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<title>Third Day at WikiSym 2008</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I arrived half an hour late because I was looking for my wallet. The first keynote of the day is sort-of interesting. He says many obviously true things, so the interesting nuggets per minute count isn&amp;#x2019;t too great, which is why I pulled out my laptop to write this. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/blink.png" alt=";)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The speaker is Stewart Nickolas. He&amp;#x2019;s talking about &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/web widget"&gt;web widget&lt;/a&gt;s. He wants to enable widespread mashups on the widget level &amp;#x2013; secure communication between widgets on a single page, coexistence of unrelated widgets on a page. But he has a demo! That&amp;#x2019;s pretty cool. Widgets &amp;#x201c;broadcast&amp;#x201d; events such as their selection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One interesting site he shows is &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.programmableweb.com/"&gt;Programmable Web&lt;/a&gt;: &amp;#x201c;keep-up with what&amp;#x2019;s new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform.&amp;#x201d;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An interesting &lt;abbr title="application programming interface"&gt;API&lt;/abbr&gt; is &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.opensearch.org/"&gt;OpenSearch&lt;/a&gt; which allows you to publish how your site is to be searched, apparently. Other people can read that specification and build a search form for your site, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Random website mentioned at the end: &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.newstin.com/"&gt;Newstin&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder what this was about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, not much happened. I started playing &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go"&gt;Go&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/TedErnst"&gt;TedErnst&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#x2019;s board: He had a full 19 &amp;#215; 19 board, he played with some people on a 9 &amp;#215; 9 section and I played with some people on a different 9 &amp;#215; 9 section. The funny thing is that Ted himself learnt how to play Go at &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006/"&gt;WikiSym 2006&lt;/a&gt;! Hopefully we&amp;#x2019;ll have spread the meme and even more people will be playing Go at the next meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After lunch it was time to go. I faintly remembered the last day not being too great at other conferences, so I was chagrined to learn that there was an interesting program in the afternoon and an actual walk (!) scheduled for the morning after the last day. Next time I&amp;#x2019;ll contact other people earlier in order to sort out those issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I took the metro back to the airport together with &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.splitbrain.org/"&gt;Andreas Gohr&lt;/a&gt;. I was very tired having averaged 6h of sleep every night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My plane is 40 min late, but the airport offers &amp;#x201c;free access&amp;#x201d; via wireless. Great, I think to myself. It turns out that you get free access to local content only and need to pick an ISP to reach the outside world. Sucks. But then I discover that one of these providers is the same provider that they used in my hotel. I stayed at the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.pestana.com/hotels/en/hotels/europe/OportoHotels/Porto/Home/"&gt;Pestana Porto Hotel&lt;/a&gt; which I liked &amp;#x2013; excellent breakfast, excellent location. Internet connectivity was bad, probably because my room was on the top floor. But being able to keep using my account is great, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking back I think the coolest discussion I had was talking with Andreas Gohr and &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/ChristophSauer"&gt;Christoph Sauer&lt;/a&gt; on the various namespace implementations we have, including an excursion into access control lists. The coolest moment I had was other people being interested in the running code I had to show for multilingual wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;h2&gt;George P. Landau &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The morning started with a speech by George P. Landau on the development of the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.victorianweb.org/"&gt;Victorian Web&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; a hypertext that started way before the Web. His basic premise: &amp;#x201c;the World Wide Web is essentially Hypertext 0.5.&amp;#x201d; I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stuff he mentioned about older hypertext systems:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;One to many links &amp;#x2013; he really likes it&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Previews of the target&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marking (highlighting) the relevant passage of a link target&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Incoming and outgoing links&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Concept map integration (eg. a graphic site-map)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overlapping link anchors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multi-window environments that permit both spatial hypertext and collage writing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Read-write medium (add links &amp;amp; texts) &amp;#x2013; apparently this is the only thing that wikis reintroduced! