2025:Hackathon/Participants List
Welcome! This is a voluntary list of participants for the Wikimania 2025 Hackathon. Adding your name here can help you connect with other attendees who share your interests, skills, or are working on similar projects.
How to Add Yourself
- Click the "Edit" tab at Wikimania:2025/Attendees/Hackathon.
- Add a new row to the bottom of the table below by copying and pasting the example format.
- Fill in your details in the respective columns.
- Click "Publish changes".
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| [[User:YourUsername|Your Name]]
| Python, JavaScript, UX Design
| Wikidata, Gadgets, helping newcomers
| Your Country
| Your Region (Sub-Saharan Africa,South Asia,Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia,Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa.
East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific, Northern & Western Europe,North America)
| [[User_talk:YourUsername|Talk page]], @TelegramHandleParticipant List
Edit your presence here: Wikimania:2025/Attendees/Hackathon
| Name | Shared Skills | Interested In | Country | Region | Contact |
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| Example | PHP, Lua, CSS | MediaWiki extensions, performance tuning | Kenya | SSA | Talk / @example (Telegram) |
| Gopa Vasanth | Python, JS | MediaWiki extensions, tools, user scripts, bots | India | SA | Talk / Email |
| Novem Linguae | PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL | MediaWiki extensions, gadgets, user scripts, bots | USA | Talk / Email | |
| Csisc | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, SPARQL, Java, Pascal | MediaWiki extensions, gadgets, user scripts, bots | Tunisia | MENA | Talk / Email |
| Fulani215 | JavaScript, | Mediawiki& language technology | Nigeria | SSA | Talk / Email |
| Sunkanmi12 | Tech Enthusiast | Wikidata, Gadgets | Ghana | SSA | Talk page |
| Ssemmanda will | Mediawiki& language technology | Uganda | SSA | Talk / Email | |
| Suyash Dwivedi | Hardware Hacks, HTML, Python, Embedded Systems, User Scripts | Hardware Hacks, HTML, Python, Embedded Systems | India | SA | Talk / Email |
| Dnshitobu | Python, HTML, CSS, UX Design | Wikidata, Gadgets, Languages | Ghana | SSA | Talk page / Email, @Dnshitobu |
| Step May | Débutante en Python (niveau 2), création d'éléments sur Wikidata, ajout de photos | Wikidata, projets pour débutants, Hackathon (nouvelle participante) | Togo | Sub-Saharan Africa | Talk page / @steph_2021 / Email |
| JosefAnthony | Javascript | MediaWiki, Wikidata | Nigeria | WA | Talk / @JosefAnthony(Telegram) |
| Ganyana | Curious Techie | Wikipedia, Wikidata | Kenya | EA | Talk / @flesymz(Telegram) |
| Addshore | Wikidata, Wikibase, MediaWiki, developer environments, golang, CI, PHP and more | UK | Talk / Email / @addshore in most places | ||
| Birusha | JavaScript, Nextjs | Wikipedia, Wikidata | DR Congo - Goma | East Africa | Talk / @BirushaNdegeya(Telegram) |
| Ayokanmi | JavaScript | Wikidata,helping newcomers | Nigeria | Sub-Saharan Africa | Talk page, @ayokanmioyeyemi |
| Tim Moody | Python, JavaScript | Internet in a Box | Canada | North America | Talk page |
| Dagmawi Mekonnen | HTML , Java , C# , JavaScript , css | MediaWiki, Wikidata , AI , gadgets, bots | Ethiopia | East Africa | Talk , @Dagmawi |
| Swayam Agrahari | NextJS, JavaScript, Python | MediaWiki, Commons, Tools, UserScripts | Nepal | South Asia | Talk page |
| Neechalkaran | Python, JavaScript, php | BOTs, APIs, Userscripts, helping newcomers | India | South Asia | Talk page, @Neechalkaran |
| Dr. Isaac Andy | NextJS, JavaScript, Python, Wikimania, Wikidata, Wikibase, MediaWiki, developer environments | Hackathon, MediaWiki, Commons, Tools, UserScripts, helping newcomers | Malaysia | South Asia | Talk page, @isaacandy |
| Olimasy | Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, | MediaWiki, Hackathon, tools and bots (a newcomer) | Tanzania | Sub-Saharan Africa | Talk page, @OttoNyongole |
| Jon Harald Søby | JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, PHP, Lua | Gadgets, language support, improving the Incubator | Norway | Northern Europe | Talk / Email / @jhsoby |
| Eugene Agbor | Python, JavaScript, PHP, CI, ML and AI | Wikidata, Gadgets, MediaWiki, mentorship, connecting people | Deutschland | Central & Eastern Europe | Talk page, @New_Deal233 |
| Valentin Nasibu | JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Nest.js, Next.js | Wikidata, MediaWiki, Mentorship, connecting people | DR Congo | Sub-Saharan Africa | Talk page, @NasibuEl |
| Navya sri Kalli | Python, JavaScript, UX Design | Wikidata, Gadgets, helping newcomers | India | South Asia | Talk page, @navya_sri_kalli |
| Jay Prakash | Python, JavaScript, PHP | Gadgets, MediaWiki extensions, Toolforge | India | South Asia | Talk page, 0freerunning@gmail.com |
| SD0001 (Siddharth) | PHP, JS, MediaWiki | MediaWiki core/extensions (I can review your patches!), gadgets, Toolforge | India | South Asia | Talk page, @vp_siddharth, Discord: siddharthvp |
| Pepe piton | Python, Flask, HTML, CSS | Wikidata, Wikimedia APIs, Paulina tool, connecting people | Uruguay | Latin America | Talk page |
| AlvinDulle | PHP, VUE, Android App + System Design, Core Java | Wikidata, Codex(Newcomer),MediaWiki,Commons, Wikipedia | Tanzania | Sub Saharan Africa | Talk page, @Alvin Dulle |
| Alhassan Mohammed Awal | MediaWiki , Gadgets, translateWiki | Wikidata, MediaWiki, Language/Wikipedia, Commons | Ghana | SSA | Talk page / Email, @Alhassan Mohammed Awal |
| Ibrahim ID | HTML, CSS, MediaWiki , Gadgets | Wikidata, MediaWiki, Wikipedia, Commons | Egypt | MENA | Talk / Email |
WMF Product & Tech Attendees
Below is a list of Wikimedia Foundation staff attending the Hackathon, along with the areas they can support you with. Feel free to reach out to them during the event if you have questions, want to connect, or need help in their areas of focus.
