Wikimania 2011 notes

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Notes from Wikimania 2011

Thursday 4th of August

Wikipedia as the model for an new view of social relations Prof. Yochai Benkler

• check citizens connect

Keynote: Sue Gardner

• new editor coming 2012, no mark-up
• wikipedia directly into mobiles
• uptime 99,8 %!
• weird, why focus on phones? new devices will have browsers as good as laptops

Extension workshop

• basic extension stuff
• check message (wfMsg) related to internationalization
• use $wgRequest instead of $_get and $_post
• collaborative watchlist, check!
• common watchlist, CHECK
• some band is doing soundcheck during the presentation, nice

Friday 5th of August

Mediawiki development: better editing

• projector is not working, quite boring
• better editor coming, theyve said the same for years now. Shouldn't be that hard.
• check Woogle

ResourceLoader

• reduces amount of calls from the server

Saturday 6th of August

Towards a semantic Wikipedia

• check semantic workflow
• Semantic forms
• AcaWiki
• ShortiPedia

HyperVideo

• check yovisto: german video site for university lectures
• check Kaltura
• Video-Wiki
• Popcorn.js

Wiki-based National Content Development

• all armenian intelligent people are too busy to contribute to Wikipedia, WHAT?

Participating in research projects

• some experiences about EU framework programs