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multiple versions of hypertext &amp;#x2013; personal and shareable; essentially links are stored separately from the text and can therefore differ between versions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Backlinks &amp;#x2013; he really likes that, too&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Backlinks also apply to named anchors, so it would show you a list of documents linking to your current document, and it would highlight the documents that had links to the particular region you&amp;#x2019;re currently at.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Systems mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermedia (hypertext)"&gt;Intermedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/"&gt;Eastgate's Storyspace&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; also makers of &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TinderBox"&gt;TinderBox&lt;/a&gt; (the conference chair, &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.markbernstein.org/"&gt;Mark Bernstein&lt;/a&gt; is &amp;#x201c;Eastgate&amp;#x2019;s chief scientist&amp;#x201d;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.multicosm.com/"&gt;Southampton's Microcosm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;He also went into the question of why the web turned into a killer application. He started with benefits compared to &lt;a class="inter Wikipedia outside" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29"&gt;Gopher&lt;/a&gt;, continued on to embedding images, and mentioned some wiki benefits. These include wikis being a read-write form hypertext, wikis enabling intended and uninteded collaboration, enabling multiple points of view, offer expandable or extendable documents, allows for different hypertext genres, simultaneous emphasis on multiple approaches and unresolveable problems. Apparently a point of view not shared by Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Victorian Web is actually not a wiki. It&amp;#x2019;s a website where the author encourages contributions via email. He doesn&amp;#x2019;t believe that the delay between submission and publication is a problem. Collaboration and discussion turn out to be submissions of separate but linked documents. This gives his site a static and stable appearance. Documents just&amp;#x2026; stay. A totally different contribution and discussion culture compared to what has developed on wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.useit.com/papers/hypertext_theory/"&gt;Architectural Component of Hypertext Systems&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; This is chapter 5 from Jakob Nielsen&amp;#x2019;s book Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1995.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/When_a_Wiki_is_not_a_Wiki:_Twenty_Years_of_the_Victorian_Web"&gt;When a Wiki is not a Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; introduction to the keynote&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dan Ingalis &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;A talk about the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/"&gt;Lively Kernel&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; a system using browsers, SVG, javascript, and no HTML, DOM, or CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Draw objects, copy, drag, program, easy to create new primitive objects and add behaviour. Then use these to start creating a programming environment. Pick classes, look at methods, change them. Then implement a debugger &amp;amp; profiler based on that. All inside a &amp;#x201c;page&amp;#x201d; that loads pieces of Javascript. Loading, saving, as well as revisions are handled via &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WebDAV"&gt;WebDAV&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; my assumption being that this is what &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?Subversion"&gt;Subversion&lt;/a&gt; gives you for free.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I was most fascinated by the idea that this is in fact a &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/SVG"&gt;SVG&lt;/a&gt; editor like &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.inkscape.org/"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt;, written in Javascript, that has revisions. It&amp;#x2019;s awesome! We should switch the backend to a wiki (or use a wiki with &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WebDAV"&gt;WebDAV&lt;/a&gt; support available like Oddmuse or JSP Wiki) and just edit SVG stored on wiki pages!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/The_Lively_Kernel:_A_Wiki_of_Active_Objects"&gt;The Lively Kernel: A Wiki of Active Objects&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; introduction to the keynote.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SVG editing was already on my mind in 2006 (&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-08-31_Oddmuse_and_SVG_Files"&gt;2006-08-31 Oddmuse and SVG Files&lt;/a&gt;) and the problem is still not solved. I&amp;#x2019;ll have to look into this Lively Kernel thing!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Open Space &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Too bad I didn&amp;#x2019;t find any really interesting sessions today. There was a session on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiSym2008"&gt;the state of WikiCreole&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/What_are_the_tasks_of_a_wiki_gardener%3F"&gt;companies hiring wiki gardeners&lt;/a&gt; and reportings on their excellent results. There was &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/Distributed_Wikis_%28on_worldwide_scale%29"&gt;a session on distributed wikis&lt;/a&gt; collecting pitfalls but not finding any solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also spent some time sitting in the sun, doing nothing. I didn&amp;#x2019;t feel like listening to paper presentations because I usually feel that the authors aren&amp;#x2019;t good presentors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was an excellent bus trip through town, a boat trip up and down the river, and dinner at a restaurant. That really gave all of us another opportunity to talk to new faces, and so I ended up talking a lot with Christoph Sauer &amp;amp; Andreas Gohr (JPS Wiki, Doku Wiki, Wiki Matrix), Alain Désilet (multilingual wikis, WikiSym organisation in general), and others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Too bad I apparently missed some excellent paper presentations. