The document summarizes the WikiSym 2008 conference held in Porto, Portugal. Over 130 people from 21 countries attended and discussed topics like Wikipedia, intranet wikis, and various wiki engines. There were keynote speeches, paper sections, workshops, and open discussion sessions using formats like OpenSpace. The conference provided an opportunity for participants to share experiences using wikis and have deeper discussions on challenges and best practices.

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WikiSym 2008
The “All You Want To Know About Wiki” Conference

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The conference was held in Porto, Portugal — one of
Europe’s most ancient cities, “home of port wine”

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There are many different bridges in Porto,
this particular one was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

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FEUP (Engineering Faculty of University of Porto) hosted
all official WikiSym events and sections

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More than 130 people from 21 different countries were
talking on different topics

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Wikipedia was the largest topic to talk, of course.

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There were many discussions on intranet wiki: how it is
implemented, adopted and used, what benefits brings in
* Confuence was one, but not the only implementation to speak of =)

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And a plenty of wiki-engine developers: TikiWiki, XWiki,
TWiki, WikkaWiki, WackoWiki, ShyWiki etc.

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WikiHouse Party was great,
thank you guys!

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There were keynote sections— Very Very Wise People
sharing their thoughts to (almost) silent audience

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Paper Sections, Workshops & Doctoral Space were
conducted as quick-paced sequence of several speakers

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More informal formats were fulfilled with discussion

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OpenSpace format was successfully used to spawn great
number of interesting topics

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Anyone with a topic in mind could write it down, announce
and place it in one of remaining timetable slots

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We have found our most interesting and important
discussions in OpenSpace sessions

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English seems to be WikiSym’s lingua franca, though it was
a foreign language for most of people talked

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There were only 2-4 persons talked in a typical
(spontaneous) OpenSpace session

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Deeper discussion requires some organization.
How did OpenSpace organizers provide it?

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Participants can work on their starting thoughts
individually — on Post-Its

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Groupwork is a integrational tool: for example, clustering
Post-Its on whiteboard during discussions

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Meeting report is conducted in wiki and presented to
participants thru projector

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As a concluding result,
WikiSym conference was useful & entertaining!

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Workshop Research Papers
• Wikis For Software Engineering • Innovative Wikis:
Doctoral Space
• Location-Based Wiki,
• Affordances Of Wiki In Intranet, • Spatial Wikis,
• P2P Wikipedia Hosting • Social Awareness In Wiki,
• ThinkSpace,
OpenSpace • Motivating And Enabling
• Wiki In Project Management Organizational Memory,
• Wiki For Kids • Visualizing Wiki Supported
• How To Measure Contribution In Knowledge Building,
Corporate Wikis • Wiki Based Collaboration
• Small Group Wiki Practices Learning
• Wiki-gaming
There are some spots from program we especially enjoyed
and contributed some ways.

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Thanks for the photos
• Konstantin Kolomeetz
• Régis Barondeau
• Clara Vale
• Ricardo Vidal
• Helena & Cristina
• Martin Siebert
• more photos from Flickr
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