Even thou the movement grows and gets older, it also needs to renew. It has to attract new users to continue growing as rapidly it has in the past and it has to set up new ideas on how it can be pushed forward for the new ones to even have something to work on. As such, more emphasis for new users might be a good idea.
I'd like to add, that even the existing users often have a lot they may find good to learn. Is it getting better at photography, finding out new tools they may use, learning to solve difficult situations etc.
Wikimania 2014 was a good one, but there is always something that can be done in a better way (or at least differently). Therefor I welcome the discussion started by Matthias as it may lead us to even better programs. Ones where everyone feel there isn't a thing to add or to take away.
I myself are playing with an idea to set up a Wikimania 2016 bid for Tallinn (pre-conference) and Tartu (as the site for main conference) as I see it as a good way to promote Wikipedia and to get new people into our community.
Estonia, one of the most tech-savvy countries out there, may just be a very good place to organize something like this. But we'll see.
So I have been thinking about it for a while and I personally see that Wikimania should be more about getting up new ideas and increasing international cooperation. The ideas and cooperation can only be brought to life by strong local communities and with more of thous small meetings.
Sending one or two persons to some faraway land may not help with that as much we would like to think. So I'd like to set up an idea of making Wikimania smaller locally and bigger globally. There could be lot of local meetings at the time of the Wikimania, where local wikipedians themselves could take part of the show on real time (or with a small delay depending on time zone) and have a discussion on what their own community needs the most.
If you want to create something big, you need to get more people behind your idea. If only you have the chance to see and interact with it, then it may not be enough. Getting more people together and getting them to know each other may be just what we need to build a stronger community of wikimedians.
We have the technology to make Wikimania even bigger and to bring it closer to people. Why not to use it? Maybe we could test it out in 2016?
With regards,
Ivo Kruusamägi