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Conferences"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:WikiSym"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:WikiSym2008"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=SVN"&gt;SVN&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:SVN"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Javascript"&gt;Javascript&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Javascript"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;The first part of the day I spent in the Babel Wiki 08 workshop. We listened to lightning talks, wrote ideas and question on pieces of colorful paper and organized them. And then we started our first breakout session and I joined the &amp;#x201c;free dictionaries&amp;#x201d; group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We looked at the following sites:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.granddictionnaire.com/"&gt;Le grand dictionnaire terminologique&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; multiple translations of terms per domain (two levels deep)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.omegawiki.org/"&gt;Omega Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; words and phrases are grouped around concepts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://dict.leo.org/"&gt;LEO&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; Alain thought that translators would love it; he also liked the integration of a forum for new terms and phrases&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/"&gt;BEOLINGUS&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; looked a bit visually confusing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/"&gt;Wortschatz Portal&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; based on web crawling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://iate.europa.eu/"&gt;IATE&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; multiple target languages including less popular European languages&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://unterm.un.org/"&gt;United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://jiamcatt.ourwiki.net"&gt;Joint Inter-Agency Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; similar to the &lt;a class="inter Oddmuse" href="http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse?Translation%20Extension"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Translation Extension&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it allows you to specify a source page and revision (automatically instead of manually) and will notify readers if the translation is out of sync.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;We talked about various issues. One of the participants worked for Omega Wiki (which is based on &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MediaWiki"&gt;MediaWiki&lt;/a&gt;) and pointed out the issues he thought were important:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;user interfaces (free software in order to improve on them)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;free software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;data structures (eg. &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080609/skos.html"&gt;SKOS RDF&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;mining, ie. bootstrapping the dictionary based on other sources (eg. &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Wikipedia"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.wiktionary.org/"&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stuff related to my own code:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oddmuse language guessing and filtering of search &amp;amp; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/RecentChanges"&gt;RecentChanges&lt;/a&gt; by language preferences&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Translation support using the &lt;a class="inter Oddmuse" href="http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse?Translation%20Extension"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Translation Extension&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I should improve that and improve the user interface. Here&amp;#x2019;s an idea: For any page A, show a button &amp;#x201c;Translate&amp;#x201d; which asks you name a page B, if it exists and is already tagged as a translation of A, update the revision number. If it exists is not tagged as a translation of A, warn the user and ask whether to insert the translation tag anyway. If the page does not exist, create it with the translation tag.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I should make it easier to create and tag translations of pages in general. Assuming I still want to encourage &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/"&gt;Emacs Wiki&lt;/a&gt; to turn into a multilingual site.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related pages:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=BabelWiki08+meeting+notes"&gt;Wiki Translation Meeting Notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/Babel_Wiki_%2708_-_Cross-Lingual_Collaboration"&gt;WikiSym 2008 Workshop Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=BabelWiki"&gt;BabelWiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-09-08_First_Day_at_WikiSym_2008</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Most of the day I spent at the &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-09-08_Free_Dictionaries"&gt;Babel Wiki&lt;/a&gt; workshop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also spent dinner with eleven other people in the old town of Porto. (&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/porto-portugal/"&gt;Porto Flickr Group&lt;/a&gt;) Porto&amp;#x2019;s old town is very old and signs of decay are everywhere. Having just finished the book about &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inés de Suárez"&gt;Inés de Suárez&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel Allende"&gt;Isabel Allende&lt;/a&gt; I see the signs of an old sea-faring colonial power everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also had a chat with &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.markbernstein.org/"&gt;Mark Bernstein&lt;/a&gt; and others over a wide range of topics. Is Wikipedia governable? What papers to read in a graduate course on wikis? &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/"&gt;Andrea Forte&lt;/a&gt; asks back: &amp;#x201c;Just wikis?