Wikimania 2024

Wikimania overview

Organization

Wikimania 2024

Current event

None currently

Future events

2026 (Paris, France)
2027 (Santiago, Chile)
2028 To be determined

Past years

Details of past Wikimanias
2025 (Nairobi, Kenya)
2024 (Katowice, Poland)
2023 (Singapore)
2022 (Virtual event)
2021 (Virtual event)
2020 (Cancelled)
2019 (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018 (Cape Town, South Africa)
2017 (Montréal, Canada)
2016 (Esino Lario, Italy)
2015 (Mexico City, Mexico)
2014 (London, United Kingdom)
2013 (Hong Kong SAR, China)
2012 (Washington, D.C., USA)
2011 (Haifa, Israel)
2010 (Gdansk, Poland)
2009 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2008 (Alexandria, Egypt)
2007 (Taipei, Taiwan)
2006 (Boston, USA)
2005 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Wikimania organization summaries: Comparative • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 • 2026 • 2027 • 2028

Wikimania 2024, the 19th Wikimedia conference, happened in Katowice, Poland, as an in-person and online event on 7–10 August 2024. It happened in Wikimania's 20th year.

It was the second Wikimania to be organised in Poland, after the Wikimania 2010 which happened in Gdańsk.

→ Official website

Wikimania organizers

Core Organizing Team (COT)

Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (Nadzik) – Board Member of Wikimedia Europe – Project leader
Wojciech Pędzich (Wojciech Pędzich) – Steering Committee member of the Wikimedia CEE Hub – Lead of programme
Käbi Laan (K2suvi) – Executive Director, Wikimedia Estonia – Lead of scholarships
Szymon Grabarczuk (Tar Lócesilion) – Vice-Chair & Secretary of Wikimedia Poland (2019–2022) – Lead of communications and hack-a-thon

Extended Organizing Team (EOT)

Kiril Simeonovski (Kiril Simeonovski) – Programme co-coordinator
Jan Beránek (Janbery) – Social media and communications
Marcin Szwarc (Msz2001) – Technical collaboration and Wikimania-wiki

The Wikimania 2024 team was supported by over 40+ volunteers from all Wikimedia regions who helped create the event's programme and soul! You can learn more about the entire group that made Wikimania 2024 happen on the Wikimania-wiki 2024 organizers page.

Location

Katowice (kat-ə-VEET-sə) is the largest city of Upper Silesia and the 2024 European City of Science. It is located one hour from Kraków and, with its own airport and railway station, is well connected for international travelers via direct flight or local transfer. Titled as a UNESCO City of Music, it is home to many cultural institutions such as the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra or the Silesian Museum. Situated in the heart of the region, it highlights some of the best of Silesia–rich history and folklore, interesting architecture, and distinct local language and cuisine! Well-connected, it is also a great place from which you can explore the rest of the country.

Transition

The 2024 Core Organizing Team had the privilege to shadow and learn from the host of the 18th edition, ESEAP between April 2023 till the Wikimania 2023 concluded. The official host handover happened on the last day of Wikimania on 19 August 2023. The same courtesy was extended to the organizers of Wikimania 2025, the East Africa Regional and Thematic Hub, who were invited to shadow the 2024 team and collaborate together on creating Wikimania 2024. We hope that this great tradition will continue and allow future Wikimedia event organizers to learn from past teams and make each following event a better place to celebrate the communities and the volunteers from all around the world who collaborate on making Wikipedia the world's best source of free and reliable information.

Expressions of interest

The Wikimania Committee asked interested parties to read the instructions and submit a proposals for hosting Wikimania in 2024, 2025 and 2026 in late 2022. Visit this page on Wikimania-wiki for further information about the expressions of interest process.

Kraków, Poland was selected for Wikimania 2024 (which was later changed to Katowice)
Nairobi, Kenya and Kigali, Rwanda were selected for Wikimania 2025 (later merged into Nairobi)
Paris, France was selected for Wikimania 2026

Inquiries

For further inquiries or suggestions, please write to the Wikimania Committee at wikimaniawikimedia.org

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