WikiSym 2010

By Stuart Geiger

This year, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (aka WikiSym) will be in Gdansk, Poland on July 7-9th. The conference is less critical than CPOV, but research is welcome on all topics related to wikis, no matter what the theoretical, methodological, or axiological orientation. WikiSym also has a much broader scope than CPOV, extending to not only all wikis, but other sites of open collaboration as well.

The conference will take place just a few days before Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikimedia Foundation projects, which will also be in Gdansk. However, know that WikiSym has and will remain an independent academic conference with its own formal peer-review procedure. For more on the relationship between the two conferences, see WikiSym and Wikimania.

For the Website click here. For the call for papers click here.

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