Wikimania facts for kids
Wikimania is a big international meeting for people who love wikis, especially Wikipedia. A wiki is a website where lots of people can work together to add and change information. This event is put on by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the group that runs Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. At Wikimania, you'll find writers, computer programmers, and researchers all coming together. The first Wikimania happened in 2005.
Wikimania has been held in many different cities around the world:
- 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)
Upcoming Wikimania Events
The next Wikimania, which will be the sixteenth one, is planned for Bangkok, Thailand. You can find more details about it on the official page: Wikimania 2020.
More About Wikimania
If you want to learn even more about Wikimania, you can visit these pages:
- The main Wikimedia Foundation page about the event: Wikimania
- The official website for Wikimania: 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
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See also
In Spanish: Wikimanía para niños
