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Wikimania

Not to be confused with Wikimapia.
For the current year's Wikimania, see Wikimania's 2024 program.

Wikimania
StatusActive
GenreConference
FrequencyAnnually
InauguratedAugust 5, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-08-05)
Most recent7–10 August 2024
Organized byLocal volunteer teams
Filing statusNon-profit
Websitewikimania.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.

Overview

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Wikimania conferences
Logo Conference Date Place Attendance Archive of presentations
Logo of the Wikimania 2005 conference, held in Frankfurt, Germany
 Wikimania 2005 August 4–8 Frankfurt, Germany 380[1] slides, video
Logo of the Wikimania 2006 conference, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts
 Wikimania 2006 August 4–6 Cambridge, Mass., United States 400[2] slides and papers, video
Logo of the Wikimania 2007 conference, held in Taipei, Taiwan
 Wikimania 2007 August 3–5 Taipei, Taiwan 440[3] Commons gallery
Logo of the Wikimania 2008 conference, held in Alexandria, Egypt
 Wikimania 2008 July 17–19 Alexandria, Egypt 650[4] abstracts, slides, video
Logo of the Wikimania 2009 conference, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Wikimania 2009 August 26–28 Buenos Aires, Argentina 559[5] slides, video
Logo of the Wikimania 2010 conference, held in Gdańsk, Poland
 Wikimania 2010 July 9–11 Gdańsk, Poland about 500[6] slides
Logo of the Wikimania 2011 conference, held in Haifa, Israel
 Wikimania 2011 August 4–7 Haifa, Israel 720[7] presentations, video
Logo of the Wikimania 2012 conference, held in Washington DC, US
 Wikimania 2012 July 12–15 Washington, D.C., United States 1,400[8][9] presentations, videos
Logo of Wikimania 2013
 Wikimania 2013 August 7–11 Hong Kong, China 700[10] presentations, videos
The logo of Wikimania 2014
 Wikimania 2014 August 6–10 London, United Kingdom 1,762[11] presentations, videos
Logo of Wikimania 2015
 Wikimania 2015 July 15–19 Mexico City, Mexico 800[citation needed] presentations, videos
Logo of Wikimania 2016
 Wikimania 2016 June 21–28 Esino Lario, Italy 1,365[12] presentations, videos
The logo of Wikimania 2017
 Wikimania 2017 August 9–13 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 915[13][14] presentations, videos
Logo Wikimania Cape Town
 Wikimania 2018 July 18–22 Cape Town, South Africa over 700[15] presentations, videos
Logo Wikimania Stockholm
 Wikimania 2019 August 14–18 Stockholm, Sweden over 800[16] presentations, videos
2020: No Wikimania because of the COVID-19 pandemic
Logo Wikimania 2021
 Wikimania 2021 August 13–17 Virtual environment presentations, videos
Logo Wikimania 2022 Wikimania 2022 August 11–14 Virtual environment presentations, videos
Logo Wikimania Singapore Wikimania 2023 August 15–20 Singapore and Virtual environment 761 in-person and over 2105 virtually[17] presentations, videos
Logo Wikimania 2024 Wikimania 2024 August 6–10 Katowice, Poland presentations, videos
Wikimania 2025 Nairobi, Kenya[18]
Wikimania 2026 Paris, France[19]

Conferences

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World map showing Wikimania host cities and their countries

2005

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Wikimania – the Wikimentary, documentary about Wikimania 2005, featuring Jimmy Wales and Ward Cunningham

Wikimania 2005, the first Wikimania conference, was held from 4 to 8 August 2005 at the Haus der Jugend in Frankfurt, Germany, attracting about 380 attendees.[1]

The week of the conference included four "Hacking Days", from 1 to 4 August, when some 25 developers gathered to work on code and discuss the technical aspects of MediaWiki and of running the Wikimedia projects. The main days of the conference, despite its billing as being "August 4–8", were Friday to Sunday of that week, from 5 to 7 August. Presentation sessions were scheduled all day during those three days.

Keynote speakers included Jimmy Wales, Ross Mayfield, Ward Cunningham, and Richard Stallman (who spoke on "Copyright and community in the age of computer networks"). The majority of sessions and conversations were in English, although a few were in German.

