Schedule

• Friday - August 4, 2006
• Saturday - August 5, 2006
• Sunday - August 6, 2006
• Other Events

Please see the moderation schedule to find out who is moderating each session.

All times are local (UTC-4)

Streaming video available with following links:

• Streaming of Ropes Gray and Pound 101 (audio & video)
• Streaming Ames Courtroom (audio & video)

More info on streaming info page

Recordings of past presentations if available can be found on Archives

Day One

Friday - August 4, 2006

Time	Session - Ames	Session	Session	Session	Discussions	Workshops	Open space
9:00–10:15	Welcome and Jimbo Wales plenary
10:15–10:45	Break, open space introduction
10:45–noon Session 1	Benjamin Mako Hill: Toward a definition of freedom A conversation with Ward Cunningham	Judith Donath (invited speaker): Identity, anonymity and the wiki Cathy Ma: Trust and Wikipedia	Derek Lackaff and Alexander Halavis: Sins of omission? An exploratory evaluation of Wikipedia's topical coverage Jim Giles: Comparing Wikipedia and Britannica: The story behind Nature's encyclopaedia story	Chris Messina: All the world's a wiki: how Barcamp was planned in 6 days using a wiki, IM, IRC, blogs and word of mouth Alexis Rondeau and Stan Wiechers: Semapedia.org - The physical Wikipedia (workshop)	Copyright basis and Wikipedia: A workshop	Betsy Megas: Wiktionary: Nuts and bolts, bells and whistles
12:00–1:30p	Lunch (Ropes Gray)				breakout bofs and lightning talks; press conference
1:30–2:15p	Plenary: Lawrence Lessig -- The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (Ames) Audio and Video
2:15–2:30p	Break
2:30–3:30p Session 2	Eben Moglen: Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture	Wikipedia and social roles: ♦ Adriana Amaral - Subcultures and Wikipedia ♦ Daniel Caeton: Perpetual negotiation machine ♦ Panagiota Alevizou: Encyclopedia or cosmopedia?	♦ Elijah Meeks: Criticism of Wikipedia ♦ Martin Walker: Wikipedia 1.0	Lodewijk Gelauff: Localization, on a global project BoF	Rob Lanphier: Enterprise MediaWiki BoF	Jessica Baumgart and Gary Price: Tips for conducting research and evaluating information
3:30–4:00p	Afternoon break
4:00–5:15p Session 3 BoFs	Section 230: At the Gates between Liability for Harmful Speech and Wikipedia (panel)	Wiki projects: ♦ Jack Herrick: How to transition from a static content site to a wiki: The wikiHow experience ♦ Evan Prodromou: Wiki and open content travel guides: past, present, future ♦ Chris Bronk: Diplopedia: Application of the Wiki Model for Collaborative Drafting in Foreign Affairs	Wikipedia and the Semantic Web (panel)	Jessica Baumgart and Gary Price: Tips for conducting research and evaluating information, cont.	Finne Boonen: Fighting vandalism with Vandalfighter (workshop)	Martin Walker, Paul Kobasa: Validation on Wikipedia: How do I know this article is accurate? (panel discussion)	Lightning talks #1
5:15–5:30p	Break
5:30–7:00p(?)	Ropes Gray: Wrap-up (summary of day's sessions); Poster reception

