Contributeur Wikimedia, formateur et leader communautaire du wikimedia Tchad.
Promotion du savoir libre et développement du contenu africain sur Wikipédia. Passionné par la diffusion du savoir libre et la valorisation du patrimoine culturel africain, Je me suis investit activement dans la création et l’amélioration de contenus sur Wikipédia, Wikimedia Commons et Wikidata.
Depuis plusieurs années, je participe à des projets collaboratifs visant à renforcer la présence des thématiques tchadiennes et africaines sur les plateformes Wikimedia. Il organise et anime des formations, edit-a-thons et campagnes telles que Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore et le Mois de la contribution francophone, permettant à de nombreux nouveaux contributeurs d’acquérir des compétences en édition et en vérification d’informations.

I'm a collaboration enthusiast and Lecturer at the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science. Originally from Syria, I've been driven by the impact of limited knowledge access to address social challenges through research and educational initiatives.

Since discovering the Wikimedia Foundation's mission in May 2018, I've been dedicated to supporting its movement, starting with an MSc dissertation focused on enhancing the Wikipedia content translation tool and supporting volunteer translation. During my PhD, I introduced a co-design framework for grassroots solutions and used it to co-designed WikiSync, a collaborative Wikipedia editing tool.

In 2021, I co-founded the IDEA Network to systematically support open-knowledge research projects. Presently, I'm focused on participatory design strategies to address social issues like digital poverty, exploring Wikipedia's potential as a medium to provide assistance to those affected.

While I'm not a regular contributor, I'm devoted to researching ways to improve Wikipedia for everyone. Outside of academia, I enjoy music, aesthetic bodybuilding, and archery.

Abdoul is a passionate advocate for open data and open mapping, with a focus on community-driven geospatial initiatives. He is the Co-Founder of FreeLocalMappers, an organization that promotes the use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Guinea and West Africa to increase local data visibility and empower underrepresented communities.

With years of experience supporting humanitarian mapping, environmental monitoring, and development projects, He has led multiple mapathons, workshops, and training sessions aimed at building local capacity in open mapping.

Wikimania 2026 CoreTeam coordinator and local event lead. Online community support on Wikipedia in French.

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Ahmad Arrofian Taufiq Hilmi is an active Wikipedia contributor who is deeply committed to expanding access to reliable and inclusive knowledge, particularly in local contexts. He consistently engages in editing and curating content on Wikipedia, with a focus on topics related to Indonesian culture, history, and social issues. His involvement also extends beyond the digital platform, as he actively participates in community training initiatives such as WikiLatih, aiming to empower others to contribute meaningfully to the open knowledge ecosystem.

In addition to his work on Wikipedia, Taufiq is a passionate of social media who believes in the power of digital platforms to amplify positive impact. He uses social media not only as a tool for communication but also as a space to promote digital literacy, build engaged online communities, and share educational content in creative and inclusive ways. His combined expertise in open-source knowledge and digital engagement enables him to serve as a bridge between credible information and today’s fast-paced digital generation.

Anbar is a Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience at the Wikimedia Foundation.

An interdisciplinary learner from Indonesia, Anbar has a combined 10 years of experience in academia, technology policy (Trust & Safety), and community outreach. Anbar is currently based in New York, USA.

Alejandra Reyes is the fundraiser for Wikimedia France. With a solid background in communication, she has more than eight years of experience, mostly in fundraising. Passionate about the idea of making a difference in society by seeking funding for projects, working for the Wikimedia movement has allowed her to combine her passion with her values.

Alek is the Director of Strategy at Open Future and member of WIkimedia Poland. He has over 15 years of experience with public interest advocacy, movement building and research into the intersection of society, culture and digital technologies.

She is a librarian and a former WiR with AfLIA

Alicia Fagerving is a developer at Wikimedia Sverige, working primarily with Linked Open Data and partnerships. They have extensive experience working with Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and have supported numerous GLAMs in Sweden in sharing their free content, including the National Library of Sweden, the Nationalmuseum and the Swedish National Heritage Board.

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User: Alli Khalil, Wikimedian from Iraq, Active in organizing wiki activities in my country and whole MENA region.

Amanda Jardine is Lead Counsel for Content Compliance and Strategic Litigation at WMF. My work at the Foundation focuses primarily on impact litigation. Since its founding in 2003, the WMF has taken an active role in protecting the Wikimedia projects and the communities who edit them through thoughtful approaches to litigation. We have identified opportunities to file lawsuits, amicus briefs, and interventions in an effort to proactively create a legal environment in which the Wikimedia projects, movement, and Foundation can thrive.

In addition, I work with the rest of the legal team on a wide variety of other issues including content compliance and privacy.

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.

I'm the Major Gifts Stewardship Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, where my team supports major gifts fundraising. I’ve been part of the Wikimedia movement as an editor since 2017 and joined the Foundation in 2022. My team shares impactful stories that demonstrate the value of our movement, celebrating the work of volunteers and affiliates, and helping donors understand the difference their support makes.

I am a Wikipedian since 2005. I hold administrator rights on English Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage, and bureaucrat rights on Wikispecies. I focus on Education and Wikipedia. I am the editor-in-chief for WikiJournal of Science, currently hosted in Wikiversity.

Andrew Lih has been a Wikipedia editor since 2003 and is an administrator on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. He is the author of the 2009 book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia. He is a passionate advocate of collaborative efforts between the cultural and heritage sector and the Wikimedia community. In the United States, he serves as Wikimedian at Large at the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education, and research complex. In 2022, he was named one of the first Wikimedia Laureate for his lifetime of work with the Wikimedia movement.

My name is Anna Torres Adell and i was born and raised in Europe but I have been living in LATAM for more than 20 years. I have been involved in the Wikimedia Movement for 12 years. For +10 years I was the ED of Wikimedia Argentina where I worked to promote the development of the organization as well as to accompany the growth of the Latin American community. Currently I work for the WMF.

I run social media accounts called "Depths of Wikipedia" and I have regularly performed Wikipedia-focused comedy shows for two years. I've written about Wikipedia in the press and am working on a book about English Wikipedia's interesting articles and contributors.

Antanana (Nataliia Tymkiv) is a Ukrainian Wikipedia editor and administrator, member of Wikimedia Ukraine. She has been a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees since 2016, chairing it since 2021. She was a part of the Wiki Loves Earth international team, and organised Wikimedia CEE Meetings in 2014 and 2018 in Ukraine. Since 2013 she has been a member of Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organising team. From 2012 to 2016 served as a Board member of Wikimedia Ukraine, and as its volunteer Executive Director (2013-2015). An experienced editing workshop organiser, VRT agent

I've been a Wikipedia volunteer since 2012. In my volunteer capacity, I'm an administrator & bureaucrat on Ukrainian Wikipedia, typically devoting my time to admin and patrolling maintenance tasks, as well as to writing occasional articles on American politics and whatever fascinates me at the moment.

I'm also Programs Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine. In this role, I lead a team of five staff members / contractors and oversee the organization’s programmatic work, such as content campaigns, diversity and editor recruitment initiatives, community events, and communications outreach.

I'm also a member of the advisory group for the Wikimedia CEE Hub, which supports community growth and development in Central and Eastern Europe, and former member of the Hub's Steering Committee.

I'm a Senior Movement Communications Specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation, supporting the Wikipedia mobile apps team. I help bridge the gap between the apps team and global communities through clear, inclusive communication and open dialogue.
I organize and participate in community calls and office hours, creating space for collaboration, feedback, and shared learning between the apps team and Wikimedians around the world.
I believe that truly inclusive, sustainable technology starts with listening to communities and making sure their voices help shape what we build.

Aristide Kouamé, Wikimédien expérimenté de Côte d'Ivoire, formateur et organisateur d'événements ; coordinateur de groupes de travail ; membre du comité régional pour les ressources communautaires de la Fondation Wikimedia en Afrique subsaharienne ; membre du conseil fondateur de Wiki for Minorities et ambassadeur de Wiki for Minorities en Côte d'Ivoire et au sein de la communauté francophone d'Afrique ; Initiateur et coordonnateur du Groupe de travail ivoirien pour la création de Wikipédia Baoulé.

I have been a practicing (volunteer) Wikipedian for many years; my home wiki is the Hebrew Wikipedia, but I am also active in Wikidata and the Wikimedia Commons, and I make occasional contributions on the English Wikipedia as well, all under my volunteer account. I have a strong background in software engineering, and an abiding interest in literature, education, open access, linked data, and library science.

At the Foundation, I am working on increasing reach (readers) and participation (editors) in the developing world, through community support as well as partnerships with grantees, other NGOs, and governments.

My main project since 2019 is the WikiLearn online learning environment. Previously, I had worked on the Community Capacity Development program and as a grants program officer.

Network Infrastructure Engineer

I lead GitHub Education (https://github.com/education) in GitHub's Developer Relations organization, helping learners access the tools and resources they need to successfully build software products. Our mission is to empower anyone who wants to code, to be able to do so. I also volunteer with Internet-in-a-Box. I am passionate about working with learners and educators of all kind to make coding available to the next generation of developers around the globe.

I am the program director of Wikimedia UG Nigeria and a Wikimedian since 2015.

I’m an engineer, designer, and independent creator exploring playful ways to interact with information. I build tools and games that transform open data, especially Wikipedia, into intuitive, joyful experiences. My current project, Factorday.com, turns Wikipedia into a playground of curiosity through a series of interactive games.

Active Wiki volunteer... since creating my first account in 2005, contributing to Arabic, French, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata projects, with deeper community engagement since 2012. Co-founded WikiDz in 2014, spearheading photo contests and educational initiatives. Launched the "Wikimassak" MOOC, inspiring 10,000 Arabic-speaking newcomers. Co-established the Arab Wikimedians User Group to strengthen collaboration. Acts as an ambassador for wmf products, driving their adoption and impact. Passionate about translation since childhood, actively translating on Meta. Dedicated to advancing open knowledge and fostering community connections.

For the past 15 years I worked as a project manager and consultant on various projects funded mostly (but not exclusively) by the EU, WB, UNICEF and EEA grants. I have experience with creating and implementing business and work processes in companies, non-governmental organisations and for not formally registered groups.
I am working for the CEE Hub as a regional coordinator since autumn 2022.

This information will be provided later by the Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Projects.
Most probably Luisina Ferrante, from Wikimedia Argentina, who got an scholarship for Wikimania, will be able to represent the Working Group

In my day job, I teach and do research at the University of Washington. I am also an active editor on several wikis and work with the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation community to support academic research related to wikis and Wikimedia in a number of ways. Please see my user page on meta for more information.

أنا محمد الأمين بن لولو، محرر وعضو في مجموعة مستخدمي ويكيميديا الجزائر منذ عام 2019، وناشط في مشاريع ويكيميديا ذات الصلة بالتاريخ، الثقافة، والبيئة. على مدار العامين الماضيين، كنت المنسق الإقليمي لحملة ويكي تغير المناخ في المنطقة المغاربية،

Benoît began contributing to Wikipedia 20 years ago, though his involvement remained modest for many years. From time to time, he supported the movement—both financially and by volunteering his time.

In 2023, Benoît joined Kiwix, dedicating his efforts to bringing Wikimedia and other valuable knowledge offline. His work helps children in unconnected schools, inmates in prisons, people facing state censorship, and even preppers preparing for the unexpected.

I love learning and teaching. My background is in philosophy, but I am passionate about inter- and transdisciplinary projects. I like collaborative work and open prototyping processes, in which our diverse intelligences create in common. For almost two decades, I have been accompanying individual and collective processes of learning, research and creation. I am passionate about teaching; this is why I have been a university professor (undergraduate and graduate), and a teacher at the International Baccalaureate (IB). I am committed to education and research to democratize our society, promoting the critical and responsible exercise of citizenship.
From the Coordination of Social Appropriation of Knowledge in Wikimedia Colombia, I will promote the implementation of the strategy Disoñar Futuros Posibles of Wikimedia Colombia 2025-2027.

I started editing at French Wikipedia in 2008. I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2015. I'm part of the Movement Communications team, and I work mostly with the Contributors group and the involved teams. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)

Birgit Mueller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. She joined the Wikimedia movement as a staff member of Wikimedia Deutschland in 2014 and moved to the Foundation in 2019 to support Wikimedia's developer ecosystem as the Director of Technical Engagement. Since 2023, she has been focusing on evolving the MediaWiki platform and improving the experiences of developers within Wikimedia’s ecosystem.

President of Italian Linux Society (300+ voting members).

Tech Commission in Wikimedia Italy.

Author of the Tech Strategy in Wikimedia Switzerland.

