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[edit]

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
Participants arriving at the Leipnizsaal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where the opening takes place
Prof. Dr. Günther Stock, president of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Frank Schulenburg opens the Wikipedia Academy 2008 at Berlin

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

Overview of the panel
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)
Dr. Christoph Pöppe, journalist (Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German version of Scientific American)
Holm Friebe, blogger and winner of the Grimme-Online-Award in 2006 (moderator of the panel discussion)
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")
Kurt Jansson (President of Wikimedia Deutschland, the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation)