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Meetings of users of Wikimedia projects can be arranged via Meta, the mailing lists, or meetup pages on the individual projects. If you have attended a meetup, you can add a little report here (and link to a longer one, if you're in the mood of writing much).
See also the page for Wikimedia and MediaWiki related events - presentations at conferences, fairs, arts events etc. This is usually a good occasion to meet other people from the Wikimedia crowd.
- Editing Weekends - proposal for editing-related events
- Archive - older discussion about meetups
Local meetup pages: de | en | es | fi | fr | he | it | ja | ko | nl | pl | pt | sv | zh
[edit] Upcoming events
- Friday 23 may, Nijmegen 20:00 The Netherlands. Sterkebak 07:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Past events
- Konferencja Wikimedia Polska 2008, 2008 22-25 May, Rabka-Zdrój
- Galipedia, the Galician Wikipedia. 2007, december 28th in Santiago de Compostela. First meeting ever, and dinner. 15 persons expected.
- September 2007 (in several cities in Poland) - 6. birthday of polish Wikipedia
- İzmir Meetup 2 Turkey — Sunday, 16 September 2007-İkinci geleneksel İzmir buluşması
- Викиконференция 2007 — the Conference of Russian-speaking (although other are always welcome) Wikimedians in St.Petersburg on Oct 27-28, 2007.
- Adelaide Meetup 2 — Monday, 23 April 2007
- Perth Meetup 2 — Tuesday, 24 April 2007 -- Jimbo confirmed attendee.
- Melbourne Meetup 5 — Friday, 27 April 2007 - breakfast meeting to squeeze into Jimbo's hectic schedule
- Arnhem, Gelderland, (NLD); woensdag 2 mei 2007
- Paris, Avril 2007.
- Białowieża: 1-3 maja 2007, Konferencja Wikimedia Polska 2007
- New York Wikipedia Meetup April 10, 2006: http://wikipedia.meetup.com/52/ Organized by Alex756
- The Board met in Rotterdam on 12, 13 & 14 January 2007. On Friday, 12 January 2007, there was an open meeting between Board and Wikimedians. Tulip Inn Rotterdam, 20:00 (CET) See also Wikipedia:Ontmoeten
- Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006 in Hong Kong, August 2006
[edit] Reports from previous meetups
- Wikimania 2005 - planned wikimedia conference for August 2005
- Wikimedia meetup Central and Eastern Europe - planned meetup in Poland for August 2005, right after Wikimania
[edit] 2008
[edit] 14 June, Frankfurt a. M.
Community Tag of Wikimedia Deutschland, the day before the general members convention. Lectures and discussions about various subjects. For about 30 attendants from all Germany.
[edit] 2007
[edit] 20 & 21 October, Macau
as Autumn meetup 2006 for Hong Kong Wikipedians
also as First Meetup for Wikipedians in Macau
- Organizer: zh:User:Cthon
- 12 people from Macau, Hong Kong & Mainland China attended
- more details...
[edit] 5th October, Ramat Gan , Israel
A picnic with barbecue for Israeli Wikipedians from across the country and their friends, in the National Park in Ramat Gan attended by over 70 wikipedians and family members.
[edit] 14 Jul, Hong Kong
Summer meetup 2007
- a. k. a. Establishment Celebrations of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Organizer: Preliminary Committee, Wikimedia Hong Kong
- more than 40 people attended
- more details...
[edit] 25th May, Jerusalem, Israel
[edit] 1 Apr, Hong Kong
Spring Meetup 2007
- Organizer: Pedist, Stewart & Ben
- 19 people attended
- more details....
[edit] 30th March, Tel Aviv, Israel
A picnic with barbecue for Israeli Wikipedians from across the country and their friends, in Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv.
[edit] 18th March, Tokyo, Japan
Jimmy Wales interview - Jimmy answered 20 questions from Japanese Wikipedians gathered beforehand on Japanese Wikipedia. Around 70 people attended. After the session, around 20 people enjoyed a party.
Further information is at:
- ja:Wikipedia:オフラインミーティング/20070318Tokyo (Japanese Wikipedia meetup page)
- media coverage of the session (part of BlogTV content, preceded by Jimmy's another interview about Wikia).
[edit] 26th January, Jerusalem, Israel
The first field-trip of Elef Millim project took place in the German Colony of Jerusalem. The project initiated by Rotem, an HE-Wikipedian, is meant to bring together Wikipedians for fun educational activity and to enrich the image repository with pictures taken during the field-trip. 10 Wikipedians attended the first field-trip.
[edit] 2006
[edit] 23 & 24 Dec, Hong Kong
Winter meetup 2006
- Organizer: Stewart & Yuyu
- 13 people attended
- more details...
