Mary Gardiner gave the keynote speech at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C.Jimmy Wales addresses attendees of Wikimania 2012 at the .Chinese language contributor Shang Zhang meets Jimmy Wales at the Library of Congress.Community leaders at the conference, which is largely attended by Wikipedians and volunteers from other  projects, focused attention on diversity within the projects and specifically on the inclusion of women, people who come from developing countries, and those people who, while not tech geeks, are potential contributors.  , co-founder of  , echoed the theme of diversity in his remarks during his annual State of the Wiki address and expanded on  and including more people who are not technically savvy. Participants from 87 countries gathered in on the campus of ,  for the opening session on Thursday morning. New software is in development that could also expand the number of editors of Wikipedia.  , executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced that Wikimedia Foundation is currently testing its Visual Editor Software that she says will make it as easy to edit Wikipedia as it is to update the status on a person's  account. "Editing is unnecessarily difficult," Gardner said. "We're using an older technology. And it's an open-source environment and developers of that kind of software are not typically dedicated to design and usability issues" but to solving technical problems. Wikimania is an international event and past conferences have been held in , ; , ; , ; , ; , ; , ; and , . Next year's Wikimania is to be held in , .
Mary Gardiner gave the keynote speech at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C.Jimmy Wales addresses attendees of Wikimania 2012 at the .Chinese language contributor Shang Zhang meets Jimmy Wales at the Library of Congress.Community leaders at the conference, which is largely attended by Wikipedians and volunteers from other Wikimedia Foundation projects, focused attention on diversity within the projects and specifically on the inclusion of women, people who come from developing countries, and those people who, while not tech geeks, are potential contributors. Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia , echoed the theme of diversity in his remarks during his annual State of the Wiki address and expanded on Africa and including more people who are not technically savvy. Participants from 87 countries gathered in on the campus of , Washington, D.C. for the opening session on Thursday morning. New software is in development that could also expand the number of editors of Wikipedia. Sue Gardner , executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced that Wikimedia Foundation is currently testing its Visual Editor Software that she says will make it as easy to edit Wikipedia as it is to update the status on a person's Facebook account. "Editing is unnecessarily difficult," Gardner said. "We're using an older technology. And it's an open-source environment and developers of that kind of software are not typically dedicated to design and usability issues" but to solving technical problems. Wikimania is an international event and past conferences have been held in Frankfurt, Germany; Boston, USA; , Taiwan; Alexandria, Egypt; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gdańsk, Poland; and Haifa, Israel . Next year's Wikimania is to be held in Hong Kong, China .
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