Wikimania is the annual conference celebrating all the free knowledge projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation - Commons , MediaWiki , Meta-Wiki , Wikibooks , Wikidata , Wikinews , Wikipedia , Wikiquote , Wikisource , Wikispecies , Wikiversity , Wikivoyage , and Wiktionary - with three days of conferences, discussions, meetups, training, and workshops. Hundreds of volunteers and Free Knowledge leaders from around the world gather to discuss issues, report on new projects and approaches, and exchange ideas.

The theme of Wikimania 2018 was " Bridging knowledge gaps: the Ubuntu way forward ," with the aim of focusing on what and who is still missing from our sum of all human knowledge, and building shared strategies to bridge these collective gaps.

This year's Wikimania was held at the Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town , South Africa, from 18th July to 22nd July, 2018.

The program is published!

The Wikimania pre-conference meetings will be held on 18 July 2018 to 19 July 2018; the main program will be held from 20 July 2018 to 22 July 2018. There will be 58 presentations, 32 posters , 22 workshops, 15 meetups (at least), 7 preconference events (at least), 4 keynote speakers, and several official social events and receptions.

Plenary Speakers

The invited speakers for Wikimania this year are:

• 
  Joy Buolamwini
  Founder Algorithmic Justice League
• 
  Martin Dittus
  Data Scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute
• 
  Sean Jacobs
  founder of Africa is a Country
• 
  Katherine Maher
  Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation