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In October 2026, a new regional event will bring together Wikimedia communities and researchers from across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Open Knowledge: Wikimedia & Research in the CEE Region will take place on 9-10 October 2026 in Katowice, Poland. The conference will be both in-person and online. Programme submissions and registration opens in May; scholarships for members of the CEE community will also be available.

Readers might remember Katowice as the city hosting Wikimania in 2024. The conference is co-organised by Wikimedia Poland and Wikimedia Ukraine, in collaboration with the University of Silesia, and with support from the CEE Hub. It is supported by a Conference Fund grant from Wikimedia Foundation.

CEE is a diverse region with active Wikimedia communities and strong academic traditions. At the same time, collaboration between these two worlds leaves a lot of space for development. For example, Wikipedia in local languages is less studied than the English Wikipedia.…