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Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, Egypt • July 17–19 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! More photos...

Welcome

Welcome to the official website for Wikimania 2008! Alexandria was the host to the Wikimania 2008 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...)

Wikimania 2008 planning

Presentation streams

• Archived video streams of many presentations (at the Bibalex website)

General details

• Registration is now closed.
• Sign up now for Transportation assistance from the airport!
• The schedule of the conference is available!
• Team
• Contact us

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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Pictures

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria)
• Team members and volunteers
• (all galleries)

Want to help us?

• List of advertisements that you can place on your website or personal blog!
• If you blog about Wikimania, tag with "wikimania2008".
• You can talk with other people about Wikimania on IRC.

Coordination

• Wikimania Committees structure

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From Previous Wikimanias

Taipei, Taiwan (2007) • Boston, USA (2006) • Frankfurt, Germany (2005)

The effort was an eye opener to those new to Asia and to the growing communities in the region. This year Wikimania transcended its role as a gathering of Wikimedia projects, becoming the local event of the year for the free culture community in Taiwan. Wikimania became a reason for Creative Commons and Debian Linux to create parallel events, showing Wikimedia's influence worldwide. — Andrew Lih

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