Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Wikimania 2011 - Wiki Academy 2011 - Copyright and Intellectual Property (English)



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00:08 - Opening - Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa University

12:40 - Freedom of panorama and Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Cooper
Many people have difficulty understanding that a picture of a
building or of a statue in a street could be copyrighted, but
the Berne Convention makes this so. Following the deletion of
hundreds of potentially e ducational images, some contributors
are asking if the line between meeting strict copyright standards
and the ambitions of Commons is well placed.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Freedom_of_panorama_and_Wikimedia_Commons
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30:35 - Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and Copyright
Jonathan Klinger
What is the connection between copyright, cultural rights and
fair use? In a brief lecture, we shall discuss the correlation in
regards to the relevant Israeli legislation and struggle for fair use.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Cultural_Fair_Use,_Political_Narrative_and_Copyright.

46:15 - Fighting the Intellectual Property Regime
Nikolas Becker
The idea of intellectual property is not natural. It was
constructed in the 14th Century and has developed since then
into a worldwide accepted idea. A small group of Western
companies managed to spread this construction over the whole
world and build the regime of intellectual property. How could
countries of the Global South resist the much more powerful
western countries and make changes to the TRIPS agreement
during the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1994?
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Fighting_The_Intellectual_Property_Regime
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1:09:45 - Wikimedia and the Public Domain
Ryan Kaldari
Wikimedia is one of the largest repositories (and users) of
public domain material in the world. Commons alone hosts
over 3 million public domain files. Increasingly, however, the
public domain is coming under threat from a variety of sources:
governments restoring copyrights on public domain material,
media companies pushing for longer and longer copyright terms,
museums and archives acting as gatekeepers to the works
they house, DMCA abuse, etc. As one of the most prominent
projects in the Free Culture movement, how do we address
these problems and work to protect the public domain for the
long term?
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_and_the_Public_Domain

1:18:50 - A panel headed by Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren, Haifa University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xAX09jIR0

UPDATE 18-12-2011:
See also:

List: Wikimania 2011 copyright
List: Wiki Academy
Scheduled Lectured with link to youtube
Youtube list: Wikimania 2011
List: Wikimania 2011 posts

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Wikimania 2011 - Short history and evolution of the Wikipedia (English)



UPDATE 18-12-2011:


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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MuXzV0MJ8

See also:

Scheduled Lectured with link to youtube
Youtube list: Wikimania 2011
List: Wikimania 2011 posts

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Wikimania 2011 - Semantic, better wikis (English)




Towards a Semantic Wikipedia
Zdenko Vrande i (User:Denny), Denny Vrandecic, Yaron Koren, Daniel Kinzler
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free, open-source extension
to MediaWiki -- the wiki software that powers Wikipedia --
that lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages. It is
also a full-fledged framework, in conjunction with many spinoff
extensions, which can turn a wiki into a powerful and flexible
"collaborative database". We will give a quick introduction in
the concepts behind Semantic MediaWiki, and provide a few
example use cases demonstrating the power of the technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4AQAPYLqk
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Towards_a_Semantic_Wikipedia

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Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension of MediaWiki – the wiki application best known for powering Wikipedia – that helps to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database. Semantic MediaWiki was first released in 2005...

Wikis have become a great tool for collecting and sharing knowledge in communities. This knowledge is mostly contained within texts and multimedia files, and is thus easily accessible for human readers. But though wikis are very good for storing and retrieving individual facts, they are less useful for getting queried or aggregated information. As a simple example, consider the following question:

«What are the hundred world-largest cities with a female mayor?»


Wikipedia should be able to provide the answer: it contains all large cities, their mayors, and articles about the mayor that tell us about their gender. Yet the question is almost impossible to answer for a human, since one would have to read all articles about all large cities first! Even if the answer is found, it might not remain valid for very long. Computers can deal with large datasets much easier, yet they are not able to support us very much when seeking answers from a wiki: Even sophisticated programs cannot yet read and «understand» human-language texts unless the topic and language of the text is very restricted. The wiki's keyword search does not help either.

Semantic MediaWiki enables wikis to make their knowledge computer-processable, e.g. to answer the above question.

http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki

UPDATE 18-12-2011:
See also:

Wikimania 2011 - Testing for MediaWiki
Scheduled Lectured with link to youtube
Youtube list: Wikimania 2011
List: Wikimania 2011 posts

UPDATE 11-05-2013:
The Semantic Web - An Overview
Wake-up Discussion: The End of the Semantic Web?
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UPDATE 17-02-2013:
The Semantic Web - Raising of the Dead?
Wikidata: Wikimedia going structured data
Wikimania 2011 - Semantic, better wikis
Google's Semantic Search
Wikimania 2011 - Testing for MediaWiki
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Wikimania 2011 - Wiki and Education. Designing a Lecture Course on Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies (English)




Designing a Lecture Course on Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies
Vassia Atanassova (bg:User:Spiritia), Maya Marinova
(bg:User:Maymay)
This fall, a full lecture course titled "Wikipedia and Wiki
Technologies" will be read for the first time in a Bulgarian
university. The presentation propose our vision of the syllabi
and assignments, and to gather useful ideas from the audience
on Wikimania.

Download slides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQZibNiUj8
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Designing_a_Lecture_Course_on_Wikipedia_and_Wiki_Technologies

UPDATE 18-12-2011:
See also:

List: Wikimania 2011 Wiki and Education posts
Scheduled Lectured with link to youtube
Youtube list: Wikimania 2011
List: Wikimania 2011 posts

END OF UPDATE

Wikimania 2011 - Wiki and Education. Wikipedia in the classrooms (English)





23:00 - Wikipedia en el aula
Patricio Lorente
Teachers of all levels of the educational system are facing a huge
challenge: The internet is now part of the everyday life of their
students and many of them just don't know how to deal with
this new environment. In particular, many teachers don't know
how to handle the presence and use of Wikipedia. Wikimedia
Argentina has collected experiences of teachers using Wikipedia
in their classrooms, in different and creative ways, not only as a
source of information but also improving the educational process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQZibNiUj8
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_en_el_aula

UPDATE 18-12-2011:
See also:

List: Wikimania 2011 Wiki and Education posts
Scheduled Lectured with link to youtube
Youtube list: Wikimania 2011
List: Wikimania 2011 posts

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