Bukola James is a certified librarian and a Program Assistant at Code for Africa. She serves as the Community Coordinator for the Africa Wikipedian Alliance and serves as the Vice Chair for the Wikipedia + Education User Group. Additionally, Bukola is the Regional Liaison for Sub-Saharan Africa in the Let's Connect working group, and an active member of the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform.

Butch Bustria is an Overseas Filipino Worker / Wikimedian (OFW) based in Singapore, He use his spare time in doing Wikimedia projects. His first edit was in December 2005 with a series of edits about the Philippines’ hosting of the Southeast Asian Games. In 2010, he along with 4 others co-founded Wikimedia Philippines, the second Wikimedia chapter in Southeast Asia. Since 2017, Butch had been involved in organizing the ESEAP conferences and summits in Bali, Indonesia, in Bangkok, Thailand, in Sydney, Australia, in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and in Manila, Philippines. He is part of the Regional Funds Committee for ESEAP since 2021. He is remembered as well as the Event lead for Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Since 2020, he is part of the Wikimania Steering Committee and as of this writing, its vice chairperson.

A French public librarian for over 20 years, involved in the Wikimedia projects for 15 years, member of Wikimedia France, participated to all French language Wikiconventions since 2018, administrator on the French Wikipedia.

Astronomer and Social Communicator (UCH). Volunteer editor for Wikimedia since 2017. Her areas of expertise include scientific outreach, Open Science, and the use of open data for research purposes, using platforms like Wikidata.

Volunteer since 2015, contributing mainly to Spanish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Currently a member of Wikimedistas de Bolivia User Group. Passionate about preserving and sharing living culture on the internet!

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I am the Coordinator of the Community Libraries Association of Uganda (COLAU) and a volunteer with the Wikimedia User Group Uganda (WUGU). I am mainly active in Wikimedia projects under the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM).
As a librarian by profession, I started actively participating in Wikimedia projects through the 1lib1ref campaigns organised by the African Libraries and Information Institutions Association (AfLIA).

I also participated in the library mapping exercise in which we created wikidata items for the libraries mapped and uploaded their photos on Wiki Commons. A Geo map was created using the open street map platform showing the exact locations of community and public libraries in Uganda.
This is one of the best deliverables achieved through a partnership between COLAU and WUGU.

In 2024, I participated in a GLAM mentorship program in a Wikisource training as a meentee. Later on in May 2025, I participated in the Women in Wikisource training as a mentor.

Earlier this year, the 'Newspaper project' was launched. In this, we are creating Wikipedia articles and wikidata items about newspapers in Uganda and uploading their photos on Wiki Commons. (This is still ongoing).
Furthermore, I have also participated in the WikiGap and Wiki Loves folklore, Wiki Loves Africa campaigns.

I have special interest in open knowledge and digital literacy; and in my current role as the Coordinator, I hope to liase more partnerships to support libraries in Uganda to close the digital divide so that we remain relevant in this paradigm shift.
I hope to expand knowledge about Wikimedia projects to librarians in Uganda, across Africa and in the global village.

Ceslause joined the Wikimedia movement in 2018 and has been actively involved in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group. He joined Wiki In Africa, a South African NGO in 2021 where he was the Project manager for Wiki Loves Africa Int’l media contest and WikiAfrica Hour vodcast.

He wass Wikimedian-In-Residence at Africa No Filter, leading the African Union’s and Wikimedia Foundation’s partnership project, Africa Knowledge Initiative, aimed at leveraging three AU holidays (Africa Youth Day, Wangari Maathai Day, Africa Day), Wikipedia and its sister projects to close the digital divide about Africans and Africa.

He currently is the Wikimedian-In-Residence leading the AfroCreatives WikiProject, leading the effort to close the gap that exists on the digital space about African film and TV and African literature using Wikipedia and its sister projects.

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Chidiebere Ibe, BSc, is a TEDx speaker, a medical student, Nigerian Medical Illustrator and a professional among the few in Africa. He is the Founder of Championing Change Africa and ProjectKreate. The Creative Director at the Young Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (YCAANS) and Creative Director and Chief Medical Illustrator of the Journal of Global Neurosurgery. He is also a Junior Committee Member-World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies - Global Neurosurgery and a Medical Illustrator at the International Centre for Genetic Diseases-Harvard Medical School. Chidiebere Ibe is passionate about contemporary illustrations of black patients and has been acclaimed globally for creating the black fetus illustration. He aspires to be an Obstetrician and Gynecologist.

Christopher Liberty is a Climate Change Education enthusiast and a Wikimedian in the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda. He holds a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Master of Project Planning and Management from Kabale University and Bachelor of Education from Makerere University. He has a strong belief that climate change literacy, more so through open and contextualized knowledge is a fantastic tool against Climate Change effects. Through his work, he is dedicated to promoting sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Even though I created the account on 8th December 2013, I began participating actively in 2019. I have led trainings, participated in several Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia, and Commons, contributing to Wiki for Human Rights, Wiki loves Folklore, Wiki loves Africa, Wiki Soccerthon, and Wiki Gap.

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C. Scott Ananian is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Parsoid project. He also dabbles with LanguageConverter, and Real-time collaboration in VE.

Previously, Dr. Ananian was a jack-of-all-trades for the One Laptop per Child Foundation. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He's a kernel hacker, part-time khipu researcher, and aperiodic tesselation aficionado. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow everyone to discover, share, and learn.

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Konan N'Da n'Dri, project support during the Wikichallenge African Schools 2025. Member of Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire, project Manager, and Wikimedia trainer. I joined Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire as a volunteer in 2023.

I contribute as a patroller and revoker on the French Wikipedia. I also participate in several local initiatives, such as Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire and the Lingua Libre Workshops in Côte d'Ivoire. I also received the Zenman Award from the Ivorian Wikimedia community for my commitment.

Włodzimierz Lewoniewski is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems[https://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/wlodzimierz-lewoniewski/ Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski] - Department of Information Systems at the Poznań University of Economics and Business[https://ue.poznan.pl/en/people/dr-wlodzimierz-lewoniewski/ Poznań University of Economics and Business].

[[:w:en:Dariusz_Jemielniak|Dariusz Jemielniak]] (“pundit”) is a professor at Kozminski University, faculty associate at Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and served a decade on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He is the author of [[:w:en:Common Knowledge?|Common Knowledge?]], the first ethnography of the Wikipedia community, and a Wikimedia researcher.

Daria is the Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK, leading programmes and advocacy for knowledge equity and information literacy. In that broad role she designs projects and partnerships for Knowledge Equity via bringing diverse people and content onto Wikimedia projects. She also shapes how Wikimedia UK can support a democratic and empowered society in the UK by developing information literacy skills.

Daria is a trustee at Global Dialogue, a platform for human rights philanthropy, and has recently been awarded a Churchill Fellowship in the Tech for All category, investigating Central Asia’s online civil society and its resilience responses to a shrinking civic space.

I started editing Wikipedia in 2006. My experience has been mostly en.wikipedia (100K edits, 2K new en.wp pages) and wikidata (425K edits, 17K new items). On en.wikipedia I've particularly benefitted from support from participants in the fantastic Women In Red wikiproject. Though I’ve helped organize local meetups in Cambridge UK, but never before been to Wikimania!

A former history lecturer, I'm currently working as Chief Scientist for mindmage.ai, an online RPG technology platform. I've been involved in some research into Wikipedia in the past - I was research assistant on a project at the Oxford Internet Institute which examined wikipedia representation of MENA countries, and have coauthored on knowledge graph bias. I regard global inequality, and its relation with technology, as a crucial matter of human and environmental concern.

A Wikidata and OpenStreetMap contributor from Taiwan. Start contributing to Wikipedia on 2005, and start contributing to OpenStreetMap in 2010. He is one of the co-hosts of OpenStreetMap x Wikidata monthly meetup in Taipei. He is a regular attendee of Wikipedia Monthly Writing Camp in Taipei, assisting hosts to help solve other attendees' Wikipedia writing issues.

Deo Bernedy is a dedicated Wikimedia volunteer and community organizer, actively contributing to the Wikimedia movement through language preservation, open knowledge, and community engagement. He is the co-founder and community coordinator of Komunitas Wikimedia Bandar Lampung, where he organizes Wikipedia training sessions (WikiLatih), language documentation projects (WikiTutur), and community meetups.

His contributions span multiple Wikimedia platforms, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Commons, with a particular focus on documenting regional languages such as Lampung Pesisir and Malay dialects. Deo has also collaborated with Wikimedia Indonesia on initiatives promoting inclusivity and access to knowledge.

Beyond Wikimedia, he has experience in public speaking, leadership training, and cultural diplomacy, advocating for digital literacy and sustainable knowledge-sharing practices. His work aligns with Wikimedia’s mission to make knowledge freely accessible while fostering community-driven collaboration.

Deryck Chan has been a Wikipedian since 2004 and a regular Wikimaniac. He serves as an administrator of the Cantonese and English Wikipedias. He is a civil engineer in his day job, specialising in reservoirs and water infrastructure, and holds a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He has wide-ranging interests within the Wikimedia movement, from community health to sustainability and translation.

I am a Computer Engineer and open-source contributor from India, actively involved in Wikimedia’s technical ecosystem. As the Technical Head of Wiki Club SATI, I lead workshops, hackathons, and contribution sessions, promoting open-source collaboration. Over the past year, I have contributed to MediaWiki tools, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, and Phabricator.

I participated in major events like the 3rd Wikimedia Technology Summit 2024 in Hyderabad and the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Bhubaneswar, working on MediaWiki features, bug fixes, and localization for Indic languages. In November 2024, I co-organized a MediaWiki workshop at my college, introducing students to Gerrit, Phabricator, and beginner-friendly tasks.

In February 2025, I was invited to Meta’s standalone office in Asia for the Road to Wiki Cohort 1 Graduation, where I presented my contributions and engaged with industry experts. Through workshops and contributions, I strive to empower new contributors and drive impactful open-source initiatives.

I have been a contributor to the Wikimedia movement since 2021. Initially, I contributed to Wikimedia Commons but gradually I also learned other Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata and Wikisource. I was a Project Assistant for Wikistories for GLAM in 2022 and an Event Assistant for WIkiNusantara in 2024. I was also a member of the WikiTutur Project (Rapid Grant) and an occasional trainer in WikiLatih Wikipedia held by Wikimedia Indonesia.

I graduated in physics with focus on astronomy. I worked on the German translation of the Wikibook on Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. During this project the need for a high quality PDF version of the this Wikibook became obvious. So I stated to work on mediawiki2latex a converter from MediaWiki to the professional LaTeX typesetting system. I used the converter to create many PDFs on the German an English Wikibooks projects. Some examples may viewed here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Created_with_MediaWiki_to_LaTeX

Donatien Kangah est un Wikimédien ivoirien. En 2012, il co-fonde le Groupe d'utilisateurs Wikimédia Côte d'Ivoire. Il collabore également avec plusieurs communautés africaines et organise la Wikiconvention francophone 2023 à Abidjan, rassemblant 130 participants. Contributeur actif sur Wikipédia en français, sa philosophie repose sur l'apprentissage par le partage et le leadership comme service à la communauté. Il œuvre pour la durabilité du mouvement en Afrique, en se concentrant sur la transition générationnelle et la gestion des conflits, tout en promouvant l'inclusion linguistique dans le mouvement Wikimédia.

I am a board member of Egypt Wikimedians User Group the communication manager. I have been active in Wikimedia projects since 2019, organising many event: edit-a-thons, campaigns, photo contests, and writing contests.

Dr. Victoria Doronina is a molecular biologist and a dedicated member of the Wikimedia community. Originally from Belarus, she earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. Since 2006, Victoria has been an active contributor to the Russian Wikipedia, an administrator and participating in various Wikimedia projects, including Wikimedia Commons and Russian Wikinews. In 2021, Victoria was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, where she contributes to the Community Affairs Committee, Product and Technology Committee, and leads the Sister Projects Taskforce. She was reappointed to the Board in 2024 for a term extending until December 2027.

Dorothy Howard has worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher. She was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014. She was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. She was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015. She has also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate and subject of numerous research studies about Wikipedians. She was Administrative Executive for the Queering Wikipedia 2023 virtual conference.

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Eli is researcher and linguist who has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation since 2019.

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I have been an enthousiast Wikieditor since 2005, and after a well spent period of hyperactivity on Wikipedia I transferred on Wikisource where I found a home and I collaborated in building a thriving and healthy community. I am interested in cultural considerations, linguistic relativism, document preservation, UCoC, and facilitation skills. I have collaborated with outstanding people in this fields and I am alway eager to learn, improve and share what I lernd with other people.

Eugene is a volunteer technical Wikimedian and mentor with experience in building tools which help facilitate editors work on Wikipedia, Metawiki and Wikidata. Eugene has been involved in growing and mentoring a community of African developers for the past 4 years and has worked on several personal, community and Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Elena Lappen is a Movement Communications Manager, working for the Foundation since 2018. She is part of the Core Organizing Team of Wikimania and also contributes to a number of other projects including Diff, Conversations with the Trustees, improving the Foundation's presence on Meta-Wiki, and communications support for other Foundation teams in their collaborative work with Wikimedia communities.

Eric Wamugu leads CfA’s in-house team of data analysts and data journalists who transform raw data into actionable apps and data visualisations for an empowered population across the continent to make informed decisions and drive positive change in their communities. Eric is passionate about promoting responsible development and use of emerging technologies, particularly data-intensive and AI models to support Open Data Initiatives. At Datalab, Eric drives the growth and strategy of openAFRICA which aims to be the largest community-driven data liberating platform in the continent.

I am Project Manager for Involvement and Advocacy at Wikimedia Sverige. In that capacity, I have recently worked primarily with international partnerships, such as with the UN agencies, and advocacy for the open movement at the national, European and international level. I have an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and live in Stockholm.

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).

Euphemia Uwandu is a Programs Officer with the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation, where she supports the implementation of the WikiForHumanRights Campaign, promotes tool adoption and learning, and strengthens the capacities of campaign organizers, including young people.

Felicia Anthonio has been at the forefront of championing media and internet freedom in Africa and around the world over a decade. Her work challenges despotic regimes and amplify voices of activists and dissidents in countries where media and internet freedom remains a tool in the hands of government officials. Felicia Anthonio is #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now, a global campaign of over 345 organizations that fights against internet shutdowns. She has authored and co-authored several publications on internet shutdowns featured on Access Now, Yale University, CIPESA and Bloomsbury Collections websites. Felicia hosted The Kill Switch podcast and was featured on The Shutdown documentary by BBC World Service. Felicia is an Advisory Council member of the US-based Open Technology Fund’s (OTF) and a board member of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO), in Norway.

Before joining Access Now, Felicia worked as Programme Associate, press freedom and free speech advocate, at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) where she coordinated the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX).

She is a member of the Ghana Internet Governance Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group, the African Digital Rights Network and a 2019 Fellow of the African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG). She holds a Master’s Degree in Lettres, Langues et Affaires Internationales from l’ Université d’Orléans, France and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French and Psychology from the University of Ghana.

I've been a Wikimedian since 2012. I'm 20 and I'm the vice-president of Wikimedia Italy. I'm active on it.Wikipedia, but also on offline campaigns like educational activities with school and universities and organising Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy and Apulia region.

I’m a graduate in Art Studies and Cultural Management, and I started my Wikimedia journey at 18 in 2021 through the Wiki Education programme by Wikimedia México. I was the first at my university to complete a social service project with Wikimedia, which greatly shaped my relationship with the movement. As a member of Wikimedia México, I’ve contributed to projects like Memories on Wheels: The Evolution of Ancient and Classic Automobiles in Aguascalientes, combining my academic background with my passion for history and digital archiving. I edit in Spanish, English, and French, focusing on art, culture, anime, comics, antique cars, and my home state, Aguascalientes, and enjoy uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons.

I’ve contributed to events such as Wiki Loves México 2021, EAyGC Patrimonio Cultural and EAyGC Arte Mexicano in 2022, Editatón Filósofas, Artistas y Pensadoras 2024, and Juntas en Internet 2024, promoting women’s visibility. As a speaker, I presented at 5to Encuentro de Wiki Educación 2024 and Wikiconference North America 2024. I was also Executive Producer for Editatón Artistas de Aguascalientes 2024. In2025, I volunteered at Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and am the lead organiser for Wiki Loves Folklore in Mexico. I attended Wikimania 2024 online and will be part of the Youth Conference Prague 2025, discussing the role of youth in Wikimedia.

Wikimedia Serbia
Wikipedia & Education User Group

Starting as a rapid response during the pandemic, my colleagues and I at Creative Commons Indonesia (CCID) initiated an OER project to support educators in creating safe digital learning materials and utilizing openly licensed content. The overwhelming enthusiasm from educators in Indonesia motivated me to continue this initiative in the following years. Currently, I serve as the OER Project Manager at CCID for 2024–2025, which is funded by the Wikimedia Alliance Fund, and also as the Chapter Lead of Creative Commons Indonesia.

Florence Devouard, user:Anthere. Wikipedian since 2002.
* Former chairwoman of Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees
* Co-Executive Director of Wiki in Africa
* Wikipedian-in-Residence at World Intellectual Property Rights (WIPO)
* Co-founder, former Vice-Chair and currently member of Wikimédia France Chapter

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

Ziski Putz is the Senior Movement Advocacy Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role she helps Wikimedians shape public policy discussions so that our projects, people, and values remain supported in regulatory environments. At Wikimanias she has organized multiple day zero events, creating spaces for Wikimedians to connect on pressing policy issues. She also co-organizes main-conference sessions with movement partners that allow them to showcase their work to the rest of the movement. Her commitment to strengthening the movement’s advocacy network continues at other Wikimedia gatherings, including regional policy forums. Through her work, Ziski continues to bridge the gap between Wikimedia communities and global policy discussions, ensuring that the movement’s voice is heard where it matters most.

I'm Freddy, a wikipedian from Ecuador. I'm a bureaucrat in the Spanish Wikisource, although most of my current edits are in the Spanish Wikipedia. I'm part of the Wikimedistas de Ecuador and Wikimedia LGBT user groups. Most of my edits are focused on literature (particularly from Latin America), LGBT history (particularly from the global south) and Ecuadorian politics.

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I work in the Policy Team of Wikimedia Germany since 2022. My focus is EU and international policy, for example I represent the german civil society at the newly founded Internet Governance Forum Germany (IGF-D). My other focus is Disinformation and the positive role Wikipedia is playing in the information environment. Before Wikipedia, I spent more than a decade with stabilising a professional and democracy oriented information space that is supporting human rights, peace and democratic systems.

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I have been a Wikimedia volunteer for over 20 years. In the last years my work has been around Wikiversity, Wikibooks and (why not?) Vikidia which I am vice president. Since three year I am Marche regional coordinator of Wikimedia Italy.
I have taught telecommunication before and now I teach robotics and IT.
When I can (every day) I use Wikimedia as OER in my classes. I ask pupils of mine to write lessons and chapters of cooperative books in peer-education methodology.

As an experienced Wikimedian, I enjoy getting involved in projects that bring data to Wikimedia, be it the biography of the most listened singer in my country on Wikipedia, photos of forgotten cultural heritage monuments on Commons, or tangled messes of government data on Wikidata.

Gladys Kerich is a certified Project Management Professional specialized in the establishment of school libraries in underserved communities. With a strong commitment to providing access to quality education, Gladys, leads projects that create enriching learning environments, empowering students with the resources they need to succeed. Passionate about fostering lifelong learners, Gladys ensures that each initiative is delivered efficiently on time, and within budget, making a lasting impact on education and community development.

I am a long-time contributor to the Wikimedia movement, beginning with the Marathi Wikipedia, where I’ve served as an administrator, creating content, developing templates, and maintaining project quality. My journey has expanded globally through organizing and coordinating campaigns like Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Folklore, and Feminism and Folklore, which celebrate cultural diversity and document intangible heritage.

As lead coordinator of Wiki Loves Folklore, I’ve helped grow the campaign into a vibrant global initiative, engaging thousands of contributors across communities. I also contribute to Wikimedia Commons in areas like image categorization, licensing, and translation tools, and have previously served as a VRT member handling copyright permissions.

My work is driven by a commitment to free knowledge, cultural representation, and building inclusive spaces within the Wikimedia ecosystem.

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I am an open advocate, passionate about volunteerism and bridging the digital gender gap. My work focuses on Open Knowledge, women, and youth empowerment.

As a member of the Affiliations Committee (AffCom), I support and guide Wikimedia affiliates, ensuring they thrive within the movement. Previously, I served on the Regional Grants Committee for Sub-Saharan Africa (2021-2023), helping to fund impactful community projects.

In my leisure time, I contribute content on women to Wikipedia, upload images to Commons, add items to Wikidata, and continuously expand my knowledge of Wikimedia tools and the movement.

Editor on Wikimedia projects since 2005.
Co-founder of the Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (2015) and leading its activities since its inception.
Served as a member of the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) from 2020 to 2024.
Member of the CEE Hub Steering Committee since 2023.

Soy Héctor Josué Martínez Flores, un joven de Cojutepeque, Cuscatlán, El Salvador, hablante de náhuat, soñador y comprometido con la revitalización de nuestra lengua. Como uno de los 70 docentes especialistas en náhuat e identidad cultural certificados por el Ministerio de Educación (MINED), mi misión es garantizar que esta lengua ancestral siga viva y que las futuras generaciones puedan hablarla, escribirla y vivir en ella.
Soy el fundador de Timumachtikan Nawat, la biblioteca virtual en náhuat más grande de El Salvador, y dirijo Ne Ichan Safoura, un espacio educativo independiente donde más de 1,000 estudiantes han aprendido la lengua a través de clases en español e inglés, además de talleres culturales e innovación cultural.
Desde 2023, lidero el esfuerzo por documentar el náhuat en la Wikipedia, organizando editatones, capacitando colaboradores y revisando cada artículo publicado. A pesar de la falta de apoyo institucional, hemos logrado avances significativos con el esfuerzo de nuestra comunidad, posicionando el náhuat en el entorno digital.
También he trabajado en la creación de contenido audiovisual en náhuat para redes sociales, para garantizar el acceso y la preservación de nuestra lengua. Junto con Nantzin Sixta Pérez García, publiqué Yultajtaketzalis, el primer diccionario de náhuat de El Salvador, un logro histórico que documenta nuestra variante lingüística y es un símbolo de resistencia.
Gracias a este trabajo, he recibido diversos reconocimientos, entre ellos el título de Héroe de la Resistencia Indígena ante el Bicentenario otorgado por el Parlamento Centroamericano, así como premios y becas internacionales de UNESCO, Rising Voices y el País Vasco, que han reconocido nuestro esfuerzo en revitalización lingüística y digitalización del náhuat.
Creo firmemente que el náhuat tiene un lugar en el mundo moderno y que su presencia en el ámbito digital es clave para su preservación. Mi compromiso es seguir impulsando proyectos que fortalezcan nuestra lengua y nuestra identidad, asegurando su continuidad para las futuras generaciones.

Program Director, Wikimedistas de Uruguay.

I am the Executive Director of Wikimedia South Africa
Over the last 2 years I have worked within the chapter to implement the 2024-2027 strategy.
I believe in the goals of the chapter and the overarching Movements Goals.
From a personal perspective I am a man of great faith and believe completely in doing everything with excellence.
"What you do reflects whose you are"

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Houcemeddine Turki was born on May 24, 1994 in Sfax, Tunisia. He is a medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Tunisia. He is also a computer science student at the University of the People, United States of America. From 2021 to 2024, He served as a co-founder and research assistant at the Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, where he conducted scholarly research related to Data Science, Biomedical Informatics, Semantic Web, and Scientometrics. An active proponent of open science, Houcemeddine is also a long-term contributor to Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. His commitment to improving the accessibility and quality of open knowledge is reflected in his leadership roles: he was a board member of the Wikimedia Tunisia User Group and the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group. His scholarly work has appeared in reputable journals like Scientometrics and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, underscoring his dedication to advancing research and fostering collaborations at the intersection of medicine, data science, and open knowledge.

Hugo Lopez is a former sinologist, Wikimedian in residence (University of Toulouse), senior Wikimedian for 2 decades. In past decade, Hugo helped document hundreds languages as the main coordinator of Wikimedia’s language diversity recording project Lingualibre.org. He also co-maintainer SignIt, a sign language web extension and work on a Whistled Occitan dictionary.

I'm Ibrahim, a volunteer in Wikimedia since 2009 from Egypt, admin in ArWiki, CEO and Board member of Egypt Wikimedia User Group, a member of WMF Regional Fund Committee, and a member of Coordinating Committee of the Universal Code of Conduct (U4C).

Ilana is the product manager for the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation, which focuses on building and improving tools for collaborative experiences on the wikis (such as campaigns, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects).

As a librarian, my focus has been around Wikimedia + Libraries with an emphasis on advocacy and education for librarians. I am actively involved with the Wikimedia South Africa chapter, currently serving on its board, and am also involved with the broader movement working with other Wikimedians and Wikibrarians in Africa.

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.

