Wikimedia Conference 2014

Wikimedia Conference 2014 is the annual meeting of all Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations and user groups, board and staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation as well as other committees to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement in terms of collaboration, structures and organizational development.

Announcement

Cynthia Ashley-Nelson

Date and time

April 10 for pre-conference meetings, April 11-13, 2014 core conference dates.

Registration opened on January 23, 2014 and closed on Monday, February 17, 2014.

Location and venue

The conference will take place at Verlag Der Tagesspiegel, Askanischer Platz 3, 10963 Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland. See here for venue specifications.

The location was selected by a committee from among 4 applications to host this conference. See Wikimedia Conference 2014/Bids for more information.

Programme

A wall graffiti spotted in Berlin on the way to the Wikimedia Conference 2014. An omen? :)

The programme team has identified two main themes for the Wikimedia Conference: Organisation, structures and grants and Success and impact. Both themes address the burning questions, challenges and latest discussions that directly affect the entities in the Wikimedia movement. We have decided to focus on the organisational issues and the future of the movement in general, rather than on the details of programmatic work. The insights of the Chapters Dialogue project will be presented and will serve as additional input for certain topics.

Regular guests of the conference will notice that we skipped most of the programmatic sessions this year. The Wikimedia Conference is a valuable opportunity where all movement entities' leaders come together to discuss our ideas, plans, challenges and fears for future, and we wish to reserve what little time we have on constructive debate and discussion.

Schedule
Outline of the programme – session descriptions are still evolving.
Open Thursday – feel free to add your own group's meeting and timing.
Programme team
Facilitators
Review previous conferences and collect burning questions & hot topics
Social events

Registration and participants

Logistics

Friendly space policy

Friendly space policy

Documentation

All session minutes can be found here:

Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Documentation

Feedback evaluation

Feedback evaluation

Budget and finances

Budget and cost overview

Contact

Event manager: Wenke Storn, wmcon wikimedia.de
Event assistant: Daniela Gentner, wmcon wikimedia.de
Programme liaison: Nicole Ebber
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