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WikiSym 2010

Three weeks ago, I attended the WikiSym conference, an academic symposium about wikis & open collaboration. Its collocation with Wikimania, a community event, was a great opportunity for researchers and Wikimedians to meet, build understanding and collaborate. Continue reading

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Public postmortem for the Wikimedia Conference 2009

The Wikimedia Conference 2009 was held in Berlin, Germany, on April 3rd-5th. It was composed of three tracks: a track for chapters, hosted by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs); a track for the Board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, hosted by the T-labs; and a track for MediaWiki developers, hosted at the c-base. About 55 participants attended the chapters tracks, 10 people the board track and 60 people the developers track. Overall, around 130 Wikimedians attended the conference. Social activities where participants from all tracks could meet were proposed. Continue reading

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Satisfaction survey for the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin

The results of the satisfaction survey for the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin are now available. This article provides the main diagrams; for the full survey (including comments from the participants), see the official page on meta-wiki. Continue reading

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Full SVG schedule of the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin

I am glad to announce that the final full schedule of the Wikimedia conference 2009 in Berlin is now available. It contains all three tracks of the conference: chapters, WMF board & developers. The schedule is available as resizable vector graphics on Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading

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