2025:Program/Visualising Wikipedia

Session title: Visualising Wikipedia

Session type: Poster

Track: Community Engagement

Language: en

A poster to collect requirements and feedback about the Visualising Wikipedia tool.

Description

Visualising Wikipedia is a tool aimed at identifying and visualising knowledge gaps on Wikipedia. The tool helps measure these knowledge gaps, supports communities in improving content on this important topic, facilitates collaboration among multilingual communities and partners, and strengthens the capacity of Wikipedia contributors to document and share information related to specific topics.

The poster presents the prototype and aims at collecting feedback and requirements.

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

We normally access Wikipedia one article at a time, and we rarely have a sense of how a topic is structured and developed and what its general status is. This doesn't allow us to have a quick and efficient understanding of topics on Wikipedia, and it limits our capacity to monitor them and further develop them. Visualising Wikipedia provides a visualisation of topics, a sort of landscape, to support volunteers and affiliates in identifying what is not included and how to select priority to have the most significant impact. The tool contributes to the sustainability of Wikipedia by facilitating contributions and monitoring content. Furthermore, the tool is developed in 2025-2029 specifically with a focus on the topic of sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia.

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

Everyone can participate in this session

Resources

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VIZWP-Visualising-Wikipedia.pdf
• https://itwiki-scuola-italiana.toolforge.org/?lang=en
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visualizing_sustainability_and_climate_change_on_Wikipedia

Speakers

• Iolanda Pensa - iopensa

Iolanda Pensa, volunteer of Wikipedia since 2006, former chair of Wikimedia Italia (2020-2024), former chair of the Wikimania Committee (2017-2025), organiser of Wikimania Esino Lario 2016 and currently national coordinator of GLAMs for Wikimedia Italia. In my work, I am head of the research area "Culture and territory" at the Institute of design at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

• Florence Devouard

Username:Anthere (She/her). French. Languages : FR N; EN-4.

* Co-Executive Director of Wiki in Africa

* Wikipedian-in-Residence at World Intellectual Property Rights (WIPO)

* Former chairwoman of Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees

* Co-founder, former Vice-Chair and currently member of Wikimédia France Chapter

* Wikipedian since 2002.

As well as

* Financial auditor an member of Les sans pagEs UserGroup

* Member of m:Wikimedians for offline wikis UserGroup (contact member for the affiliate)

* Member of the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network UserGroup

* Formerly treasurer of WikiFranca (hub-to-be for French speaking wikimedia groups)

* Board member of Open Food Facts

* Vice-Chair of Ynternet.org

Key words : Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Africa, IP rights, Open Movement, Community Building, Open Source, Creative Commons, Life-long learning, accountability, Gender Gap, Equity

• islahaddow

Isla has been working as a Wikipedian since 2011, activating Africa’s collective voice and experiences on the Wikimedia and Open movements. She co-leads ground-breaking Africa-focused projects such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica Hour, African Environment WikiFocus, ISA Tool, WikiFundi, and WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique. She also works part-time as Director of Communications for Open Education Global.

Isla is a project and communications strategist, a Zimbabwean by birth and a Capetonian (South Africa) by adoption. She is passionate about open access to Africa’s knowledge and facilitating the growth of previously under-represented or ‘invisible’ communities to share their stories, experiences, creativity, and heritage with the world. Prior to her involvement in Wikimedia, she worked to promote Africa’s filmmakers, writers, poets, musicians, and artists.

In 2019, Isla was a member of the Advocacy Working Group for the completed Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030. In 2020, she researched, wrote, and published an analytical report on the motivations, needs, expectations, and philosophical intentions of Creative Commons’ Global Network members. The report is compiled from the thoughts and experiences of 188 Creative Commoners members.

Prior to working within the WikiAfrica movement, she was the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Africa Centre, raising the brand and national profile of event-based arts brands. Prior to that, she worked as a writer to accelerate and support the growth of Africa’s film industry both as a skilled destination and a burgeoning creative force.