2025:Programa
Appearance
Wikimania@20: Inclusão . Impacto . Sustentabilidade .

The main program was complemented by the pre-conference events happening on 5 August, the tours and side events happening throughout the event, and the meetups happening during lunch and after hours.

Below are all session videos, organized by thematic track. If you would instead prefer to see the schedule in a table format, it is available on the subpage /Table format.
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- Closing Ceremony
Closing Ceremony - Closing party @ Tribe Poolside
Closing Ceremony - 🎤🎙️ Karaoke! 🎤🎙️
Entertainment - Opening Ceremony featuring Wikimedian of the Year
Opening Ceremony - Orientation
Lecture - Poster Session
Poster - Wikimania@20 Keynote Panel on AI
Dr. Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Professor Vukosi Marivate, Selena Deckelmann, Dr. Job Mwaura
Keynote session
Community Engagement
- The "List of articles every Wikipedia should have" as a motivational tool
Jernej Polajnar (yerpo)
Lecture - [infographic] Egypt Wikimedians User Group's epic journey through restrictions, problems, and challenges.
Ibrahim Elaidy, Donia
Poster - Beyond barnstars - What learning recognition systems are meaningful for Wikimedians?
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas, Asaf Bartov
Workshop - 85 minutes - Commons Photowalk: Capturing the Spirit of Nairobi
Suyash, aanchal
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - Demonstrating Impact: Telling Your Story as a Wikimedia Affiliate
Amy Fowler, Rebecca Maung, Donatien Kangah
Roundtable - Empowering the Wikimedia Community in Africa and Around the World with Open Source
Mario Behling, boz, Alice Kibombo
Lecture - Empowering the Wikimedia Movement through Inclusive Resource Distribution and Regional Engagement
Butch Bustria, Anna Torres Adell
Roundtable - Fund for impact: How to write successful Applications for Public Policy Advocacy in the general support fund
fputz, vthamaini
Workshop - 85 minutes - Future of Wikimania
Butch Bustria, eric luth, Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik, Lodewijk, remy, Florence Devouard, Adélaïde Calais WMFR, ProtoplasmaKid, Alice Kibombo, Andrew Lih
Panel - The global #KeepItOn campaign and coalition's fight against internet shutdowns
Felicia Anthonio, Sandra Aceng
Workshop - 40 minutes - How to keep Wiki Loves participants interested even after 10+ editions
Mykola (NickK), antanana
Lecture - Les WikiClubs de Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire dans les écoles ivoiriennes - Dadrik
Aristide KOUAMÉ, Dadrik
Lecture - Living Cultural Heritage in Focus: A Visual Journey Through Wiki Loves Folklore
gonsalvestiven, joyag, Joris Quarshie
Poster - Preserving Global Heritage: The Journey of Wiki Loves Folklore
gonsalvestiven, joyag, SAgbley, Joris Quarshie
Lecture - Storytelling and Learning with Diff: Using the community blog to share your story and connect with others
Rae Adimer, Yuriko Kadokura
Demonstration - Weaving Memory: Co-creating Open Historical Data and Archives in Colombia
Bernardo Caycedo, Johana Botero
Poster - What we learned about young Wikimedians' participation from the first youth conference in Prague
Klara Joklova, Jan Beranek, JStephenson (WMF)
Roundtable - Wikimedians Who Collect: Share, Exchange, and Change the Narrative
aliharith, serine
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - WikiPortraits: How You Can Participate as a Photographer, Editor or Affiliate
Kevin Payravi, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Jenny8lee
Lecture
Community Health
- After the implementation of Universal Code of Conduct and U4C, What is the Next?
