Wikimania

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Wikimania is a conference held yearly for users of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia, Wikinews, etc. The first conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, on August 4-8, 2005. The second conference was held in Boston, USA, on August 4-6, 2006 and the third one was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3-5, 2007. It has been decided by the jury team that Wikimania 2008 will be held in Alexandria, Egypt and Wikimania 2009 will be held in Buenos Aires.

1 Future Wikimanias
- 1.1 Wikimania 2008
- 1.2 Wikimania 2009
2 Past Wikimania events

[edit] Future Wikimanias

[edit] Wikimania 2008

The deadline for officially entering bids for Wikimania 2008 was August 30, 2007. On October 9, the jury chose Alexandria, Egypt as the location for the 2008 conference, and it will be held from 17-19 July 2008. You can view the official wiki for the 2008 conference at wikimania2008.wikimedia.org.

[edit] Wikimania 2009

It has been decided that Wikimania 2009 will be held in Buenos Aires.

[edit] Past Wikimania events

[edit] Wikimania 2005

Wikimania 2005 was held in Frankfurt am Main from 4-8 August 2005.

A separate hacking days session for MediaWiki software developers and Wikimedia hardware maintainers was held on August 1-3. Researchers and speakers presented studies and experiments on Wikipedia and other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, on wiki culture and technology, and on the world of free knowledge. The program included presentations, workshops, and tutorials to give an overview of the current state of research on wikis and free knowledge projects.

For more information, see the Wikimania 2005 main page, or the Wikipedia article (in German, English, French, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Chinese).

You can view the official wiki for the 2005 conference at wikimania2005.wikimedia.org.