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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.

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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

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WikipediaWeekly

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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Coordination

Wikimania Committees structure

From Previous Wikimanias

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

If I dare list some of the things I loved more specifically, and which help making it what I consider was a *great* wikimania.
Most of the attendees were really wikimedians. Not swarms of journalists, nor curious visitors. There were many times I had this odd feeling we were on meta, or on this list, just chatting or trolling, simply face to face.
I think the central point was a little anthill where we could always find others, someone to talk to, something to look at, something to eat... It felt such a warm place. — Florence Devouard

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