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, Wiktionary – with three days of conferences, discussions, meetups, training, and workshops. Hundreds of volunteers and Free Knowledge leaders worldwide gather to discuss issues, report on new projects and approaches, and exchange ideas.
Wikimania 2023 is held at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland, from 14th to 20th August 2023. Houcemeddine Turki, Yamen Bousrih, and Afek Ben Chahed represented Tunisia at this international conference.
The main focus of the Tunisian participation in the conference was:
Building and Sustaining a robust Wikidata Community in Africa and the Middle East.
Developing the use of Artificial Intelligence in maintaining Wikimedia Projects.
Developing the automation of Wikimania Post-Production.
Networking of Wikimedia Tunisia and Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit with Arabic, French-Speaking and African Wikimedians and the Wikimedia Technical and Research Community.
The creation of the Arabic Wikimedia Technical Community.
Preparing the launch of an African and Arabic community related to Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia.
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