[edit] 16 & 17th December, Belgrade, Serbia
First general regional conference/meetup in Belgrade for the Balkan countries took place on December 16 and 17. Beside visitors from Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, some guests from France, Germany and the Netherlands are also expected. Organized by Millosh, Filip et al.
- Report in English: First Regional Conference of Wikimedia Serbia
[edit] 15 Dec. Herzliya, Israel
Hanukkah Meetup in Israel
- English report: Wikimedia Conference Israel
- Hebrew report: w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש חנוכה תשס"ז 2006/סיכום המפגש
- Pictures: w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש חנוכה תשס"ז 2006/תמונות, w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש חנוכה תשס"ז 2006/תמונת פנורמה
[edit] 09 Dec. Taipei, Taiwan
Winter Meetup in Taiwan
- Time:10:00-17:00 (UTC+8)
- participator:37
- Schedule
- Host:星馬將
- Schedule:星馬將
- Post:Alexsh
- camera man:Rico Shen、Qweaz
- Speekers:KJ、銀色快手、Mingwangs、Jasonzhuocn、狗狗、orion、yap、魔法設計師
- more details...
[edit] 23 Sep. Taipei, Taiwan
Autumn Meetup in Taiwan
- Time:13:00-17:00 (UTC+8)
- participator:more than 30
- Schedule
- Host:THD
- Place:阿儒
- Schedule:KJ
- Post:Kandance
- camera man:Qweaz
- Speekers:KJ、Koika、slime123、THD、Mingwangx、LittleB
- Workshop host:星馬將、Danny.umd、阿儒、LittleB
- more details...
[edit] 22-23 July. Taiwan Railway Western Line, Taiwan
Taiwan Railway Western Line Meetup.
22 July 2006, 3 Taiwan Wikipedians gathered in Taipei and took train to travel along Taiwan Railway Western Line. They met 1 Wikipedian in Jhongli, 3 Wikipedians in Hsinchu and slept in Hsinchu. Next day, they went to Changhua to met another Wikipedian.
[edit] 24 Jun. Taipei, Taiwan
Summer Meetup in Taiwan
- Time:13:00 (UTC+8)
- participator:more than 23
- Host:Kandance
- Place:阿儒
- Chapter meeting:Mingwangs
- camera man:Qweaz
- more details...
[edit] 10 Jun. Hong Kong
Summer Meetup in Hong Kong
- Time:19:00-22:35 (UTC+8)
- Organizer: User:Pedist
- 16 people attended with 2 journalists....
- more details...
[edit] 17 April, Jerusalem, Israel
Passover meetup in Israel
- Hebrew report: w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש פסח תשס"ו/סיכום המפגש
- Pictures: w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש פסח תשס"ו/תמונות, w:he:ויקיפדיה:מפגשים/מפגש פסח תשס"ו/תמונות/ST
[edit] 9 April Taipei, Taiwan
Meetup With Jimbo
- Time:12:30
- Location:Wistariahouse (en)(A Taipei historical heritage site. A Chinese Tea House)
- participator:31
- Organizer:H.T. Chien / 眼鏡虎
- Host:flora
- Art Editor:Shoichi
- Accountant and Check In:Alexsh
- Camera man:Ellery、SElephant
- Interpreters:H.T. Chien / 眼鏡虎、flora、SElephant、THD
- Managed by Open Source Software Foundry(OSSF)
- Schedule:
| 12:20 to 12:30 |
Co-worker meet 工作人員報到與集合,Equipment setup |
| 12:30 to 12:50 |
Sign up, Seat Arrangement |
| 12:50 -1:00 |
Opening |
| 1:00 - 1:20 |
Zh-Wiki intro themselves |
| 1:20- 1:50 |
Jimmy Intro himself |
| 1:50 - 2:20 |
Short break (cookie-tea-time) |
| 2:30 - 3:30 |
Topic talking Topic 1: Chapter Topic 2: management |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Open talking (Jimmy wih everyone) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 |
Feedback and Photo Time |
[edit] 29 April - 1 May 2006, Wrocław, Poland
3rd Polish Wikimedia Meeting 2006. 42 participants including 5 from abroad. 10 lectures were delivered and many discussions took place among participants. During the meeting General Member Assembly 2006 I was organized. See also the oficial web-page of the meeting: [1] and unoficial article on Wikipedia-pl (in Polish only)
[edit] 19 March, Taipei, Taiwan
Spring Meetup in Taiwan
- Time:13:00 (UTC+8)
- participator:34
- Host:MagicDesigner
- Place:KJ
- Schedule:KJ
- Speekers:阿儒、far、Jasonzhuocn(for wikimedia introduction and interface)、THD(copyright)、Pektiong(zh-min-nan wikipedia)
- camera man:泅水大象、Ellery
- more details...
[edit] 3 Feb, Tainan, Taiwan
"Happy Chinese New Year" Meetup in Taiwan
- Time:14:00
- Location:車路墘藝文空間 (A Tea house near by Bao-an Station)
- Organizer:Koika
- Schedule:Topic discussion and Tainan City tour
- more details......
[edit] 22 Jan, Hong Kong
Spring Meetup 2006
- Organizer: Simon Shek
- 6 people attended
- more details....
[edit] 2005
[edit] 12-13 December 2005, Chorzów, Poland
4th Polish Wikipedians meeting and 2nd Polish Wikimedia meeting. 26 participants including guests from Czech Wikipedia. See more pl:Wikipedia:Opłatek Wikimedian 2005
[edit] 10 December, Taipei, Taiwan
Winter Meetup in Taipei County(en)
- Time:13:00 (UTC+8)
- participator:22
- Place(in Danshuei Township)(en) and organizers :KJ、THD
- more details...
[edit] Brussels, Belgium, 10 December 2005
Belgian Wikimeet/Belgische Wikimeet/Wikimeet Belge: see/zie/voir/sehe:
- English: Wikimedia BE/English - nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten/Brussel, december 2005
- Nederlands/Français/Deutsch: Wikimedia BE - nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten/Brussel, december 2005
[edit] Melbourne, Australia, 22, 24, & 29 November 2005
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne for more information.
[edit] Sydney, Australia, 20 & 21 November 2005
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney for more information.
[edit] 18 Sept. Hong Kong
Meetup 2005
- Organizer:Simon Shek
- 9 wikipemians attended
- more details......
[edit] 3 Sep. Hsinchu, Taiwan
Autumn Meetup in Taiwan
- Organizer:Jasonzhuocn
- Participator:6 people
- more details......
[edit] 13-14 August, 2005, Kraków, Poland
Third Polish Wikipedians, and first Polish Wikimedia meeting. 32 participants, some press coverage. Polish Wikimedia Chapter was established. See more pl:Wikipedia:Zlot Wikimedia Polska 2005
[edit] zh WP and SBF, 2 July 2005
zh WP and Social Brain Foundation(SBF) online conference. see record of conference
[edit] 25 June 2005 Taipei in Taiwan,
- Time:13:30 (UTC+8)
- participator:16
- organizer :KJ
- Discussion:
- Taiwan Wikipedians -- by KJ
- The History of zh.wikipedia -- by Jasonzhuocn (download)
- Copyright and Copyleft -- by THD (download)
- MediaWiki interface -- by Jasonzhuocn
- more details...
[edit] Dragør in Denmark, 11th June 2005
Jimbo spoke at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen and later met some of the most active Danish Wikipedia-users. There is a description in Danish here: da:Wikipedia:Træf.
[edit] Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, May 14, 2005
Jimbo had a lecture at the Belgrade Philosophy Faculty. Afterwards, he and some of the local Wikipedians went to the Project Rastko building. The meeting was rather casual and the topics varied enormously. Of course, there were serious talks about Wikipedia and related stuff.According to Jimbo, he had a great time and hopes to visit us soon (we also hope so), specifically in October.
Further details at: sr:Википедија:Уживо/субота, 14. мај 2005. and sr:Википедија:Џимбо у Београду (Serbian cyrillic)
[edit] Petoria 20th April, 2005
Angela and Erik were in South Africa between April 18 and 21 for an International FLOSS and Free Knowledge Workshop run by the CSIR Open Source Centre and arranged the first ever Wikimedia meetup in Africa. It was held on Wednesday 20th April, 2005, at the Court Classique hotel in Pretoria. See Conference reports/FLOSS, South Africa 2005 for their report on the conference and the meetup.
[edit] 5 March, Taipei, Taiwan
Spring Meetup in Taiwan
- Participator:11 people
- Discussion:welcome template, Taipedia, User Guide, a Chinese wikipedians' meetup?
- more details......
[edit] 2004
[edit] 27th to 29th December 2004 in Berlin
At the Chaos Communication Congress, the annual Conference of the Chaos Computer Club, a bunch of wikipedians met and had a lot of fun together. There was also a meeting of the mediawiki developers. Read more.... See also Pictures
[edit] 4 December, Taipei, Taiwan
The 2nd Taiwan wikipedian Meetup
- Participator:4 wikipedians + 1 friend + 1 Journalist
- more details......
