Wikipedia Academy Berlin 2008

These are photos from the third German Wikipedia Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 20/21 June 2008. For further information about the event please have a look at the Academy website archive copy at the Wayback Machine and the referring page in the German Wikipedia.

Opening

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  The third German Wikipedia Academy was official part of the "Year of mathematics" and was partly funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research
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  Participants arriving at the Leipnizsaal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where the opening takes place
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  Prof. Dr. Günther Stock, president of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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  Frank Schulenburg opens the Wikipedia Academy 2008 at Berlin

Lectures and Discussions

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  Dr. Philipp Birken, University of Kassel (Wikipedian since 2004) talking about the quality management of the German language Wikipedia
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  Audience during the discussion of Philipp Birken's lecture
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  Philipp and Frank
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  Prof. Bill Casselman, University of British Columbia talking about "Wikipedia and the history of mathematics"
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  Bill Casselman after his lecture

Interview with Sue Gardner on Wikipedia, Wikimedia and the future of free knowledge

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  Sue Gardner and Frank Schulenburg on stage
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  Sue Gardner answering questions

Panel discussion

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  Overview of the panel
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  Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Weigand (Professor for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Würzburg, head of the German national society for didactics of mathematics)
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  Dr. Christoph Pöppe, journalist (Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German version of Scientific American)
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  Holm Friebe, blogger and winner of the Grimme-Online-Award in 2006 (moderator of the panel discussion)
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  Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Martin Grötschel (Professor for applied mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, secretary of the international mathematical union, Vice President of the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin and chair of the DFG Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for key technologies")
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  Kurt Jansson (President of Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation)

Smalltalk on the roof terrace of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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  People meeting on the roof terrace
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  Sue Gardner talking to German Wikipedians and Lennart Guldbrandsson, chairman of Wikimedia Sverige

Participants / Organization

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  Martin and Mathias
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  Denis
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  Jenny