[EDLING:25] CFP: 2007 International Symposium on Wikis

[Francis M. Hult]

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/

2007 International Symposium on Wikis 

Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century 

October 21-23, 2007, Montreal, Canada
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007
In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB 


The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, 
practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend 
our growing community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper 
track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and 
discussions. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis 
is invited to WikiSym 2007! 

We recognize the online world is always evolving, and we also welcome 
contributions which are about other online media consistent with the wiki 
philosophy of being open, organic and participatory. 

We are seeking submissions for 


research papers (long and short): due 7 May 2007 
workshops: due 7 May 2007 
panels: due 7 May 2007 
posters: due 9 July 2007 
demonstrations: due 9 July 2007 
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wikis, we invite contributions from 
researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields including: 


business, marketing, law 
communications and media studies 
computer science, human-computer interaction 
history, political science, geography 
information and library science 
linguistics, discourse analysis, language studies 
natural sciences, medicine 
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to: 


wiki technologies and implementations 
wiki in the workplace; for business use 
wiki as social software for collaboration and work group processes 
wiki user experiences, usability, discourse analysis 
wiki for non-text media (images, video, audio) and spatial systems 
wiki content dynamics and evolution, wiki metrics 
wiki journalism; wiki archiving 
wiki reputation systems, quality assurance processes 
wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse 
wiki scalability, social and technical 
wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit-knowledge 
wikis for specific domains (education, genomics, politics, etc.) 
wikis written by and for small audiences (ex: family wikis) 
wiki legal issues (copyright, licensing) 
wiki translation and multilingual wiki content 

Submission Details 
Research papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee to meet rigorous 
academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to advance the 
state of the art by describing substantiated new research or novel technical 
results or by reporting on significant experience (including case studies) or 
experimentation. They will be reviewed both with respect to conceptual quality 
and clarity of presentation. Note that authors of accepted papers are expected 
to attend the conference and present the paper, otherwise publication will be 
canceled. 

Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference 
proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be 
referenced as papers that appeared in the "Proceedings of the 2007 
International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007)". We invite full papers 
(recommended length of 10 to 15 pages with maximum of 20 pages, and a 30 minute 
presentation time) and short papers (maximum 6 pages, with a 15 minute 
presentation time). Papers should use the ACM SIG Proceedings Format, see: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html 

Workshop and Panels submissions will be reviewed and selected for their 
interest to the community. A submission should consist of two pages describing 
what you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. It should include a 100-
word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the submission. 
Workshops will be allocated a half-day or a full-day and a room of their own 
(depending on your request). Panels will be given a 90 minutes time slot and a 
room of their own. 

Poster submissions will be reviewed on their merits and may describe research 
projects or experience reports. A submission should consist of two page 
extended abstract outlining the content of the poster. Successful applicants 
will be invited to bring a poster for display at the symposium. Posters must be 
flat and within 1mx2m in size. 

Demos will be reviewed based on their relevance to the community. A submission 
should be one page in length, with a title, a short description of the demo, as 
well as a description of any special technical needs you may have (ex: wireless 
connectivity). 

Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format by the respective deadline 
through our submission system, which will be available through the WikiSym 
website. Questions should be directed respectively at papers at wikisym.org 
(research papers and practitioner reports), workshopsandpanels at wikisym.org 
(workshops and panels), or demosandposters at wikisym.org (posters and demos).