Wikimania 2015

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Wikimania overview

Organization

Wikimania 2015

Bid process

Judging

Next event

2025 (Nairobi, Kenya)

Future events

2026 (Paris, France)
2027 To be determined

Past years

Details of past Wikimanias
2024 (Katowice, Poland)
2023 (Singapore)
2022 (Virtual event)
2021 (Virtual event)
2020 (Cancelled)
2019 (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018 (Cape Town, South Africa)
2017 (Montréal, Canada)
2016 (Esino Lario, Italy)
2015 (Mexico City, Mexico)
2014 (London, United Kingdom)
2013 (Hong Kong SAR, China)
2012 (Washington, D.C., USA)
2011 (Haifa, Israel)
2010 (Gdansk, Poland)
2009 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2008 (Alexandria, Egypt)
2007 (Taipei, Taiwan)
2006 (Boston, USA)
2005 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Wikimania 2015 was the 11th Wikimania conference, an annual event for the international Wikimedia community, and was held in Mexico City, July 15–19, 2015.^[1]

Final Attendance was 800.

The following are some statistics on registration:

82 of the above were volunteers

143 were press (not included above in final figure above)

137 Scholarship & Speaker/Organizers s (includes WMF-funded scholarship recipients, IEG, PEG, 2015 bid team, invited speakers and 2014 organizers)

174 WMF staff, board and committee registrations

60 different countries represented

By region: 53% Global South/ 47% Global North

Gender Balance by registration:

69% Male/ 30% Female

Budget Summary
Budget Item	Notes	Amount (USD)
Revenue - Sponsorships		$80,000
Revenue - Registration		$25,000
Total Revenue		$105,000
Expense - WMF Scholarship Travel/Accommodation	Travel & Accomodations for WMF Scholarship recipients and other Grantees	$275,000
Expense - Wikimania direct	Conference expenses such as venue, catering, audiovisual needs, public relations expenditures, etc.	$489,000
Expense - Staff management	Project management from WMF, project manager for host team, and conference registration support	$130,000
Total Expenses		$894,000
Net Expenses		$789,000

Related Expenses
Expense - WMF Travel/Accommodation	Travel & Accomodation for Staff, Board, Committees	$383,000

Please visit the official conference website, wikimania2015.wikimedia.org, for more information. Also, please check out our Facebook event page and official Twitter account.

See also: Wikimania/2015

Bids

See Wikimania 2015 bids for details and bids, especially the winning one: Mexico City.

Wikimania 2015 candidate cities:

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