Day Two

Saturday - August 5 2006

Time	Session - Ames	Session - Pound 101	Session - Pound 102	Session - Pound 100	Discussions - Pound 335	Workshops - Pound 107	Open space
9:00–9:15	Welcome, daily announcements and overview
9:15–9:30	Break
9:30–11:00 Session 4	Views on collaboration: Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (invited speaker) Rishab Ghosh: 200 years of collaborative ownership: from open source steam engines to free genetics, Linux and Wikipedia (invited speaker)	What can Wikipedia learn from Open Source Software Development? (panel discussion)	Wikis in Education: Wiki uses in learning and teaching (panel)	Wikis in libraries: Wikis: Enabling library knowledgebases (panel)	Laurence Parry: A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities Angela Beesley: Cross-wiki policy and features discussion	Wikisource workshop: editorial choices
11:00–11:30	Break
11:30–12:30p	Plenary: Brewster Kahle - Universal Access to All Knowledge (Ames) (Video)
12:30–2:00p	Lunch (Ropes Gray)				j Baumgart: Librarianesque birds of a feather session, Pound 200; Kat Walsh: OTRS discussion session (Pound 335)
2:00–3:30p Session 5	Michael Eisen (invited speaker): Open academic publishing Jenny Preece (invited speaker):Community, Social Interaction and Wikipedia	Wikidata: ♦ Betsy Megas: Defining WiktionaryZ ♦ Erik Moeller: Wikidata: Creating the structured wiki	Wikis in Education: ♦ Piotr Konieczny: Wikimedia projects as a teaching tool ♦ Jan-Bart Devreede: The use of wikis and Wikipedia in Dutch Education ♦ Salvor Gissurardottir: Wikibooks, webquests and Wikipedia	Wikipedia community dynamics: ♦ Alex Schenck: Observations From The Bridge: Why Wikipedia Is So Attractive ♦ Seth Anthony: Contribution patterns among active Wikipedians ♦ Srinivas Gunta: Role of trust in an open system - The process of RfAs	Language and cultural barriers and challenges to Wikipedia (discussion)	Kasper Souren: The Wiki Party bof, a political party based on wiki Olin panel: Creating a wiki-like college	Lightning talks #2
3:30–4:00p	Afternoon break
4:00–5:30p Session 6	Karen Christensen, Paul Gazzolo, Erin McKean (invited speakers): Publishing dead-trees encyclopedias	Technical infrastructure: Brion Vibber: What's cooking in MediaWiki: Single sign-on, version tagging, and other goodies Hacking days review	A Q&A session with the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (panel)	Technical Infrastructure: ♦ Christoph Sauer: What you see is wiki - Questioning WYSIWYG in the internet age ♦ Darniet Jennings: Why WYSIWIKI? ♦ Chris Luer: Disambiguation: the key to information architecture?	Wikis and the news: ♦ Wikinews discussion ♦ Dan Gillmor - citizen journalism BoF	Wikis in Education Discussion: Free the curriculum: Supporting educators with open content (discussion)
5:30–5:45p	Break
5:45–6:00p	Daily wrapup, session summary
Saturday evening	outside activities, attendee party

Day Three

Time	Session - Ames	Session - Pound 101	Session - Pound 102	Session - Pound 100	Discussions - Pound 335	Workshops - Pound 107	Open space
9:00–9:15	Welcome, daily announcements and overview (Ropes Gray)
9:15–9:30	Break
9:30–11:00 Session 7	Mitch Kapor: I'd Like to Have an Argument: Inspiration from the Wikipedia about Collaborative Advocacy and Politics (archive recordings) Florence Devouard: Wikimedia Foundation: building in diversity (archive recordings)	Wikis in enterprises: Organizational uses of wiki technology (panel)	Technical infrastructure: ♦ Silvan Reinhold: Using wiki systems as information back-ends for e-learning applications ♦ Paul Sponagl: Device independent access to Wikipedia ♦ Kasper Souren: Wikipedia on the Nokia 770	Research and data visualization: Research about Wikimedia: A workshop		Semantic wiki: Using Wikipedia’s knowledge in your applications (workshop)
11:00–11:30	Break
11:30–12:30p	Plenary: Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel (Ames) (archive recordings)
12:30–2:00p	Lunch (Ropes Gray)
2:00–3:15p Session 8	Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, Ben Shneiderman: Can Visualization help? (panel)	International projects: ♦ Benjamin Martin: Huru na Bure: Swahili collaboration and the future of African languages on the web ♦ Kasper Souren: The Bambara Wikipedia, one year later ♦ Roland Burger: Wikivoices - Culture and Language	Betsy Devine: Schrödinger's Wiki: The quantum challenge of media attention Joe Reagle: Is the Wikipedia Neutral?	Gerard Meijssen: Differentiation of authentication regimes to prevent more vandalism Piotr Gawrysiak: Plans not Maps! Wikiplan – a Collaborative Geographical Map Building System	Kelly Martin: Consensus as a governing principle: Does consensus scale? BoF	Wikimedia legal issues discussion	Lightning talks #3
3:15–3:30p	Break
3:30–4:15p	Ropes Gray: David Weinberger: What's happening to knowledge? (Archive recordings)
4:15–4:30p	Break
4:30–5:30p	Ropes Gray: Wrap-up, closing gala & ceremony (Archive recordings)

Events

see also Wikimania events

Hacking Days August 1-3, 2006

Citizen Journalism unconference August 7, 2006

Registration

Registration will be open in Pound Hall before the conference sessions begin each day and on Thursday, August 3.

Thursday, August 3: 12-6 pm

Friday, August 4: 8 am - 6 pm

Saturday, August 5: 8 am - 6 pm

Sunday, August 6: 9 am - noon