ウィキマニア2008、発表者募集中

7月にアレクサンドリア（エジプト）で開催されるウィキメディア国際カンファレンス・ウィキマニア2008(http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org)では、現在発表者を募集中です。受付は3月16日まで、オンラインでのみ受け付けます。発表言語は原則として英語ですが、今年はアラビア語による応募も可能です。

発表内容はウィキメディアプロジェクトに関するもの、またはフリーコンテンツ一般にかんするものとなっています。

• Wikimedia Communities
  • Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. We explicitly invite you to discuss your local Wikimedia project's community.

• Free Knowledge
  • Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in the Middle-East/Africa.

• Technical infrastructure
  • Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; new ideas for development (including case studies from other wikis or similar projects).

• Scientific track
  • Papers about massively collaborative work, open and free content creation, community dynamics, the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia projects, and other topics related to Wikimedia projects. Papers submitted to the scientific track will be peer reviewed by a reviewing committee regarding their novelty, rigour, and estimated impact, and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards, and depending on the number and the quality of the submissions, a journal special issue may be pursued. Scientific track papers must be in English, and must not exceed 7,500 words (or 15 pages LNCS).

Your topic must be related either to the Wikimedia projects and their communities, or to the creation of free content in general.

詳しくは
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/CfP
をご覧ください。