Wikimania 2011 - 3rd day: Wikipedia, the Law and the Real World

Room: Cinematheque
Date: 6.8.2011, 11:00 -- 12:30

00:07 - Collaborative Diplomacy
Tiffany Smith
The US Department of State uses MediaWiki behind the
firewall to collaborate on an online foreign affairs encyclopedia
called "Diplopedia", and the evolution of Diplopedia has been
presented at three Wikimanias in the past five years. This
presentation will reference our ongoing work in developing
Diplopedia, but we'll also use this opportunity to engage
participants in a discussion about the future of government
collaboration and wiki culture in the Arab--Israeli dialogue.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Collaborative_Diplomacy

32:15 - Wikipedia is afraid of governments
Deryck Chan
From Gda sk versus Danzig, Voivodeships of Poland versus
provinces, to Côte d'Ivoire versus Ivory Coast, and Senkaku
Islands versus Diaoyutai Islands versus Pinnacle Islands, this
presentation should open up a discussion on what the actual
common practice is regarding article names for places with
multiple or disputed names, and whether the Chinese and
Serbian Wikipedias have already provided an alternative
solution to the problem of article name bias.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_is_afraid_of_go...

58:30 - May it please the court
Kat Walsh
Wikipedia has been cited by lawyers and courts in several places
for a variety of purposes: sometimes as support for information
regarded as "general knowledge", but sometimes in places where
a more authoritative source should have been used instead.
There are literally thousands of citations to Wikipedia in court
documents; this presentation is intended to discuss the ones which
have made the most impact and raise the most interesting issues.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/May_it_please_the_court

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wikimania
• 2011
• wikimedia
• ויקיפדיה
• חיפה
• haifa
• wikipedia
• mediawiki
• Diplomacy
• law