&amp;#x201d; Is there a point in developing alternatives to &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MediaWiki"&gt;MediaWiki&lt;/a&gt;? At work everybody seems to know and want it to the exclusion of everything else. Mark was clearly opposed to that idea. The importance of non-web solutions for some hypertext applications. For example a spatial wiki where documents are represented by little colored notes that are dragged around the screen; in a collaborative environment you&amp;#x2019;d like that movement to be visible to other users in real-time. That&amp;#x2019;s hard to do using HTTP. Using Eclipse (or an application running inside a browser?) as a front-end to a wiki infrastructure to edit code. You don&amp;#x2019;t need to download the entire code base, you don&amp;#x2019;t need the development tools on our local machine, all the building happens on the remote machine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was also in an &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/Security"&gt;OpenSpace session on Wiki Security&lt;/a&gt;, but I didn&amp;#x2019;t learn anything new. Users still like audit trails and permissions tied to identity. I&amp;#x2019;m still not sure I need it. I pushed my own agenda arguing against Big Brother solutions and explained my spam fighting strategy: The idea is to always spend less time on it than the spammer. Always. If spammers drag you into an arms race, you just invest the minimal amount of energy to solve the problem. Avoid burnout at all cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.cosmocode.de/en/blogs/gohr/20080909095145/index.html"&gt;Andreas Gohr’s blog page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:58:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>WikiSym</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;ll be in Porto for the next few days. Say hi if you see me! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/WikiSym"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Oddmuse"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Oddmuse"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Conferences"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/WikiSym"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/WikiSym2008"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:28:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>To Porto</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-05-06_To_Porto</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m planning on attending &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; 2008. Yay! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:Oddmuse"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bar Camp Zürich</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-10-28_Bar_Camp_Z%c3%bcrich</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image right outside" href="http://barcamp.ch/index.php/BarCampZurich"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Bar Camp Zürich" src="http://barcamp.ch/images/thumb/180px-Barcamp_Zurich.gif" alt="Bar Camp Zürich" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I was at &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://barcamp.ch/index.php/BarCampZurich"&gt;BarCampZurich&lt;/a&gt;, today. (See &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-08-30_Bar_Camp_Z%c3%bcrich"&gt;2006-08-30 Bar Camp Zürich&lt;/a&gt;.) I wanted to talk about &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiNameSpace"&gt;WikiNameSpace&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/NearLink"&gt;NearLink&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MultilingualWiki"&gt;MultilingualWiki&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Oddmuse"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a nice resumé about the state of Podcasting in Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/SubEthaEdit"&gt;SubEthaEdit&lt;/a&gt; guys were here, talking about the design of their real-time collaborative editor. Ott mentioned that the change tracking features in Word are not good enough for most asynchronous uses, eg. journalists &amp;amp; editors. This might be relevant for wikis! Who wrote what, and when. What kind of info do editors need? Ott also talked about the importance of presence and awareness: Who is online? He mentioned how easy Bonjour makes this, since you don&amp;#x2019;t have to worry about &lt;abbr title="Network Address Translation (ie. hiding your IP address from the outside world"&gt;NAT&lt;/abbr&gt; routers &amp;amp; firewalls. What documents do others &amp;#x201c;own&amp;#x201d;? What are they looking at? &amp;#x201c;Follow&amp;#x201d; mode. Interesting stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a session by the creator of &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck"&gt;Brainfuck&lt;/a&gt;, Urban Müller. Amazing. Check out the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://esoteric.voxelperfect.net/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;Brainfuck Wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Or the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/"&gt;Javascript Brainfuck Interpreter / Debugger&lt;/a&gt;. Urban works for search.ch and &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.search.ch/search.html?q=%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%5B%3E%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%3C-%5D%3E."&gt;guess what&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#x2026; It turns out that the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?BrainFuck"&gt;BrainFuck&lt;/a&gt; interpreter and compiler &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?MarioLang"&gt;MarioLang&lt;/a&gt; had written in 2002 had bugs. That&amp;#x2019;s terrible! I had to fix it immediately. I uploaded the updated version to &lt;a class="inter EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?bf.el"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;EmacsWiki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;bf.el&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I decided I need to give it a try and implemented a multiplicator. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;(bf-run "+++ &amp;gt; +++++++++++