Sponsors of the event included Answers.com, SocialText, Sun Microsystems, DocCheck [de],[20] and Logos Group.

2006

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Attendees break for lunch, 2006

Wikimania 2006, the second Wikimania conference, was held from 6 to 8 August 2006 at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in Cambridge in Massachusetts, United States, with about 400[2]–500[21] attendees.

Speakers included Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Brewster Kahle, Yochai Benkler, Mitch Kapor, Ward Cunningham, and David Weinberger. Dan Gillmor held a citizen journalism unconference the day after.

Wales' plenary speech was covered by the Associated Press, and printed in numerous worldwide newspapers. He chronicled how the Foundation evolved from him "sitting in his pajamas" to the maturing corporate structure that it is now; the frequent push for quality over quantity; Wikipedia will be included on computers distributed through One Laptop per Child; both Wikiversity and the creation of an advisory board were approved by the Foundation board; and that Wiki-WYG is in development thanks to private investment by Wikia, Inc. and Socialtext.[22]

Answers.com was the Wikimania 2006 patron sponsor, while Amazon.com, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Nokia, WikiHow were Benefactors-level sponsors, Wetpaint, Ask.com, Yahoo!, and Socialtext were Friends-level sponsors, and IBM, FAQ Farm, Elevation Partners, One Laptop per Child, and the Sunlight Foundation were Supporter-level sponsors of the conference.[23]

Three other teams submitted hosting bids, for the cities of London, Milan, Boston, and Toronto; only Toronto and Boston were passed to the second round of consideration by Wikimania organizers. In Toronto's case the event would have been hosted in the University of Toronto's Bahen Centre.

2007

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Chunghwa Telecom press conference, sponsor of Wikimania 2007

As announced on 25 September 2006, Wikimania 2007,[24] the third Wikimania conference, was held from 3 to 5 August 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first Wikimania event to hold a volunteer training course.[25]

Three other teams submitted hosting bids, for the cities of London, Alexandria, and Turin. Bids for Hong Kong, Singapore, Istanbul, and Orlando failed to make the shortlist.[26] The winner was announced on 25 September 2006.[24]

On 3 August 2007, New York Times reporter Noam Cohen wrote: "The conference has attracted about 440 attendees, a little more than half from Taiwan, who want to immerse themselves for three days in the ideas and issues that come up making an entirely volunteer-written encyclopedia.[3] The workshops cover practical topics like how to collaborate peacefully; what importance to give 'expertise' in a project that is celebrated for allowing anyone to contribute, including anonymous editors".[3]

2008

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Group photo after the 2008 closing ceremony

Wikimania 2008, the fourth Wikimania conference, was held from 17 to 19 July 2008 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, with 650 attendees from 45 countries.[4] Alexandria was the location of the ancient Library of Alexandria.[27] Three proposed cities were in the running at the end, the other two being Atlanta and Cape Town. Proposals for Karlsruhe, London and Toronto were also submitted, but later withdrew. There was a controversy about the conference, and even a call to boycott Wikimania 2008 because of Egypt's alleged censorship and imprisoning of bloggers during Mubarak's era.[28][29] Mohamed Ibrahim, a graduate of Alexandria University who worked to bring the conference to Alexandria, told the BBC "I think we have the right to develop and to make freedom of expression on a larger scale."[30] One of his goals was to help grow Arabic Wikipedia which he contributes to since early 2005. An Egyptian cabinet minister spoke at the opening ceremonies on Mubarak's behalf.[27]

2009

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Group photo, 2009

The fifth Wikimania conference was held from 26 to 28 August 2009 in Buenos Aires, with 559 attendees.[31] Brisbane, Karlsruhe, and Toronto were also considered as host cities.

2010

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Jimmy Wales gives the keynote address at Gdańsk during Wikimania 2010.

The sixth Wikimania conference was held from 9 to 11 July at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk, Poland. The starting day on July 9 overlapped with the end of the WikiSym academic conference. Bids for Amsterdam and Oxford lost by a small margin.[6] Wikimania 2010 was the first conference which included a big focus on the cultural aspects of the hosting nation, particularly a concert of a philharmonic orchestra, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the death of the most important contemporary Polish composer Władysław Szpilman and the premiere of the film Truth in Numbers?. At the conference, WMF executive director Sue Gardner said the foundation aimed to grow the number of visitors to Wikimedia sites from 371 million to 680 million a month, over the next five years.

