විකිමේනියා/2007

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විකිමේනියා 2007

Wikimania 2007 was held in Taipei on August 3-5, 2007.

General information:

• Official wiki: wikimania2007.wikimedia.org
• Location: Chien Tan Oversea Youth Activity Center, a youth hostel with integrated conference rooms and accommodation

• Attendance: 440

• Conference languages: English, Chinese

• Cost to attend:

• Accommodation: on-site at CTOYAC (889 beds), some housed in hotels

Program:

• Keynote speakers: Joi Ito and welcome speeches by Florence Nibart-Devouard (Anthere) and Jimmy Wales (Jimbo).

• Program information: Schedule

• Link to CfP: Call for participation

• Link to program proceedings:

• Session videos:

• Pre- and post- conferences: hacking days, citizen journalism days, WMF Board and Advisory Board retreat

• WMF organizational meetings, special meetings: WMF Board panel, open to all conference attendees

• Program software used:

• Program review process used:

• Themes: (3 themes) Wikimedia Communities; Free Content; Technical infrastructure.

• Types of submissions: presentations, posters, workshops, panels, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF), artistic artifacts.

• Parallel sessions: 6

• Program committee: Tzu-Chiang Liou (Academia Sinica), coordination for program committee; Andrew Lih; Angela Beesley (Wikia, Inc. / Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.); Erik Moeller ; Jakob Voss; James D. Forrester ; Phoebe Ayers; Samuel Klein; Mel Chua.

Media:

• Link to photos: Wikimania 2007 on Wikimedia Commons, Selection of photos
• Number of journalists attending:

• Media stories:

Planning:

• Lead organizers (note!please add to and/or correct if necessary): [1], Theodoranian, general coordination for Taipei team; KJ, (local general organizers); Delphine

• Planning wiki: mostly on teamwiki, some on the '07 wiki, lots of info in private documents

• Program/registration software used:

• Planning mailing list:

• Bid page:: Taipei (Wikimania 2007/Bids)

Budget and funding:

• Total budget:

• Scholarship budget:

• Total scholarships awarded:

• Link to budget breakdown:

• Funds from the WMF:

• Sponsors: Patron: Chunghwa Telecom. Benefactors: National Science Council, udn.co & United Daily News Group, Epson, Answers.com, wikiHow. Friends: wikia, Peopo, Google, Open Society Institute, fon, Government Information Office Republic of China. Supporters: Galaxy Software Service, Digital Garage, yam, Business Weekly, 3D-JP, Fudia, National Digital Archive Program, Dot Asia, Afilias, Ministry of Education, Socialtext. Contributors: AIESEC TAIWAN, Cottingham & Co. Ltd, Sunlight Foundation, National Youth Commission, Frontier Foundation, Accton, Geng-Feng Elementary School, NTU CSIE. Media Sponsors: PTT, MaWa, Clavis, ChinaTimes, Yahoo, American Institute in Taiwan, udnDigital, Intelligent Time. Local Co-sponsor: ADCT. Local Co-organizer: Institute of Information Science - Academia Sinica. List of the sponsors.

• Registration costs

		without Wikimedia projects username	Wikimedia Contributor
Hacking Days/Citizen Journalism Unconference		US$20
Main Conference	Single Day	US$25	US$20
	Two days	US$40	US$35
	8/3 - 8/5	US$45	US$40
On-site		US$30 / day

Reports:

• Postmortem page:

• Suggestions page: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments

• Budget reports:

• Other reports:

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