2006:Wikimania/Sandbox/Main Page 1

This was a draft main page for Wikimania 2006 wiki. This kind of content would be best suited for a community portal on the site; perhaps develop the draft further in this direction.

Wikimania 2006

About Wikimania Welcome to the Wikimania 2006 website! If this is your first time here, you may wish to take the full tour of the site, or to sign up for updates by email. The site is currently under construction; please leave feedback and layout/content suggestions on our feedback page. To help with copyediting or translation of content you see here, sign up on meta.
Calender August 4 Start of Wikimania 2006 Conference Schedule to be determined August 5 Schedule to be determined August 6 Schedule to be determined More conference information...	News and Highlights This space for rent As is this And this More news...	Project of the week The current project of the week is laying out a main page for the wikimania site. - There is still open discussion about how to design the information flow on the site. - Subtasks include : designing key templates; drafting core timelines and putting easyTimeline to good use; archiving last year's site content; starting a proper category system; preparing for on-site proceedings - Future weekly projects may include: training reviewers; registration announcements; contest promotion; project and language outreach. More Wikimania projects
Discussions across the web NB: These portals likely should be developed on meta, and simply linked to from the 'mania site, unless we can think of a way to actively direct people's discussion and brainstorming along lines that could be integrated into Wikimania events. Popular discussions Quality and fact-checking • Openness and elitism • Global immigration policies more examples; some may be better placed in one of the portals below: Academic collaboration • Collaborative education • Mediawiki manuals and guidance • Wikipedia outreach and training Research portal Wiki research and development • Free content research • Analysis of content • Analysis of communities Other specific discussions related to speakers/presentations/workshops/BOFs, as they appear Community affairs Community cross-pollination and best practices • Policy sharing • Language barriers and translation		Remote participation Text transcripts and archives Audio and video streaming, recordings IRC and wiki participation voice-conferencing (Skype, &c), videoconferencing (iChat, &c) Translation and interpretation Simultaneous and satellite events See also: Past discussions Wikimania 2005 & talk pages Blog threads • Mailing list threads Ongoing research and project portals Project and research lists on meta Related lists (presentations • events) Overview pages for each project (news • projects) Links to search-results for key terms