Hi Carlos, thanks for the press release. I just want to point out that as pictures are all CC-BY-SA it photographer should be credited in order to respect the licence (or other terms should be negociated with the copyright holder). It sounds weird to me that in a press release we open the gate of not respecting the licence as something possible. Yes I know other terms can be negociated directly with the authors, however i'd rather we encourage strongly to respect the licence.
2014-07-01 18:09 GMT+02:00 Carlos Monterrey <cmonter...@wikimedia.org>: > (This press release is also available online > here: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Summit_%E2%80%9CWikimania%E2%80%9D_comes_to_London_-_Largest_ever_gathering > < > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_extension_Myanmar > >) > > Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering > > - *Featured speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and new > Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Lila Tretikov; Thousands of > Wikimedia > volunteers; Leaders in Technology, Culture and Society. From August 8th > to > 10th at the Barbican Centre; Tickets go on sale today.* > > > - *Wikimania programme to focus on Social Machines, The Future of > Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship & Open Data* > > Wikimania’s 2014 team today announce the programme for this year’s historic > event. Wikimania 2014 will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from > 8th to 10th August, with a two day pre-conference held August 6th and 7th. > Over 4,000 attendees are expected; more than twice the number at any > previous Wikimania. > > The future of Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects, forms the central > theme. As technological advances promise big changes on the platform, > Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales will delve into what the future has in store > for the world’s fifth most popular website. > > “Wikipedia is the largest knowledge base in the world, consulted by over > half a billion people each month,” says Wales. “However, we’ve only just > begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it. Through > international expansion, a new focus on open data, and a big investment in > technology development, our movement is charting exciting new territory.” > > Attendees will also welcome Wikimedia’s new executive director, Lila > Tretikov. Her keynote will focus on the impact of Wikipedia in our changing > world and its potential for our future. > > Tretikov sees Wikipedia, a top five website, as an opportunity to for > unlocking and democratizing knowledge globally: “I’d like us to think > beyond what we know today. Think beyond our accomplishments, towards > opportunities. Opportunities for all our collective minds to build the > future of knowledge, collaboration and trust.” Recent developments have > included plans focused on overhauling Wikipedia’s user experience for > readers and editors, a programmatic approach to grant-making and community, > and establishing a development platform for knowledge building. > > Open to the public, Wikimania is a five-day, community-organised event > focusing on new projects in the world of MediaWiki, transparency, and open > knowledge. Themes include collaborative working, natural language > processing, crowdsourcing, education, journalism, scientific and medical > research, open data, and multimedia. > > --- ends > Programme Summary > > The conference is organised around five questions with massive implications > for the future. > > - Social Machines: How Can Online Communities Unlock Humanity’s > Potential? > > > - The Future of Education: Now That Wikipedia Has Done Everyone’s > Homework, What’s Left to Teach? > > > - Democratic Media: Must All Media Be Commercially Driven? > > > - Open Scholarship: What Happens When The Cutting Edge of Human > Knowledge is Available To All? > > > - Open Data: What Can We Build When The Sum Of All Human Knowledge is > Machine Readable? > > Lectures from prominent leaders across technology and media will include > the following. > > - Jack Andraka, inventor – At the age of 15 Andraka invented a possible > new test for pancreatic cancer by using scientific research available he > found on Wikipedia. > > > - Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems > Institute – Bar-Yam will explore how the complex system of Wikipedia > applies to exposition of scientific enquiry and socio-cultural issues. > > > - Professor Dariusz Jemielniak – Jemielniak will present an academic's > perspective on Wikipedia's cultural and community structures via > research > from his book*Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia*. > > > - Benjamin Mako Hill, researcher – Hill will give an overview of major > research discoveries about Wikipedia from the past year. > > > - Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, Public Library of Science – Marincola will > share an update about PLOS ONE, the world’s largest open access journal. > > > - Carl Miller, Research Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media, > Demos – Miller will share findings from Demos’ efforts to engage > citizens > and increase voter participation by experimenting with using > Wikipedia-like > systems. > > > - Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science – Neylon > is a longtime advocate for open access and unrestricted online access to > peer-reviewed scholarly research. > > > - Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager, Wikidata – Pintscher will present > Wikidata, the free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans > and > machines alike. Wikidata centralises access to, and the management of > structured data. > > > - Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute > (ODI); Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and > Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton; Principal > Investigator for the Theory And Practice of Social Machines Working > Group. > > > - David White, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of > the Arts, London – Now that Wikipedia’s done everyone’s homework, what’s > left to teach? > > > - Lila Tretikov, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation – The impact > of Wikipedia in our changing world and its potential for our future. > > Notes to editors > > The conference takes place from 8th to 10th August at The Barbican Centre, > London, with a programme of fringe events already underway. Alongside will > run a pre-conference on education (6th and 7th August) and a hackathon (6th > to 10th August), with the opening ceremony on the evening of the 7th. The > main conference website is: www.wikimanialondon.org; where tickets are now > on sale for £30/45/55 (1 day/3 days/5 days). > > There are a number of complimentary tickets available for journalists who > would like to attend. Please contact pr...@wikimanialondon.org. > > The conference is being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, Google, > Ask.com, Mathworks, Tupperware, and Wikimedia UK. > > For Wikimedia UK press enquiries please contact Stevie Benton, Head of > External Relations, on 020 7065 0993 or 07803 505 173 or > stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk. > > For Wikimedia Foundation (non UK) press enquiries please contact Katherine > Maher, Chief Communications Officer, on kma...@wikimedia.org. > > Images: all are CC-by-SA, and fully available for print, broadcast or > online use. > > Jimmy Wales - > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:Jimmy_wants_you.JPG > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:JimmyWalesJI5.jpg > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales#mediaviewer/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2013_-_board_meeting_10.JPG > > Lila Tretikov - : > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lila_Tretikov#mediaviewer/File:Lila_Tretikov_April_2014_%285%29.jpg > > The Barbican Centre - > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Barbican.jpg > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_barbican_16.JPG > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Culture_Weekend#mediaviewer/File:Interior_of_the_Barbican_Centre.jpg > > Please consider providing a link or caption that recognises they are held > in wikimedia commons, and acknowledges the photographer where that > information is available. 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