalgo
Volunteer Council How to structure the influence of the community on the WMF? Event type : workshop Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Lodewijk Gelauff
Wikimedia: 2008-2009 Foundation Goals and Plans Event type : presentation Track : Official event Language used for presentation : en	Erik Möller Sue Gardner
Wikimedia and libraries Event type : panel Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Phoebe Ayers Jakob Voss Ismail Serageldin Chuck Henry Tim Spalding
Wikimedia Commons for Fun and Profit Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Brianna Laugher
Wikimedia Serbia Who are we, what have we done and what do we want to do Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Nikola
Wikinews for Wikipedians (and other Wikimedians) We are Wikinews. Join us Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Brian McNeil Craig Spurrier
Wikipedia as "Real Utopia" Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Edo Navot
Wikipedia Lectures Welcome to the wiki-cabal. How to make friends and influence wikis. Event type : workshop Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	James F.
Wikipedia Mining Wikipedia as a Corpus for Knowledge Extraction Event type : presentation Track : Scientific Language used for presentation : en	Kotaro Nakayama
Wikipedia Offline - a technical framework the Zeno file format, free readers and indexer Event type : presentation Track : Technical infrastructure Language used for presentation : en	User:80686
Wikiposters project by Wikimedia Israel How we got our message heard in the Israeli Parliament, among other places Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	comulos
Wikisation of images Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Nikola
Wikitag generating relevant in-text links to Wikipedia Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Tomaž Šolc
Wikitravel Press The technological, social and commercial challenges of turning Wikis into books Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Jani Patokallio
Wiki-Writing Collaborative Writing on and off the ‘Pedia Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Awadewit
World events according to Wikipedia statistics How to interpret request numbers at Wikipedia.org in order to see what's going on in the world right now Event type : presentation Track : Wikimedia Communities Language used for presentation : en	Mathias Schindler
Zotero for Wikimaniacs Free your Bibliography Event type : presentation Track : Free Knowledge Language used for presentation : en	Shekhar