Wikimania'06 Kicks Off Next Week 20
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... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So many links... (Score:1, Redundant)
Link noise (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Link noise (Score:4, Funny)
Oblig. Wikipedia Link (Score:3, Informative)
Celebrations! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Celebrations! (Score:2)
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 (Score:1)
Re:Woah (Score:3, Insightful)
-Rick
But... (Score:5, Funny)
But... Can anyone jump in the middle of their speeches and change a part of what they said?
This is /. (Score:1)
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! (Score:3, Funny)
I have no choice but to file an Aricle-for-deletion entry with the Slashdot police.
Don't Forget The Scavenger Hunt! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Right place (Score:4, Interesting)
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 (Score:1)
Sounds like my kinda people. I'd go to his barbecue.
Ma gawd... (Score:1)
New Yorker on WIkipedia (Score:5, Funny)
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 :
And, in response, from Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) :From Jorge Cauz - the president of the Britannica corporation :