Wikimania facts for kids

Logo of Wikimania, showing "W" and "M"

Wikimania is an international conference on wikis like Wikipedia. It is organized by the Wikimedia Foundation and brings together authors, programmers, and researchers. It was started in 2005.

Wikimania has been in the following places:

• Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2005)
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2006)
• Taipei City, Taiwan (2007)
• Alexandria, Egypt (2008)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009)
• Gdańsk, Poland (2010)
• Haifa, Israel (2011)
• Washington, DC (2012)
• Hong Kong (2013)
• London, United Kingdom (2014)
• Mexico, Mexico (2015)
• Esino Lario, Italy (2016)
• Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2017)
• Cape Town, South Africa (2018)
• Stockholm, Sweden (2019)

Future Wikimanias

Wikimania 2020, the sixteenth Wikimedia conference, will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Related pages

• Wikimania page on Wikimedia Foundation
• Wikimania website

Images for kids

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  Attendees break for lunch, 2006

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  Chunghwa Telecom press conference, sponsor of Wikimania 2007

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  Group photo after the 2008 closing ceremony

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  2009 group photo

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  Jimmy Wales gives the keynote address at Gdańsk

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  Opening session of Wikimania 2011

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  2012 group photo

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  Wikimania 2014 attendees

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  Wikimania 2017 Closing Ceremony Group Photo

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  Wikimania 2018 Group Photo

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  Wikimania 2019 Group Photo

See also

In Spanish: Wikimanía para niños