Official annual conference organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Not to be confused with Wikimapia.
For the current year's Wikimania, see Wikimania's 2024 program.
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Wikimania
Status
Active
Genre
Conference
Frequency
Annually
Inaugurated
August 5, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-08-05)
Most recent
16–19 August 2023
Organized by
Local volunteer teams
Filing status
Non-profit
Website
wikimania.wikimedia.org
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and social and technical aspects related to these topics.
Since 2011, the winner of the Wikimedian of the Year award (known as the "Wikipedian of the Year" until 2017) has been announced at Wikimania.
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions...
finalized or adopted. Wikimania is an annual global conference for Wikimedians and Wikipedians, started in 2005. The first Wikimania was held in Frankfurt...
organized by the Wikimedia Foundation or the community of Wikipedia. Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the wiki projects operated...
Katherine (June 26, 2016). "Wikimania 2016 – Q&A with the ED of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher". Wikimania 2016. Wikimanía Esino Lario 2016. Archived...
Jimmy Wales at Wikimania Alaa Najjar, a physician, Wikipedian and internet activist who was named the Wikimedian of the Year at Wikimania in August 2021...
each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts. At Wikimania 2016, in Esino Lario, Italy, Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in...
science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. She is a Wikipedian and spoke at Wikimania in 2006. Devine earned a master's degree in engineering from Princeton...
Wikimedian of the Year by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at the annual Wikimania 2023 event. Taufik Rosman was born on the 8th of September, 1999. His...
2014. "Wikimania Gets Social". Barbican Centre. 11 August 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2015. @WikimaniaLondon...
co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales selects the recipients and honors them at Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation—except in 2020, 2021...
WikiConference India WikiConference North America Wikipedia Summit India Wikimania Fripp, Charlie (2014-06-24). "What does Wikipedia need to do in Africa...
frequently held meeting for users and developers of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Wikimania, an annual conference dedicated to the research and practice of Wikimedia...
project was launched in September 2006 after a presentation by State at Wikimania 2006. The program began as part of a larger effort created by former Secretary...
Video of Wikimania 2005 – an annual conference for users of Wikipedia and other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, was held in Frankfurt am...
proposal, was approved (2006). The launch of Wikiversity was announced at Wikimania 2006 as an idea to: host learning communities, so people who are actually...
O'Reilly. Sauer, C.: WYSIWIKI – Questioning WYSIWYG in the Internet Age. In: Wikimania (2006) Spiesser, J., Kitchen, L.: Optimization of HTML automatically generated...
North America 2017 was held in Montreal in 2017, as a pre-conference to Wikimania. The 2018 and 2019 events were held in Columbus, Ohio and Cambridge, Massachusetts...
of Wikimedia chapters Bangladesh Deutschland Israel Polska UK Ukraine Wikimania Wiki Indaba MediaWiki Litigation Monkey selfie copyright dispute Wikimedia...
Dan Schreiber Schreiber presenting at Wikimania 2014 Born Daniel Craig Schreiber 1984 (age 39–40) British Hong Kong Occupation(s) Podcaster, producer...
Luis von Ahn Von Ahn at Wikimania 2015 Born (1978-08-19) 19 August 1978 (age 45) Guatemala City, Guatemala Education Duke University (BS) Carnegie Mellon...
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