Wikimania:Thể hiện tính quan tâm

The Wikimania Steering Committee is seeking expressions of interest from community groups to host the 2024 Wikimania in-real-life. We hope to announce the host location by 1 April 2023 to create learning and collaboration between current and future organizing teams. Continue reading to learn more. The Diff announcement with 2024, 2025 and 2026 venues was published 24th of September, 2023.

Interested community groups do not need to have a venue selected, contracts drafted or sponsors lined up. The Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia Foundation staff are here to help. The points below give some idea of minimum requirements for hosting Wikimania and some of the responsibilities of the hosting team/organization. We will be taking into account various factors about potential sites and hosts, especially the cost, accessibility, security, global rotation of Wikimania, and the strength of the organizing team.

If a group is interested in hosting Wikimania, but may not be ready for 2024, we will consider expressions of interest for 2025 and even beyond, let us know. Kindly consult your community first before making a submission. We discourage a single person expression of interest.

If a region is interested in hosting Wikimania, you can express interest for multiple cities. Submitted entries are placed under Category:Wikimania 2024 expressions of interest.

The Wikimania Steering Committee is the steward of the Wikimedia movement’s largest global gathering. We ensure the event remains community-led and community focused. Most of us are past organizers of Wikimania or seasoned attendees, and passionate about what we can achieve when we come together. We will soon put out a call for interested community members to join the committee. Beyond Wikimedia knowledge, we very much welcome event management skills. If bringing Wikimania to life interests you, please let us know.

As a distributed, global, socio-technological movement, we have learned over the years how important it is for us to come together – collaborations flourish, communities strengthen, grievances dissolve, and lifelong connections are forged. Wikimania is the largest event of the Wikimedia movement. All over the movement, people are celebrating reconnecting again as the COVID-19 global response has evolved. The last in-person Wikimania was in 2019 in Stockholm. Singapore will be our first in-person Wikimania in four years, and we are all excited for this reunion. You can learn more about how Singapore was chosen as well as ways to take part without traveling, a legacy from the two most recent virtual Wikimanias. If you are interested in hosting the 2024 Wikimania, we’d love to hear from you – you can express your interest on wiki, talk to us, email us at wikimaniawikimedia.org.

When Wikimania 2020 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new possibilities had to be explored. In 2021, an international Core Organizing Team was created to host the first ever virtual Wikimania. The virtual format welcomed participation from many newcomers and diverse community groups—particularly people held back by visa requirements, mobility barriers, or travel difficulties—and facilitated multilingual support and live interpretation. You can learn more by reviewing the Wikimania 2021 evaluation report. In 2022, additional hybrid features were piloted with watch parties and various small in-person convenings made possible by grants. We will continue to support virtual and hybrid participation in future Wikimanias.

When Bangkok was originally chosen as the host of Wikimania 2020, we were excited by the prospects of a regional collaboration– Wikimedia communities in the ESEAP region–hosting the conference. However, Wikimania 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic. When conditions allowed for an in-person Wikimania in 2023, we returned to where we had left: ESEAP. After a risk assessment of potential locations in the region and over the course of multiple calls and on-wiki discussions, the ESEAP community selected Singapore as the host of Wikimania 2023.