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[[Image:Asiangroup Wikimania2005.jpg|200 px|left|Asian participation at Wikimania 2005]]A growing number of conferences were attended by Wikimedians this quarter, both as speakers and as booth-tenders. However, the most visible event of the last months was nevertheless the Wikimania conference, the first international Wikimedia conference, held in August 2005. The next Wikimania city has now been chosen and will be ... Boston! |
[[Image:Asiangroup Wikimania2005.jpg|200 px|left|Asian participation at Wikimania 2005]]A growing number of conferences were attended by Wikimedians this quarter, both as speakers and as booth-tenders. However, the most visible event of the last months was nevertheless the Wikimania conference, the first international Wikimedia conference, held in August 2005. The next Wikimania city has now been chosen and will be ... Boston! |
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* Wikimania: [http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki 2005] |
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[[Image:Wikimania05-day3-ward.jpg|right|150 px|Ward at Wikimania (Sj on the left)]] |
[[Image:Wikimania05-day3-ward.jpg|right|150 px|Ward at Wikimania (Sj on the left)]] [[Wikimedia Quarto|We]] caught up with the father of the wiki movement before breakfast on an early Oregon morning, while he was recovering from the recent Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference held in Illinois. In between cans of Moxie, we picked his brain about the evolution of wiki, copyright, and the Wikipedia community. Afterward, he came onto IRC to hang out in #wikipedia for a while, where he was duly lauded. See our [[Interview/Ward Cunningham|interview with Ward Cunningham]]. |
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[[Image:LawrenceLessig sml.JPG|100 px|left]]The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Quarto]] also tracked down [[w:Lawrence Lessig|Lawrence Lessig]], Stanford law professor, founder and chairman of [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]], and free culturesmith, in a lull at the end of a long December day. In a whirlwind session, he talked to us about copyright, copyleft, barriers to free culture, legal pitfalls for Wikipedia, and fighting the good fight. [[Interview/Larry Lessig|read more]]. |
[[Image:LawrenceLessig sml.JPG|100 px|left]]The [[Wikimedia Quarto|Quarto]] also tracked down [[w:Lawrence Lessig|Lawrence Lessig]], Stanford law professor, founder and chairman of [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]], and free culturesmith, in a lull at the end of a long December day. In a whirlwind session, he talked to us about copyright, copyleft, barriers to free culture, legal pitfalls for Wikipedia, and fighting the good fight. [[Interview/Larry Lessig|read more]]. |
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