Wikimania 2023

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Wikimania overview

Organization

Wikimania 2023

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)

Wikimania organization summaries: Comparative • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 • 2026 • 2027

Wikimania 2023, the 18th Wikimedia conference, was an in-person and online event. You may visit the event page at 2023:Wikimania. For video archives of the event, you may go to program page.

Dates

Wikimania 2023 go happen place from August 16 go 19, 2023. Ego be in-person event for Singapore wey esan go be hybrid event.

Core Organizing Team (COT)

De ESEAP hub go take lead den organize de conference.

Butch Bustria (Philippines), Event Lead and Program Subcommittee Chair
Gnangarra (Australia), Scholarships Chair and Exhibitions Chair
Robert Sim (Singapore), Technical Events (Hackathon) Subcommittee Chair and Event Technology Selection Subcommittee Chair
Nur Fahmia (Indonesia), Communications Subcommittee Chair and Chair for Social Media & Visual Designs
Vanj Padilla (Philippines) Events related to Equity and Inclusion Chair, Social Media & Public Relations and Event Documentation
Venus Lui (Hong Kong), Trust and Safety Subcommittee Chair
Agus Damanik (Indonesia), Volunteer & Human Resource Coordination Subcommittee Chair
Athikhun Suwannakhan (Thailand), ESEAP Community Relations and Wikimania 2020 Event Lead
Wikimania Steering Committee liaison for COT

Other

Ameisenigel, Wikimania wiki translations admin
Gisca Syalindri, Scholarship Coordination
Naila Rahmah, Visual designs
Adien Gunarta, Visual designs

Wikimedia Foundation Movement Communications
- Mayur Paul
- Lisa McCabe
- Mehrdad Pourzaki
- Elena Lappen
- Rachit Sharma

Others from the Wikimedia Foundation include Sakti Pramudya (Strategic partnerships), Kelsi Stine-Rowe (Evaluation), Lucas Pascual, Brooke Camarda and Lauren Dickinson (Social Media), Trust and Safety Team, Digital Safety Team.

Subcommittees

Program Subcommittee
Scholarship Subcommittee
Technology Selection Subcommittee
Technology Events (Hackathon) Subcommittee
- Video uploads/ archiving
Volunteer Coordination Subcommittee
- Onsite (Singapore)
- Virtual
Expo Subcommittee
Trust & Safety Subcommittee
Report Documentation & Event Communication Subcommittee

Sub committees

For de past de Wikimania COT's rely for de support of subcommittees top so say ego help dem assess Scholarships, Programming, den Trust den Safety. For 2023 we dey intend say we go return to dis format den expand am so say we go include new features as part say we go enable hybrid components building for de successes of 2021 den 2022. If you be interested, abeg make you add your body below den identify de specific area(s) or committee(s) you go like help plus. De COT lead for each go contact you from dis page first, dese roles no be location-dependent wey ebi open give everybro for de community insyd. Abeg make you ensure say your user account preferences for dis wiki top get your email address enabled so say organizers go reach you back for de result of your expression of interest you submit.

Volunteers

De Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team den ESEAP dey thank you say you offer your support, wey more opportunities still go dey if you signed up already.

Done Phase 1 - Concluded 2022-09-19 - Wikimania 2023/Volunteers
Rolling volunteer signups - Ongoing - wikimania:2023:Volunteer

Make you see #Updates for de latest information.

Updates

Updates as de Core Organizing Team (COT) den Steering Committee (SC) dey progress plus Wikimania 2023 planning. Now ova for wikimania.wikimedia.org

20 September 2022

Call for volunteers conclude for Phase 1. We dey thanks everybro wey generously signed up! Additional opportunities go dey so say you go volunteer, as we go need more help as Wikimania dey approach. You go fit visit wikimania:2023:Volunteer den find out more.

De Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team den ESEAP dey thank you say you offer your support, wey more opportunities still go dey if you signed up already.

Wat dey happen next: De COT go review de offers for de areas wey volunteers indicate. Sam of de immediate roles go require volunteers say dem go undergo sam Wikimedia Foundation Trust den Safety review as signing sam non-disclosure agreement (NDA) secof dem get access to private information. Once you complete dis, we go send invitations so say you go join a subcommittee.

Make you no despair, dis phase go take sam tym, wey wonna focus go dey de areas wey de COT go need get underway early, like de Scholarship teams. As hybrid event, Wikimania go merge two events (in-person den online) so chaw opportunities go come up.

As de COT start dey test options, we go sam call on you say make you participate for those discussions insyd, as you go dey use various tools wey go be available.

If you miss dis call, ongoing call still dey give volunteers as we still dey imagine wat be possible. Abeg make you go ova to de volunteer page for wikimania:2023:Volunteer top for chaw information.

6 September 2022

Call for volunteers start, wey we put out for multiple channels top - Wikimedia-L, Telegram groups, Facebook groups, on-wiki. Deadline 19 September 2022.

5 September 2022

We close de call for 2023 Core Organising Team plus de new teams members wey we notify

1 September 2022

COT, Steering Committee, WMF discussing
- integration of de IRL, Online, Satellite event formats
- venue options
- timeline of preparations for program submissions, scholarships, den satellite events
Phabricator ticket wey you go take request Wikimania.wikimedia.org make ready for 2023
- wikimania.wikimedia.org go be de focal point of all information, applications, program submissions
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316928
COT & SC dey explore sam deeper dive go de impact of Wikimania features, activities, den formats

26 August 2022

City: Singapore – confirmed
Date: July/August -
COT: as we dey grow make you see above call out
Theme: Power of diverse collaboration: If you share knowledge dey bring people togeda – tentative original theme for 2020

Event Design

(TBD)

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