WikiSym
Encyclopedia
WikiSym is a short hand for International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, or the Wiki Symposium, a conference dedicated to wiki
research
and practice. Its proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library.
WikiSym 2011 was held in Mountain View
on October 3–5, 2011. Keynote speakers were Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons
, Jeff Heer, Assistant Professor from Stanford University
, and Ed Chi
of Google
. The symposium chair was J. Felipe Ortega and the program chair was Andrea Forte.
WikiSym 2010 was held in Gdańsk
, Poland on July 7–9, 2010, co-located with Wikimania
. Keynote speakers were Cliff Lampe and Andrew Lih
. The symposium chair was Phoebe Ayers and the program chair was J. Felipe Ortega. An open access version of the proceedings is available, in addition to the ACM proceedings.
WikiSym 2009 was held in Orlando, FL
, on October 25–27, 2009 at the Disney Convention Center. Keynotes were given by Fernanda Viegas
and Martin Wattenberg
as well as by Brion Vibber. The symposium chair was Dirk Riehle of University of Erlangen and the program chair was Amy Bruckman of Georgia Tech.
WikiSym 2008 was held in Porto
, Portugal
, in 8–10 September 2008, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
and supported ("in-cooperation agreement") by the ACM
. Keynotes were given by George Landow
, Professor of Art and English at Brown University
and Stewart Nickolas, IBM
Emerging Technologies while Dan Ingalls, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
gave an invited talk. The symposium chair was Ademar Aguiar and the program chair was Mark Bernstein.
WikiSym 2007 was co-located with OOPSLA
2007, an ACM
conference, in Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
on October 21–23, 2007. Invited speakers were Jonathan Grudin
and Ward Cunningham
.
Speakers Peter Turchi as well as Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner were shared with OOPSLA.
Conference chair was Alain Désilets and program chair was Robert Biddle.
WikiSym 2006 was co-located with ACM
Hypertext 2006 from August 21–23, 2006 in Odense
, Denmark
. Invited speakers included Angela Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug Engelbart and Eugene Eric Kim ("The Augmented Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information: organic hypertext structure and incremental formalization for everyone's everyday tasks"), and Ward Cunningham
("Design Principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much?").
Conference chair was Dirk Riehle and program chair was James Noble
.
WikiSym 2005 was co-located with ACM OOPSLA
2005, held in San Diego, California
, US
, October 14–16, 2005. Speakers included Ward Cunningham
, Jimmy Wales
, Ross Mayfield
and Sunir Shah.
Sponsors of the event included Google
. Conference chair was Dirk Riehle.
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
and practice. Its proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library.
Overview
| Conference | Date | Place | Proceedings |
|---|---|---|---|
| WikiSym 2011 | 3–5 October |  United States Mountain ViewMountain View, California -Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south... , California, US |
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| WikiSym 2010 | 7–9 July |  Poland GdańskGdansk Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the... , Poland |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/Proceedings |
| WikiSym 2009 | 25–27 October | United States Orlando Orlando, Florida Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States... , Florida, US |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/Proceedings |
| WikiSym 2008 | 8–10 September |  Portugal PortoPorto Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes... , Portugal |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008 |
| WikiSym 2007 | 21–23 October |  Canada MontrealMontreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... , Canada |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/proceedings.html |
| WikiSym 2006 | 21–23 August |  Denmark OdenseOdense The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen... , Denmark |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/proceedings/ |
| WikiSym 2005 | 14–16 October | United States San Diego San Diego, California San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round... , California, US |
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings/ |
United States WikiSym 2011
WikiSym 2011 was held in Mountain ViewMountain View
-Canada:*Mountain View County, Alberta, a municipal district*Mountain View, Alberta, a hamlet in Cardston County*Mountain View, Ontario, a community in Prince Edward County*Mountain View No...
on October 3–5, 2011. Keynote speakers were Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, Jeff Heer, Assistant Professor from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, and Ed Chi
Ed Chi
Ed Chi is a Taiwanese American computer scientist specializing in social computing and human-computer interaction. Chi was formerly a research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center and is currently a research scientist at Google. Chi is known for his early work in information scent, which...
of Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. The symposium chair was J. Felipe Ortega and the program chair was Andrea Forte.
