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Revision as of 01:28, 10 August 2013
Wikimania | |
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Status | Active |
Location(s) | Hong Kong (2013) Washington, D.C., USA (2012) Haifa, Israel (2011) Gdańsk, Poland (2010) Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009) Alexandria, Egypt (2008) Taipei, Taiwan (2007) Cambridge, Massachusetts (2006) Frankfurt, Germany (2005) |
Inaugurated | 2005 |
Organized by | Wikimedia Foundation |
Filing status | Non-profit |
Website | wikimania.wikimedia.org |
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the Wikimedia Foundation's wiki projects (such as Wikipedia and sister projects). Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia Foundation projects, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and social and technical aspects related to these topics.
Overview
Conference | Date | Place | Continent | attendance | Archive of presentations |
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Wikimania 2005 | August 5–7 | Frankfurt, Germany | slides, video | ||
Wikimania 2006 | August 4–6 | Cambridge, United States | slides and papers, video | ||
Wikimania 2007 | August 3–4 | Taipei, ROC (Taiwan) | Commons gallery | ||
Wikimania 2008 | July 17–19 | Alexandria, Egypt | abstracts, slides,video | ||
Wikimania 2009 | August 26–28 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | slides, video | ||
Wikimania 2010 | July 9–11 | Gdańsk, Poland | slides | ||
Wikimania 2011 | August 4–7 | Haifa, Israel | presentations, video | ||
Wikimania 2012 | July 12–15 | Washington, D.C., United States | presentations, videos | ||
Wikimania 2013 | August 7–11 | Hong Kong | N/A | ||
Wikimania 2014 | August 6–10 | London, United Kingdom | N/A |
History
The first Wikimania conference was held in the Haus der Jugend at Frankfurt, Germany, August 4–8, 2005. It had attracted about 380 attendees.[1]
The week of the conference included four "Hacking Days", August 1–4, 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, August 5–7. 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,[10] and Logos Group.
Wikimania 2006 took place from August 6 to 8, 2006, at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. It had about 400[2]–500[11] attendees.
Speakers included Jimmy Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Brewster Kahle, Yochai Benkler, Mitch Kapor, Ward Cunningham, and David Weinberger. Dan Gillmor held a citizen journalism unconference the day after.
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.[12]
As announced on September 25, 2006, Wikimania 2007[13] was held in Taipei, Republic of China on Taiwan from August 3, 2007 to August 5, 2007. It was the first to hold a volunteer training course.[14]
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.[15]
On August 3, 2007, New York Times reporter Noam Cohen reported: "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]
Wikimania 2008 was held in Alexandria, Egypt from July 17 to 19, 2008. It had 650 attendees from 45 countries.[4] Alexandria was the location of the ancient Library of Alexandria[16] and the venue was the modern library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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.[17][18] 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."[19] 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.[16]
Wikimania 2009 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 26–28, 2009. It had 559 attendees.[5] Final selection was made between Buenos Aires, Toronto, Brisbane and Karlsruhe, with the final selection coming down to Buenos Aires and Toronto.
Wikimania 2010[20] was held July 9–11 in 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 for Wikimania 2010 lost by a small margin.
It 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, Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said that the foundation's aim was to grow the number of visitors to Wikimedia sites from 371 million to 680 million a month, over the next five years.
Wikimania 2011 was held in Haifa, Israel, on August 4–7.[21] 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.[22] 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.[23] One of the sponsors of the event was Haifa University.[24] The conference featured 125 sessions in five simultaneous tracks and was attended by 720 Wikimedians[7] from 56 different countries,[23] including some that have no diplomatic relations with Israel.[25]
Wikimania 2012 was held July 12–15 2012 at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. There were over 1400 attendees from 87 countries.[26] In addition, the U.S. Department of State, in conjunction with Wikimania 2012, hosted a conference labeled Tech@State:Wiki.Gov which focused on "Collaborative knowledge and the use of wikis in the public sector".[27]
Wikimania 2013 was held from August 7–11, 2013 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Candidate cities were London (UK), Bristol (UK), Naples (Italy) and Surakarta (Indonesia).
