Wikimania

Wikimania
Wikimania
	The Wikimania logo
Status	Active
Genre	Conference
Frequency	Annually
Inaugurated	August 5, 2005; 20 years ago
Most recent	August 6-9, 2025
Next event	August 2026
Organized by	Local volunteer teams
Filing status	Non-profit
Website
	wikimania.org

Wikimania is an international conference on wikis like Wikipedia. It is organized by the Wikimedia Foundation and brings together authors, programmers, and researchers. It was started in 2005.

Wikimania has been in the following places:

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 City, Mexico (2015)
Esino Lario, Italy (2016)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2017)
Cape Town, South Africa (2018)
Stockholm, Sweden (2019)^[1]
Bangkok, Thailand (2020, canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Online (2021-2022)
Singapore (2023)
Katowice, Poland (2024)
Nairobi, Kenya (2025)

Wikimania Media

Wikimaniaxen
Wikimania logo. (Copyleft notice might be out of date -- Wikimedia Foundation will soon own all rights).
Wikimania 2007 logo with author notes[1]:* * Brushstrokes connote energy, do-it-yourself-ness * You can see a few things in the WM shape: butterfly wings, two faces staring at each other (vase-style), etc. * Color scheme connotes era of grassroots change (the early '60s, that is)
Title banner for Wikimania 2008
Wikimania 2009 Logo (version C)
Banner/logo for the Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk Wikimania Gdańsk 2010 logo, 9-11 lipca 2010
The Wikimania 2012 banner.
Logo of Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong (Final Version)
Wikimania 2014 Top left corner logo
Wikimania – the Wikimentary, documentary about Wikimania 2005, featuring Jimmy Wales and Ward Cunningham
Workshops at Wikimania 2011