Einen Rückblick auf die Wikimania bietet The Guardian: Worldwide Wikimania

„Books like the Encyclopedia Britannica are nothing else than simple knowledge compendiums without any political soul,“ says Jean-Baptiste Soufron, a legal adviser to the Wikimedia Foundation. „I am convinced that Wikipedia is the only real encyclopedia of our days because it’s the only one that relies on a real political goal: to pursue freedom over content and information.“