Wikimania'06 Kicks Off Next Week

Vivek writes "Following on the heels of its first international conference, the Wikimedia Foundation is ready to kick off the second Wikimania 2006 International Conference next week (August 4-6) in Cambridge, MA. Last-minute Registration is still open and volunteer positions are available. Among the prominent speakers this year are Jimmy Wales and Lawrence Lessig. Other conference events include hack fests, parties, film festivals, field trips and more!"

So many links...

[swtaarrs]

Are there so many links on purpose since it's about wiki?

Re:So many links...

[just_another_sean]

Ok, someone has to say it... Duh!

Link noise

[mnemonic_]

Talk about link noise. Excessive linkage nullifies the use of a link as a highlight of key words. What a mess.

Re:Link noise

[andrewman327]

Nonsense! [epri.com] There is [w3.org] nothing [microsoft.com] wrong [whitehouse.gov] linking [taunton.com] linking [slashdot.org] as often [m-w.com] as Wikipedia [okcupid.com] does [umb.edu]

Oblig. Wikipedia Link

[42Penguins]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania [wikipedia.org]

Celebrations!

[Hikaru79]

Wow! Wikimedia has been really busy lately. They just finished celebrating 750 years of American Independence [theonion.com] the other day!

Re:Celebrations!

[tpjunkie]

Wow, that might be the first actually funny article I've read on the onion in three years.

And I see someone has wasted no time in actually renaming the first section to "Some famous guys in wigs and three-cornered hats"

Woah

[Klaidas]

I haven't seen anyone talking almost 100% in hyperlinks till now o_O

Re:Woah

[RingDev]

I find [ctrl]-A useful when reading excessively linked Wikis. I appreciate the ability to shoot off easily on so many tangents, but it can be challanging to read when every word is a link.

-Rick

But...

[rbarreira]

Among the prominent speakers this year are Jimmy Wales and Lawrence Lessig.

But... Can anyone jump in the middle of their speeches and change a part of what they said?

This is /.

[fullphaser]

Wow gotta hand it to the article for really looking like an actuall Wiki entry, but seriosly

I am glad that wikimania is so happy to be celebrating an annviersry of some kind but is this really news (this is the second anniversiry/holiday announcement of the day) If I cared that much about wiki I would have had it on my calendar

Warning!

[voice_of_all_reason]

The above article summary does not cite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CITE) every single fact stated in a resource outside of Wikipedia and therefore is not verifiable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VERIFIABILITY).

I have no choice but to file an Aricle-for-deletion entry with the Slashdot police.

Don't Forget The Scavenger Hunt!

[Anonymous Coward]

Please folks dont forget the scavenger hunt at Wikimania! http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Wikitrut h_Scavenger_Hunt [wikitruth.info]

Re:Right place

[bigpat]

and he used to run a cheap porn site. Does anybody else just stop and wondering in amazement sometimes that wikipedia actually made it? In just a few years it's gone from nothing to the most used reference in the world.

A lot of tech guys work on software for internet porn. I was in a meeting once and a discussion about whether a particular solution was scalable was concluded with "Well it worked for Porn, so it should work for this". He made his point.

Re:Right place

[Le Marteau]

I mean the Founder's name is jimbo... and he used to run a cheap porn site.

Sounds like my kinda people. I'd go to his barbecue.

Ma gawd...

[OK PC]

Wikimania is running wild!

New Yorker on WIkipedia

[jefu]

There is a nice article on Wikipedia in the July 31 "New Yorker" magazine.

It covers fairly concisely and for a non-technical audience many of the things covered here on slashdot and elsewhere.

It does have a couple nice quotes :
From Jorge Cauz - the president of the Britannica corporation :

Wikipedia is to Britannica as "american Idol" is to the Julliard School.

And, in response, from Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) :

Wikipedia is to Britannica as rock and roll is to easy listening. It may not be as smooth but it scares the parents and is a lot smarter in the end.