I am a Co-founder & Trustee Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. (2018 to date), Co-founder, Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, Member, Individual Engagement Grant Committee, WMF (2015-2016), Co-Chair Wiki Indaba 2019 and Chair, Scholarship Review Committee, Wiki Indaba 2019, Member, Scholarship Committee, Creative Commons Global Summit 2020 and Member Project Grant Committee, WMF (March 2020 to date), Associate Editor, WikiJournal of Medicine (2020 to date), member Wiki Indaba Steering Committee, Global Coordinator #WPWPCampaign (2020 - 2022)

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.

Iwuala Lucy is a language professional and Wikimedia contributor with expertise in Indigenous language advocacy, digital literacy, and cultural heritage preservation. A co-founder of Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Alvan and Imo State University under the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, where she organizes workshops and mentorship initiatives to promote Igbo language and content on Wikimedia projects. She is passionate about championing women’s digital literacy and community resource development. She is currently a member of the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Grant Committee, Member of ComCom, Member of the Afrika Baraza Working Group where she plays significant roles in the Production Team. Her engagements also extend to managing the social media channels of the International Wiki Loves Monuments campaigns and Wiki Loves Ramadan as well as contributing to global discussions on underrepresented languages.

I am a long-time Wikipedia editor, having edited Wikipedia since 2005. I am also a co-founder of the Wiki Society of the Philippines (formerly Wikimedia Philippines), a former member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Affiliations Committee, and a community manager in real life.

Jamie Flood is the scholarly communication librarian and assistant professor at Butler University and a consultant for the Wikipedia Partnership with Indiana University Indianapolis. She is an active Wikipedia editor; founder of the Wikimedians of Indiana User Group and organizer for WikiConference North America 2024 and 2025. Jamie consults and travels to help train individuals, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions to contribute to the Wikipedia ecosystem and focuses specifically on training and editing about underrepresented people and topics. Jamie served for 6 years as the Wikipedian in Residence at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL).

I am Jan Beránek, a Wikimedian from the Czech Republic. I'm member of Wikimedia Czech Republic and part of the staff team as trainer and coordinator of Programs for editors. I'm an administrator on Czech Wikipedia, Global rollbacker and VRTS member. I contribute mainly to Czech Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

I am an active contributor to Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement, with a focus on youth engagement, international collaboration, and content partnerships. Since joining the German Young Wikipedians (JWPs) in 2017, I have worked to strengthen youth participation in Wikipedia, helping to build a supportive network for young contributors. I am also involved in organizing and improving the "Jugend editiert" sessions, an initiative aimed at connecting and supporting young editors in Berlin.
Beyond youth engagement, I contribute to the Wiki Loves Broadcast (WLB) project, which promotes the release of public broadcasting content under free licenses. Since 2021, I have been part of the team expanding partnerships with broadcasters, and I am now leading the internationalization of WLB to make it a globally scalable initiative.
Additionally, I occasionally upload images to Wikimedia Commons and contribute to Wikipedia articles. I regularly participate in Wikimedia events, including Wikimania and German WikiCon.
I am always interested in exchanging ideas with other Wikimedians – feel free to reach out!
Oh and by the way I also do a lot of stuff in real life which often takes up my time.

I am an open-source software enthusiastic and MediaWiki developer. I joined the Wikimedia community from English Wikipedia in 2015. Since 2017, I am working actively as a technical contributor for Indic languages in the Wikimedia tech community. Apart from technical contribution, I take MediaWiki technical training and, take part in strategy to improve Wikimedia movement.

Want to know about me? See wikidata:Q60369798

Jael is a dedicated Wikimedia advocate, HR professional, and community leader passionate about open knowledge, digital advocacy, and capacity building in Africa. She serves as the Executive Director of Open Foundation West Africa (OFWA), an organization committed to promoting access to free knowledge and supporting Wikimedia communities across the region.

Her work within the movement aligns with inclusivity, sustainability, and impact, ensuring that African narratives are well-documented on Wikimedia platforms. She continues to drive partnerships and programs that empower new editors, strengthen local communities, and expand Wikimedia’s reach across Africa.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JBrungs_(WMF)

Rebecca Jeannette Nyinawumuntu . She is the co-founder of Wikimedia Rwanda and serves as an advisor on the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom). Rebecca is also a member of the WikiIndaba Steering Committee (WisCom), actively supporting the growth of Wikimedia communities in Africa Great Lakes. As the founder of Eco Mappers OSM Rwanda, she has led impactful initiatives focused on disaster resilience, biodiversity conservation, and climate change. Rebecca has represented the Wikimedia community at international events, including Wikimania and WikiIndaba, sharing her expertise in fostering community engagement , collaboration and sustainability

My name is Jemima Antwi, but I go by the Username Jemima2019, I am a dynamic Wikimedia leader, cultural advocate, and digital inclusion champion. Since joining the movement in 2019 through the Global Open Initiative Foundation, I have been a driving force behind expanding Twi Wikipedia and preserving Ghanaian heritage online. As the leader of the Wikimedians of Twi Language, and a coordinator for the WikiWomen User Group, I have spearheaded impactful projects on language preservation, Ghanaian parliamentarians, and women’s representation in Wikimedia.

My groundbreaking work on Kente weaving oral history was featured at WikiIndaba, and i continue to elevate African voices through AfroCuration events, uniting young Africans, scholars, and educators to document their culture. In 2025, I am leading AfroCuration event in Ghana at KNUST, inspiring African youth to safeguard their heritage.

Passionate about representation, Jemima2019 is on a mission to make African knowledge accessible to the world.

Recognized as a Catalyst in Open Education, Jennryn is Creative Commons’ Director of Learning and Training. Jennryn enjoys forming collaborative partnerships focused on opening access to knowledge and culture in the public interest. She oversees and runs open licensing training for over 70 countries, and engages with partners such as WMF. Jennryn has some experience editing and having articles edited, but more experience collaborating with WMF colleagues on educational webinars and projects.

Jennryn has a Masters in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs from American University. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, a Boren Fellow in Thailand, and a Critical Language Scholar in Egypt. Jennryn was most impacted by her work with rehabilitation and education efforts for homeless children in Thailand, as well as under-resourced farming communities in Niger. Seeing the extreme obstacles learners faced while trying to access knowledge impelled some of Jennryn’s current work today.

An open and free internet and unrestricted access to everything that helps us understand how the world is connected has been driving Jens Ohlig for several decades. In 2012, he was part of the founding team of Wikidata. As a member of the board of Wikimedia Deutschland, he aims to advance ideas on how to achieve the greatest possible digital freedom for everyone through the engagement of the enthusiastic community of volunteers and with an open technological basis.

Jeremiah Pietersen is currently manager, learning and training at Stellenbosch University Library. In this role he has oversight of information literacy, and learning and teaching activities offered by the library and information service at Stellenbosch University. He is also currently on the board of the South African chapter of Wikimedia. Both these roles fit well together in working towards the democratisation of information and encouraging the creation of knowledge from the Global South.

A long-time Wikimedia editor with over 15 years' experience, my primary home is Slovene Wikipedia where I am an admin and a bureaucrat, but still primarily devoted to contributing content. I also contribute to Commons, Meta, and Wikidata, and have founded the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group.

Jeromi Mikhael is a longtime Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons user who has been contributing to the projects for about 7 years by writing articles (esp. biographies) and contributing photographs (esp. prominent people). He is a member of the Wikimedia Indonesia user group and the Wikimedia Jakarta Community and has been involved in several community projects such as the Wikipatriot and Hibah Buku.

My name is Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, User:Jwale2. I am an Open Advocate, Community Board Member at Open Foundation West Africa, and a Digital Humanist.

James is a Principal Software Engineer working for the Wikimedia Foundation as tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team. A Wikimedia volunteer since 2002, James has been staff at the Foundation since 2012.

I have been a Wikimedian since 2005, serving in various roles throughout the years; my home wiki is the Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, but I am also active in several other sister projects, including especially the Wikimedia Incubator, Wikidata and Wikisource, and as a tech contributor. I have been part of the Wikimedia language committee since its inception in 2006, and since 2016 I have been a full-time employee of Wikimedia Norge.

James M. Heilman is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.

With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and is the current president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.

João Alexandre Peschanski, PhD is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Brasil and a board member of the Wikipedia & Education UG. He edits as a volunteer as User:Joalpe.

Passionate about free knowledge and free software, with a special enthusiasm for Wikimedia projects, particularly the Wikidata knowledge base. I love to contribute and deepen my understanding of how wiki projects operate.

I'm also a project manager, curator, and filmmaker with expertise in coordinating initiatives at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Currently working with Wikimedia Colombia, as Communities and Technologies coordinator. I'm contributing to projects focused on historical memory, justice, and reconciliation. My passion lies in fostering learning experiences through innovative and inclusive methodologies.

Johanna Janhonen, the WiR of Notes on the Margins project, was in Wikimedia Finland’s board for three years and led the social media team at Wikimania Stockholm 2019. She is a member of Wikimedia UK’s Wikipedia trainers’ group and writes about Wikimedia in her columns and social media accounts.

Goudi John is a refugee from Nigeria’s Borno State currently living in Minawao. He is the co-founder and President of the “Association of Nigerian Refugee Student Volunteering for the Development of Minawao” (ANRSVDM) and oversees the management of technical equipment in the camp for the "Minawao Youth" pilot project. DAFI Scholarship Program allowed Goudi to earn a BA in Project Management (Yaounde) and participate in a six-month Refugee Youth Leadership Training program.

I help UN agencies and other international organisations share their knowledge and content on Wikimedia. I was Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO for six years and before that at the Natural History Musuem and Science Museum in London. I also helped organise Wikimania 2014.

I worked to advocate for free education, for policy change and to help UN agencies and other international organisations share their knowledge and content on Wikipedia.

I am a certified coach and have completed the TPC Leadership programme, accredited by ICF and EMCC. I have been a staff member for the youth leadership charity WYSE International for ten years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings#Presentations_about_Wikipedia

Jorge Gemetto is a member of Wikimedistas de Uruguay. He has been working for over 15 years promoting access to knowledge and the public domain. He is part of the Latin American technical community and currently leads the Paulina project, where he develops data tools based on Wikidata for cultural heritage. He is also co-coordinator of the Ártica Cultural Center and a member of Creative Commons Uruguay.

​Joseph Seddon is the Engineering Manager for the Mobile Apps team at the Wikimedia Foundation, supporting the Charts taskforce, and the Wikipedia iOS and Android teams. Prior to this position, Seddon served as a community relations specialist, collaborating with the Wikimedia Enterprise and Fundraising teams. As a volunteer, Seddon is an administrator on the English Wikipedia, focusing on topics related to the space launch industry and lunar exploration. Seddon was formerly involved with Wikimedia UK, serving as a Director and Trustee from 2009-2011 and 2013-2015, respectively.

Originally from Mexico City.
Pedagogue by UNAM and educator for life.

I have collaborated in different educational departments of museums. Evaluator of curricular plans and programs and I have participated as an adjunct teacher in university-level classes focused on material and immaterial cultural heritage and approach to cyberculture issues.

Wikipedian since 2015 and a faithful believer in free knowledge.

Currently Coordinator of the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program.

I’m a Ghanaian female editor with over 9 years experience on diverse Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, WikiData, Wikicommons and translate wiki platforms amongst others. I have a wealth of experience per my previous role with AFFCOM and Regional Grants Committee. Over the past 5 years, I have been a Co- Lead and Project Manager for Wiki Hour Initiative where our passion is to drive connections between people with disabilities, specifically hearing impaired, empower young girls, and address sustainable topics on Wikimedia eco spaces.

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I am the Lead UX Designer on the Web Team at WMF. I’ve been at WMF since July 2023 and I've designing software as a job for 14 years. Before I started at WMF, I worked on an offline-first, trans-institutional personal finance app, tech for crisis response and the humanitarian sector, as well as developer tools and fintech products.

I am grateful to live, work, and play in Treaty 7 Territory, just east of the Canadian Rockies on the traditional territories of Bearspaw First Nation, Chiniki First Nation, Blood Tribe (Kainai Nation), Piikani Nation, Siksika Nation, Tsuutʼina Nation, and Wesley First Nation.

I am Colombian, British and Brazilian and grew up moving around the world.

I studied politics and history and have a Master's in Development Studies. For the last 25 years I have worked in project design, management and evaluation in issues related to education, peace building, improving livelihoods, youth and gender equity. A main feature of my work has been empowering diverse communities through innovative movement strategies. This has ranged from working with indigenous women's movements in remote regions in Colombia to youth groups in Brazil.

I have been part of the Movement since April 2021 when I joined the Wikimedia Foundation. I currently work within the Community Devleopment team supporting hub initiatives and Let's Connect.

I'm a Wikimedian, contributing mostly on Enwiki.

I’m Kadeem, and I'm thrilled to join the Movement Insights team at WMF as a data scientist contractor with a passion for making meaningful impact.

