About Wikimania
Wikimania recap
28 August 2006
Wikimania recap
14 August 2006
Wikimania recap
7 August 2006
Wikimania last-minute information
31 July 2006
Events: Contests, parties, and the local area
24 July 2006
Wikimania updates
17 July 2006
Wikimania updates
10 July 2006
Meetups And Newsworthy International Assemblages
3 July 2006
More featured speakers at Wikimania
26 June 2006
Hacking Days
19 June 2006
Featured Speakers at Wikimania
12 June 2006
Other international meetups
5 June 2006
About Wikimania
29 May 2006
About Wikimania
22 May 2006
About Wikimania
15 May 2006
About Wikimania
8 May 2006
About Wikimania
1 May 2006
About Wikimania
24 April 2006
Three years of meetups : 2003-2006
17 April 2006
Introduction to a series: Looking forward to Wikimania 2006
10 April 2006
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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.
General discussion themes
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.
Projects & Content
Community & Social Science
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Hacking
Outreach and Access
Education
Law and Policy
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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.
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