Re: [ox-en] WikiWars - Call For Participation

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What a good Idea!!!!!!!


I am fighting against censhorship and group domination in spanish wikipedia,
its nice to see other people worried about this kind of problems.


2009/7/16 nathaniel tkacz <[email protected]>

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> WikiWars
>   Call for Participation; 12th, 13th January, 2010, Bangalore
> Event One for the Critical Point of View Reader*
>
> *CPOV (CRITICAL POINT OF VIEW) CONTEXT: *The Wikipedia has emerged as the
> de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders -
> Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing
> houses and governments - have entered into fierce debates and discussions
> about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they
> influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia itself has
> been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of
> accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority.
>
> The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of
> Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) are working together to produce a
> critical Reader on Wikipedia and to build a Wikipedia Knowledge Network.
> Under the rubric CPOV, we propose two events that bring together different
> perspectives, approaches, experiences and stories that critically explore
> different questions and concerns around Wikipedia. The proceeds from these
> two events will result in a Reader that consolidates critical points of
> view
> about Wikipedia.
>
> *WIKIWARS CONFERENCE:* The first conference to be held in Bangalore, called
> WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars, academics,
> practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share their
> experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and stories
> about
> Wikipedia. The WikiWars conference embodies the spirit that guides an open
> encyclopaedia like the Wikipedia, by referring to the edit battles that
> users enter into over topics that have many points of view. WikiWars also
> refers to the contradictory positions adopted by different stakeholders on
> the various issues of credibility, authority, verifiability and
> truth-telling, on the Wikipedia. This conference calls for diverse and
> varied knowledges to come together in a critical dialogic space that
> informs
> and augments our understanding of the Wikipedia.
>
> *CONFERENCE THEMES:* The possible themes and areas for presentations
> (projects, experiences, experiments, stories or documentation) can include
> but are not limited to:
>
>  - Wiki Theory: Endorse, question/contest or delineate the theoretical
>  approaches and view points on the Wikipedia
>  - Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production: The
>  predominance of textual or linguistic cultures, post-western knowledge
>  production systems, and indigenous knowledge systems
>  - Wiki Art: Art that uses Wikipedia models, structures or data to explore
>  and expand the practice of Wikipedia project; and accounts that document
>  Wikipedia based art practices or debates
>  - Designing Debate: Suggestions, innovations, critiques and ideas that
>  focus on the design and form of the Wikipedia, to explore the claims of
>  neutrality, objectivity, emergent hierarchy, control and authenticity on
> the
>  Wikipedia
>  - Critique of Free and Open: Areas like Wikipedia governance, economic
>  practices of and around Wikipedia, and the nature of freedom in usage,
>  production and participation on the Wikipedia
>  - Global Politics of Exclusion: Exploring questions of non-western
>  material inclusion, language, connectedness, oral histories, women,
>  non-geeks, and alternative material that cannot be documented on Wikipedia
>  etc.
>  - The Place of Resistance: Space of resistance and dissent in the
>  Wikipedia, structures that allow for alternative voices, experiences and
>  ideas
>  - Wikipedia and Education: Wikipedia usage in classrooms as a teaching
>  resource, and its effect on pedagogy, the role of Wikipedia in the
> knowledge
>  production sector, and mobilisation of academic communities around the
>  Wikipedia
>
> For detailed information on each theme, please go to
> http://cis-india.org/publications/workshops/conference-blogs/Wikiwars
>
> *WHO SHOULD APPLY:* The conference in Bangalore aims to bring together an
> interesting mix of diverse voices from different cultures, geo-political
> spaces, and context-based practices from around the world, to start
> consolidating the approaches, experiences, and impact of the Wikipedia:
> 1.    Students and Wikipedia users who belong to different local chapters
> or
> have editorial/contribution experiences on the Wikipedia,
> 2.    Academics and publishers who are exploring the changes caused by
> Wikipedia, both in classroom pedagogy and in knowledge production systems,
> 3.    Researchers and theoreticians, practitioners and proponents, artists
> and social activists, who are interested in Wikipedia cultures and their
> socio-political conditions, should be attending this conference.
>
> *HOW TO APPLY: *To apply for the conference, please send the following
> information by email to [email protected] by the 31st of August,
> 2009.
> 1. A note of interest (450 - 700 words) detailing your ideas and possible
> contribution 2. Your updated resume 3. A sample of your work (term papers,
> published articles, peer-reviewed papers, books, art-projects, social
> intervention projects etc.)
>
> *CONFERENCE TIME-LINE:*
> *Last Date for submitting Note of Interest and Funding options: 31st
> August, 2009
> Announcement of short-listed proposals: 21st September, 2009.
> Sharing of Detailed Proposals with all participants: 15th December, 2009
> Announcement of Conference Schedule and Logistics: 30th December 2009
> Online Registration for non-presenting participants:  3rd  January 2010
> Conference Dates: 12th, 13th January 2010
> *
> *TRAVEL SUPPORT:* Travel support is available for some of the conference
> participants (national and international). The selected participants will
> be
> provided with the basic travel and accommodation costs for the duration of
> the conference from their home-countries/cities to travel to Bangalore for
> the conference. If you are applying for travel support, please indicate
> clearly in your ?Note of Interest? any of these three options: 1. Full
> travel support required. 2. Partial travel support required with estimate.
> 3. Travel support not required. Travel support will be provided by the
> conference organisers on a case-by-case basis.
>
> *CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: *Sunil Abraham ([email protected]) and Nishant
> Shah ([email protected] ), Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
> If there are any queries regarding the WikiWars conference please write to
> us.
>
> *RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL TEAM:* Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer
> (Amsterdam), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Sunil
> Abraham and Nishant Shah
> (Bangalore).
>
> --
> Nate Tkacz
>
> PhD Candidate
> School of Culture and Communication
> University of Melbourne
>
> mail: [email protected]
> twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
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