In my free time, I edit Wikipedia, mainly pages related to the Caribbean, geography and global development.

Over the past nine years, I’ve built a diverse career in data science, program management, and business intelligence, working with organizations in international development, tech for good, and social impact sectors. My roles at Meta and Mastercard allowed me to lead initiatives that blend data-driven insights with real-world applications, from advancing vaccine and climate change information campaigns to building platforms that identify communities vulnerable to climate risks. I’m always excited by opportunities to leverage data for strategic decision-making.

Je m’appelle TOURE KAHOU, je suis producteur de médias et conservateur d’images. Passionné par la culture, le patrimoine et le numérique, je suis un Wikipédien ivoirien engagé dans la documentation et la valorisation des identités locales sur les projets Wikimedia. Mon nom d’utilisateur sur ces plateformes est Kahoutoure.
Je suis aussi très impliqué dans l’animation d’ateliers de formation, l’organisation d’edit-a-thons et la gestion de projets collaboratifs pour favoriser l’accès libre à la connaissance.
Mon objectif est de rendre le savoir accessible à tous, en mettant en valeur la richesse du patrimoine africain, pour qu’il soit mieux connu et reconnu dans le monde entier.

Kambai hails from Middle Belt (central) Nigeria. He is a minoritized language advocate and is a speaker of the Tyap language. He began editing Wikipedia in 2016, but had his user account registered on 16 May 2018. Thus far, he had been able to make over 87k edits across different Wikimedia sister projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, MetaWiki, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, alongside Wikimania, Outreach Dashboard, as well as Translatewiki. His contributions are mostly in English and Tyap. Other languages he contributes to include Jju and Nigerian Pidgin (Naija).

Hi, I’m Kanya (User:Kanzcech), a Wikimedian from Indonesia, actively contributing to Indonesian Wikipedia and other sister projects. I am a member of Wikimedia Indonesia since 2023 and serve on the board of trustees of Wikimedia Indonesia (WMID) since early 2025. I also serve on board of advisors of KlubWiki Universitas Brawijaya since 2024. In 2024 I received a Rapid Fund grant to manage WikiDiplomasi, a project aimed to improve diplomacy and International Relations contents on Indonesian Wikipedia.

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I have been active for fourteen years in Japanese Wikipedia, especially GLAM- and education-related Wikimedia projects. I am the organiser of the Wikipedia Translation Class Project, and teach Japanese university students to how to translate English Wikipedia articles into Japanese. From 1 June 2024 to 31 March 2025, I was a Wikipedian in residence at the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

I have been the Executive Director of Wikimedia Czech Republic since 2018.
I am an active member of the CEE community and was able to participate in the regional collaboration and the establishment of the Wikimedia CEE Hub. I co-founded the CEE Hub with other colleagues and have been an elected member of the steering committee.
In 2023, I initiated and started the CEE Youth group within the CEE Hub, a group of young Wikimedians from the region, which has since grown. I have been facilitating and supporting the group ever since, most recently by creating new outlets for members who are already very independent.
In the summer of 2024, I received sufficient support to organize an international meeting of young Wikimedians. I successfully applied for a conference grant on behalf of WMCZ and, together with my team, organized the Wikimedia Youth conference in Prague in May 2025.
I focus on process-oriented facilitation and working with groups.

As a passionate advocate for open knowledge, I’ve dedicated my career to expanding access to information and empowering people to contribute to it. With a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a background in product management for crowdsourced information platforms, I bring a unique perspective to my role on the Growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Based in the U.S., I focus on supporting readers and editors on mobile devices, engaging younger generations in the movement, and finding ways to simplify getting started on the wikis.

I am a collaboration and strategy enthusiast and have been working with non-profits in different fields for more than 15 years now. I am passionate about the vision of Wikimedia and keeping a space open for open knowledge and access to knowledge. Although I created my user account on wiki projects in 2009, I was not too active until I joined the Estonian chapter in 2013, first as a project writer and from 2014 as an executive director.
I have worked with the Wikimedia Foundation since 2018, working as the process architect for the Wikimedia 2030 movement strategy process, supporting its transition to imppementation, and the development of a movement charter.

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My name is Lucy and I learnt to edit Wikipedia in 2019. I routinely edit with Wikiproject Women in Red, and have now written a biography for a woman from every country in the world. I have also worked as a Wikimedian in Residence, both for the National Trust and for LEEDS 2023. From 2021 to 2023 I was on the NW Europe Grants Comittee and in 2024 I joined the Wikimedia UK Community Development Committee.

I have been actively involved in the Wikimedia movement for over 10 years, with a particular focus on promoting women’s contributions. As a lead volunteer, I have been dedicated to organizing and participating in annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Tel Aviv, collaborating with key cultural organizations such as Artport. I have also attended several Wikimanias, off line in site and online during covid19. My work spans from organizing events to training new contributors and advocating for greater representation of women and marginalized groups on Wikipedia. I am passionate about open knowledge, inclusivity, and fostering a supportive environment for new contributors.

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leaderboard

Hi. My name is Leila. I am the Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation and I lead the research direction of the organization. I joined WMF in 2014 as a Research Research Scientist and since then have been involved in a variety of research initiatives at different capacities. These days my primary focus is supporting the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation to conduct research in support of the Wikimedia Movement and to strengthen the Wikimedia research community. You can learn about the team's work at: https://research.wikimedia.org/report.html. I'm an affiliate of Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

You can learn more about me at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF).

Hello! We are the Let’s Connect program, a collaborative effort led by eight members from the Let’s Connect working group, each representing one of the eight regions. Our initiative was founded by Jessica Stephenson, who believed that peer-to-peer learning is essential for the sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.
Each month, we host learning clinics where we work together with a diverse range of Wikimedians, including affiliates, new and experienced organizers, and recently, newcomers. Our primary aim is to create safe, relaxed learning environments that showcase what interactive, peer-to-peer learning can look like both online and in person.
We invite individuals from various communities to share their expertise on a wide variety of topics, enabling us to learn from their experiences and challenges. With speakers from within the community, Let’s Connect participants gain valuable insights from real-Wiki experiences and highlights of current projects, programs, and tools in action.

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Lodewijk is a Wikipedian since 2005, active in the Dutch Wikipedia community. He was part of the international team of Wiki Loves Monuments for many years, and is currently chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee.

Long term wikipedian, former chair of Wikimedia Italy, vice chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.

I'm a Dutch Graphic Designer and Creative Coder, mainly focusing on documenting online communities and making and learning new tools. I've made the occasional edit on Wikipedia and I only discovered the big world behind Wikipedia, though my self-initiated project to map out the Userboxes.

I was born in Prague and currently I live in a little town nearby. Europe in general has been my home for the past 20 years, I live in Lithuania and the UK and got a job gig in most of the European countries.
I'm a member and (part-time) Education programmes manager of Wikimedia Czech Republic since May 2019. Since January 2023 I am full-timer, currently as well managing Programmes for Community (editathons, events, campaigns, photographer community).
We run three main programs - Education (4 individual programmes), Community (editors & photographers) and Partnerships (where Wikidata and advocacy fall into).
Most of my work-life I have spent in the field of education; mainly the non-formal. I am familiar with and passionate about Youth Work, Learning Experience Design, LifeLong Learning, Erasmus+ programme, Facilitation & Art of Hosting, Graphic facilitation, Impact, Sustainability and Green Events production of events and activities. I occasionally publish articles, educational materials and do editors jobs - e.g. for Council of Europe.
My life got enriched by many things such as: Ultimate Frisbee, slackline, urban cycling or contact improvisation. I love skiing, cross-country skiing, ice-skating and many other sports.
Since 2020 I am a Trager Approach Practitioner. I hold a Greener Event Accessor Certification from Falthmount University in the UK.

Researcher and professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. Vice President of Wikimedia Mexico. Editor of Spanish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata.

Luis Carrasco is a Wikimedian with over 16 years of experience contributing to Spanish Wikipedia and related Wikimedia projects. He currently serves on the board of Wikimedia Chile and is committed to promoting environmental knowledge, community participation, and equitable access to open information.

In 2023, he received a Wikimania scholarship to develop Open Climate, a project aimed at integrating climate justice and environmental content into Wikimedia platforms, with a focus on highlighting local knowledge from Chilean municipalities.

With an academic background in marine biology and public policy, Luis works at the intersection of sustainability, free knowledge, and social equity.

I am Programme Manager at Wikimedia Argentina. I have been working at Wikimedia Argentina for 10 years, for 9 years I was the Coordinator of the Education and Human Rights Program at Wikimedia Argentina. I am a university professor at the University of San Andrés, Argentina. I have a Master in Public Policy and Human Rights and a PhD in Education and Society, my PhD thesis is linked to the experience of digital literacy teaching and Wikimedia projects in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.

My name is Asuru Lutherking Petercan from Rivers State Nigeria, based in Lagos State Nigeria, studied Architecture in Rivers State University, (B.Tech, MSc, PhD in View), my past involvement with Wikimedia started in 2022 and fully in 2023 where I uploaded archives to Commons, created biography and helped edit articles following the information from archives uploaded, I started a group for GLAM heritage professionals in Nigeria, also carry wiki training workshops to train and teach about wiki tools and how to better wiki projects in Nigeria. I am a GLAM oriented Wikimedian having worked with galleries and archives in Nigeria, and I support the Global GLAM Community as well on various activities.

Lydia Pintscher is the Portfolio Lead for Wikidata. She works at Wikimedia Deutschland and has supported the Wikidata Community since the beginning of Wikidata. In her free time she contributes to KDE, a free software community, as the vice-president of KDE e.V.

My name is Maciej Nadzikiewicz, and I was part of the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team. You may know me from a couple of different things:
– Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (since 2024)
– Wikimedia Europe Board (2022–2024)
– Wikimedia Poland Governance Board (2020–2022)
– Polish Wikipedia sysop (2020–2024)

Maiken is Head of Communications & Advocacy at WMDE and has extensive experience in cultural and educational communication with both print and online media. As Head of Communications at the German Library Association for many years and previously at various cultural institutions, including the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, she has the expertise to strategically shape communication for Freies Wissen.

Malombe Victor, a Kenyan EdTech expert in innovative learning solutions, has over 10 years of experience designing and implementing education projects in challenging contexts across Africa, leveraging smart offline and off-grid mobile technologies. He has led the implementation of offline digital libraries (such as Internet-in-a-Box and RACHEL) across sub-Saharan Africa, integrating popular open educational resources by Wikimedia such as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, and Wikiversity as reference and supplementary content in rural primary and secondary schools. This work has played a key role in inculcating research skills at foundational levels, even in areas without internet or electricity.

Malombe champions equitable access to education, collaborates with various organizations, and leads initiatives at wiLearn 4 Life and AHAINNOVATE LTD. He is also passionate about cyber-security and digital forensics in education technology.

I’m Maria and I have been with Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) since 2016. Most of this time I have spent with the volunteer support team, working together with volunteers from the German speaking community and making their ideas reality. Since 2021, I'm a project manager for the Software Development Department at WMDE and mainly dealing with 3rd party funded projects.

As Senior Manager, Audience Strategy within the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising team, I run our global audience strategy to create engagement and optimal donor experiences for our supporters.

Mariana Fossatti is the Decolonizing Wikipedia co-lead of Whose Knowledge? She is a feminist and a free/libre culture activist from Uruguay, and a long term Wikimedian. Previously, Mariana has been working with Whose Knowledge? for 4 years as our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign coordinator. Her background is in sociology and she has a master’s degree in Society and Development from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She co-founded the digital cultural centre Ártica in 2011, and co-founded the Uruguayan chapters of Creative Commons and Wikimedia in 2013. She has worked in the APC Women Rights Programme, amplyfing women voices in tech on GenderIT.org blog. When not sharing knowledge or tech tips and tricks with other feminists, you can find her in front of her collage table, figuring out how to finish several work-in-progress pieces.

Sunshine Fionah Komusana (she/her) is the Decolonizing Wikimedia co-lead and the campaign coordinator for #VisibleWikiWomen at Whose Knowledge?. She is an Afrikan Feminist, lawyer, activist and researcher from Uganda, joining Whose Knowledge? from Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) — a Pan-African Feminist Leadership Development Organization based in Kampala Uganda, where she worked as a Program Associate for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. Her work within the African Feminist movement extends to providing legal aid services, connecting survivors of violence to legal support, therapy services and shelters, doing advocacy work, legal/policy analysis, and research on violence against women and girls and reproductive justice. She is the winner of the World Bank Blogs for Development Contest, 2016 and an alumna of The African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI) and The African Feminist Macroeconomic Academy. She is also contributing writer to feminist platforms; African Feminism and Lakwena. When she is not behind her desk, she is either buried in a book or tweeting for the revolution @komusana.

