Wikimania 2011 - 2nd day: Conflict resolution
Channel: Wikimedia Israel ויקימדיה ישראל
Date: 07/09/2011

Room: Rapport
Date: Friday, August 5th, 16:30--17:45

00:07 - Where Wikipedia has gone wrong, what we can do to bring it back on track
Dror Kamir
In its 11th year, Wikipedia, particularly the English-language
Wikipedia, experiences some serious problems, that, in my
opinion, have not been adequately addressed. The relations
among the problems, though exist, are not direct, hence the
discussion I would like to develop might spread on several fields,
some of which touch the the Knowledge and Collaboration
track (rather than the People and Community track).
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Where_Wikipedia_has_gone_wrong,_what_we_can_do_to_bring_it_back_on_track


26:10 - Hippies with guns: how ideological conflict shapes Wikipedia and what we can learn from it
Oliver Keyes (Ironholds)
A 15-minute presentation (with 5 minutes for questions and
answers) covering the history and evolution of the Englishlanguage
Wikipedia -- in particular, the hypothesis that it can be
understood as an ideological conflict between two extremes,
and what we can learn from where we've been in this fight.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Hippies_with_guns:_how_ideological_conflict_shapes_Wikipedia_and_what_we_can_learn_from_it

46:00 - How Rules and Resources Constrain Social Memory on Wikipedia: the case of 2011 Japan earthquake
Emmanuel Wathelet, Dr. François Lambotte
The negotiation of memory on Wikipedia is made possible
through a series of explicit and implicit rules and resources
-- policies and guidelines. We apply our analysis to the article
about the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami. We will
identify the rules and resources involved in drafting the article;
conduct a narratological reconstruction of decisions taken
following the confrontation with the rules; outline the specifics
of an online social memory facilitated and constrained by rules
and resources. Prospectively, we will try to sketch answers to
these questions: To what extent is Wikipedia institutionalized?
Does memory belongs to contributors able to master the rules?
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_Rules_and_Resources_Constrain_Social_Memory_on_Wikipedia:_the_case_of_2011_Japan_earthquake