Take a little town of 700 souls. Take more than one thousand wikipedians from Wikipedia and its sister projects who are organized for the most important conference about themes such as free education, open software and textbooks and free knowledge. Ok, now put these two elements togheter: what do you get? WikiMania 2016, held in Esino Lario: the annual conference celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects with conferences, discussions, meetups, training and a hackathon.

 

Themes such as free education and open textbooks, which are fundamentals in our philosophys, were deepened in details: we had the possibility to meet different members from WikiEdu and WikiMedia communities and we talked about our project with them. It’s amazing to see that there are so many people willing to create strong projects to spread knowledge all around the world! Workshops, talks and discussions with members of these communities have made these days simply amazing!

 

We made great contacts with lot of contributors and found lot of people interested in what we are doing: stay tuned! Great news are coming very soon!

 

Bye,

Matteo