page_title: Wikimania
section_title: 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Wikimania / Conferences / 2014
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gruppenfoto Wikimania 2014 London
context_page_description: Wikimania is the official annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and social and technical aspects related to these topics.
  Since 2011, the winner of the Wikimedian of the Year award has been announced at Wikimania.
  The next Wikimania will happen in Bangkok, Thailand in 2021, the planned August 2020 event having been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
context_section_description: Wikimania 2014, the tenth Wikimania conference, was held from 8 to 10 August 2014 at the Barbican Centre in London, England, United Kingdom. Bidding officially opened in December 2012. London was chosen in May 2013 as the host city with the only other bid coming from Arusha (Tanzania). The keynote address was given by Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. The event was also the first Wikimania addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation's new Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. The event was preceded by a two-day hackathon, and a series of fringe events.
  The conference had five tracks, alongside the annual 'State of the Wiki' round up. These were: Social Machines, The future of Education, Democratic Media, Open Scholarship, and Open Data. The conference was documented by the television program 60 Minutes in a program titled 'Wikimania'.
caption: Wikimania 2014 attendees
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