Wikimania
annual series of international conferences for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds
0 sources
Summary
Wikimania is an annual conference[1]. Wikimania ranks in the top 10% of annual conference entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (833 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: Wikimedia special project[3]
- Subclass of: convention[4], recurring event[5], WikiCon[6]
- Commons category: Wikimania[7]
- Has part(s): Wikimania 2005[8], Wikimania 2006[9], Wikimania 2007[10], Wikimania 2008[11], Wikimania 2009[12], Wikimania 2010[13], Wikimania 2011[14], Wikimania 2012[15], Wikimania 2013[16], Wikimania 2014[17], Wikimania 2015[18], Wikimania 2016[19], Wikimania 2017[20], Wikimania 2018[21]
- Inception: January 1, 2005[22]
- Organizer: Wikimedia Foundation[23]
- Located in/on physical feature: London[24], Hong Kong[25], Washington, D.C.[26], Haifa[27], Gdańsk[28], Buenos Aires[29], Alexandria[30], Taipei[31], Cambridge[32], Frankfurt[33], Mexico City[34], Esino Lario[35], Montreal[36], Cape Town[37]
- Official website: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/[38], https://w.wiki/TH[39]
- Topic's main category: Category:Wikimania[40]
- Main subject: Wikimedia community[41], Wikimedia project[42], MediaWiki[43], free software[44], copyleft[45], free-culture movement[46]
- Different from: WikiMapia[47]
- Hashtag: Wikimania[48]
- Exact match: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikimania[49]
- Social media followers: 1978[50]
Why It Matters
Wikimania has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Wikimania is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]