Isaac Mao

I will be in Taiwan early August to attend Wikimania 2007 conference. It’s the second time I will be in Wikimania(last time Aug, 2005, Frankfurt). But it’s the first time I visit Taiwan. As there are still many constraints to mainland Chinese to visit Taiwan, I even don’t want to try those complex processes but seeking a tricky way to make the visit. It is impossible to share the “trick” this moment before it is proved feasible(That’s why it’s tricky, ;D )

I will speak the 3rd day of this year’s conference talking about “Knowledge Forming, Heredity, and Variation“. I will try to illustrate how Wikipedia is evolving itself like the nature with it’s own natural selection rules with gene(meme) heredity and variation process. And how knowledge can be improved in a vector adding way(not linear algebra). However, there are still many issues to limit the future development especially censorship in real world, e.g. GFW in China. Censorship strongly blasts the free creation of knowledge evolution same to the disasters in nature. Just in this week, many bloggers found that Zh.wikipedia.org can be accessed in China though still with “keywords” filtering. Anyway, if the reopening is permanent this time(users were cheated last year for temporary unblocking), I believe there will be huge creations in zh.wikpedia space. And will take further impact to the disrupting society in China.

What’s more in this global symposium? Let’s meet there and create it together, in a vector adding way.