Wikimania
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Wikimania is the name of an international conference that has been organized by the Wikimedia Foundation every year since 2005 at different locations.
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The event, often referred to in the press as the “Wikipedia Annual Meeting”, is designed as a communication forum for active community members, scientists and technicians, where the future strategies of the various Wiki media projects can be discussed together.
New technical approaches, the strategic orientation of the projects, new applications and cooperation, quality assurance measures, licensing issues as well as current developments and the public perception of the projects are regularly discussed.
Conferences
| conference | date | Meeting place | continent | Attendees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimania 2005 | 5th-7th August 2005 |
 Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
Europe | 380 |
| Wikimania 2006 | 4th-6th August 2006 |
 Cambridge , USA |
North America | 400 |
| Wikimania 2007 | 3rd to 5th August 2007 |
 Taipei , Republic of China |
Asia | 440 |
| Wikimania 2008 | 17th-19th July 2008 |
 Alexandria , Egypt |
Africa | 625 |
| Wikimania 2009 | 26.-28. August 2009 |
 Buenos Aires , Argentina |
South America | 559 |
| Wikimania 2010 | 9-11 July 2010 |
 Gdansk , Poland |
Europe | 500 |
| Wikimania 2011 | 4th-7th August 2011 |
 Haifa , Israel |
Asia | 600 |
| Wikimania 2012 | 12-15 July 2012 |
Washington, DC , USA |
North America | 1,400 |
| Wikimania 2013 | 7-11 August 2013 |
 Hong Kong , China |
Asia | 700 |
| Wikimania 2014 | 6-10 August 2014 |
 London , UK |
Europe | 1,762 |
| Wikimania 2015 | 17th-19th July 2015 |
 Mexico City , Mexico |
North America | 800 |
| Wikimania 2016 | 24.-26. June 2016 |
 Esino Lario , Italy |
Europe | 1,200 |
| Wikimania 2017 | 9-13 August 2017 |
 Montreal , Canada |
North America | 1,000 |
| Wikimania 2018 | 18.-22. July 2018 |
 Cape Town , South Africa |
Africa | 600 |
| Wikimania 2019 | 14.-18. August 2019 |
 Stockholm , Sweden |
Europe | over 800 |
| Wikimania 2020 | postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
 Bangkok , Thailand |
Asia | - |
| Wikimania 2021 | 2021 |
Bangkok , Thailand |
Asia |
Web links
Commons : Wikimania - collection of images
Meta-Wiki: Wikimania - coordination
- wikimania.org (forwards to the respective Wikimania page for the current year)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation of the conference on wikimediafoundation.org
- ↑ Erika Morphy: Wikipedia to Tinge Suspect Entries With Orange Cast, Technology News, August 31, 2009
- ^ Noam Cochem: How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali. The New York Times, July 11, 2010
- ↑ Stephen Shankland: Google finds perks in its Wikipedia translations. cnet news, July 15, 2010
- ↑ China Martens: Wikipedia to highlight quality issues in coming year. Computerworld, August 7, 2006
- ↑ James Niccolai: Wikipedia to fight vandals in Germany, Infoworld, September 26, 2006
- ↑ David Gößmann: Wikimania Conference 2006. elephants overrun lexicon. Spiegel Online, August 7, 2006
- ↑ Helmut Merschmann: "Wikipedia Congress: Do-gooders among themselves". Der Spiegel , August 8, 2005, accessed November 11, 2009 .
- ↑ Main Page - Wikimania
- ^ The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place
- ^ Gary Younge: Geek Nation. The Guardian , August 9, 2006, accessed August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ New York Times, August 6, 2007, by Noam Cohen: Link By Link - Politically Neutral, in a Blurry Sense
- ^ New York Times, July 17, 2008, by Noam Cohen: Wikipedia Goes to Alexandria, Home of Other Great Reference Works
- ↑ Quo Vadis, Wikipedia? Impressions from Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires
- ↑ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/a-war-of-words-over-wikipedias-spanish-version/
- ↑ Participant page of Wikimania
- ↑ Noam Cohen: How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali. The New York Times , July 11, 2010, accessed August 26, 2010 .
- ^ Mathias Hamann: Wikipedia World Conference 2010 Woodstock in the shadow of censorship. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ Christian M. Wagner: Wikipedia should offer more quality in the future . tagesschau.de, August 4, 2011. ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Application for Wikimania
- ^ Decision of the Wikimania jury
- ↑ Wikimania 2012 swan song (engl.)
- ↑ Application for Wikimania
- ^ Decision of the Wikimania jury
- ↑ Deryck Chan: Official communication from the organizers regarding the number of participants (email, September 1, 2013)
- ↑ Application for Wikimania
- ^ Decision of the Wikimania jury
- ↑ Stuart Prior: Official communication from the organizers regarding the number of participants (email, September 22, 2014)
- ↑ Application for Wikimania
- ^ Decision of the Wikimania jury
- ↑ Wikimania page 2015
- ↑ Application for Wikimania
- ↑ Il bilancio di Wikimania a Esino: Oltre 1200 presenze, di 70 nazioni ( Italian ) In: La Provincia di Lecco . June 27, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ^ Decision of the Wikimania jury
- ^ Wikipedia-Founder Kicks Off Montreal Wikimania by Urgering Net Neutrality , accessed on January 14, 2018.
- ^ Decision by the Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation
- ↑ Julia Jaki: White, male, Wikipedia. Zeit, July 24, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. Meetup at Wikimania 2018
- ↑ Stephen Harrison: Wikimania to the Rescue ( English ) In: Slate . August 16, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ↑ Katherine Maher: Postponing Wikimania Bangkok until 2021 ( English ) August 16, 2019. Accessed April 16, 2020.