Hi all, Please note: it seems the @wikisym.org email aliases aren't working at the moment. So if you have sent a message to one of these addresses, or if you have questions about the conference, please contact: * me ([email protected]) for conference questions * Felipe ([email protected]) for program questions or submission chairs as appropriate (listed here: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/Submission-inst)
If you have sent us a question in the last week or so, please resend; we probably haven't gotten it. Thanks! Sorry for the inconvenience. Phoebe On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Reminder: the research paper deadline for WikiSym is **March 7**. > Please don't hesitate to contact myself, Felipe Ortega, or the > appropriate track chair (listed below) with questions. > > > ====== CALL FOR PAPERS ====== > > W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0 > > The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration > > http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers > > July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland. > > Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia > Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org). > > Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library. > > SUMMARY > > WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, > will be held this summer in Gdansk, Poland. Starting this year, WikiSym > aims to explicitly broaden its scope, exploring not only the thriving > wiki community, but also other open movements and open collaboration > initiatives. This includes related areas such as open online communities, > collaborative creation of multimedia content (with or without wikis), > and open journalism and publishing, just to list a few examples. > > Furthermore, our goal is to establish WikiSym as a venue for the exchange > of information, experiences and practices among an interdisciplinary > audience, including researchers, practitioners, industry representatives > and experts with a wide variety of different backgrounds. > > As a result, WikiSym has established 3 complementary tracks to merge the > contributions from such a diverse community: > > * Wiki track: Focused on research in wiki technology, > wiki websites, wiki communities, and in general any kind > of initiative pivoting around wiki software. > > * Industry track: This new track will focus on the specific > needs of enterprises and private companies interested in sharing > and promoting their experiences around wikis and open collaboration > projects/products/initiatives. > > * Open collaboration track: This track is a dedicated venue for > sharing research results and experiences in initiatives that may not > be built specifically on wiki software, but share the "wiki way" > of organization. These may include open collaborations, open communities, > and open movements that allow the interchange of ideas and contributions > from participants with a range of interests and motivations. > > Research manuscripts may be sent to any of these tracks. > However, submitting the same manuscript to more than one > track at the same time is not allowed. Therefore, please > select the most appropriate track for the topic covered in > your manuscript before submitting. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > * March 7th: Submission deadline for research papers. > * March 21st: Submission deadline for Doctoral Symposium > proposals, posters, demonstrations, workshops, panels, tutorials. > * May 4th: Notification of acceptance for research papers. > * May 11th: Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Symposium > proposals, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels. > * July 7-9: WikiSym 2010! > > Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis and open > collaboration initiatives, WikiSym invites contributions in > a wide range of fields. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST: WIKI TRACK > > * Wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis > * Reputation systems and quality assurance processes > * Scalability -- social and technical > * Wiki technologies and implementations > * Translation and multilingual wiki content > * Educational applications > * Wikis for non-textual media (images, video, audio) > * Content dynamics and wiki evolution > * Wiki archiving and versioning > * Wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict > * Wikis and the semantic web, knowledge management and tacit knowledge > * Wikis for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) > * Legal issues (copyright, licensing) > * Visualization of wiki structure > > TOPICS OF INTEREST: INDUSTRY TRACK > > * Business opportunities around wikis and open collaboration > * Best practices to adopt wikis and open collaboration in industry > * Information disclosure: practices and experiences > * Community building and support > * Open publishing and open licensing in the industry > * Wikis and open collaboration entrepreneurship > * Coopetition: best practices > * Interaction and synergies between industries and open communities > * Open innovation: strategies and experiences for leaders/followers > * Promotion, support and funding of open collaboration initiatives > * Knowledge management > > TOPICS OF INTEREST OPEN COLLABORATION TRACK > > * Social software for collaboration and work group processes > * Open online communities > * Technologies for networked collaboration > * Social interactions on the web > * Open and citizen journalism > * Social networks > * Collaborative content creation > * Distributed development of software > * Cooperation for problem resolution > * Information disclosure strategies > * Open call working environments > * Crowdsourcing and information synthesis > * Collaborative multimedia collections > * Distributed content categorization/tagging > * Open publishing > * Commons projects and repositories > * Distributed selection of content > > RESEARCH PAPERS > > Research papers present integrative reviews or original > reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, > or in the development or deployment of novel systems. > We encourage emphasizing lessons learned and providing a > clear concise message to the audience about the relevance > of the work. The paper must place your work in context > within the field, citing related work and indicating clearly > what aspects of the work are new. > > Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee > to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. > They should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages > (for full papers) or 4 pages (for short papers). Papers will > be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality and > clarity of presentation. Authors