Dear Samuel,

Thanks for your thoughts on this, and for your endorsement of our general language approach. In an ideal world we’d be able to offer all the languages of Wikimedia communities across all days. In light of the situation in Ukraine, we decided to prioritize interpretation into Ukrainian as an additional language supported on two days of the event. Unfortunately we won’t be able to extend it this time around, but future Wikimanians will continue to experiment with different language approaches.

Regarding the map of in person local events, we are collecting local events on this page and are asking/reminding all affiliates to please add their events there. Once we have a good list, a Core Organising Team member will be starting a map with those events. We’d like to invite everyone to collaborate on and add to the map once it is started.

We hope this answers your questions.

Best regards,

Sandra

On behalf of Wikimania 2022 Core Organising Team,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:17 PM Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Sandra. This looks lovely; is there a map of the local in-person events planned?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 2:42 PM Sandra Aceng <sandraaceng@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Wikimedians! It's four weeks to our Festival Wikimania 2022 and We are happy to let you three important updates as follows:👇 Wikimania Festival will have scheduled programming that rotates between three longitudinal zones: Asia-Oceania; the Americas; and Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
This year, apart from the core UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), the Wikimania Festival will provide live interpretation on a rotating basis into Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, Swahili, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
Moreover, as part of a hybrid Wikimania, Wikimedia affiliates around the globe will be hosting interactive in-person events, from watch parties to edit-a-thons, to slumber parties and picnics. For more info please visit our Diff post. Best regards,

Sandra Aceng
On behalf of Wikimania 2022 Core Organising Team,
Web: about.me/saceng
Twitter: @sandraaceng
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Skype: sandraaceng
Contact: +256772355760

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