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The Wikimedia booth featured two large projection screens, one displaying an IRC feed of recent changes from the top-10 language Wikipedias, and the other displaying random articles from a selection of projects. Computers were available for demonstrating the projects and showing visitors how to edit.
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methodology to develop the agenda; participants proposed discussion topics of interest and placed them on a "schedule wall", thereby creating the conference schedule. Topics of discussion at the camp included "wiki & fandom", "Community Building", "wiki data" (on structured wikis) and "What
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Thousands of people visited the booth over the course of the two-day weekend. Several booth volunteers commented that although the majority of visitors said they already were familiar with and used Knowledge (XXG) heavily, few visitors said they were active editors.
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The open space attendee-created "schedule wall" for RCC 2008, listing proposed discussion sessions. These were taped to an outside wall of Socialtext.
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Will/Should Knowledge (XXG) Look/Feel Like in 20 years?" A session entitled "Who edits Knowledge (XXG)?" focussed on research done by Ed Chi at
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Volunteers gave away Wikimedia-related materials, including buttons, stickers, and small "reader's guide" versions of the new book
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Around 60 people were in attendance over the course of the weekend, including several Wikimedians. Some
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focused on do-it-yourself technology. Over 65,000 people attended the event, which was sponsored by
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The next Recent Changes Camp will be held in Portland, Oregon in 2009. Find out more at
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On May 9, 10 and 11, volunteers from the wiki community hosted the fourth
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Wikimedia booth at Maker Faire, showing the IRC Recent Changes feed.
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in 2006; subsequent conferences have been held in Portland and
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contributors took extensive photos, now collected in a
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