My name is Mariana Senkiv (User:MarianaSenkiv). I started editing in 2017, and I edit mostly the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar editions of Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikiquotes, and also Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and other wikiprojects. An important part of my Wikimedia work is coaching and mentoring, and I conduct webinars and workshops for interested groups of people, including educators, librarians, and community activists. Since September 2024 I am on the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine, and one of the priority areas of my work is to involve underrepresented groups of users (women, youth, older people, people with disabilities, and others) in editing Wikipedia and wikiprojects. I am also actively involved in organising different editing campaigns. I am an associate professor at the Department of Tourism of the Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine, where I implement the Wikipedia educational program for students. Since 2025, I have been a member of the Wiki Women* Task Force.

Mar is the Senior Communications Strategist at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Latin America and Caribbean Hub, with over six years of experience in regional and global communications. Since 2024, she has also been an active member of Wikimedia Mexico, where she joined the movement through the Women Wikimedian School.

A digital activist from Querétaro, México, Mar has led initiatives across the public and private sectors, academia, and civil society. Her work spans civic tech, peace culture, education, citizen participation, gender equality, and cybersecurity—collaborating with organizations such as Code for All, UNFPA, and the Mozilla Festival.

She holds a BA in International Relations with minors in Peace and Conflict Studies (Tec de Monterrey) and Feminist Communications (Claustro de Sor Juana University), grounding her strategic work in a multidisciplinary and feminist lens.

Mario Behling is an open source innovator passionate about fostering collaboration and connecting communities through technology. In 2009, he co-founded FOSSASIA with Hong Phuc Dang. Under his leadership, the organization has launched over 200 open source projects, built a community of 7,000+ developers on GitHub, and pioneered solutions like Eventyay, SUSI.AI, the Pocket Science Lab IoT platform, and Badge Magic.

Martin Rulsch is communications advisor and project manager for communities & engagement at Wikimedia Deutschland. He supports local Wikimedia groups in their self-organized community rooms, connects volunteers on a global level and conducts survey on Wikimedia projects. In his volunteer time, he does administrative tasks like fighting global vandalism and supports community governance and communications at various places.

Participated in Wikimedia 2024 in Katowice (Republic of Poland).

A contributor for nearly 16 years, mostly involved on Slovak Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons. Since 2019, chairperson of the Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group.

Mateus Batista Santos is a bachelor in Computer Science from UNESP (Brazil) and has dedicated his career to the development of technological products in the third sector. He is currently a Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, working in the MediaWiki Engineering Group on the Parsoid project.

I joined Wikipedia as an author in 2002/2003. I co-founded Wikimedia Germany in 2004, I served on the board of Wikimedia Germany for a few years and I worked for Wikimedia Germany as a full time employee from 2009 to 2014.

I worked at the German National Library, the European Parliament, the German federal Parliament, a Berlin-based NGO on human rights and civil liberties and I recently started working in the policy team of a company.

My last Wikimania was London, it feels like ages ago.

I'm a rising senior computer science student at Clarkson University who's interested in ethical computing. I'm ultimately interested in the intersection between social change and technological advancement. I also am a Resident Advisor at my school and have been on my school's swim team for 3 years. I'm just beginning to get involved in the Wikimedia movement, having joined my professor on Wikipedia metadata research work a couple of months ago.

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Melissa Hagemann is the Director of the BOAI Org and has been at the forefront of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years. She managed the Open Society Institute’s (now Open Society Foundations) work to define Open Access through the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and went on to support the development of the global Open Access movement. To mark the 20th anniversary of the BOAI, she spearheaded the development of new recommendations which emphasize that Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to further ends, above all, to the equity, quality, sustainability, and usability of research.

She is a member of the Board of Creative Commons and has served on numerous boards, including the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the Steering Committee of the Open Climate Campaign.

Ibekeme Merit is a librarian, educator, and open knowledge advocate passionate about promoting literacy, information access, and digital inclusion. I studied Library and Information Science and as an educator, posseses a post graduate diploma in Education. I am dedicated to bridging knowledge gaps, enhancing access to quality information, and empowering professionals to contribute to open knowledge platforms. I am also a champion for African storybooks and promoted the use of culturally relevant reading materials to improve literacy among children. I have reached over 4,000 children through reading sessions in schools, orphanages, and rural areas, advocating for the inclusion of African narratives in global digital libraries.

I have led Wikimedia training programs in Gombe state, Nigeria which include “Wikimedia awareness and training in Federal College of Education(T), Gombe and “upskilling librarians in Gombe on open knowledge practices through wikimedia project”

As a Wikimedia organizer and facilitator, I have been involved in various in library programs and has participated in different AfLIA training aimed at equipping librarians on wikimedia projects. I am also the program manager of Wikimedia Gombe Network where I contribute my quote in running the network.

Mervat, an active wikipedian since 2012, a Wikipedian in Residence at WIPO since 2024.

I'm an international educator and instructional designer with 15 years of dedicated service to global education. My expertise lies at the intersection of technology and learning, and in collaboratively designing localized programs that empower people into action. From leading experiential learning initiatives in Peru, Panama, and Ecuador to steering global programs at the Wikimedia Foundation, I've honed my skills in the areas of human-centered design and cross-cultural facilitation. I currently work with the team that is leading the development of WikiLearn - an online learning platform for and by the Wikimedia movement. As part of the former Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation, I led the development of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program and its corresponding Training of Trainers program. Through these programs, we provided thousands of secondary school teachers around the world with a framework to leverage Wikipedia as a tool for media and information literacy.

I have been an active contributor to the Wikimedia movement since 2020, focusing on bridging knowledge gaps, promoting open data, and integrating geospatial information with Wikimedia platforms. As the Project Lead for WikiGap 2024 & 2025 under Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, I have worked to increase the representation of women and marginalized voices on Wikipedia. Additionally, I serve as the Treasurer (2025-2027) for the Board of Directors of Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, contributing to strategic planning and financial management for Wikimedia initiatives. My work at OpenStreetMap Uganda as a Field and GIS Training Associate allows me to connect geospatial data with Wikimedia projects, enriching Wikidata and Wikipedia articles with location-based knowledge. I have led training programs on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons, empowering communities to engage with free and open knowledge platforms. I actively advocate for open data, digital literacy, and knowledge equity through edit-a-thons, mapping projects, and Wikimedia campaigns. As the Wikimedia movement celebrates Wikimania@20, I remain committed to expanding Wikimedia’s impact in Uganda and Africa, strengthening collaborations between Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, and public institutions, and ensuring African knowledge is well-represented in Wikimedia’s global ecosystem.

I work at Wikimedia Europe (WMEU) as Senior EU Law & Policy Advisor. I have a Law & Economics background and I also hold a Master in European Political Studies. My job is to ensure that Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement are preserved when a new piece of legislation is passed. We do our best to ensure that lawmakers widely understand the Wikimedia model and respect its functioning and values. In this sense, I closely work with the Foundation's public policy team and the European national chapters, including Italy, France, Germany.

I am passionate about protection of fundamental rights - such as freedom of expression, privacy & access to information -, media law & policy, EU law, democratic theories & e-democracy, new technologies, cooperative projects, degrowth & the commons. In my free time, I sometimes contribute to Wikipedia.

I am a certified mediator, coach and facilitator with formal training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and 15 years of experience helping resolve conflicts across diverse settings - from NGOs and unions to theater organizations and private individuals. As a practicing mediator for 5 years, I'm passionate about creating safe spaces where all voices can be heard. Since September 2023, I've led a team at Wikimedia Deutschland that offers voluntary support to wiki communities facing conflicts, burnout, and tensions. We provide tailored, needs-based support that the communities can access voluntarily, respecting their autonomy and unique characteristics. My approach focuses on fostering genuine dialogue and transforming how we communicate with each other.

Me llamo Mónica, nací en Bogotá, Colombia. Soy wikimedista desde 2015 y he acompañado proyectos con comunidades indígenas, mujeres, comunidades afro y hablantes de lenguas nativas habladas en Colombia. Tengo experiencia de más de doce años en coordinación de proyectos, investigación, apropiación social del conocimiento, alfabetización mediática e informacional. Actualmente soy la directora ejecutiva de Wikimedia Colombia. Soy la persona encargada de diseñar, ejecutar y llevar a cabo la planeación estratégica de Wikimedia Colombia.

Wikimedia Colombia es una organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja por la promoción del conocimiento libre en Colombia a través de la democratización del conocimiento. Busca responder a los desafios y oportunidades que plantea la sociedad de la información para la transformación de diferentes contextos.

A partir de la estrategia Disoñar Futuros Posibles de Wikimedia Colombia 2025-2027 apoyaremos la transofrmación de la sociedad fomentando la participación activa y diversa de comunidades en la construcción y sostenimiento del Movimiento Wikimedia en Colombia, promoviendo la multiculturalidad, la equidad y la descentralización, y contribuyendo a la creación de narrativas colectivas y esperanzadoras con múltiples actores para imaginar y construir futuros posibles.

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Administrator-technician on Polish Wikipedia. My primary activity is doing technical things, be it templates, gadgets or activity closer to MediaWiki repo and Phabricator. I've been an author of a few successful gadgets and I try to spread awareness of technical things in the local community.

As a member of Wikimedia Poland, I also participate in its activities directed at partners, usually by delivering presentations on diverse topics related to Wikimedia projects. I've been a co-organizer of Wikimania 2024 and WMPL's 100-hours-long edit-a-thon (Guinness World Record).

Since July 2025, I've been working as a software engineer in the Trust & Safety Product team at Wikimedia Foundation.

I joined Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda in 2019, I have acquired knowledge from experienced Wikimedians both in Uganda and abroad. I have had the opportunity to be mentored by the best and I am currently passing on the knowledge to a number of Wikimedians, I have attended a number of Wikimanias virtually including the 2022 Wikimania where Wikimedians in Uganda met to celebrate together. I have also been privilaged to have been apart of the core organising team for a number of campaigns in Uganda.

Manar Yacoub Criner, Global Movement Communication Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation

Mykola Kozlenko (User:NickK) is a member of Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organising team since 2012. He is the Vice-Chair of Board of Wikimedia Ukraine, an administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia and an active contributor on Commons with 50K+ edits.

A volunteer with the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda. Participates in events and campaigns related to GLAM.

Natalie Milbrodt serves as the inaugural University Archivist for the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban public university in the US. In that role, she is leading a three-year survey of archival collections across CUNY’s 25 campuses and implementing strategies and systems for increased collection discovery and use. Her responsibilities include coordination and planning for digital preservation and records management across the organization. Before joining CUNY, Milbrodt served as the founding Director of the award-winning Queens Memory Project, a community-led archival program that has collected over 1000 oral histories along with photographs and other local history records. She also served for a decade as the Metadata Services Coordinator for the Queens Public Library, responsible for the library’s cataloging and digitization activities for their over seven million collection items. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Working Group, as an organizer for the Community Archiving Happy Hour and NYC Neighborhood Oral History meetups, and as an advisory board member for New York State Historical Records, The Municipal Art Society of New York’s Enduring Culture Initiative, Design Dream Lab, and Wikitongues.

I am a Ukrainian historian, lecturer, and active member of the Wikimedia movement. I hold a PhD in History and work as a senior lecturer at the Department of Ukrainian Studies at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics.
I started editing Wikipedia in 2013 and became actively involved in 2017. Since 2018, I have been a member of Wikimedia Ukraine, later joining its Board, where I was responsible for the community engagement and participation support direction. I regularly conduct educational and outreach events, including Wikipedia training sessions for educators, students, and members of civil society.
Since 2020, I have been actively engaged in organizing the Ukrainian edition of the Wiki Science Competition.

Nkem Osuigwe (PhD) has served as the Head of the public library system in Anambra State Nigeria (2009 -2015), a Director of Nigerian Book Foundation(2016-2018)where she currently sits as a member, Board of Trustees. Presently, she works with AfLIA(African Library and Information Associations and Institutions) with headquarters in Accra, Ghana as the Director, Human Capacity and Training. In 2022, she won the the Wikimedian of the Year 2022, (Newcomer category). She had won the Dr. Victoria Okojie award on Advocacy and promotion of Library services in 2015 and the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group Torchbearer Award in 2023. She is an alumnus of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and serves in the UNESCO/IGF OER Dynamic Advisory Group.

