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 * Note: Registration for Hacking Days is now open too!

Wikimania 2006 is the second annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. It will be held from August 4th through August 6th in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Harvard Law School campus.

Registration is now open. Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikia is not a Wikimedia project) are eligible for a discounted admission rate of $70 for the whole conference. Accommodation in the Harvard Law School dormitories is $40 per night. Available space is limited, so be sure to book early.

Many members of Wikia, Inc. staff will be there, and we hope many Wikia users will be joining us.

Angela Beesley is running a discussion session on cross-wiki policy and features. The session is particularly aimed at users of Wikia-hosted sites, but should appeal to anyone with experience of working on a large wiki. The topic itself is open for discussion, but will broadly include policies (how these are applied across different wikis, do the same policies work everywhere, effects of over-applying strict policies), technical issues (what features are needed for different wikis), promotion (how to attract new users to a wiki), tips for fighting vandalism and spam, and other topics relevant to anyone working on a wiki.

If you are a Wikia user, we encourage you to attend this event. It will be the first official Wikia meetup and we hope it will be beneficial to you in developing your wiki.

Hacking Days
Hacking Days is a pre-Wikimania participatory event aimed at MediaWiki developers. In 2006, this will be held from 1-3 August at the MIT Media Lab. You can register for Hacking Days after registering for the main conference. Admission is US$25 per day and single dorms are available for US$40 per night.

Thursday evening
Duck Tour Don't miss the Duck!! 5:30PM sharp. We've got room for 32 Wikia staff and users for a tour of Boston aboard a Duck!! We'll meet at Sidney's Grille at the Hotel@MIT at 20 Sidney Street in Central Square, Cambridge for a land and water-based tour of Boston. Don't worry, you won't get wet and the amphibi-duck will return us to the restaurant at 7:00pm for dinner. Please let Angela know by email (angela@wikia.com) if you be attending.

Dinner Wikia staff and users dinner at 7:00pm at Sidney's Grille at Hotel@MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Central Square, Cambridge.

Wikians who intend to be there
If you have registered and intend to be at Wikimania 2006, please add your username below.


 * Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikia, Chair of Wikia, Inc. Board.
 * Angela Beesley, co-founder of Wikia.
 * Gil Penchina, Wikia Inc. CEO and investor.
 * Tim Starling, former Wikia technical staff.
 * GreenReaper (Laurence Parry), founder of WikiFur and GalCiv, co-founder of Creatures.
 * sannse (Lisa Carter), Wikia community staff.
 * Mindspillage (Kat Walsh), Wikia community staff
 * River, Wikia technical staff
 * Keitei, Uncyclopedia administrator
 * KJ, Wikia community staff.
 * Jason Richey, Wikia CTO
 * John Q, Wikia staff
 * Tristan Harris, Wikia staff
 * Emil Podlaszewski, Wikia staff
 * Danny Horn, founder of Muppet Wiki.
 * Jonathan Huang, founder of Uncyclopedia
 * John Santino, Uncyclopedia Admin
 * Sean Black, Tardis Admin / Bureaucrat
 * Joe Kiff,founder of Psychology and SeedtextART wikis
 * CocoaZen (Robin Lampert)
 * Bill Kaufmann, Wikia Inc. Wikia Travel founder