Wikimania Committee

Wikimania overview

Organization

• Committee
• Community group
• Handbook
• Checklist

Next event

• 2025 (Nairobi, Kenya)

Future events

• 2026 (Paris, France)
• 2027 To be determined

Past years

• Details of past Wikimanias
• 2024 (Katowice, Poland)
• 2023 (Singapore)
• 2022 (Virtual event)
• 2021 (Virtual event)
• 2020 (Cancelled)
• 2019 (Stockholm, Sweden)
• 2018 (Cape Town, South Africa)
• 2017 (Montréal, Canada)
• 2016 (Esino Lario, Italy)
• 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico)
• 2014 (London, United Kingdom)
• 2013 (Hong Kong SAR, China)
• 2012 (Washington, D.C., USA)
• 2011 (Haifa, Israel)
• 2010 (Gdansk, Poland)
• 2009 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• 2008 (Alexandria, Egypt)
• 2007 (Taipei, Taiwan)
• 2006 (Boston, USA)
• 2005 (Frankfurt, Germany)

The Committee

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees committees Governance Committee Audit Committee Talent & Culture Committee Product & Technology Committee Community Affairs Committee Staff committees Communications committee Community-wide committees Affiliations Committee Language committee Wikimania Committee Movement governance committees Elections Committee Ombuds commission Case Review Committee UCoC Coordinating Committee Movement-wide preparation committees Movement Charter Drafting Committee Charter Electoral Commission Resources allocation committees Conference Support Committee Regional Fund Committees All Wikimedia committees Committee Support team (WMF)

Wikimania has been a community endeavour since its inception in 2005. Year after year, previous organisers of Wikimania and some frequent Wikimaniacs have taken on responsibility to ensure that Wikimania continues and it is a success. However, local organising teams often reinvent the wheel, encountering similar issues every year.

To allow the conference to grow more smoothly, it seems sensible to pool the years of knowledge that we have into a body that oversees the Wikimania process from beginning to end in its yearly cycle. A Wikimania Steering Committee has been established to oversee the bidding and selection process of host cities/teams and to provide continuity of experience and mentoring to each year's organizing team.

Purpose and process

For details, see Wikimania Committee/Charter.

To ensure that the legacy of knowledge is effectively and efficiently passed on to the organising teams and to ensure a smooth and successful Wikimania.

This includes:

• Setting Wikimania policy
• Soliciting and reviewing proposals to host
• Conference oversight and review
• Best practice development

Members

Current membership:

1. Angie Cervellera (from WM 2023)
2. Andrew Lih (core organizing team of Wikiconference North America, representing WM 2013)
3. Butch Bustria (representing WM 2023)
4. Eric Luth (representing WM 2019)
5. Florence Devouard
6. Gnangarra (representing WM 2021)
7. Iolanda Pensa (representing WM 2016), Chair
8. Iván Martínez (representing WM 2015)
9. Lodewijk Gelauff (from WM 2021)
10. Maciej Nadzikiewicz (representing WM 2024)
11. Phoebe Ayers (WM 2006, representing WM 2017), Vice-Chair
12. Yamen Bousirh (from WM 2021)
13. Current Wikimania representative: TBD by COT 2025

Wikimedia Foundation supporting staff: Lisa McCabe, Giselle Bordoy

Thanks to all previous members of the Wikimania Committee: James Forrester, Carlos Barcenilla, Jeromy-Yu Chan (representing WM 2013), James Hare (representing WM 2012), Orsolya Virág Gyenes (representing WM 2010), Deror Avi (representing WM 2011), Edward Saperia (representing WM 2014), Manuel Schneider, Romaine, Muhammad Yahia.

Current links

• Wikimania 2023, Singapore
• Wikimania 2024, Katowice
• Wikimania 2025, Nairobi

Meeting notes

The Wikimania Steering Committee meets in general every month on Wednesdays

The Core Organizing Team (COT) for the current Wikimania generally meets weekly .

Updates

Check the committee updates from 2017 onwards in the extended content table.

Extended content
February 2024 update from the Steering Committee June 2024 update from the Steering Committee September 2024 update from the Steering Committee Previous meetings Jan-March, 2023 April 27, 2023 - Meeting with the New York City team June 1, 2023 - Meeting with the East Africa team June 22, 2023 - Wikimania 2025 discussions (options at hand, possible scenarios, and next steps); Wikimania 2024 (high level updates: venues, Core Organizing Team); Wikimania 2023 (updates and discussions: programming, scholarships, communication, travel). Planning Wikimania 2023 April 21, 2022 May 26, 2022 June 9, 2022 July 14, 2022 July 21, 2022 July 27, 2022 August 25, 2022 September 1, 2022, 1pm UTC - 3pm CEST - Steering Committee and COT - Updates on Wikimania 2023 September 8, 2022, 1pm UTC - 3pm CEST - Steering Committee and COT COT for Wikimania 2023 September 15, 2022, 1pm UTC - 3pm CEST Wikimania 2022 January 13, 2022 November 25, 2021 November 18, 2021 November 10, 2021 Previous years Wikimania Committee/Minutes/Structure minutes September 26, 2017 October 23, 2017 January 6, 2018 February 2018 April 13, 2018 June 13, 2018 July 22, 2018 March 20, 2019 November 10, 2020 Committee minutes

Further documents

• Wikimania Committee/History
• Wikimania Committee/Charter
• Wikimania Handbook