2025:Program/Wiki for Minorities: poster presentation

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Session title: Wiki for Minorities: poster presentation

Session type: Poster

Track: Diversity & Inclusion

Language: en

Wiki for Minorities is a project launched in October 2023. Through its 18 month long experience, we have been working to expand and uplift the presence of diasporas, religious and ethnic minorities, as well as working with people with disabilities in the movement. We are working certainly with supporting said groups to participate in the movement, and document their realities and culture for the movement. There are already examples of it, for example online events for diaspora Greeks, the support we provide to the Fulani community and the Arabic contest to take photographs about religious minorities, people with disabilities etc. ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_For_Minorities_in_the_Arabic_Community)

Description

This poster presentation runs in parallel with Wiki for Minorities panel presentation, so the description is the same as this: https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/me/submissions/VQURFP/

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

Inclusivity: The Wiki for Minorities campaign is striving to create a movement through various editathons, workshops and logistical support to communities where smaller linguistic communities, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities will be able to thrive. We are also trying to pressure the movement structures for better acceptance of people with disabilities and various kinds of minorities who are not very well represented in the movement. Thus, we are trying to make a more inclusive movement by working with groups that have been for the most of the time neglected by the communities. Impact: By pioneering an approach to increase the presence and the amount of editors from people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and other groups, but also through our support to smaller communities, we are trying to create a more equitable movement where people will be able to edit regardless of their condition (which is particularly true for people with disabilities), but also to help the smaller communities grow through a community-based approach. Sustainability: People with disabilities, ethnic diasporas and various minorities, ethnic, religious and sexual ones, are composing a significant part of the global population. Through our activities and approach we are trying to introduce them to our movement, thus investing time in an entirely new group of people and also fostering understanding between various communities.

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

Everyone can participate in this session

Speakers

• Nikos Likomitros

Nikos Likomitros is a Greek Wikimedian. He contributes since 2013, regularly from 2016 there. He has been involved with young Wikimedians since pretty earlier in his Wikimedia career, by helping a lot with cementing a stable community of youth, teenagers and students. He has organized various editathons in Greek Wikipedia and is a member of the Greek Usergroup. Moreover since 2023 he is involved in the Wikivibrance network and he is involved on youth projects, while he is also member of CEE Youth Group. He is interested on affairs related to youth and Wikimedia movement but also for developing communities. He has done Wikimedia outreach in 2 universities so far, being a key member of Wiki for Minorities international network and in 2024 he made an online webinar for Greeks in Germany. He also collaborated with the Armenian primary school in Athens where the young students will write on Armenian culture in Greek Wikipedia and will lead more projects in his university this year. He also attended the two CEE Youth Group meetings in Prague, Czechia where he learned a lot about youth projects from around CEE and shared his own experiences. He is also a member of the organising committee of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki, the first international Wikimedia event in Greece after the 2023 hackathon. He's interested on international collaborations, the future of the movement, governance, experience exchange and Wikimedia ecosystem.