Wikimania Committee/Minutes

The Wikimania Committee normally meets once a month.

Agenda with short summary

2025

Main tasks

1.   Doing... Support to Wikimania 2025 Nairobi
2.   Doing... Preparatory work for Wikimania 2026 Paris
3. Feedback and lesson learned from Wikimania 2025 Nairobi
4. Selection of venues for 2027, 2028 and beyond
5.   Done Ratification of the Wikimania Committee charter
6.   Done Elections of chair and vice chair of the Wikimania Committee
7.   Doing... Representative of Wikimania 2024
8.   Doing... (normally December/January) Evaluation of member attendance. Confirmation of members, term renewals, advisory board
9. Publication of the Annex to the charter with the "expiration of current terms at the time of adoption of this policy"
10.   Doing... Launching a new focus on the Wikimania online experience (eventually with a dedicated online COT)

March 19, 2025

• Elections of chair and vice chair of the Wikimania Committee.
• 2025 COT updates
• 2026 COT updates

April 16, 2025

• First review of venues for 2027, 2028 and beyond

May 14, 2025

June 11, 2025

July 9, 2025

Wikimania August 6, 2025

September 3, 2025

October 1, 2025

October 29, 2025

November 26, 2025

2026

Main tasks

1. Support to Wikimania 2026 Paris
2. Preparatory work for Wikimania 2027
3. Call for expressions of interests

2027

Main tasks

1. January-February: Elections of Chair and Vice-Chair.
2. Support to Wikimania 2027
3. Preparatory work for Wikimania 2028

Past meetings

March 3, 2025

• Online experience of Wikimania. Invited: Wikimania Committee, COT Wikimania 2025 Nairobi, COT Wikimania 2026 Paris

February 19, 2025

• Updates related Wikimania Nairobi 2025
• The online experience of Wikimania. Laison for the Wikimania Committee Lodewijk Gelauff.
• Ratification of the Wikimania Committee Charter.
• Elections of chair and vice chair of the Wikimania Committee (postponed)

January 22, 2025

• Review of the Wikimania Committee Charter. Decision to upload the Wikimania Committee Charter on Meta-Wiki.

2024

Main tasks

1. Support to Wikimania 2024 Katowice
2. Preparatory work for Wikimania 2025 Nairobi
3. Feedback and lesson learned from Wikimania 2024 Katowice
4. Call for expressions of interests
5.   Doing... Preparation of the Wikimania Committee Charter

Minutes:

• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2015-07-16
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2015-08-21
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2016-06-26
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2017-09-26
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2017-10-23
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2017-12
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2018-01-06
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2018-02
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2018-04-13
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2018-06-13
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2018-07-22 Wikimania Cape Town
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2019-03-20
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2020-11-10
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2021-11-10
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2021-11-18
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2021-11-25
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-01-13
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-04-21
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-05-26
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-06-09
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-07-14
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-07-22
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2022-07-27
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/2023-01-12
• Wikimania Committee/Minutes/Structure minutes