Thank you so much to the London Wikimania organizers for putting a wonderful Wikimania 2014. I want to recognize everyone who helped out: the core team who proposed the bid and worked for over a year organizing a vision and a team to carry it out; the staff at Wikimedia UK and WMF who worked on organization; the international volunteer teams who put together the program and multiple scholarship programs; the tech staff in-person and online; the on-the-ground volunteers who made the event go; all the speakers, and everyone who contributed. Thank you! Pulling off a major international conference isn't easy, and this one rocked. 

This was the tenth Wikimania (!), and we had a small session reflecting on each of the Wikimanias to date. They have all been different, but they have certainly all had commonalities too: each Wikimania is a chance to meet other people who are doing intriguing, wonderful things; to sit up late into the night brainstorming and arguing about ideas; to learn from each other about techniques for educating and talking about our projects; to hack together.

More than anything, Wikimania is a way to recognize that we are part of a real community of passionate and dedicated people -- people who love to take pictures and write and code and learn new things and drink and dance and eat stroopwafels and talk and talk and talk. 

So, a huge thank you to the London team for holding a great event both for long-time Wikimaniacs and for a whole new group of people (this was the first Wikimania for hundreds of people, going by the opening session). 

I encourage you all to watch the videos of the talks, and to keep the "Wikimania spirit" alive this year by learning about new initiatives, reaching out to people you don't already know who are doing cool stuff, visiting a project that you're not familiar with and seeing what they're up to, and experimenting with new things. 
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