Presenters/Alain Desilets

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Alain Desilets
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada
Biography
Alain Désilets Alain Désilets is a researcher at the National Research of Canada. His wiki research focuses on usability of wikis, and on tools for collaborative translation of wiki sites: Translation the wiki way: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48736_e.html Are wikis usable? http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48272_e.html Wiki as a Tool for Web-based Collaborative Story Telling in Primary School: a Case Study http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48234_e.html Alain is also conference chair for WikiSym2007, which will be held in Montreal in October 2007: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/index.html At WikiMania 2007, he will present a paper that analyzes the usefulness of Wikipedia and Wiktionnary for translators, based on data collected in an ethongraphic observation of translators doing their work.
Presentation
Making WikiMedia resources more useful for translators