<![CDATA[I am now at the Wikimania conference in Boston listening to the opening speech of Jimbo Wales. His most frequently used word is "free culture movement" refering to Wikipedia as one part of that. Wikipedia is getting more political and getting more into education.

http://hlssun3.law.harvard.edu:8888/ramgen/encoder/2006_wikimania_float.rm)

project to try to improve the political discourse
http://world.wikia.com

Announcements by Jimbo Wales
* one laptop per child project is including Wikipedia as the first element in their content repository
* Wikiversity approved
- a center for the creation and usse of free learning materials and activities
- create and host a range of free-content multilingual learning materials, for all age groups in all languages
- host scholarly/learning projectss and communities that supoort these

The coming year
* we will be creating an advisory board
* Wikiwyg (the technological barrier to entry)
* Quality Initiative (turn attention in English Wikipedia away from growth to quality)- biology of living persons
* Image tagging
* ten thing that will be free (update from last year):
-in English and German
* We are still not doing much for people in developin nations
* free the wiktonary - WiktionaryZ
* free the curriculium - wikiversity Beta

Andy Carvin is also blogging from the conference about the opening session:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/08/jimmy_wales_announce.h

technorati tags wikimania 2006
http://technorati.com/tag/wikimania2006

Joho the blog
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/wikimedia_jimmy_wales

Ethan Zucherman
Jimmy Wales keynote at Wikimania
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=922
Lessig’s Keynote at Wikimania
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=924
Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy?
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=923

Ross Mayfield
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/jimmy_wales_kic.html]]>