| Name / Username | Role / Team | Areas of Support |
|---|---|---|
| Selena Deckelmann | Chief Product and Technology Officer | I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2022. I’m attending Wikimania to connect and listen to our community members and spend as much time as I can hearing from you all and learning more about how Wikipedia and our many other projects are functioning. I’m looking forward to the Users with Extended Rights Day! I also hope to drop in on the hackathon, as well as attend sessions. Please stop me and say hi! |
| Amanda Bittaker | Chief of Staff/ Developer Outreach | I’m attending Wikimania to support the Hackathon, the Users with Extended Rights Day, our Product and Technology topic tables, and the developer corner. I’ll spend a lot of time in the hackathon room, come find me or let’s schedule some time if you want to talk about our technical contributors and how to build our technical community or if you need to be connected to another person in Product and Technology. |
| Sam Walton | Product Manager for the Moderator Tools team | I’d love to chat to editors who patrol edits, have administrator or other advanced rights, or are otherwise interested in the maintenance and moderation of Wikimedia projects. I’m particularly interested in talking about Automoderator, our new automated anti-vandalism software, as well as our ongoing explorations to build a dashboard or homepage for identifying opportunities to moderate content. |
| Onyinyechi Onifade | Senior Technical Program Manager/ Hackathon Coordinator | I’ll be attending Wikimania to coordinate the Hackathon — you’ll find me in the Hackathon room about 80% of the time, so feel free to say hi!
I’m always happy to chat about our Outreach Programs, the Wikimedia technical community, or help connect you with the right person in Product & Technology. |
| Birgit Muller | Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences | I’m working with the teams that focus on improvements to the core platform and infrastructure that powers all wikis and provide services, tools and support to our technical teams and volunteer developers. Come talk to me if you want to chat about APIs, Toolforge, MediaWiki or the impact of crawlers on our infrastructure and what we’re doing to keep the wikis sustainable for everyone. I’ll be joining the Users with Extended Rights Day and the Hackathon, and you can also find me at my session. |
| Joydeep Sengupta | Group Design Manager for CommTech and Platforms design | I am quite new to this role (~1 month) and still transitioning. Prior to this I was a Principal UX Designer leading the Community Wishlist experience and some of the actual wishes from the design side. I will run a session on Codex onboarding on the pre-conference day and host a design clinic on the same day afternoon. So come find me if you’d like to use our latest and greatest Codex design system in your on or off wiki projects, and I might be able to help you. During the Wikimania days, keep an eye out for our design desk and come say Hello! to other designers in the foundation. There’ll be 3 of us! |
| Eric Mill | Group Product Manager for Safety and Security | I lead the Product Safety and Integrity team at Wikimedia, which focuses on platform-level features, tools, and interventions that make the wikis a safer and more secure place for our editors, readers, and all of the volunteers that make this work. For context, PSI is a recently created team, made up of people you may have worked with before from our Trust and Safety Product team and Product Security teams. Come find me or ask for some dedicated time if you have anything you want to talk about! |
| Mateus Santos | Product Manager of the Content Transform Team | The Content Transform team is responsible for Parsoid, the engine that enables Visual Editor, Wikifunctions and other reading and editing experience. Come talk to me if you want to discuss how your gadgets, user scripts, and other tools can harness the power of our Content platform or find out more about our main projects, like the Parser Unification project which will also have its own session. See you in Nairobi! |
| Nat Baca | Director of Engineering of the Core Experiences teams | Hamjambo! I’m the Director of Engineering of the Core Experiences teams, focused on user-facing features for our projects. This group includes the Reader teams (Reader Experience, Reader Growth, Android, and iOS) and the Contributor teams (Growth, Moderator Tools, Editing, and Connection), as well as the Future Audiences team. I’m happy to chat about any of our teams’ features with you all, which include dark mode, tabs on iOS, edit checks, or even our Roblox game – and more! This is my first time attending Wikimania, and I’m looking forward to meeting all of you. |
| Kirsten Stoller | Product Manager of the Growth team | We build features that help onboard and retain new Wikipedia editors. I would love to chat about anything related to newcomer experiences, mobile editing, Mentorship features, or Community Configuration. |
| Justin Scherer | Lead UX Designer of the Reader Growth team (formerly Web team) | This is my first time attending Wikimania in person and I’m really excited to meet other people from the movement. Recently, I designed Wikipedia’s new dark mode, appearance settings, and search experiences. I’m going to be speaking with folks all week about new reading experiences on Wikipedia. Come find me at the design desk and say hello! |