Ibrahim Elaidy
Lecture - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
Benoît Evellin, Sam Walton, kstoller, ifried, Udehb-WMF
Workshop - 85 minutes - Chitrakatha - Recent highlights from the Odia Wikimedians User Group [Poster session]
Chinmayee Mishra, Sangram Keshari Senapati (Gapu)
Poster - Communicating as human beings. An introduction to nonviolent communication
Lorenzo Losa, Miriam Konert (WMDE)
Pre-conference event - Fixing systematically broken processes - English Wikipedia's 2024 adminship reform effort
Novem Linguae, Soni
Lecture - Handling reports of code of conduct violations in Wikimedia movement groups and organizations
Dorothy Howard (User:Hexatekin)
Lecture - Media relations tips, tricks, and best practices for Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates
Vidhu Goyal, Gwadamirai Majange
Workshop - 55 minutes - The Nigeria Community Micro-Grant: Process, Lessons, and Success in Replication
Ayokanmi Oyeyemi, Ashioma (WUGN)
Lecture - Preconference event: Users with Extended Rights Day
Elena Lappen (WMF), Natalia Szafran, Rae Adimer
Pre-conference event - Shrinking civic spaces: Challenges and Strategies for the Wikimedia Communitys
Nina Leseberg, Maiken Hagemeister
Workshop - 85 minutes - Updates from the Product Safety and Integrity team: Incident Reporting System, Better anti-abuse signals, hCaptcha and more!
nkohli, KHarlan (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF), Eric Mill, MAna (WMF)
Demonstration - Wikiesfera, 10 years of a unique feminist community in the Wikimedia Movement
Zapipedia, PatriHorrillo
Poster
Diversity & Inclusion
- The #VisibleWikiWomxn Photobooth- a feminist corner documenting the presence of women and non-binary folks from most of the world at Wikimania 2025. In the second floor outdoor terrace.
Mariana Fossatti, Fiona
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - Africa Wiki Women Technical Research: Unveiling Insights and Strategies for Gender Equity in Wikimedia
rubydbrown, Nwonwu Uchechukwu P
Lecture - Allied movements for language and knowledge equity
Rising Voices, Sadik Shahadu, Dimas Hardijanto, Leonardi Fernández (Username: Leonfd1992), Lucy Iwuala, Miora Stéphanie RADIFERA
Roundtable - Edit-a-thon: Analyzing and Improving climate migration coverage across Wikimedia
Romeo Ronald Lomora, Andrew Lih
Pre-conference event - Feminism and Folklore: Bridging Gender and Cultural Gaps Through Wikipedia
SAgbley, gonsalvestiven
Poster - How Ukraine’s “Wikipedia for 55+” program helps increase editor diversity
Anton Protsiuk, Mariana Senkiv
Lecture - Keeping the Flame Alive: Coverage of the 2024-2025 Indonesian Protests in Wikiprojects
jeromimikhaelasido
Lecture - Mexico City to Nairobi is over 9000 miles - Why did it take ten years and 200,000 women to get here?
Roger Bamkin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Lajmmoore, David Palfrey (User:Dsp13)
Lecture - Preserving linguistic diversity using Internet-in-a-Box. Experiences from the UNHCR refugee camp of Minawao (Cameroon)
Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Tim Moody, John, Jeff Good
Lecture - “Wait… women from that half of the world are really only 0.83% of Wikidata humans? I can do something about that!”
David Palfrey (User:Dsp13)
Lecture - Wikimedia LGBT+: A Decade of Advancing LGBT+ Representation Across Wikimedia Projects
Freddy Veloz, Vic Sfriso (WMAR)
Lecture - Wikispeech - continuing the work for a Wikipedia you can listen to
Sebastian Berlin, Viktoria Hillerud (WMSE)
Lecture - WikiWomen's Lunch @ Harvest Restaurant in Trademark
netha, rubydbrown, Chinmayee Mishra
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event
Technology
- Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of Wikimedia
Houcemeddine Turki, Deleted User, Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati, Abd Alsattar Ardati
Roundtable - Empowering movement organizers: Co-creating a community-centered tools task force
ajayadi, EUwandu-WMF
Workshop - 85 minutes - The Future of Multimedia in Wikimedia
Andrew Lih, Lutherking Petercan, Egbe Eugene (Eugene233), Doc James, Kevin Payravi
Panel - How we can handle Wikimania scholarship applications with the invasion of AI?