          [ &amp;lt; [ - &amp;gt;&amp;gt; + &amp;gt; + &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; ]
            &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [ - &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; + &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; ] &amp;lt;&amp;lt; - ]
          &amp;gt; . ")
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the result of 3 &amp;#215; 11 = 33, ie. the ASCII exclamation mark!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also liked the demonstration of the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03/"&gt;Tails&lt;/a&gt; extension for &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Firefox"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; that was presented as part of the talk on microformats. Having aggregators crawl websites and collect calendar info and people info stored all over the web made a lot of sense to me, I think. This point of view also explains why only developers of publishing tools (wikis, blogs) and aggregators (feed readers, search engines, calendar subscription services) should have to worry about microformats. That focus, obviously, is not a property of the format being &amp;#x201c;micro&amp;#x201d; &amp;#x2013; the same is true for vCards, for example. Except that few sites use it an a truly open way. &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://tel.search.ch/"&gt;The Swiss telephone number search site by search.ch&lt;/a&gt; offers vCards for download, for example. Anyway, I replaced the picture of my &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/BusinessCard"&gt;BusinessCard&lt;/a&gt; with an hCard on my &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/About"&gt;About&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My own talk was about &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/MultilingualWebsites"&gt;MultilingualWebsites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links to the presentations themselves are &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://barcamp.ch/BarCampZurich#Presentation_Slides_.2F_Downloads"&gt;on the barcamp website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I had interesting discussions with &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://claimid.com/xtof"&gt;ChristopheDucamp&lt;/a&gt; and some of his friends (organizers of &lt;a class="edit" title="Click to edit this page" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=edit;id=WineCamp"&gt;WineCamp&lt;/a&gt; and Bar Camp Alsace in France) and &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Events/BarCamp%20Zurich%20-%20Resume.html"&gt;Axel Stefan Beckert&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=BarCamp"&gt;BarCamp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=BarCampZurich"&gt;BarCampZurich&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=BarCampZurich2006"&gt;BarCampZurich2006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:45:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bar Camp Zürich</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2006-08-30_Bar_Camp_Z%c3%bcrich</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image right outside" href="http://barcamp.ch/index.php/BarCampZurich"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Bar Camp Zürich" src="http://barcamp.ch/images/thumb/180px-Barcamp_Zurich.gif" alt="Bar Camp Zürich" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Wow, reading about &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/08/28/geeks_and_werew.html"&gt;DanaBoyd @ FOO camp&lt;/a&gt;, I found the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://barcamp.ch/"&gt;BarCamp&lt;/a&gt; site, and discovered that there&amp;#x2019;s a &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://barcamp.ch/index.php/BarCampZurich"&gt;BarCampZurich&lt;/a&gt; planned for Saturday, October 28, 2006!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading all the reports on previous Bar Camps &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/an_open_source_conference_barcamp"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reminds me of &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/OpenSpace"&gt;OpenSpace&lt;/a&gt;. At &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; 2006, &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/TedErnst"&gt;TedErnst&lt;/a&gt; really convinced me that &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/OpenSpace"&gt;OpenSpace&lt;/a&gt; is the way to run a conference. Maybe the Bar Campers should get rid of breaks, too. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt; Take a break when the time is right, eat when the time is right, talk when the time is right. Perhaps the focus on &amp;#x201c;presentations&amp;#x201d; is problematic. A presenter needs an audience, a projector, a room, and control, when it would be more pragmatic to engage with listeners right from the start, as equals, and to stick to smaller groups, thus fitting several groups into a single room.