June 2009: The initiative started with a proposal for  a research network, two conferences and a reader, organized by Centre for Internet & Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/

January 12/13, 2010: Wiki Wars

•    Conference in Bangalore, India

March 26/27, 2010: Critical Point of View

•    Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

1.    Wiki Theory

Shunling Chen (TW/US) Harvard Law School, USA  Wikipedia - A republic of Science Democratized?

Stuart Geiger (US) GeorgeTown University, USA The Wisdom of Bots: A Critique of 'Self-Organization' in Wikipedia

Beatriz Martins (BR) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Wikipedia: Authorship through web networks

Dipti Kulkarni (IN) Indian Institute of Technology, India Wikipedia: A Social Semiotic Perspective

Geert Lovink (NL) Insitute of Network Cultures, Netherlands Moderator

2.    Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production

Johanna Niesyto (DE) University of Siegen, Germany Wikipedia as a Translingual Space

Eric Zimmerman (IL) IDC, Israel Wikipedia and the Current Research Information System

Stian Haklev (NO/CA) University of Toronto, Canada Equitable Governance in Multilingual Wikipedia

HanTeng Liao (TW) Oxford Internet Institute, England User-generated Encyclopedia as Critical Case of Keyword Economy

Zainab Bawa (IN) Centre for Internet and Society, India Moderator

3.    Wiki Art



Isaac Mao (CN) Internet Activist and Curator, China Curating the Wikipedia: What constitutes WikiArt



Scott Kildall (US) e Nathaniel Stern (AU) Wikipedia Art, EUA Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Art



Rut Jesus (PT/DK) e Anne Goldenberg (CA) Artists from Canada and Denmark Our Coll(nn)ective Mind: Critics and The WikiWay



Namita Malhotra (IN) Alternative Law Forum, India Moderator





4.    Critique of Free and Open



Linda Gross (DE) Universität Bielefeld, Germany Wikipedia: Openness, Egalitarianism and the Emergence of Structures



Heather Ford (ZA) UC Berkeley, EUA Wikipedia and the Digital Commons: An African perspective



Elad Wieder (IL) Creative Commons, Israel Communities vs. Markets - The dissonance within growing open projects



Nathaniel Tkacz (AU) University of Melbourne, Australia Force is Not Binary - The implications of Open Politics



Sunil Abraham (IN) Centre for Internet and Society, (IN) Moderator





5.    Global Politics of Exclusion



Mark Graham Trinity College Dublin, Ireland WikiSpace - The Construction and Visibility of Hybrid Places



Alok Nandi (CD/BE) Architempo, Belgium Constructing WikiHeroes - A case study of an Indian Auteur and his demise on the Wikipedia



Dror Kamir (IL) Wikipedian from Israel My Side, your Side and Wikipedia -the tension between neutral information and narrative knowledge on Wikipedia demonstrated with articles about the Middle East conflict



Asha Achuthan (IN) Centre for Contemporary Studies, India Moderator





6.    Wikipedia and the Place of Resistace



William Buetler (US) Internet Analyst, USA Wikipedia's Open Door and Closing Window



Eric Ilya Lee (TW) Academia Sinica, Taiwan Re-appropriating Wikipedia: Lazy People's Archives



Yi-Ping Tsou (TW) National Central University, Taiwan Resistance, Reluctance and Reticence: Why Taiwan does not like Wikipedia



Amie Parry (TW) National Central University, Taiwan Moderator





7.    Wikipedia and Education



Usha Raman (IN) Teacher-Plus, India Definitive references and disruptive locations? The wikipedia as a school teaching-learning resource



Nupoor Rawal e Srikiet Tadepalli (IN) Christ University, India Problems of authenticity in experiential information on the English Wikipedia



Nishant Shah (IN) Centre for Internet and Society, India Moderator

1.    Wiki Theory



Ramón Reichert (AT) University of Vienna, Austria Rethinking Wikipedia: power, knowledge and the technologies of the Self



Jeanette Hofmann (DE) London School of Economics, England and Social Science Research Centre Berlin, Germany Wikipedia between emancipation and self-regulation



Mathieu O'Neil (AU) Université Paris Sorbonne, France The critique of law in free online projects



Gérard Wormser (FR) Maison des sciences de l'homme Paris-Nord, France The knowledge bar



Geert Lovink (NL) Institute of Network Cultures , Netherlands Moderator





2.    Encyclopedia Histories



Joseph Reagle (US) New York University, USA Wikipedia and encyclopedic anxiety



Charles van den Heuvel (NL) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Authoritative annotations, Encyclopedia Universalis Mundaneum, Wikipedia and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy



Dan O'Sullivan(UK) Freelance writer and historian An encyclopedia for the times: thoughts on Wikipedia from a historical perspective



Alan Shapiro(US/DE) MIT and Cornell University, USA Gustave Flaubert laughs at Wikipedia



Nathaniel Tkacz (AU) University of Melbourne, Australia Moderator





3.    Wiki Art



Scott Kildall(US) Cross-disciplinary artist Wikipedia Art: Citation as performative act



Patrick Lichty(US) Digital intermedia designer, artist, writer, and independent curator Social media, cultural scaffolds, and molecular hegemonies, musings on anarchic media, WIKIs, and deterritorialized art



Hendrik-Jan Grievink(NL) Designer, Editor WikiLovesArt



Rachel Somers Miles (CA) INC Moderator





4.    Designing Debate



Andrew Famiglietti(UK) Georgia Institute of Technology Negotiating the Neutral Point of View: Politics and the moral economy of Wikipedia



Teemu Mikkonen (FI) University of Tampere Kosovo War in Wikipedia: Tracing the conflict and consensus in the Wikipedia talk -pages



Florian Cramer(DE/NL) Rotterdam University 



Sunil Abraham (IN) Center for Internet and Society, India  Moderator





5.    Global Issues and Outlooks



Mayo Fuster Morell (IT) European University Institute Wikimedia governance: The role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the form and geopolitics of its internationalization



Amit Basole(IN) University of Massachusetts Knowledge Satyagraha: Towards a people's knowledge movement



Maja van der Velden(NL/NO) University of Oslo When knowledges meet: Database design and the performance of knowledge



Athina Karatzogianni(UK) University of Hull Wikipedia's impact on the global power-knowledge hierarchies



Johanna Niesyto (DE) University of Siegen Moderator





6.    Wikipedia Analytics



Felipe Ortega (ES) University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid New trends in the evolution of Wikipedia



Stuart Geiger (US) Georgetown University (Washington, D.C) Bot politics: The domination, subversion, and negotiation of code in Wikipedia



Esther Weltevredeand Erik Borra Digital Methods Initiative Controversy Analysis with Wikipedia



Hans Varghese Mathews (IN) Online Journal Phalanx Clustering the contributors to a Wikipedia page



Nishant Shah (IN) Centre for Internet and Society, India Moderator

Planned to be launched in January 2011.