2025:Program/Capacity Exchange: how to easily share knowledge with peers

Session title: Capacity Exchange: how to easily share knowledge with peers

Session type: Demonstration

Track: Technology

Language: en

In this session, we demonstrate how to create Capacity Exchange’s user and organizations profiles. We will also show how to navigate the tool and the documentation about it.

Description

One of the key building blocks of Wikimedia’s collective dream is capacity-building. By building capacity, we build the infrastructure for the free knowledge ecosystem and the foundation for the Movement’s future. Capacity-building is one of the central elements of Movement Strategy 2030 and the Capacity Exchange (CapX) is a platform, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

In this session, we aim to present the project and the Capacity Exchange tool for the participants, showing how it can help to strengthen skills-sharing and collaboration within the Wikimedia Movement. In our demonstration, we will walk the participants through the values ​​and motivations behind this powerful tool, and we will do a step by step presentation of CapX features. Participants will get to know how to create Capacity Exchange’s user and organizations profiles, and how to navigate the tool and the documentation about it.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 – Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?

By building capacity, we build the infrastructure for the free knowledge ecosystem and the foundation for the Movement’s sustainability. The Capacity Exchange (CapX) is a platform designed to facilitate the capacity-building on a global level by helping wikimedians to find and connect with peers. It tries to include everyone by being accessible, multilanguage (by being integrated to TranslateWiki), and designed as mobile first. With this tool, we can impact the Wikimedia Movement by mapping and connecting people from different regions to act on behalf of its goals.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Some experience will be needed

Speakers

• Joris Quarshie

Joris Darlington Quarshie is a dedicated advocate for open knowledge and cultural preservation, currently serving as an outreach facilitator for the Capacity Exchange Tool and an event coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore. In his role with the Capacity Exchange Tool, he fosters collaboration and resource-sharing among communities to enhance global capacity-building initiatives. As a coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore—an international campaign to document cultural heritage on Wikimedia platforms—he organizes events, engages volunteers, and promotes the documentation of traditional practices, festivals, and folklore. Passionate about bridging knowledge gaps, Joris combines strategic outreach with grassroots engagement to empower communities and expand access to diverse cultural narratives.

• amandajurno

I am currently the Project Manager of Capacity Exchange. Also known as ACheJu, I'm a Brazilian wikiwoman since 2021 and a voluntary member of Wikimedia Brasil. I've worked as WikidataCon 2021 Production Manager, WikiCon Brasil 2022 Production Manager and WMB's Education and Scientific Dissemination Manager. During this latter job, I proudly coordinated and created the content of WikiConecta.

Besides that, I am also a researcher interested in algorithms, platforms, artificial intelligences and their mediation in daily lives. I hold a PhD and a Master degree in Communications from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG - Brazil), where I also got a BA in Journalism.