Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. It will be held in Alexandria, Egypt in July 2008.
Wikia is not a Wikimedia project, but many Wikia editors will find this conference interesting and relevant. The Call for Participation has now been released, so if you would like to speak at Wikimania 2008, please make your submission now. Details are at http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation The tracks for the conference are Wikimedia Communities, Free Knowledge, Technical infrastructure, and Scientific papers. Some talks by Wikians in recent years included: Wikimania 2006: * Laurence Parry: A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities (furry,wikia.com and creatures.wikia.com) * Angela Beesley: Cross-wiki policy and features discussion Wikimania 2007: * Sabahat Ashraf: National and Community Information Databases ((ndia.wikia.com and pakistan.wikia.com) * David Beall: SFHomeless.net and Wikia: Wiki technology expanding into government and social service resources (sfhomeless.wikia.com) * Jimmy Wales and Gil Penchina: Wikia Search (alpha.search.wikia.com) Angela _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