[edit] 27 November 2004, Rotterdam
Dutch Wikipedians arranged a Wikimedia meetup in Rotterdam. Unlike most other events, this was a complete symposion, with presentations about Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Many prominent users from dutch wikipedia like nl:gebruiker:oscar, André Engels, GerardM and en:user:Waerth who managed to come from Thailand were present. The wikimedia board, Jimbo Wales, Angela and Anthere, held their first real life board meeting.
[edit] 18th September in Florence (Firenze)
- Firenze September 18: meeting in Firenze
[edit] 3rd - 7th September in Linz cyberarts festival 2004
From Sept 3-7, 2004, Wikipedia was present at the Ars Electronica Cyberarts Festival in Linz, Austria. Wikipedia had won a Golden Nica in the category digital communities of the Prix Ars Electronica and Jimbo Wales was invited to speak at the presentation of the prize winning projects. Read more...
[edit] 4 Sep, Taipei, Taiwan
This meetup is The FIRST Taiwan wikimedia users Meetup in Taiwan.
- participator:3 people(SElephant, Richy, THD)
- more details......
[edit] 31st August 2004 in London (BBC)
Tuesday August 31, 2004. Jimbo and Angela spoke to the BBC and later held a public talk about Wikipedia in London. See BBC#New Media.
[edit] 28th August 2004 in Utrecht
Utrecht: August 28th Jimbo met for the first time (11) wikipedians from the Dutch-language Wiki (regretfully, none of the Belgians could make it) in the center of Utrecht. nl:Wikipedia:Ontmoeten/Plaatsgevonden The meeting was a great succes, plans for a big global Wikipedia Conference were discussed, which would be the logical follow-up of a Dutch-language conference, which is currently planned for november 27th in Rotterdam.
[edit] 4th July 2004 in Paris
- Paris: July 4 at "la Maison des Métallos", 94 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011 Paris. cf. w:fr:Wikipédia:Rencontre Paris juillet 2004/Live
- Bordeaux July 6-10 rencontres du libre
[edit] 27th June 2004 Genoa (Genova)
Genova June 27 Wikipedia a Genova, capitale europea della cultura 2004
[edit] 19th June 2004 Munich (München)
When Jimbo came to Munich, Wikipedians from there arranged a very crazy Barbecue at Elvis' house. Hella brought a wikipedia t-shirt she'd let produce but it turned out too small, so she gave it to elian (the spelling mistake was found when I tried it on). Discussion topics ranged from VfD over trolls to the kamelopedia.
Not exhaustive list of people present: Jimbo Wales, Fantasy, elian, Ilja, Doc Sleeve, Elvis untot (host), tk, Swing, Barbarossa, Dingo, Ringo111, SirJective, JfA, fexxx, Hella, Thomas, Robodoc, Marco Pellegrino, Blauer elephant
[edit] 10th-12th June 2004 Berlin
Wizards of OS from June 10-12 2004 was one of biggest german wikipedia meetups. Jimbo held a talk at the conference and the wikipedians there organized - rather spontaneously - a booth to present the first two Wikireaders which had just gone into print. At a big party at the C-Base, the 100 000th article of german wikipedia was celebrated. On sunday, the german Wikimedia association, Wikimedia Deutschland was founded and Jimbo was elected as a honorary member.
The meeting in Berlin was a big success. Read more at Weekend in Berlin. See also Pictures
[edit] 5th June 2004 London
Friday June the 4th Jimbo met Arno Lagrange in person for Jimbo's first international meeting with another Wikipedian. They talk together about ESTU project.
Saturday June the 5th Jimbo met a group of Wikipedians in person for the first time ever in London today. He spoke for an hour and a half about current Wikimedia issues, the Wikiholicspedians socialised and we had a Wikipedia quiz. Then we went to the pub. Attendees included Angela, Arkady Rose, Arno Lagrange, Bodnobod, Camembert, Charles Matthews, Christine Wales, David Gerard, Enchanter, Ed g2s, Fuzheado, G-Man, James F., Jimbo Wales, JPF, Kira Wales, Morwen, MykReeve, Nommonomanac, Oliver Pereira, theresa knott (after all), VampWillow, Warofdreams, Kevin Burley (unregistered user) plus many many others ... Pictures by Arno Lagrange ✉
- Read a longer report
[edit] 4th April, 2004, Warsaw, Poland
Second meeting of Polish Wikipedians. 9 participants were talking and drinking beer for about 3 hours. See more details (in Polish) and pictures: pl:Wikipedia:Zlot Wikipedystów
[edit] 2003
[edit] 28th. October in Munich
On the 18th of October Elian and Fantasy proposed that it would be nice to meet each other after all this edits/discussions together, so why not ask others if they would like to join. Five people then met on the 28th of October in Munich and it was a really nice evening. More about the things discussed can be found in the Munich Meetup Archive (german).

