http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uaq29aa4h9h8v8539b901kcolo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic2009-11-13T08:55:53.000ZWikimedia, free content and free culture events for 2008.Brianna Laugherbrianna.laugher@gmail.comGoogle Calendar78125http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uaq29aa4h9h8v8539b901kcolo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic/0tft0jobm17qthkk1oeqkfruq02009-07-17T02:15:26.000Z2010-01-12T00:00:00-08:00

When: Tue Jan 12, 2010 to Wed Jan 13, 2010&nbsp; <br> <br>Where: Bangalore, India <br>Event Status: confirmed

Jan 12, 2010<br>http://cis-india.org/news/wikiwars Last Date for submitting Note of Interest and Funding options – 31st August, 2009 Announcement of Conference Schedule and Logistics – 30th December 2009 Online Registration for non-presenting participants – 3rd January 2010 Conference Dates – 12th, 13th January 2010 WikiWars Conference: The first conference to be held in Bangalore, called WikiWars, invites participation from users, scholars, academics, practitioners, artists and other cultural workers, to share their experiences, ideas, experiments, innovations, applications and stories about Wikipedia. The WikiWars conference embodies the spirit that guides an open encyclopaedia like the Wikipedia, by referring to the edit battles that users enter into over topics that have many points of view. WikiWars also refers to the contradictory positions adopted by different stakeholders on the various issues of credibility, authority, verifiability and truth-telling, on the Wikipedia. This conference calls for diverse and varied knowledges to come together in a critical dialogic space that informs and augments our understanding of the Wikipedia. Conference Themes: The possible themes and areas for presentations (projects, experiences, experiments, stories or documentation) can include but are not limited to: * Wiki Theory: Endorse, question/contest or delineate the theoretical approaches and view points on the Wikipedia * Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production: The predominance of textual or linguistic cultures, post-western knowledge production systems, and indigenous knowledge systems * Wiki Art: Art that uses Wikipedia models, structures or data to explore and expand the practice of Wikipedia project; and accounts that document Wikipedia based art practices or debates * Designing Debate: Suggestions, innovations, critiques and ideas that focus on the design and form of the Wikipedia, to explore the claims of neutrality, objectivity, emergent hierarchy, control and authenticity on the Wikipedia * Critique of Free and Open: Areas like Wikipedia governance, economic practices of and around Wikipedia, and the nature of freedom in usage, production and participation on the Wikipedia * Global Politics of Exclusion: Exploring questions of non-western material inclusion, language, connectedness, oral histories, women, non-geeks, and alternative material that cannot be documented on Wikipedia etc. * The Place of Resistance: Space of resistance and dissent in the Wikipedia, structures that allow for alternative voices, experiences and ideas * Wikipedia and Education: Wikipedia usage in classrooms as a teaching resource, and its effect on pedagogy, the role of Wikipedia in the knowledge production sector, and mobilisation of academic communities around the Wikipedia.Free culturehttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uaq29aa4h9h8v8539b901kcolo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic/79i2vcdjluvsiuglrn5cph7ttc2009-01-24T14:40:11.000Z2010-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

When: Mon Jan 18, 2010 to Sat Jan 23, 2010&nbsp; <br> <br>Where: Wellington, New Zealand <br>Event Status: confirmed

Jan 18, 2010<br>http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/Free culture