Wikimania 2014

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Wikimania overview

Organization

Wikimania 2014

Bid process

Judging

Next event

2025 (Nairobi, Kenya)

Future events

2026 (Paris, France)
2027 To be determined

Past years

Details of past Wikimanias
2024 (Katowice, Poland)
2023 (Singapore)
2022 (Virtual event)
2021 (Virtual event)
2020 (Cancelled)
2019 (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018 (Cape Town, South Africa)
2017 (Montréal, Canada)
2016 (Esino Lario, Italy)
2015 (Mexico City, Mexico)
2014 (London, United Kingdom)
2013 (Hong Kong SAR, China)
2012 (Washington, D.C., USA)
2011 (Haifa, Israel)
2010 (Gdansk, Poland)
2009 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2008 (Alexandria, Egypt)
2007 (Taipei, Taiwan)
2006 (Boston, USA)
2005 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Wikimania 2014 was the 10th Wikimania conference, an annual event for the international Wikimedia community, and was held in London from August 6 to 10, 2014.

Final Attendance was 1520. The following are some statistics on registration:

172 of the above were volunteers

62 of the above were performers

72 of the above were press

139 Scholarship registrations (includes WMF-funded scholarship recipients, IEG, PEG, and 2014 bid team members)

157 WMF registrations

59 different countries represented

Wikimedians/Non Wikimedians: 1076 Wikimedia project usernames given

Community Village: 35 Community Village Stalls

18 Non-Wikimedia organisations involved in Community Village

10138 people attended Digital Revolutions exhibit at the Barbican Centre during the conference and most will have been through the Community Village.

Gender Balance by registration:

64% Male

36% Female

Budget Summary
Budget Item	Notes	Amount (USD)
Revenue - Sponsorships		$200,000
Revenue - Registration		$78,000
Total Revenue		$278,000
Expense - WMF Scholarship Travel/Accommodation	Travel & Accomodations for WMF Scholarship recipients and other Grantees	$217,000
Expense - Wikimania direct	Conference expenses such as venue, catering, audiovisual needs, public relations expenditures, etc.	$596,000
Expense - Staff management	Project management from WMF, project manager for host team, and conference registration support	$149,000
Total Expenses		$962,000
Net Expenses		$684,000

Related Expenses
Expense - WMF Travel/Accommodation	Travel & Accomodation for Staff, Board, Committees	$321,000

Please visit the conference's official website, wikimania2014.wikimedia.org, for more information. Also, please check out our Facebook event page and official Twitter account for the latest updates!

See also: Wikimania/2014

Bids

See Wikimania 2014 bids for details and bids, especially the winning one: London.

Wikimania 2014 candidate cities:
Arusha | ~~Bukittinggi~~ | ~~Cape Town~~ | London

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