[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2008 and reflecting on what Wikimania is all about

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/17/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> I do hope that Wikimania never gets to the size of mega-conferences like
> Comdex (which collpased under its own weight).  Still, as has been
> pointed out above, the number of Wikimedia participants has grown
> considerably, and there are more that 250 "active" Wikimedia projects
> right now with signficant content.  Getting even one rep from each one
> would be quite an undertaking at the moment.

It won't be easy to get solid data until after we have single sign in
but I suspect that, once you exclude the biggest projects, the overlap
is pretty significant. So it might not be as hard getting additional
coverage as you suspect.