Andrew Leung, Herschal Jackson (WMZA), Carol Mwaura, Donatien Kangah
Panel - Leave the hype behind, a Wiki Approach to the World of AI
Jens Ohlig, Friederike von Franqué, jonathan.fraine@wikimedia.de
Lecture - Navigating the Dark Side of AI: Risks and Opportunities
Priscilla Chomba Kinywa (CTO, Greenpeace International)
Lecture - Parsoid Read Views is coming to all wikis and Wikipedia is next! An overview of one of the biggest MediaWiki platform changes in recent years.
Mateus Batista Santos, C. Scott Ananian
Lecture - Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
Luca Martinelli [Sannita], jforrester, dvrandecic
Workshop - 85 minutes
Open Data
- Conversatorio: Ontologías de Memoria Histórica
Bernardo Caycedo, Johana Botero, Monica Bonilla (WMCO), ProtoplasmaKid, Luisina Ferrante (WMAR), Patricia Diaz Rubio (WMCL)
Panel - Enhancing Climate Justice & Environmental Data Mapping through Open Knowledge
bukola, Eric Wamugu, Alicia Olago
Demonstration - Open Data & Open Source for Informed Communities in Conflict: the Sudan Case
Nihal Abdellatif, Musab Ali
Lecture - Reviving the Unheard: Digitizing Lampung Language & Culture through Wikimedia
Deo Bernedy Putra, Ahmad Arrofian Taufiq Hilmi
Lecture - Unlocking Government Data for Wikidata: Stories, Impacts, and Open Dialogue
Butch Bustria, Wishywiz, Lady01v, Doc James, Jan Ainali
Lecture
Research
- Climate Change Knowledge on Wikipedia: A Cross-Language Comparative Analysis
Dariusz Jemielniak ("pundit"), Włodzimierz Lewoniewski
Lecture - Echoes of Hegemony: Media Dominance in Chilean Political Content on Wikipedia
Soylacarli, Patricia Diaz Rubio (WMCL)
Lecture - An overview of the tools and workflows for mapping knowledge gaps on Wikipedia
netha, Matthew Yeager
Demonstration - Towards an Inclusive Wikipedia: Leveraging AI for Improved Accessibility for BVI users
Omorodion Okuonghae, Tega Omorodion, infor
Poster
Education
- 7 editions of the education offline initiative WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique
Florence Devouard, Dadrik
Poster - Bridging the Digital Divide: The Role of Libraries in Supporting Open Knowledge in Underserved Communities
Kabinte, Gladys Kerich, Alice Kibombo, nyakundijames23@gmail.com, Maua
Panel - Flourishing Nawat: Writing the future
Valery Santillana, Héctor Martínez - TimumachtikanNawat, Alicia Marroquín
Lecture - La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs
Abakar B, Donatien Kangah
Lecture - Micromania: experimental microbial edit-a-thons to foster open science in Argentine Patagonia
Luis Fernando Flores
Poster - Scaling OER Implementation: Strengthening Collaboration and Empowering Educators in Indonesia
Fitriayu Penyalai, Raymond Sutanto
Lecture - The WikiLearn challenge – Build a course prototype for your community in 65 minutes
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas
Workshop - 55 minutes - Wikipedia & Education: Strategic Updates and Global Engagement
Joalpe, Filip Maljković (dungodung), Bukola James
Lecture - Wikisource in Uganda : Our experience and best practice recommendations
Nanteza Divine Gabriella
Lecture - Wikiverse meets CUNYverse: 25 Colleges Blooming Across NYC
Richard Knipel (User:Pharos), Natalie Milbrodt
Demonstration
GLAM
- Advocating for open access to cultural heritage, targeting UNESCO: the TAROCH initiative
Harriet Bayel, Jemima Antwi, Sadik Shahadu, Patricia Diaz Rubio (WMCL)
Panel - The African Library ecosystem and the Wikimedia movement in the continent: A marriage made in heaven?
