WikiSym 2008

WikiSym 2008The “All You Want To Know About Wiki” Conference

WikiSym 2008

WikiSym 2008

The conference was held in Porto, Portugal — one of Europe’s most ancient cities, “home of port wine”

WikiSym 2008

There are many different bridges in Porto, this particular one was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

WikiSym 2008

FEUP (Engineering Faculty of University of Porto) hosted all official WikiSym events and sections

WikiSym 2008

More than 130 people from 21 different countries were talking on different topics

WikiSym 2008

Wikipedia was the largest topic to talk, of course.

WikiSym 2008

There were many discussions on intranet wiki: how it is implemented, adopted and used, what benefits brings in

* Confuence was one, but not the only implementation to speak of =)

WikiSym 2008

And a plenty of wiki-engine developers: TikiWiki, XWiki, TWiki, WikkaWiki, WackoWiki, ShyWiki etc.

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WikiHouse Party was great, thank you guys!

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There were keynote sections— Very Very Wise People sharing their thoughts to (almost) silent audience

WikiSym 2008

Paper Sections, Workshops & Doctoral Space were conducted as quick-paced sequence of several speakers

WikiSym 2008

More informal formats were fulfilled with discussion

WikiSym 2008

OpenSpace format was successfully used to spawn great number of interesting topics

WikiSym 2008

Anyone with a topic in mind could write it down, announce and place it in one of remaining timetable slots

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We have found our most interesting and important discussions in OpenSpace sessions

WikiSym 2008

English seems to be WikiSym’s lingua franca, though it was a foreign language for most of people talked

WikiSym 2008

There were only 2-4 persons talked in a typical(spontaneous) OpenSpace session

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Deeper discussion requires some organization.How did OpenSpace organizers provide it?

WikiSym 2008

Participants can work on their starting thoughts individually — on Post-Its

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Groupwork is a integrational tool: for example, clustering Post-Its on whiteboard during discussions

WikiSym 2008

Meeting report is conducted in wiki and presented to participants thru projector

WikiSym 2008

As a concluding result, WikiSym conference was useful & entertaining!

WikiSym 2008

There are some spots from program we especially enjoyed and contributed some ways.

Workshop • Wikis For Software Engineering

Doctoral Space • Affordances Of Wiki In Intranet, • P2P Wikipedia Hosting

OpenSpace• Wiki In Project Management• Wiki For Kids• How To Measure Contribution In

Corporate Wikis• Small Group Wiki Practices• Wiki-gaming

Research Papers • Innovative Wikis:

• Location-Based Wiki, • Spatial Wikis, • Social Awareness In Wiki, • ThinkSpace,

• Motivating And Enabling Organizational Memory,

• Visualizing Wiki Supported Knowledge Building,

• Wiki Based Collaboration Learning

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Thanks for the photos

• Konstantin Kolomeetz

• Régis Barondeau

• Clara Vale

• Ricardo Vidal

• Helena & Cristina

• Martin Siebert

• more photos from Flickr

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