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Welcome to the site of the 2nd annual Wikimedia conference. Thanks to all for helping make Wikimania '06 a terrific event. The 2007 Wikimania conference was held in Taipei, Taiwan, from August 3-5. Please visit the 2007 conference site for more information. For updates on future wikimanias, subscribe to the wikimania-l mailing list or visit the Meta-Wikimania page. Wikimania 2006, the second annual international Wikimedia conference, was held August 4–6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School campus. Both a scientific conference and a community event, Wikimania brought together members of the various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It also provided an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share ideas about free and open source software, free knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide. We thank you all, speakers, attendees, people who helped the conference ... all of you who showed an interest to realize this event. See you again at the next conference. Post-conference Audio and video archives of some of the presentations are available, as are abstracts and texts of presentations. A pdf of presentation abstracts is available. Latest news Rumours of too little pie at Wikimania have been somewhat exaggerated. Check the page for August 7th's Citizen Journalism unconference for live transcription and archive links. All the still image entries from the Wikimania Awards can be viewed in the Second Life virtual world, at this SLURL location. See also the collaborative attendee-written blog on this wiki. Photos may be found on the Wikimedia Commons and Flickr.

Conference Information Registration check-in Venue and local information Travel and lodging Our sponsors Accessing the Internet - READ BEFOREHAND Program and Calendar Speakers and presenters Hacking Days, August 1-3 Citizen Journalism Event, August 7 Parties and social events Writing and media contests

Participating online Participating via IRC (One click Web chat!) Streaming audio and video Audio and video archives of some of the presentations are available. Topical discussions and roundtables transcripts, blogs, and archives Accessing the Internet - READ BEFOREHAND More information FAQ Contact us for media, sponsorship, or other questions Volunteer for Wikimania Mailing list and site feedback Wikipedia Signpost series

Thank you to our generous sponsors, including answers.com, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, amazon.com, Nokia, WikiHow, Wetpaint, Ask.com, Yahoo!, Socialtext, IBM, FAQ Farm, Elevation Partners, Open Society Institute, Wikia, Coca Cola and the Sunlight Foundation!

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Cambridge over the Charles River at night