Hello everyone,

This last weekend I attended Wikimania 2014 in London, UK. Wikimania is the annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. 2000 people (and 200 volunteers) attended. More than 20k tweets tagged with #wikimania2014 were posted over the weekend.

It was announced that Mexico City will be the host city for Wikimania 2015; it will be held at the same venue as the last DH meeting organised by RedHD.

This Wikimania had a very strong academic presence, with Jimmy Wales stressing many times the importance of open access to academic and scientific research. The "open scholarship" stream was very popular and many key players in open access scholarship/open access publishing were present as both audience and presenters.

At the Comics Grid blog we published a post by Cameron Neylon on what academia can learn from Wikimania; I hope you can find some time to read it:

http://blog.comicsgrid.com/2014/08/wikimania-we-need-to-choose-the-main-stre...

I know Ernesto Priani is in touch with Iván from Wikimedia México; it seems to me it would be very important to build on what was achieved in London this year in terms of bridging the Wikipedia momevent with the open scholarship movement and ensure that Mexican academics interested in the wider, open dissemination of research on the Web have a space within Wikimania 2015.

It would be great if RedHD could have a significant presence (through logos, maybe a stand as well?) at the event in Mexico too.

Thoughts?

All the best,

Ernesto

*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science #citylis City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego https://twitter.com/ernestopriego

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