Poland WikiSym 2010
WikiSym 2010 was held in GdańskGdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland on July 7–9, 2010, co-located with Wikimania
Wikimania
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation...
. Keynote speakers were Cliff Lampe and Andrew Lih
Andrew Lih
Andrew Lih is a new media researcher, consultant and writer, as well as a noted authority on both Wikipedia and internet censorship in the People's Republic of China. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Southern California....
. The symposium chair was Phoebe Ayers and the program chair was J. Felipe Ortega. An open access version of the proceedings is available, in addition to the ACM proceedings.
United States WikiSym 2009
WikiSym 2009 was held in Orlando, FLOrlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, on October 25–27, 2009 at the Disney Convention Center. Keynotes were given by Fernanda Viegas
Fernanda Viégas
Fernanda Bertini Viégas is a Brazilian scientist and designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of information visualization. Viégas received a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2005. The same year she began work at the Cambridge location...
and Martin Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg is the name of:*Martin Wattenberg , professor at the University of California, Irvine*Martin M. Wattenberg, computer scientist and artist...
as well as by Brion Vibber. The symposium chair was Dirk Riehle of University of Erlangen and the program chair was Amy Bruckman of Georgia Tech.
Portugal WikiSym 2008
WikiSym 2008 was held in PortoPorto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, in 8–10 September 2008, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
University of Porto
The University of Porto is a Portuguese public university located in Porto, and founded 22 March 1911. It is the largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal...
and supported ("in-cooperation agreement") by the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
. Keynotes were given by George Landow
George Landow (professor)
George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. He is one of the leading authorities on Victorian literature, art, and culture, as well as a pioneer in criticism and theory of Electronic literature, hypertext and hypermedia...
, Professor of Art and English at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and Stewart Nickolas, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Emerging Technologies while Dan Ingalls, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Sun Microsystems Laboratories, or Sun Labs was the research and development branch of Sun Microsystems. It was established in 1990 by Ivan Sutherland and Robert Sproull...
gave an invited talk. The symposium chair was Ademar Aguiar and the program chair was Mark Bernstein.
Canada WikiSym 2007
WikiSym 2007 was co-located with OOPSLAOOPSLA
OOPSLA is an annual ACM research conference. OOPSLA mainly takes place in the United States, while the sister conference of OOPSLA, ECOOP, is typically held in Europe...
2007, an ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
conference, in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
on October 21–23, 2007. Invited speakers were Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work . Grudin is a pioneer of the field of CSCW and one of its most prolific contributors. His collaboration distance to other HCI researchers has been...
and Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...
.
Speakers Peter Turchi as well as Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner were shared with OOPSLA.
Conference chair was Alain Désilets and program chair was Robert Biddle.
Denmark WikiSym 2006
WikiSym 2006 was co-located with ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
Hypertext 2006 from August 21–23, 2006 in Odense
Odense
The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. Invited speakers included Angela Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug Engelbart and Eugene Eric Kim ("The Augmented Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information: organic hypertext structure and incremental formalization for everyone's everyday tasks"), and Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...
("Design Principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much?").
Conference chair was Dirk Riehle and program chair was James Noble
James Noble
James Noble was the first U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana.Noble was born near Berryville, Virginia and moved with his parents to Campbell County, Kentucky when he was 10...
.
United States WikiSym 2005
WikiSym 2005 was co-located with ACM OOPSLAOOPSLA
OOPSLA is an annual ACM research conference. OOPSLA mainly takes place in the United States, while the sister conference of OOPSLA, ECOOP, is typically held in Europe...
2005, held in San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, US
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, October 14–16, 2005. Speakers included Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...
, Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
, Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California.He now is Vice President of Business Development of SlideShare...
and Sunir Shah.
Sponsors of the event included Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. Conference chair was Dirk Riehle.