2011

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Wikimania 2011, the seventh Wikimania conference, was held from 4 to 7 August 2011 in Haifa, Israel.[32] The conference venue was the Haifa Auditorium and adjoining Beit Hecht cultural center on Mount Carmel. Keynote speakers at the conference included Yochai Benkler, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Joseph M. Reagle Jr. of MIT, author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia.[33] Head of the Science and Technology Committee at the Knesset, Meir Sheetrit, also spoke at the conference, as did Yonah Yahav, the Mayor of Haifa.[34] One of the sponsors of the event was Haifa University.[35] The conference featured 125 sessions in five simultaneous tracks and was attended by 720 Wikimedians[32] from 56 different countries,[34] including some that have no diplomatic relations with Israel.[36]

Opening session of Wikimania 2011

In an interview with Haaretz, Wales noted that there had been boycott calls against the conference in Israel, as there had been against having it in Egypt in 2008. He said that despite conflicts among editors on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and efforts by a pro-Israel group to recruit more Wikipedia editors, he believes Wikipedia articles largely remained neutral on the topic; he stated "NPOV is non-negotiable."[37]

Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner spoke to the conference about the Western, male-dominated mind-set characterizing Wikipedia.[38] At the end of the August 7 closing ceremony, Wales was presented with the first day cover of the first-ever Wikimedia-related postal stamp,[32] issued by the Israeli postal service in honor of the event.[39] Among new projects discussed was collaboration with cultural institutions such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums.[40]

After the conference, participants were offered a free tour of Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth or Acre. Shay Yakir, outgoing chairman of Wikimedia Israel, said that for Israel, holding the conference in Haifa was like hosting the Olympic Games.[41]

2012

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2012 group photo

Wikimania 2012, the eighth Wikimania conference, was held from 12 to 15 July 2012 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with over 1,400 attendees from 87 countries.[42] In conjunction with the conference, the U.S. Department of State hosted Tech@State:Wiki.Gov, which focused on "collaborative knowledge and the use of wikis in the public sector".[43] Prominent conference themes were the need to update the old and "dowdy" interface[44] with new Wikimedia tools in order to attract and retain more editors and to make Wikimedia sites more inviting and friendly to users, including especially women.[45] The Atlantic featured charts displayed at the conference which showed how the number of new administrators has dropped precipitously over the last few years.[46]

During the opening plenary, Wales commented on Wikipedia blackout of January 2012, stating "When I go and visit government officials now, they’re a little bit afraid." However he reiterated Wikimedia's commitment to political neutrality except regarding "the most serious things that directly impact our work."[47][48] Wales agreed with keynote speaker Mary Gardiner, co-founder of the Ada Initiative, that Wikimedia had to do more to increase the number of women editors. She said, "As a project of social change, even if it's not an activist project, the Wikipedia community has a responsibility both to its mission and to the people out there in the world to always be on a journey toward diversity — to increase the size of the umbrella of the world."[49][50]

2013

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Wikimania 2013 documentary

Wikimania 2013, the ninth Wikimania conference, was held from 7 to 11 August 2013 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with 700 attendees from 88 countries. Candidate cities were London (UK), Bristol (UK), Naples (Italy) and Surakarta (Indonesia). One of the parties for the event was held at the International Commerce Centre and the closing party was held at Shek O Beach. Topics discussed included Wikipedia's gender disparity[51] and Wales' proposal for Wikipedia to begin using Secure Sockets Layer to encrypt its pages.[52]

2014

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Wikimania 2014 attendees

Wikimania 2014, the tenth Wikimania conference, was held from 8 to 10 August 2014[53] at the Barbican Centre in London. Bidding officially opened in December 2012. London was chosen in May 2013 as the host city[54] with the only other bid coming from Arusha (Tanzania).[55][56] The keynote address was given by Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.[57] The event was the first Wikimania addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director Lila Tretikov,[57] and was preceded by a two-day hackathon, and a series of fringe events.[57] The conference was documented by the television program 60 Minutes in a program titled 'Wikimania'.[58]