neosuigwe, olaniyanshola, IngridThomson, Alice Kibombo
Panel - Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia
Iolanda Pensa - iopensa, Lutherking Petercan, Florence Devouard, Donia, islahaddow, chantal, Evelin Heidel
Roundtable - Digitizing Private Heritage Collections - Ethical Considerations and Licensing Bottlenecks
Lutherking Petercan
Lecture - Give Me A Beat! Creative Commons licensing, and ethical considerations for cultural heritage collections
jennryn
Workshop - 85 minutes - How can Wikimedia support the digital preservation of heritage at risk? Lessons learned in the Heritage Guard Network pilot project and steps ahead
eric luth, Mehman (WMGE), Olesia Lukaniuk
Lecture - How to Wikibase: National Library of Nigeria Authority Semantic files on Wikibase
neosuigwe, p-o, SBAbigstan
Workshop - 85 minutes - Learn and discuss with the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network
Andrew Lih, Johanna Janhonen, Jamie Flood, Florence Devouard
Panel - Mapping Community Libraries, Public Libraries, and Museums in Uganda: Leveraging OpenStreetMap for Knowledge Access
Micheal Kaluba, Catherine Amia
Lecture - Music to my eyes and ears! Create your own sheet music and recording for public domain songs
jeromimikhaelasido
Workshop - 85 minutes - Preserving Memories of the Dead: Lessons from the WikiPatriot Project
jeromimikhaelasido, Raymond Sutanto
Lecture - Strategies and challenges to start Wikimedia Projects conversations in libraries
jeremiah, IngridThomson, Alice Kibombo
Pre-conference event - What do you need to improve open content policies ? The Label Culture Libre an international opportunity
remy, Xavier Cailleau
Workshop - 55 minutes - Wiki Loves Broadcast: Creative Commons Video Edit-a-thon
Janosh / New York-air, Michele Failla, Lucy Iwuala, Sadik Shahadu
Workshop - 85 minutes
Partnerships
- 10,000 WikiPortraits Later: Lessons from around the Globe
Jenny8lee, Kevin Payravi, Pedro J Pacheco, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Andrew Lih
Poster - Come and learn how free maps, free knowledge can help care for the world (with a little help from drones)
ProtoplasmaKid, Mar Marín
Lecture - From Vision to Impact: The Strategy Behind the Million Wiki Project
Reda Kerbush, aliharith, mervat salam, adelneh
Panel - Global repositories of knowledge: find and using United Nations data and content on Wikimedia projects
eric luth, John Cummings
Poster - Got a Partnership Idea? The Content Partnerships Hub’s Helpdesk Has Your Back!
