I heard about this conference last year, but I had forgotten about it until today, when I was reminded that my friend Rut Jesus was going. Any Silklisters going to this? Apparently registration closed on the 3rd.
<http://cis-india.org/news/wikiwars> > **WikiWars Conference**: The first [of two conferences] conference to > be held in Bangalore, called WikiWars, invites participation from > users, scholars, academics, practitioners, artists and other cultural > workers, to share their experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, > applications and stories about Wikipedia. The WikiWars conference > embodies the spirit that guides an open encyclopaedia like the > Wikipedia, by referring to the edit battles that users enter into over > topics that have many points of view. WikiWars also refers to the > contradictory positions adopted by different stakeholders on the > various issues of credibility, authority, verifiability and > truth-telling, on the Wikipedia. This conference calls for diverse and > varied knowledges to come together in a critical dialogic space that > informs and augments our understanding of the Wikipedia.
