Saturday, July 5, 2014

WIKIMENIA- Why this is worth becoming curious about ? 

Wikimania is a 2000+ person conference, festival, meetup, workshop, hackathon, and celebration, spread over five days in August 2014 as it's main page informs. 
Being an annual event of Wikimedia, you'll get to know about their future endeavours including projects and wikis.  
It takes place in The Barbican Centre in London, UKAll are welcome, whether you're an expert, enthusiast, beginner or just curious!
They are bringing social media and machines together which work for the humanity and its future possibilities. 

Attendees: 1000+
Dates: 6 - 10 August 2014
Location: The Barbican Centre, London
Get updated through their fb page: https://www.facebook.com/Wikimania2014

If you are around London, go get the drink of Volunteers because it adds astonishing remark in your CV and you are going to hear the leading tanks of industries for sure. Here it is: http://bit.ly/1q4q9cw


The interesting thing that is going on there is open data Weekend. 

It's page reads that calling technologists, data scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, librarians, and anyone else interested in open data: You're invited to the Wikimania Open Data Weekend. No need to bring your codes as such. 

5 & 6th July, 10:00 - 17:30 (followed by nearby dinner/pub)
Frobisher Room One
The Barbican Centre
Silk St
London
EC2Y 8DS

Here are the sponsors which also make us to get there prompt. 




For your kind information Wikipedia runs in following languages, ain't it awesome. 


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