Netha Hussain is a volunteer at the Wikimedia movement since 2010. She has worked on content creation, research, and outreach surrounding gender and medicine. Her recent work is in mapping and bridging the knowledge gaps in women's health on Wikipedia. Outside of Wikimedia, she is a medical doctor and researcher working at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Nicole Ebber has been shaping the Wikimedia Movement since joining Wikimedia Deutschland in 2010. She has led key initiatives such as the Chapters Dialogue and Wikimedia Summit, and played a central role in developing the Wikimedia Movement’s Strategic Direction in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, Nicole led the global Wikimedia 2030 Open Strategy process, bringing together hundreds of Wikimedians to chart the movement’s future. Since 2020, she is leading Wikimedia Deutschland’s Governance & Movement Relations team, focusing on strengthening governance, collaboration, and movement building across the Wikiverse.

Nihal is a Sudanese project manager with a passion for media and its role in promoting social equity and building informed and inclusive communities. With various experience in between multinational companies as well as grassroots initiatives, Nihal brings contextual knowledge of the opportunities and challenges in using open data for enhancing public awareness and excellent communication skills that foster collaboration between teams for optimized impact.

Nina has been Head of Communities & Engagement at WMDE since January 2024. Before that, she worked for 20 years in organisations that support volunteering and civil society organisations, e.g. at the German Foundation for Engagement and Volunteering, the Association of German Foundations and the Berlin Senate Chancellery.

My name is Niharika Kohli. I am the Lead Product Manager for the Trust & Safety Product team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I have been with the Foundation for over 10 years in several different roles. I am currently based in Singapore.

Novem Linguae is an English Wikipedia administrator, and a MediaWiki technical contributor who writes and approves software patches for software such as Twinkle and PageTriage.

Nwonwu Uchechukwu Pascaline is a dedicated Wikimedia contributor and advocate for cultural preservation and gender equality. She serves as the Wiki Loves Folklore Central African Ambassador 2024/2025. Currently also serving as the communications Fellow and Ambassador for Africa Wiki Women. She also served as Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator for the Africa Wiki Women Technical Research Team. Project lead for IG Wiki Commons Hub and the Additionally, she has contributed as an international juror for various Wiki Loves campaigns, including Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 and Wiki Loves Monument 2024. Her work is focused on empowering communities, closing the gender gap, and promoting cultural heritage through Wikimedia projects.

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Olaniyan Olushola, a Nigerian Media strategist, language archivist, entrepreneur, public speaker, and open knowledge advocate, has left an indelible mark on the Wikimedia community. His journey began in 2015 when he founded the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, a testament to his long-term commitment as a Wikimedia editor. His support has been instrumental in establishing numerous Wikimedia Affiliates in Nigeria, and he currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation.
His work encompassed open knowledge advocacy, capacity building, education, event organisation, the Gallery, Library, Archive, and Museum (GLAM) sector, and editing Wikipedia.
In 2017, he co-produced a Wikipedia Campaign in Nigeria to produce a video featuring prominent Nigerian artists as promotional material for Wikipedia. In under three weeks, the content had garnered over 17 million viewers worldwide. In 2018, it was nominated for the Best Video award at the African Excellence Awards, organised in Dublin.
In 2018, he initiated the WikiFanClub initiative at the University of Ibadan, in Southwestern Nigeria. The project focuses on recruiting Nigerian undergraduate students to the Wikimedia Movement by partnering with Nigerian tertiary institutions. As of 2024, the project is running in more than ten Nigerian tertiary institutions, with many more in the pipeline. Over 1000 undergraduates have benefited from the project.
In 2022, he began documenting the indigenous languages in Nigeria. By 2023, the project will have produced over 150 freely licensed audiovisual resources to enhance Wikipedia and its sister projects.
In 2023, I worked as a working group member who introduced the inaugural edition of the African Journalism Award. The project contributed over 2,000 secondary and reliable sources of African content to enhance African-related content on Wikipedia. I was featured as a panellist at the 2023 Wikiindaba in Agadir, Morocco, to discuss the project's impact in promoting Wikipedia and its sister African projects through engaging and recruiting professionals to the movement.
As a women's advocate, he worked with key partners to train and improve women's online visibility. In 2018, Olushola collaborated with Wiki-in Africa on Wiki Loves Women, a project supported by the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa. The project engaged more than twenty women-led initiatives and organisations in Nigeria to identify and train women professionals to contribute to Wikipedia. The project helped improve over 2,000 profiles of notable Nigerian women on the English Wikipedia. In 2022, he led the Decolonisation project, supported by the Goethe Institut, Lagos—a gender-focused and multilingual initiative aimed at decolonizing the Internet, which eurocentric biases and narratives had dominated, and producing quality content in local languages about Nigerian women. Over 3000 profiles about Nigerian women were created and improved in Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
Since 2014, in Johannesburg, he has participated in all the Wikiindaba conferences, an annual regional gathering of all Wikimedians and Open Knowledge advocates in Africa and the Diaspora, to discuss and promote the importance of open knowledge in Africa.
In 2021, he served as a member of the Partnership Working Group for the Movement Strategy 2030. By 2023, he led the ongoing discussion to establish the "Planning West African Wikimedia Committee," which includes over 15 Wikimedian affiliates from Anglophone and Francophone countries. In 2024, he led the signing of a one-year contract to deploy the first-ever Wikipedia In Residence Program with Lagos State, aiming to document the state's heritage and people, and increase its visibility on the Internet. Still, in 2024, I started the Public Advocacy Team in Nigeria to create a team of Wikimedians who can access, review, and engage with the government and the public about the impact of public policies on Open Knowledge. It comprises leaders from each of the Wikimedia affiliates in Nigeria.

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Having voluntarily aligned myself with Wikimedia Foundation as an editor, was able to create, edit upload and translate Articles to the required languages, specifically to Igbo; my mother language. I take pleasure in editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiki quote, Wiki Commons, Wiki source and others. I 'm a Nigerian from Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. I have organized some Wiki projects and facilitated some trainings. I have presented conference papers during Wikimania and other conferences.
I wish to be in Nairobi for this year's Wikimania conference. Long live WMF !

I currently serve as the Analytics Manager of the Movement Insights team at the Wikimedia Foundation, where I empower leaders with actionable insights about the growth, health, and diversity of the Wikimedia Movement. With over 12 years of experience in data science and geospatial analytics, I’ve had the privilege of working with organizations such as the American Red Cross, Meta, and the George Washington University Healthcare system. My career has been defined by a passion for leveraging data to illuminate strategic opportunities and drive impactful decision-making. I’ve seen firsthand how volunteer communities transform mission driven organizatons, and I’m dedicated to harnessing analytical insights to not only chart trends and patterns but also to enrich the collaborative spirit that powers the Wikimedia Movement.

Hi! I'm Olga and I'm a principle product manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. I think about a lot about the readers of Wikimedia projects and work to make their experience on the site better and more engaging.

Pacita Rudder is the first Executive Director for Wikimedia New York City, a regional affiliate of the Wikimedia movement. Her previous work included designing and executing strategic campaigns, rooted in narrative, to educate and mobilize communities to engage in public policy. Prior to that, her work centered on leveraging her cultural strategy experience to activate a network of high influence artists, entertainment industry executives, and movement leaders to use their power and platforms for good. Since 2024 she has been leading on national efforts to bring Wikicurious programming to communities throughout the United States of America.

Pierpaolo Di Carlo is an anthropological linguist who has worked in the domain of language documentation for the past nineteen years in Pakistan and Cameroon. He is now a grantee of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the University “L’Orientale” of Naples, Italy, and his project aims to document two endangered languages spoken in the camp of Minawao (Dghwede and Chinene) in tight collaboration with local communities.

Pingnova (who uses he/him pronouns) focuses on content gaps about Hmong and Dakota in Minnesota, and more broadly on ethnic and gender/sexual minorities in Minnesota and globally. He helped found the new Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group and participates in Wikimedia LGBT+. Professionally he has history in archives, digital automation, media criticism, and nonprofit administration. Currently he is part of a Native and non-Native team administering a Wikimedia Foundation grant to research how Native American identity is covered on Wikipedia.

I started my involvement in the Wikimedia movement 15 years ago and publish regularly about events in the Wikimedia movement in four languages (German, English, French and Croatian), mostly in German -
take a look at https://kausich-bibliothek.bvoe.at (Projekte/Wikipedia, Wikidata etc.).

My name is Doreen Appiah. I am a Ghanaian and a Librarian by profession working with the African Library and Information Association and Institutions - AfLIA as a program officer. My journey with Wikimedia started in 2020. I was part of the trainers for AfLIA's African Librarians Week (AfLibWk) 1Lib1Ref event in 2020. I can comfortably edit and add citations to Wikipedia articles, add images/edit on Wikicommons, create items and edit Wikidata entries and currently on Wikibase.

Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is Chief Technology Office (CTO) at Greenpeace and a TED Speaker. A Technology expert with experience spanning over two decades, 6 continents and 70 countries.

Priscilla loves working in sectors that do good, and prides herself in enabling others to do good better through the capabilities that technological advancements provide us. She feels very strongly about giving young people every opportunity to thrive.

Her career has spanned the UN World Food Programme, UNICEF, DanChurchAid, ActionAid International and Greenpeace International.
While Priscilla doesn’t have any past formal involvement with the Wikimedia movement, she strongly connects with its values and has for example spoken about “Why a free and fair internet is more vital than ever” in a 2021 TED Talk, which garnered over 2 million views and is featured as a TED Podcast.

When she's not thinking about how people and technology can make the world better, you will find her spending time with her family as they toggle between their two homes of Kenya and Zambia.

Active Wikipedian since 2006. Lead organizer of Wikimania 2015 and member of Wikimania Steering Committee. Founder of Wikimedia Mexico in 2011, board member since 2024. Nominated to the Wikimedia Foundation Board two times.

Movement Communications Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

Raisha Abdillah is a Project Lead and Wikidata contributor based in Jakarta. She leads the team behind Lexica, developing tool for lexicographical data with a focus on accessibility, multilingual support, thoughtful design, and community-centered development, especially for contributors in underserved language communities.

Movement Communications

I am an active contributor and serve as an administrator on the Indonesian-language Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. I was involved in the education and competition divisions of Wikimedia Indonesia from 2017 to 2021. Since 2022 until now, in addition to being a member of the Wikimedia Jakarta community, I have been actively involved in the Open Educational Resources (OER) program of Creative Commons Indonesia, which is also supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Reda Kerbush is an active member of the Wikimedia community, known for his leadership in multilingual and regional Wikimedia initiatives. He has been involved with several user groups, including Algeria UG Wikimedians of Tamazight, and the UAE User Group. Reda contributed to the Wikimedia Movement Charter Drafting Committee and is passionate about knowledge equity, language diversity, and visual documentation—especially through his photography on Wikimedia Commons. His work spans across organizing impactful projects like the Million Wiki Project and promoting global participation in the free knowledge movement.

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.

Executive Director of Wikimedia France

Richard Nevell has been a member of staff at Wikimedia UK since 2012. In that time he has led numerous partnerships with educational and cultural heritage organisations. He led the Connected Heritage project from 2021 to 2023, and wants more researchers and heritage professional to take part in writing Wikipedia. In his time with Wikimedia UK he had led dozens of training workshops and works closely with volunteers.

Richard Knipel (User:Pharos) is an organizer of Wikimedia New York City and has served as Wikimedian-in-Residence at several institutions.

Rising Voices is the digital inclusion arm of Global Voices. Rising Voices has collaborated with numerous Wikimedia affiliates over the years. It has also received a research grant to explore the opportunities and challenges for Wikipedia projects in Latin American Indigenous languages. In addition, it serves as a Stakeholder on the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub. RV also was a recipient of a Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund grant.

Manager of Data, Evaluation, and Learning for Community Growth. I've supported the Wikimedia Foundation's community growth activities with data and insights since 2019.

Robertsky (Robert Sim) hails from Singapore and was part of the COT for Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Since 2023, he has been part of the ESEAP Hub Preparatory Council, working on operationalising the hub's annual plan and governance structure.
In 2024, he became an administrator on English Wikipedia, and also started up the Wikimedia Singapore User Group.

I am Masum-al-Hasan Rocky, and I use my username as ROCKY in all Wikimedia projects. I have been a Wikipedian since 2013. I primarily work on Bangla Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Bangla Wikivoyage. I am the founder of the first ever Wiki Club in Bangladesh. I was also involved as a co-founder of Rajshahi Wikipedia Community, which is a divisional user community of local Wikipedians from Rajshahi Division under the local chapter Wikimedia Bangladesh. I am the board member of Wikimedia Bangladesh since 2016, I served as a General Secretary and Treasurer in the executive committee of Wikimedia Bangladesh.

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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.

I am a Tech Law Program Manager with the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Department. I have been working at the Wikimedia Foundation for eleven years. The current focus of my role is in support of Litigation, IP, and department operations.