For Wikimania 2014, bidding officially opened in December 2012. London was chosen in May 2013 as the host city,[28] with the only other bid coming from Arusha (Tanzania). The conference will be held from 8–10 August 2014.[29]
See also
References
- ^ a b Main Page – Wikimania 2006. wikimedia.org
- ^ a b The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place. New York Times, August 7, 2006.
- ^ a b c "In Taipei, Wikipedians Talk Wiki Fatigue, Wikiwars and Wiki Bucks". New York Times. Noam Cohen, Saul Hansell (ed). August 3, 2007.
- ^ a b James Gleick, Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt, Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008.
- ^ a b 2009 Wikimedia.org
- ^ Wikimania 2010 site – Attendees. wikimedia.org.
- ^ a b Wikimania 2011 in Haifa[dead link]
- ^ "Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2011–12". WikimediaDC. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ^ "Wikimania 2012". groundreport. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ^ Doccheck.com. Website.
- ^ "The neutrality of this article is disputed". Reason Magazine. August 15, 2006.
- ^ Wikimania 2006: Sponsors. wikimedia.org.
- ^ Wikimania 2007. wikimedia.org.
- ^ "Volunteer Training 2006". wikimedia.org.
- ^ "Talk:Wikimania 2007 Bid List". Wikimedia.org.
- ^ a b Noam Cohen, Wikipedia Goes to Alexandria, Home of Other Great Reference Works, New York Times, July 17, 2008.
- ^ "Is there a boycott of Wikimania 2008?". Los Angeles Times. July 2008.
- ^ "In Egypt, Wikipedia is more than hobby". International Herald Tribune. July 21, 2008.
- ^ Spreading the wiki footprint, BBC, July 23, 2008.
- ^ Wikimania 2010 main page. wikimedia.org.
- ^ Wikimania 2011 main page. Wikimania2011.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on April 20, 2012.
- ^ Avigayil Kadesh (July 14, 2011). "Israel hosts Wikimania 2011". mfa.gov.il. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^ a b Levin, Verony (August 5, 2011). "Wikimania Conference at Its Peak; Founder Jimmy Wales to Speak Tomorrow". TheMarker. Retrieved August 12, 2011. Template:He icon
- ^ Editor (Aug 07, 2011). "Wikimania 2011-Haifa". University of Haifa. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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(help) - ^ Wikimania hits Israel as conference opens. The Jewish Chronicle (2011-08-05). Retrieved on April 20, 2012.
- ^ Nicholas Bashour, Wikimania 2012 swan song, Wikimedia website, July 17, 2012.
- ^ U.S. Department of State Hosts Tech@State:Wiki.Gov Conference, press release issued by U.S. Department of State on July 9, 2012.
- ^ Announcement on Wikimania-l mailing list]
- ^ "Wikimania 2014 London".
External links
- Wikimania at Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
- Videos of Wikimania sessions on Kaltura's devwiki[dead link]
- News reports
- "Worldwide Wikimania" Sean Dodson, The Guardian, August 11, 2005
- "Rewriting the rule books" Alan Connor, the BBC, August 15, 2005
- "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place" Robert Levine, The New York Times, August 7, 2006
- "Anybody can edit: A weekend of Wikimania" Ian Sands and Jess McConnell, The Boston Phoenix, August 11, 2006
- "The Neutrality of this Article is Disputed" Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason, August 15, 2006
- The China Post – "Wikipedia founder rewards volunteers" Monday, August 6, 2007 – By Dimitri Bruyas
- "Wikimedia fans meet to discuss Wikimania" Andy Goldberg, News.com.au, July 12, 2012 1:37AM (retrieved 2012-07-15)
- "How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem" Torie Bosch, The Slate posted Friday, July 13, 2012, at 18:12 PM EDT (retrieved 2012-07-15)
- "Wikimania hits D.C. as Wikipedia faces changes" Hayley Tsukayama, The Washington Post, July 14, 2012
- #wikimania