of accepted papers are > expected to attend the conference in order to present the paper. > > Accepted submissions will be published in the WikiSym > proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. > > Submitted papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: > > http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html > > DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM > > The Doctoral Symposium is an interactive forum for doctoral > students to receive present and discuss their doctoral work. > Students who are at least one year away from dissertation > completion are invited to submit to the Doctoral Symposium. > Students beginning their research are especially invited to attend. > > To submit a proposal send a 2-3 page description of your > dissertation research, including: > > * A description of your work > * The goals---what contributions will your research generate? > * The approach---what is being performed to achieve > the goals? How will results be validated? > > Additionally, your adviser must send a brief statement > of your dissertation progress to date and a statement of > recommendation to the Doctoral Symposium chair. > > WORKSHOPS > > Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers and > practitioners to discuss and learn about topics that require > extended engagement such as new systems, research methods, > standards and formats. A workshop should require participants > to engage with each other for at least half a day. For shorter > sessions, please consider WikiSym's open space format. > A workshop proposal should consist of approximately two > pages describing what you intend to do and how your session > will meet the criteria described above. It should include a > concise abstract, proposed time frame (half-day, full-day) > and one-paragraph biographies of all people relevant to the > submission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed and selected > for their interest to the community. Each workshop will be > allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room. > > PANELS > > Panels provide an interactive forum for bringing together > people with interesting points of view to discuss compelling > wiki issues. Panels involve participation from both the > panelists and audience members in a lively discussion. > Proposals for panels should consist of approximately two pages > describing what you intend to do and how your session will > meet the criteria described above. It should include a concise > abstract and one-paragraph biographies of all panelists. A panel > submission will be reviewed and selected for their interest to > the community. Each panel will be given a 90-minute time slot. > > POSTERS > > Poster presentations enable researchers to present late-breaking > results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated > in conversation. WikiSym's lively poster sessions let conference attendees > exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their > work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the topic. > > Poster proposals may describe original research, engineering, or > experience reports. Submissions should consist of a two-page extended > abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants will > be invited to display a poster, 1x2m in size, at a special plenary > session of the Symposium. > > DEMONSTRATIONS > > Wikis are intended to be used, and no format is better suited for > demonstrating the utility of new wiki research and technology than showing > and using it. If you would like to demonstrate new features or products, > this is the place! Demonstrations give presenters an opportunity to show > running systems and gather feedback. Demo submissions will be reviewed > based on their relevance to the community. A submission should be one > page in length, with a title and a short description of the demo. > The description should include what you plan to demonstrate, what you > hope to get out of demoing, and how the audience will benefit. A short > note of any special technical requirements may be included. > > HOW TO SUBMIT > > Please submit your research papers in PDF format through our research > paper submission system > (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2010). > > For all other papers and proposals, please email the respective > chair (see below). > > All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings and > archived in the ACM Digital Library. > > Submitted work in all categories should use the ACM SIG Proceedings > Format, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html > > Questions regarding submissions may be directed at the respective chair > using the following email addresses: > > * Workshops: [email protected] > * Demonstrations/Tutorials: [email protected] > * Posters: [email protected] > * Doctoral Symposium: [email protected] > > General questions should be directed at [email protected]. > > SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE > > * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair > * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, > Spain; Programme Chair > * Dirk Riehle, Friedrich Alexander University of > Erlangen-Nuremberg; Treasurer > * Felipe Ortega, GSyC/Libresoft, University Rey Juan Carlos, > Spain; Wiki Track Chair > * Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada; Industry Track Chair > * Giota Alevizou, Institute of Educational Technology, Open > University, UK; Open Collaboration Track Chair > * Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business > Administration, Thailand; Posters Chair > * Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University, USA; Workshops Chair > * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Wikimedia Liason > * Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University; Publicity Co-Chair (Academia-US) > * Yoshifumi Masunaga, Aoyama Gakuin University; Publicity Co-Chair > (Asia-Pacific) > * Philipp Schmidt, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; > Publicity Co-Chair (Africa) > * Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute, Italy; > Publicity Co-Chair (Open Collaboration) > * Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org and Cunningham & Cunningham, USA; > Honorary Member > * James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; > Honorary Member > * Ted Ernst, AboutUs.org, USA; Open Space Facilitator > * Marc Laporte, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Canada; Webmaster > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > > Please visit http://wikisym.org/ws2010 to obtain the most up-to-date > list of reviewers and collaborators included in our Programme > Committee. > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