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least they got rid of keynotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a class="inter Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20space%20conference"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Open space conference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="inter Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp"&gt;&lt;span class="site"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="separator"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="page"&gt;Barcamp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=BarCamp"&gt;BarCamp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:13:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;This is what we talked about in the &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/OpenSpace"&gt;OpenSpace&lt;/a&gt; session on &amp;#x201c;Protecting Against Dictators&amp;#x201d; &amp;#x2013; enabling stake holders to exercise their &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/RightToFork"&gt;RightToFork&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Plan&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think this is what we need to offer, based on my own experience:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;the maintenance scripts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the crontab&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;data files&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CGI scripts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;make sure the configuration files are easy to configure in a single location (paths, database logins)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;document how to use rsync, if possible&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;document privacy issues (is more data available in the archive than via the interface?)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Current Practice&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;A danish university &amp;#x2013; teachers and instructors have a blog, there are wikis for courses. When the teachers move to a new job, can they take their data with them? It turns out that they keep their account, have access to the data, but there are no efforts underway (yet) to facilitate the export of data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/EmacsWiki"&gt;EmacsWiki&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2013; Alex has taken great pains to provide an archive of the files needed to run the site (and the site doesn&amp;#x2019;t need a database). He also has an archive of all the static HTML pages for emergencies. Setting up a copy of the site, however, requires manual intervention. So much, in fact, that nobody bothered to resurrect the site when only a short break was anticipated. Plus, the bandwidth used by the archives amounted to 20% of the site traffic, about 2G per month. This was solved by only allowing access to the archives to a small number of people. Another problem is that once the site is down, there is no simple way to find out who has backups and there is no plan for bringing the site back up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia &amp;#x2013; only lead administrators can make complete backups, because some of the information in the databases is only meant to be seen by administrators. The backup plans and the plans for getting the site back up elsewhere are not widely known, so we don&amp;#x2019;t know what they are.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A small wiki for about 100 users &amp;#x2013; no plans exist, adhoc backups are made, there is no license attached to the site, so the only implicit license is to modify and distribute them on the original site. There seems to be no right to fork (no free content).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://ws2006.wikisym.org/space/Protect+Against+Dictators"&gt;The same notes on the WikiSym wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym2006"&gt;WikiSym2006&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;My notes on &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; 2006. &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://wikisym.org/ws2006/proceedings/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angela Beesley talked about things that make &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiPedia"&gt;WikiPedia&lt;/a&gt; work. Stuff I noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;She also mentioned the importance of &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/OffTopic"&gt;OffTopic&lt;/a&gt;: 75% of the articles are not articles: Talk pages, user pages, talk pages for user pages, help pages, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?NeutralPointOfView"&gt;NeutralPointOfView&lt;/a&gt; doesn&amp;#x2019;t mean compromise or single point of view: It means &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; points of view + verifiable sources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia has a &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;code of conduct&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Projects, portals, regional meetings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Public &amp;amp; private watchlists; public watchlists are user editable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tagging pages as stubs, controversial, unverified, etc. Angela says that these are used both to warn visitors (I agree) and to allow editors to search for and fix these articles (I doubt this works as envisioned).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Semi-protected pages: Prevent edits by unregistered users, prevent edits by new users (four days or less)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnStar"&gt;BarnStar&lt;/a&gt;s, IRC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Planned feature: Stable versions (approved by certain people?) &amp;#x2013; reminds me of &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?StableCopy"&gt;StableCopy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Poll support might be interesting, as Wikipedia uses lots of (informal) polls, it seems&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Asking questions on a wiki are problematic for users unfamiliar to wikis &amp;#x2013; they expect a personal response, eg. mail. A bug tracking tool helps solve this issue.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talking to Eugene about &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/PurpleNumbers"&gt;PurpleNumbers&lt;/a&gt; I mentioned that most wiki pages don&amp;#x2019;t change. I decided to look at the numbers for &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/CommunityWiki"&gt;CommunityWiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;Days #Pages
