Presenters/Alain Desilets/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.