| Leila Zia | Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation | I’m interested to learn from you during the event: what you and your community have been working on over the past year and what you look forward to doing in the coming year. I also look forward to share with you some of the research and research support that WMF offers to the Wikimedia communities and researchers. Examples of topics we can connect about: Research Community events, Research Funds, AI, findings from research on users with extended rights, and NPOV. |
| Niklas Laxström | Engineering Manager for the Language and Product Localization team and founder of translatewiki.net | Don't hesitate to talk to me about anything related to languages, language support, translation or how to make sure your code works well in any language. |
| James Forrester | Tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team | Attending Wikimania as always to support our communities. I'll be presenting about, and leading a workshop on, Wikifunctions, and will also be at the Hackathon. Happy to help out with technical ideas, concerns, and dreams, from editing to reading, and structured data to moderation tools. |
| Kadeem Khan | Data scientist on the Movement Insights Team | I’ve been at the foundation for almost 9 months and my main duty is the support the Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) with the data and insights they need to make critical recommendations. I have also been heavily focused on helping the Foundation execute on PTAC’s first recommendation which is focused on improving the mobile web experience. I’ll be leading two roundtables at Wikimania: “Navigating Change: Insights into Product, Participation & External Trends” and “Wikipedia’s Mobile Editing Experience: A Friction Point or a New Frontier?”. Come find me if you want to chat about either of these topics or anything else. See you soon! |
| Joseph Seddon | Engineering Manager representing the Reader Experience, Reader Growth and Wikipedia Mobile Apps team. | Shwmae! I’ll be helping present at Wikimania about how the Wikimedia Foundation has been trying to improve the experience of Readers across our platforms, exploring what the future could look like for our readers and running a session focused on games and visualisations that utilise our content to create engaging and interactive experiences. |
| Esther Akinloose | Test Engineers supporting the Editing team | I’m happy to chat about Editing tools, Testing, and whatever JavaScript banter we can get to. Feel free to engage me on non-technical discussions as well. Like some of my colleagues, I’ll be spending a good chunk of time in the hackathon room as well. |
| Mary Munyoki | Technical Manager in the Language and Product Localisation team (focusing on New and Small language support) | I am interested to chat about supporting new and smaller languages on the Wikimedia platform through tooling and support approaches to enable them to move towards their goals - particularly around content building and contribution activity." |
| Steve Munene | Site Reliability Engineer on the Data Platform Team | I work on the deployment, configuration and maintenance of the distributed data systems that comprise Wikimedia data platform. Happy to chat about these and the movement in general. |
| Derick Alangi | Software engineer on the MediaWiki Platform Team | I can help people who want to get started with MediaWiki set up the project on their machine (to begin contributing to the project). Additionally, I can assist with MediaWiki configurations, hooks, various aspects of caching (BagOStuff), or set up extensions in MediaWiki. I also enjoy figuring out various technicalities/challenges (bugs) within MediaWiki, so if your MediaWiki local project is not working for some reason, we can work together to debug it. |
| Peter Wangai | Software Engineer on the Test Platform team | I'm happy to give guidance if you are having trouble filing Phabricator tasks. I'm also happy to chat about setting up for local development, running tests locally, and Selenium tests. |
| Kevin Bazira | Software Engineer on the Machine Learning team | I was voluntold to help with the AI table at Wikimania 2025, and I'll be happy to. |
| Nicolas Ayoub | Group Design Manager for Contributors - supporting the Growth, Editing, Moderator Tools and Connection (ex-Campaigns) teams. | I'm also the lead designer on the Editing team where I've helped build Edit Check and Discussion Tools for VE, and was previously a designer on the CommTech team when I joined the Foundation in 2021. I’ll be joining the Users with Extended Rights Day and the Hackathon. Otherwise come find me at our design desk if you’d like to try our latest Edit Check prototype :) and you'll also get to meet other designers from the team! |
| C. Scott Ananian | Technical Lead, Content Transform Team | I'm here to help with wikitext and Scribunto! I'm giving two talks in the "Wild Ideas" track at Wikimania, and Mateus Santos and I are talking about the current rollout of Parsoid Read Views on Friday. |