2025:Program/Wikimedians of the Year Showcase
Session title: Wikimedians of the Year Showcase
- Session type: Meet-up, exhibition space, social event
- Track: Clubhouse Social
- Language: en
Brief presentations from Wikimedian of the Year winners. Each presentation takes 5 minutes. (Total:30 min). We will have a discussion for the remaining time.
Description
Past Wikimedian of the Year winners show their interests. This presentation will indicate how Wikimedian movement varies. If it is possible, we hope to present back to back. Participants
User:Eugene Ormandy, theme: Diff, 5min Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (user:Rosiestep) (theme: Wikibreak), 5min Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı (User: Kurmanbek) (theme: Why visual storytelling impactful for Wiki events?), 5min Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) Wikimedia Laureate 2022 (theme: The case for a multimedia Wikimedia) Martin (User:DerHexer) Wikimedia Laureate 2024 (theme: reaching a wide audience in a good way thanks to the new CentralNotice guidelines) Taufik Rosman (User:Tofeiku), Wikimedian Movement in Malaysia
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 – Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
Wikimedians of Year winners consist of Wikimedians in various regions and the award have impact on Wikimedia movement. Collaborative session among winners will become a good opportunity for them to sustain their communication and Wikimedia movement.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
Speakers
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a prolific Wikipedia editor (since 2007) and admin (since 2009), as well as a fledgling WikiPortraits photographer (2025). She co-founded the annual in-person conference, WikiWomenSummit (est. Wikimania 2023), and the online content gender gap project, Women in Red (est. Wikimania 2015). Rosie serves as the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston), where her work focuses on women writers, and as the Community Engagement Manager at the University of Queensland (Australia) on the Wikimedia research project “Measuring the Gender Gap.” Previously, she served on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (2021-24). In 2016, Rosie was honored as Wikipedian of the Year; two years later, she was knighted partly because of her Wikipedia work. She makes her home in California, US.
- Eugene Ormandy
- A member of Toumon WIkipedian Club Japan. An Organizer of Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship and Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship. Having hosted editathons with Japanese GLAM and universities. One of the Wikimedian of the Year winners (Newcomer of the Year 2023).