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{{Event
|Acronym=WIKISYM 2009
|Title=5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
|Series=WIKISYM
|Type=Conference
|Field=Open Science
|Start date=2009/10/25
|End date=2009/10/27
|Homepage=https://opensym.org/ws2009/
|City=Orlando
|State=Florida
|Country=USA
|has general chair=Dirk Riehle
|has program chair=Amy Bruckman
}}
WikiSym is the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, the symposium (conference) and community of wiki and open collaboration researchers and practitioners world-wide. WikiSym 2009 will take place in Orlando, Florida, Oct 25-27, at Disney's Contemporary Resort (external link). It is co-located with ACM OOPSLA, Onward!, DLS, and others.

The WikiSym 2009 program is available online and as a Google spreadsheet (external link) to get an overview. You can also look at the proceedings' table of contents to get an idea of what's in store for WikiSym 2009 participants! WikiSym 2009 is happy to offer you open space for personal interaction with other participants as well as exciting research talks, workshops, tutorials, etc. and of course invited talks like these:
Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg (IBM Research)
2009 Turing Award Lecture (Reprise) (external link) by Barbara Liskov (MIT)
The Future of Work (external link) by Tom Malone (MIT Sloan)
Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site by Brion Vibber (Wikimedia Foundation) 

Whatever your interest in wikis, we are sure you'll find plenty of engaging interaction and information at WikiSym 2009!
Acronym	WIKISYM 2009 +
End date	October 27, 2009 +
Event in series	WIKISYM +
Event type	Conference +
Has coordinates	28° 32' 32", -81° 22' 45"Latitude: 28.542111111111 Longitude: -81.379030555556 +
Has general chair	Dirk Riehle +
Has location city	Orlando +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	Florida +
Has program chair	Amy Bruckman +
Homepage	https://opensym.org/ws2009/ +
IsA	Event +
Start date	October 25, 2009 +
Title	5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration +