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WikiSym is a short hand for International Symposium on Wikis, or the Wiki Symposium, a conference dedicated to wiki research and practice.

1 2008
2 2007
3 2006
4 2005
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] 2008

WikiSym 2008 will be held in Porto, Portugal, in 8-10 September, 2008, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and supported ("in-cooperation agreement") by the ACM. Conference chair will be Ademar Aguiar and Program chair will be Mark Bernstein. More information can be found on the WikiSym website.

[edit] 2007

WikiSym 2007 was co-located with OOPSLA 2007, an ACM conference, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on October 21-23, 2007. More information can be found on the WikiSym website. Invited speakers were Jonathan Grudin and Ward Cunningham. Speakers Peter Turchi as well as Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner were shared with OOPSLA. Conference chair was Alain Desilets and program chair was Robert Biddle.

[edit] 2006

WikiSym 2006 was co-located with ACM Hypertext 2006 from August 21-23, 2006 in Odense, Denmark. Invited speakers included Angela Beesley ("How and Why Wikipedia Works"), Doug Engelbart and Eugene Eric Kim ("The Augmented Wiki"), Mark Bernstein ("Intimate Information: organic hypertext structure and incremental formalization for everyone's everyday tasks"), and Ward Cunningham ("Design Principles of Wiki: How can so little do so much?"). Conference chair was Dirk Riehle and program chair was James Noble.

[edit] 2005

WikiSym 2005 was co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005, held in San Diego, California, USA, October 14-16, 2005. Speakers included Ward Cunningham and Jimmy Wales. Sponsors of the event included Google. Conference chair was Dirk Riehle.