Original research is welcome, but not required. Be bold in your submissions! Wikimania is meant to be both a scientific conference and a social event. Relevant topics include:


* Wiki research: How do wikis, and the Wikimedia wikis in particular, operate? Which processes scale and which ones don’t? What kinds of people or social structures are well-suited to wikis? How does introducing a wiki into existing project groups change group dynamics?
* Wiki sociology: What motivates Wikimedians and what drives them away? Who are they, anyway? And where do they come from?
* Wiki critics: Critical positions are welcome: why Wikipedia will never be an encyclopedia, why Wikinews can never substitute newspapers, why amateurs shouldn’t be allowed to edit, and so forth.
* Wiki technology ideas: What can we do to address perceived and real problems, for example, peer review? How can we provide better-nuanced or more immediate user feedback?
* Wiki software ideas […]
* Wiki community ideas […]
* Wiki project ideas […]
* Wiki content ideas […]
* Multimedia […]
* Free knowledge […]
* Collaborative writing […]
* Multilingualism […]