2015

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Wikimania 2015 documentary

Wikimania 2015, the eleventh Wikimania conference, was held from 15 to 19 July 2015[59] at the Hotel Hilton Mexico City Reforma in Mexico City.[60][61] Bidding officially opened in December 2013. Other candidate cities were: Arusha, northern Tanzania; Bali, a province in Indonesia; Cape Town, in South Africa; Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania; Esino Lario, province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy; and Monastir, in Tunisia.[62][60] Shortlisted were Mexico City, Cape Town and Monastir.[63] Mexico City was selected in April 2014.[62][60] The organising entity was Wikimedia México, A.C., the Mexican local chapter representing the interests and goals of the Wikimedia Foundation.[64]

2016

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Wikimania 2016 documentary

Wikimania 2016, the twelfth Wikimania conference, took place from 24 to 26 June 2016, with peripheral events from 21 to 28 June, in the mountain village of Esino Lario, Italy.[65] Esino Lario had bid unsuccessfully for the 2015 Wikimania. The other candidate city that bid for the 2016 hosting was Manila, Philippines. The venue is the first that is not a major city and plenary sessions are in the outdoor venue. During the event, it was announced that the Wikimedia Foundation's interim executive director Katherine Maher was appointed permanently.

2017

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Wikimania 2017 attendees

Wikimania 2017, the thirteenth Wikimania conference, was held at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 9 to 13 August 2017.[66][67] The event was held in Canada during its sesquicentennial anniversary and in Montreal during its 375th anniversary.[68] The first two days included WikiConference North America.

2018

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Wikimania 2018, the fourteenth Wikimania conference, was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 18 to 22 July 2018 at the Cape Sun Southern Sun Hotel. It was the first time the event had a theme. The theme was "Bridging Knowledge gaps: the Ubuntu way forward"[69] with the aim of focusing discussion on building shared strategies to bridge the collective knowledge gaps.

2019

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Wikimania 2019 group photo

Wikimania 2019, the fifteenth Wikimedia conference, was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 14 to 18 August 2019, at the Stockholm University, with an attendance of over 800.[16][70] The event centered around the theme Stronger Together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals. As part of the movement's sustainability initiative, The Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation decided to pay half of the carbon offsetting cost. Terrapass, sponsored the other half of the offsetting for the conference. The Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award was inaugurated in this conference.[71]

2020–2022

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2020 edition presentation in Wikimania 2019

The sixteenth Wikimania conference was scheduled to be held in Bangkok from 5 to 9 August 2020,[72] coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the event. In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maher announced a postponement until 2021.[73] On January 28, 2021, WMF chief operating officer Janeen Uzzell announced Wikimania would be moving to a virtual event as the ongoing pandemic affected planning for an in-person event.[74] The 2021 edition took place between August 13 and 17, 2021.[75] The scheduled in-person event would have been hosted by Wikimedia ESEAP (East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific), a first time for a regional collaborative. It was going to be the third time it was to be held in Asia and first for Southeast Asia. It was decided that ESEAP would be given a chance to host Wikimania's next in-person edition.[76]

Wikimania 2022 was again an online event but with the waning of the pandemic some cities had in-person events.

2023

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Wikimania 2023 group photo

Wikimania 2023, the eighteenth edition,[77] was held at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, in Singapore, and online from 16 to 19 August 2023. It was the first returning in-person event since 2019 and was organized by Wikimedia ESEAP.[78][79] The theme of the conference was "Diversity. Collaboration. Future."[80] The uses and limitations of generative AI were discussed at length during the conference.[81] Gender participation in the Wikimedia movement was also highlighted in this conference with the introduction of the WikiWomen Summit.[82] Side activities include a visit at Google's Asia-Pacific Regional Head Office, Singapore Botanic Gardens, and Singapore's National Library.[83][84] The conference closing celebration was held at the Flower dome, Gardens by the Bay.

2024

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Giant hall with huge screen with lights shining all around.
Wikimania 2024 orientation session

Wikimania 2024, the nineteenth edition, was held from 7 to 10 August at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland.[85] Journalist Stephen Harrison described it as "an event that feels a bit like an international summit of librarians crossed with Comic-Con".[86]

2025

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Wikimania 2025, the twentieth edition, will be held in Nairobi, Kenya[18] and will be organized by the Wikimedia East Africa Thematic and Regional Hub (Wikimedia EARTH). Wikimania's 20th Anniversary is expected to be one of the major milestone celebrations in this edition.

See also

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