This week, the Signpost covers discussion themes and project content for the Wikimania 2006 program, highlighting the discussions surrounding the content and development of the projects. Registration for Wikimania is ongoing in 5 languages at http://wm06reg.wikimedia.org . A public announcement is available for release.

Wikimania 2006 will be full of discussions about popular topics on and around the projects -- content creation and validation, creating successful wikiprojects, multilingual collaboration and translation, policy making, community building, incorporating outside sources, working with outside interfaces. Some of these will be scheduled on the program; some will take place informally throughout the conference, and many will take place over email and on the conference wiki leading up to the event.

This week's column is an unusually interactive one: readers are encouraged to edit the list of discussion topics below, to add to it, and to link from it to existing discussions on Wikimedia projects, in any language. Have at it! Be careful not to remove the markers indicating which themes have already been included in the program.

These are broad discussion themes which have been proposed; many of them have been discussed on Meta and various projects to date. Each of these will eventually have its own discussion space on the conference wiki; which will inform and be updated by discussions during Wikimania. Discussions which have been formally accepted for a slot on the program are marked with a P.

New discussions are being created all the time, and will be noted on the conference site. If last year is any indication, some of the best discussions are likely to come up on the spur of the moment.

Nevertheless, to promote discussions of the projects and their uses, short presentations or "lightning talks" are being solicited. The creation of a really great article or book, the development of a new process or policy, the progress of a wikiproject or group, and the history of a language-edition of a project are all excellent subjects for such a talk. For details about this, or to have a discussion listed above included in the official program, send word to cfp<<at>>wikimedia.org.

Next week: Other international Wikimedia meetups happening this year, remixed.

Please send news or information about other meetups to the authors.