1000: 102
 900: 128
 800: 210
 700: 189
 600: 80
 500: 251
 400: 359
 300: 264
 200: 259
 100: 466
   0: 229
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/OpenSpace"&gt;OpenSpace&lt;/a&gt;: Nobody was interested in my session, Integrating Language Minorities. I ended up listening in to a discussion about measurements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anrea Forte talks about learning, how students learn, how people are motivated (&lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiPedia"&gt;WikiPedia&lt;/a&gt; = authentic context). Are teachers required? Interesting questions:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Classroom vs. wiki culture &amp;#x2013; no hierarchies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some structure needed &amp;#x2013; critical thinking about sources, faithful citations. Special pages for sources, where students can comment on sources, and with a user interface that makes it easy to pick sources &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How do we know learning when we see it &amp;#x2013; hard to do anyway&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ethical implication of coerced publication &amp;#x2013; but I disagree with her, here: Society will have to adapt to &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?RecordKeeper"&gt;RecordKeeper&lt;/a&gt;s, adapt to the &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/TransparentSociety"&gt;TransparentSociety&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sheizaf Rafaeli talks about using a &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/"&gt;WikiBook&lt;/a&gt;. What is a book? Problems with text books: Expensive, unavailable, revenue goes not to the researches but to few writers, publishers motivated to issue new editions every semester, few non-English books. Motivation: Extrinsic, by providing a 3% grade bonus for five edits per semester, but the average is much higher. Statistically significant: High participation and better grades correlate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He mentions &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiLiteracy"&gt;WikiLiteracy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talking about &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/WikiFounding"&gt;WikiFounding&lt;/a&gt; with Kerry Santo. She was wondering how much effort she would have to invest in her wiki before it would take off. Intrigued, I looked at my own &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/EmacsWiki"&gt;EmacsWiki&lt;/a&gt; numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;Month   Total    Top Poster     Edits
2001-05  289     AlexSchroeder   222    
2001-06  457     AlexSchroeder   228    
2001-07  293     AlexSchroeder   152    
2001-08  182     AlexSchroeder   108    
2001-09  246     AlexSchroeder   203    
2001-10  381     AlexSchroeder   170    
2001-11  387     AlexSchroeder   191    
2001-12  225     AlexSchroeder   108    
2002-01  415     AlexSchroeder   131    
2002-02  302     AlexSchroeder   103    
2002-03  279     AlexSchroeder   96     
2002-04  367     AlexSchroeder   117    
2002-05  431     AlexSchroeder   168    
2002-06  513     AlexSchroeder   163    
2002-07  338     AlexSchroeder   102    
2002-08  424     AlexSchroeder   163    
2002-09  530     AlexSchroeder   225    
2002-10  507     AlexSchroeder   189    
2002-11  337     AlexSchroeder   129    
2002-12  414     AlexSchroeder   125    
2003-01  795     DeepakGoel      181    
2003-02  627     AlexSchroeder   185    
2003-03  1222    AlexSchroeder   225    
2003-04  684     AlexSchroeder   115    
2003-05  682     AlexSchroeder   214    
2003-06  765     AlexSchroeder   237    
2003-07  485     AlexSchroeder   65     
2003-08  480     AlexSchroeder   177    
2003-09  695     AlexSchroeder   221    
2003-10  705     AlexSchroeder   184    
2003-11  745     AlexSchroeder   130    
2003-12  369     AlexSchroeder   46     
2004-01  417     AlexSchroeder   79     
2004-02  388     AlexSchroeder   76     
2004-03  970     AlexSchroeder   105    
2004-04  1202    MarkusKnittig   165    
2004-05  934     AlexSchroeder   140    
2004-06  1049    AlexSchroeder   212    
2004-07  750     AlexSchroeder   68     
2004-08  1055    AlexSchroeder   289    
2004-09  1132    AlexSchroeder   296    
2004-10  768     DrewAdams       115    
2004-11  1104    AlexSchroeder   210    
2004-12  869     DrewAdams       184    
2005-01  1008    DrewAdams       114    
2005-02  722     AaronHawley     53     
2005-03  1002    AlexSchroeder   166    
2005-04  794     AlexSchroeder   137    
2005-05  653     DrewAdams       124    
2005-06  817     AlexSchroeder   109    
2005-07  1660    AlexSchroeder   703    
2005-08  947     AaronHawley     135    
2005-09  809     AlexSchroeder   85     
2005-10  2565    AlexSchroeder   1438   
2005-11  971     DrewAdams       409    
2005-12  1570    DrewAdams       377    
2006-01  1248    DrewAdams       374    
2006-02  827     DrewAdams       352    
2006-03  1329    DrewAdams       543    
2006-04  859     DrewAdams       149    
2006-05  955     DrewAdams       211    
2006-06  744     DrewAdams       179    
2006-07  587     DrewAdams       133    
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;a class="image outside" href="http://flickr.com/photos/eekim/224512503/"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Images of WikiSym 2006" src="http://static.flickr.com/57/224512503_ee6a37cc9c.jpg" alt="Images of WikiSym 2006" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;Image by Eugene Kim, click for more info on the people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also search Flickr for more &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/wikisym2006/"&gt;WikiSym 2006 pictures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:Conferences"&gt;Conferences&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym2006"&gt;WikiSym2006&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=more;search=tag:WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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