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Even if it may sound like a stereotype: It was a great experience to speak to you und to discuss with you! Many attendees adressed me afterwards with a broad range of ideas, questions and criticism concerning our topic. I really didn't expected that. E.g., Dirk Riehle reminded me of the (perhaps many) cases of peer review in a really discussion-like and conversation-like style that also takes place in the traditional setting of scientific publishing. During another discussion, Patrick Danowski (and some other attendees) complemented my case about the usefulness of wikis for scientists, even for mathematicians. ;-) And then there was Gabriela Avram, also working on the topic of social software, from the University of Limerick, Ireland. To name just a few of the great people there.And, of course, Wikimania was great in general! Eugene Eric Kim spoke about the patterns of collaboration (Blue Oxen's server seems to be down at the moment, please try this search), Ward Cunningham about the origins of wiki, and at the lunch table, Mitch Kapor explained why Wikimedia should make special-issue-wikis like "tennis.wiki" out of Wikipedia's original content. Great idea.I hope we all will meet again soon!P.S. Also many thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to my paper at the Wikimania-proceedings.