eric luth, Luis Carrasco (LuisCG11)
Poster - Information integrity on Climate Change and the role of Wikimedia projects
Bceccon, Evelin Heidel, Luisina Ferrante (WMAR)
Panel - Information integrity on Climate Change on Wikimedia projects: enhancing collaboration and promoting Wikimedia strategies from the Global South
Luisina Ferrante (WMAR), Evelin Heidel
Pre-conference event - Poster: Alliances that matter: UN agencies and Wikimedia
Florence Devouard, mervat salam, eric luth
Poster - Strengthening Partnerships & Community Engagement for Open Knowledge
Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Kenya
Roundtable - Supporting Wikimedians with big GLAM projects – A space to help you with your big projects
eric luth, Luis Carrasco (LuisCG11)
Lecture - UN in the Digital Age: Local voices, global Impact, and the battle for Information Integrity
Costanza Sciubba Caniglia
Panel
Legal & Advocacy
- Building a Common Language for the Wikimedia Movement
Catalina Frigerio Dattwyler, Bolaji Ayodeji, Alek Tarkowski, Evelin Heidel
Panel - Collaborative Copyright Civic Advocacy: The ReCreate ZA Model
Sandra Aceng, Kylajade, Ceslause Ogbonnaya
Workshop - 55 minutes - Defending Wikipedia: Navigating Global Litigation and Strengthening Community Trust
RStallman (WMF)
Lecture - Local Solutions, Global Impact: Adapting Anti-Disinformation Trainings across Regions
Jael Serwaa Boateng, Rachmat Wahidi, Sakti Pramudya (WMF)
Workshop - 55 minutes - Open Science for Wikimedians: Lessons learned and potential steps ahead
Melissa Hagemann, eric luth, Julian Cueto, Fernando Archuby, Alice Kibombo
Panel
Governance & Strategy
- AffCom meets the community at Wikimania 2025
jeannette rebecca, Jeffrey Keefer
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
Lorenzo Losa, Benjamin Mako Hill, Egbe Eugene (Eugene233), Birgit Mueller
Roundtable - Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives
Nadee Gunasena, Stephen LaPorte, Anusha Alikhan, Selena Deckelmann
Panel - The future of hubs in Wikimedia context
Barbara, hbasak, Robertsky, Vic Sfriso (WMAR), Toni Sant, Bukola James, Van Anh Dam
Workshop - 55 minutes - The future role of affiliates within the Wikimedia movement: How Can AffCom help?
Harriet Bayel
Roundtable - International Digital Dialogues - opportunities for civil society in 11+ countries
Friederike von Franqué
Roundtable - Movement strategy 2030 in Africa great lakes, Lessons Learned and New Perspectives
VALENTIN NVJ, jeannette rebecca
Lecture - Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Victoria, antanana, Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik, Lorenzo Losa
Panel - Re:searching global trends: gathering your views on how to build Wikimedia’s future together
Nicole Ebber, Nadee Gunasena
Workshop - 85 minutes - Wikimedia Foundation 2025 Board of Trustees Candidates' Recorded Lightning Talks
mpossoupe, myacoubcriner
Panel
Wild Ideas
- Global Voices for Cultural and Gender Equity – Shaping the Future of Wiki Loves Folklore & Feminism and Folklore
gonsalvestiven, SAgbley, joyag
Roundtable - Meeting point for talking about how to support small communities
J. Patrick Fischer
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - Smell walks! Collaboratively adding smell-related data using the photowalk model
Lajmmoore, Onwuka Glory
Workshop - 55 minutes - Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia
Andrew Lih, SJ
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event
Clubhouse Social
- Afrika Baraza: Strengthening Regional Collaboration for a Thriving Wikimedia Movement in Africa
Winnie Kabintie, Lucy Iwuala
Workshop - 85 minutes - Are you the builder, the listener or both? Put your communication skills to the test with Legos.
Let’s Connect & the Let’s Connect Working Group, JStephenson (WMF), Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo), Bukola James, Chinmayee Mishra
Workshop - 85 minutes - Creating Newcomer-Friendly Spaces: Building an Inclusive and Multigenerational Wikimedia
Let’s Connect & the Let’s Connect Working Group, JStephenson (WMF), Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo), Bukola James, Chinmayee Mishra
Workshop - 85 minutes - Cup stacking with peers, without your hands!
Let’s Connect & the Let’s Connect Working Group, JStephenson (WMF), Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo), Bukola James, Chinmayee Mishra
Workshop - 85 minutes - Let’s disagree together! Exploring a controversial topic
Lorenzo Losa, Miriam Konert (WMDE)
Workshop - 85 minutes - Wikimedians of the Year Showcase
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Eugene Ormandy
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event
Lightning Talk Showcase
- Building Digital Librarians: Training Librarians to Contribute to Open Knowledge.
