Submissions/Beyond Wikimedia projects: The rise of public wikis
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After careful consideration, the programme committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2013 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August. |
- Submission no.
- 3028
- Subject no.
- B10
- Title of the submission
Beyond Wikimedia projects: the rise of public wikis
- Type of submission
presentation
- Author of the submission
- Country of origin
Germany
- Affiliation
- Wikimedia Deutschland
- Wikimedia Chapters Association
- E-mail address
markus.glaser
wikimedia.de
- Username
mglaser
- Personal homepage or blog
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- Abstract
Believe it or not: There's a wiki world beyond Wikimedia projects! Even more so, public wikis are on the rise. There's a lot of awesome knowledge platforms out there using MediaWiki. And we can clearly see these projects are more and more leaving amateur level and heading towards professionalisation. In my presentation, I'll show you some cool use cases of 3rd party MediaWiki use. What are the issues they are facing? What can we learn from them? How can we as Wikimedia projects benefit from their experience and technical developments? If you want to start your own wiki community, you'll learn about how to start a project and about common pitfalls.
- Detailed proposal
Believe it or not: There's a wiki world beyond Wikimedia projects! Even more so, public wikis are on the rise. There's a lot of awesome knowledge platforms out there using MediaWiki. And we can clearly see these projects are more and more leaving amateur level and heading towards professionalisation. In my presentation, I'll show you some cool use cases of 3rd party MediaWiki use, including the W3C Webplatform, Desertec Wiki and Co:Lab, initiated by Google. Being involved in some of those projects, I'll share some first hand experience on building up professional wiki driven sites. What are the issues they are facing? What can we learn from them? How can we as Wikimedia projects benefit from their experience and technical developments? There's always the question of how the content in specialized public wikis relates to Wikipedia without duplicating its articles. If you want to start your own wiki community, you'll learn about how to start a project and about common pitfalls.
- Track
- WikiCulture and Community
- Length of presentation/talk
- 25 minutes
- Language of presentation/talk
- English
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- yes
- Slides or further information (optional)
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- Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
- John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 14:59, 3 May 2013 (UTC) Especially curious to hear more about how our movement can gain from this trend (with bug fixes, development etc.).
- --Anja Ebersbach (talk) 19:25, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
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