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Wikimania 2008
Wikimania 2008

Alexandria, Egypt • July 17–19 2008

Thanks to all for helping make Wikimania 2008 a terrific event!

Watch sessions at Bibalex.org site, give feedback at Comments, post article in your Weblog (tagged with "wikimania2008"), and upload media to Commons with "Category:Wikimania 2008" to share your experience!

The 2009 Wikimania conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can visit the 2009 conference site for more information.

Pictures from Alexandria!
See you next Wikimania!
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Welcome

Welcome to the official website for Wikimania 2008! Alexandria, Egypt has recently hosted the conference in the prestigious new Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina).

What is Wikimania?

Wikimania is a regular conference for all Wikimedians who contribute to one of the many Wikimedia Foundation projects. Past conferences have been held in popular cities around the world such as Frankfurt, Germany (Wikimania 2005 website), Boston, USA (Wikimania 2006 website) and Taipei, Taiwan (Wikimania 2007 website). (more...)

Details

Presentation streams

General details

WikipediaWeekly

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Interviews
Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner,
The U.S. State Dept's "Diplopedia",
Cormac Lawler from Wikiversity
Daily shows - July 16-20
Pre-conf., Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Post-conf. + Jimbo
Still to come: Kaltura, corpus linguistics and more.

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Coordination


From Previous Wikimanias

From previous Wikimanias!
Taipei, Taiwan (2007) • Boston, USA (2006) • Frankfurt, Germany (2005)
The constant presence of people available to help. I guess we all felt very cared for. I did not see the Wikimania welcome team at the airport (I was there too early), but many commented on this and loved it. As for me, I remember that a few times, I was coughing as if I was going to die, and I was amazed to find next to me someone with a tea. I am not sure we will be able to do that again elsewhere (have this whole group of volunteers to help), but it sure felt like heaven. — Florence Devouard