Meritkosy
Lightning talk - Climate Resilience through Knowledge: Lessons from WikiForHumanRights 2024 in Uganda
Christopher Liberty
Lightning talk - Fortaleciendo el dominio público latinoamericano con Wikidata
Jorge Gemetto, Soylacarli
Lightning talk - "From Learners to Leaders: Empowering Girls with Digital Skills for a More Inclusive Wikimedia Future"
SAgbley, joyag
Lightning talk - How generative AI changes my contribution to Wikipedia – a volunteer perspective
Anton Protsiuk
Lightning talk - Lightning Talk Showcase I
Soylacarli, Lucy Gichane, Max Wang, laliv g, Rosalind Hinton, Shyamal, Sam Walton, Mubiru Shafik/Fiktube, José Reyes (WMMX), Freddy Veloz, Friederike von Franqué, myacoubcriner, Lajmmoore, Ceslause Ogbonnaya, Richard Nevell, Carolyne Chepng’Eno, antanana, Mykola (NickK), Jorge Gemetto, ROCKY, boz
Lightning Talk Showcase - Lightning Talk Showcase I Rehearsal
Lightning Talk Showcase - Lightning Talk Showcase II
Martin Urbanec, joyag, alejandra, marysia, Christopher Liberty, Meritkosy, Lindani Sikhakhane, Anton Protsiuk, Azmath, benlouloumu, SAgbley, easikingarmager, Kanya Prasetyo, Jimmy Wales, kstoller, Zapipedia
Lightning Talk Showcase - Lightning Talk Showcase II Rehearsal
Lightning Talk Showcase - Promoting open knowledge and wikipedia editing among City of Johannesburg communities
Lindani Sikhakhane
Lightning talk - What collaboration in advocacy can achieve for the Movement: Some examples from the Globe
Friederike von Franqué
Lightning talk - Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine: using special prizes to build partnerships and attract unique content
Mykola (NickK), antanana
Lightning talk - WikiDiplomasi: Improving Diplomacy and International Relations Contents on Indonesian Wikipedia
Kanya Prasetyo
Lightning talk - Wikientrevistas: Uncovering life stories forgotten by the mainstream media
Freddy Veloz
Lightning talk - Wikinside statistic tool – new tool for long-term monitoring of statistics
Martin Urbanec
Lightning talk - Women in Religion Crossing Oceans: Creating Visibility for African Scholars
Rosalind Hinton, Carolyne Chepng’Eno, Lucy Gichane
Lightning talk
Village Pump (remote only)
- Extended Q&A: Wikidata: We want our data to be reused. But do we really? with Lydia Pintscher
Lodewijk, Lydia Pintscher
Panel - Reflection on 20 years of Wikimania
Bobbyshabangu, Lodewijk, Gnangarra, Nina, Notafish, Andrew Lih, ProtoplasmaKid, SGrabarczuk (WMF), Patricio.lorente, mathias schindler, SJ, islahaddow, Iolanda Pensa - iopensa, eric luth, Butch Bustria, Phoebe Ayers, Asaf Bartov
Panel
Hackathon
- Effortless File Migration: A Live Demo of the Wikifile-Transfer Tool
Jayprakash12345, Sarthak Parashar
Demonstration - Hackathon opening
Opening Ceremony - Hacking space
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event - Mentor and project matching
Meet-up, exhibition space, social event
Pre-Conference event: WikiTongues
- A Possible Way Forward: Saving Endangered Languages Through Wikipedia
Khu, Iok-sun, Limeth75
Lightning talk - Retours et Impact significatif de la campagne WikForMotherTongue 2025
nixmukoko, yvesshayi
Lightning talk - Wikitongues and the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub: together for language revitalization, support and success.
Tochi Precious, Mali KB
Demonstration
Pre-conference event: WikiWomen
- WikiWomenSummit 2025 : Empowering Women in Wikimedia movement by Bridging Gaps & Building Networks
Chinmayee Mishra, Terry, bridgitk-ctr@wikimedia.org, Tiputini
Pre-conference event