Ruby D-Brown- Ruby is a dedicated gender and sustainability advocate with extensive experience in research, project and program management, and campaign organizing. She is the co-founder of Africa Wiki Women, Wiki Women’s User Group coordinator, and Comscom committee member. Ruby joined the Wikimedia movement in 2019, and over the years, she has coordinated a number of campaigns and projects focused on increasing women's involvement in my community. These efforts have paid off, as she has successfully impacted over 1,000 women through a variety of programs and campaigns, capacity-building workshops, and inclusion in the Wikimedia Movement.

Sadik is a certified Wikipedia trainer, journalist, and brand ambassador for the Curationist Foundation. He is also the executive director and co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, a young not-for-profit organization based in Ghana and working to support the 16 Mabia languages on Wikimedia and the internet at large.
Outside Wikimedia, he serves on the advisory board of the UNESCO 'Open Education for a Better World' program. He was a Mozilla Open Leader X fellow, a MozFest wrangler mentor, and a former ambassador for the Mozilla festival. Sadik is passionate about open-source technology, open data, and open education resources (OER).
As a digital language activist, he works with individuals and organizations interested in digitizing indigenous languages and cultures on the Internet.

Stella Sessy Agbley is a dedicated advocate for digital inclusion, community engagement, and knowledge equity within the Wikimedia movement. With over a decade of experience, I am the co-lead of the Wiki Hour Initiative, a coordinator for Feminism and Folklore, and a community board member for the Wikimedia Ghana User Group. For three years, I was the coordinator for the Wiki Women’s User Group. My work focuses on equipping girls, women, and the hearing-impaired community with digital skills to confidently engage with Wikipedia and its sister projects. Through capacity building, mentorship, and outreach, I promote cultural representation, gender equity, and inclusive participation in open knowledge.

Sam Walton is a Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Moderator Tools team. He also supports The Wikipedia Library project.

Sanda Sandu is the Senior Human Rights Specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Sandra Aceng is the Executive Director of the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), where she champions the integration of gender perspectives into digital rights and ICT-related policies. She is a gender and ICT researcher, policy analyst, writer, and Wikimedian. Sandra is an outspoken and energetic human rights defender (WHRD) who advocates for the integration of gender perspectives in ICT policy and analyses threats to free expression in Africa introduced by regulatory initiatives. She was recognised by DefendDefenders as the Human Rights Defender of the Month in February 2021. Notably, she contributed to the book "Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimization, Perpetration, and Responses" in 2022. She is a Global Voices contributor, an Impakter Magazine contributor, a former Associate Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a 2020 Global Network Initiative (GNI)/Internews Fellow, and a 2021 OPTIMA Data-Driven Activism Fellow, where she researched the impact of Internet shutdowns on women. Sandra is also an advocate for copyright and intellectual property within the Wikimedia ecosystem and beyond. She was selected as one of the 40 fellows for the 2021 virtual edition of the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) class. Sandra leads efforts to advance data justice research and practices in Uganda, engaging policymakers, developers, and marginalised groups, including women and persons with disabilities.

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Sara leads the Open Knowledge Network, which brings together experts of the open movement globally. The Network's main focus is the intersection of tech and democracy. Sara also supports open source and open data communities, and is passionate about all issues linked to community care and health, like governance. Before joining Open Knowledge Foundation, she was part of a project advocating for public libraries to be on the EU agenda (notably for the review of the Copyright Directive), and was part of the team that grew Khan Academy in French. She has an ongoing research project about pottery masters from her small village in the South of Italy, which she is slowly but surely bringing on Wikipedia too.

I’m a technical contributor at MediaWiki from India, actively involved in the Wiki movement since 2021. I have primarily worked in Wikimedia technical spaces and Wiki Commons. Additionally, as an extended member of the Indic MediaWiki Developer User Group, I contribute to coordinating and organizing hackathons and technical events in India.

Stanley Boakye-Achampong works with AfLIA, the continental association of library and information institutions and professionals in Africa, where he leads research and communications. He has been contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects since 2020, and he’s especially interested in Wikidata because of his love for research and data. Stanley helps organize the African Librarians Week, which brings librarians together every year to add and improve references on Wikipedia as part of the #1Lib1Ref campaign. He has trained and supported many librarians across Africa to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Stanley has also been part of several Wikimedia Foundation-funded projects run by AfLIA, including Wikipedia in African Libraries, Promoting Open Knowledge in African Libraries through Wikidata, and Integrating Wikimedia Projects into African Libraries.

I’ve worked at the Foundation since 2020 and have organized multiple events and participated in community conferences.

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Wikimaniac, Wikidata editor, co-organizer of the first Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge.
Built the first multilingual offline Wikipedia snapshots, and custom Wikislices, for One Laptop per Child.
A founder of the Public AI Network.

My name is Soni, I edit by [[User:Soni]] at the English Wikipedia

Stephane is one of the co-founders of Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader. Living in Switzerland, he's been editing since 2004 and thinks most speaker biographies are boring. His talks are not boring.

Subhashish Panigrahi is a Wikimedian, low-resourced-language archivist and filmmaker. Together with couple of other Wikimedians, he revived the Odia Wikipedia. He previously served the Asia and the larger Wikimedia community through positions at the Wikimedia Foundation and the Centre for Internet and Society. He founded OpenSpeaks, an open educational resource for language documentation, which has long served the Wikimedia movement for capacity and content building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Mkrtchyan

Susanna Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Սուսաննա Մկրտչյան, pronounced [susɑnˈnɑ məkəɾtˈtʃʰjɑn]; born 26 August 1949) is an Armenian professor of database and system research, PhD of technical sciences,[1] Wikimedian.[2] She founded and leads the Wikimedia Armenia chapter (2013–2020), which organizes outreach and workshops to improve the Armenian Wikipedia,[3] including an annual conference.[4][5] She conceived and turned into reality the vision of wikicamp and wikiclub projects, which were recognized as the coolest projects accordingly, in 2014 and 2016.[6] During Wikimania 2015, she received an honourable mention in the context of the annual award Wikimedian of the Year attributed by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.[7][8] In 2018, Susanna Mkrtchyan was elected Vice President of the World Wikipedia and User Education Group and served until 2024.[9][10]

The Open Source Club at the Ohio State University is a multi-decade institution dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciated for free, open, and accessible technology, from its development to its common use. In its pursuit to raise awareness for democratic and sustainable relationships with technology, it has provided information and discourse on topics such as Creative Commons, the Wikimedia foundation, non-profits in the FOSS world, and more.

Tilman is the editor-in-chief of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter, which has been covering research of relevance to the Wikimedia community monthly since 2011, and co-maintainer of the associated @WikiResearch social media feed. A Wikipedian since 2003, he also worked for the Wikimedia Foundation from 2011 to 2019, most recently as senior data analyst.

I am a principal developer of Internet in a Box and a member of the board for Wiki Project Med.

Tochi Precious is an experienced language advocate, open knowledge strategist, and community leader dedicated to linguistic diversity and digital inclusion. With a background in languages and project management, she has played a key role in promoting language documentation, revitalization, and multilingual content creation within the Wikimedia movement.

Wikimedian at large and Chair of the CEE Hub Steering Committee. Administrator of the Maltese language Wikipedia.

Je suis Wikimedien depuis 2017, Co-fondateur de Wikimedia RDC et un de responsable du Mouvement Stratégique dans la Région des Grands Lacs d'Afrique. Je suis aussi coordinateur régional de l'Afrique Francophone de la campagne Wiki for Human Rights.

I am from El Salvador and currently live in Canada. Since 2022, I have been an adult student at the online school Ne Ichan Safoura, where I have deepened my knowledge of Nawat. In 2023, I began contributing to Wikipedia by writing articles in Nawat, helping to expand digital resources for the language. Since 2024, I have also served as an interpreter for Timumachtikan Nawat (Héctor Martínez) at Ne Ichan Safoura, supporting the learning and revitalization of Nawat through translation and linguistic assistance.

Having a background in project management and communication, I am interested in methods to organize and support collaboration processes. Since 2016 I am a staff member of Wikimedia Deutschland and I am still excited about the Wikimedia Movement and proud to be able to support it. As Head of Community Growth & Relations I work closely together with the German Wikimedia communities. In our team we focus on community growth with outreach, activation and onboarding activites.

Head of the Cooperation and Decentralization Program of Wikimedia Argentina since 2021. Part of the Volunteer Supporters' Network leadership team, along with Wikimedia UK. Head of Programs and Community Engagement at Wikimedia LGBT since April 2025.
She holds a degree in Geography and a diploma in Internet Governance, with a background in gender and sexuality studies. She is also a professor of Communication Technologies.

Vidhu Goyal is a Communications Manager with the Wikimedia Foundation’s External Comms team. Since joining the Foundation in 2021, Vidhu has led numerous efforts to raise awareness and understanding of Wikimedia brands, as well as to protect the Foundation’s reputation in times of crisis - including guiding its generative AI media relations strategy, shaping the Foundation’s public response to legal actions in different regions, or securing positive news stories about the value of Wikipedia in India and other key markets.
Within her current role, Vidhu oversees and leads the Foundation’s global communications for product and technology, as well as partnerships, fundraising and crisis communications responses in certain regions. She also leads on all communications work in India and has been a part of media training and efforts to raise awareness of Wikimedia contributors in Indian media.

Vipin SJ is a Senior Partnerships Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Vipin focuses on building strategic partnerships with publishers, media and international non-governmental organizations to advance the Wikimedia movement.

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My first edit of Wikimedia Project is 2007. I became an administrator of the Japanese Wikipedia in 2010.

Now, I am doing Wikimedians of Japan User Group's project manager, attending Open Source Conference in Japan.

An active contributor to Wikipedia since 2004, he is one of the administrators of the Italian edition of the free encyclopedia since 2005. As a Wikipedian in residence he collaborated on many OpenGLAM projects for sharing the contents of cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan and the Central Institute for Archives (ICAR) of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC). Having joined the Wikimedia Italia staff as a trainer and GLAM specialist, he has been a Wikimedian in residence at the BEIC Foundation, the Academy of Sciences of Turin, the Ricordi Historical Archive of Milan, the Polo del '900. He collaborates with various universities, including the Politecnico and the Statale of Milan. Since 2021 he has been among the first two Wikipedians in residence at an Italian university, the University of Padua. With Unipd he created 3 MOOCs for students, teachers and cultural institutions on EduOpen. In 2024-25 he’s migrating the Museo Egizio di Torino catalogues to Wikimedia projects.

The Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya is a collective of volunteers committed to promoting free knowledge, digital literacy, inclusivity, and gender equality within the Wikimedia movement. The work focuses on content creation, community outreach, capacity building, and strategic partnerships to expand Wikimedia’s impact across Kenya.

As a user group, we have organized edit-a-thons, workshops, and training sessions to engage students, educators, researchers, and underrepresented communities, including women and marginalized groups. We actively collaborate with educational institutions, GLAM organizations, NGOs, and government bodies to integrate Wikimedia into learning environments and increase knowledge accessibility.

The initiatives prioritize gender equality by bridging the gender gap in Wikimedia contributions, supporting women-led projects, and fostering safe, inclusive spaces for participation. Through strategic partnerships, mentorship, and skill development, we strive to ensure sustainable growth, diverse representation, and equitable knowledge sharing within the Wikimedia movement in Kenya.

Winnie Kabintie, Movement Communications Specialist, Africa

Assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. More information: https://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/wlodzimierz-lewoniewski/

I've joined the Wikimedia France team in 2016 and working since 2018 on the question of the role of Wikimedia projects in cultural institutions. I provide help and educational support to institutions or networks wishing to embark on the adventure of GLAM. I deal with partnerships, open content issues and lobbying, GLAM project like the Label Culture Libre. I've attended several GlamWiki and Wikimania events by the past.
I have quite strong knowledge about free licences.

My name is Yuriko Kadokura, username is Wadakuramon. I have been working as a librarian in Japan since 1977. In 2008 I started blogging for work and my personal life. In 2016 I started to edit Wikipedia and in 2023 I wrote a book titled "A 70-year-old Wikipedian talks about the charm of libraries". I have been posting on the Diff blog since 2024 in English https://diff.wikimedia.org/author/wadakuramon/ and Japanese https://diff.wikimedia.org/ja/%E8%91%97%E8%80%85/wadakuramon/.

I became a Wikipedia editor in June 2019. Since then, I’ve been contributing to the Spanish and Asturian Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata, with a strong focus on bridging the gender gap. I’m also a mentor and tutor on Spanish Wikipedia (eswiki), helping newcomers become confident contributors.

As an organizer and core team member of Wikiesfera, I coordinate edit-a-thons and training sessions aimed at enhancing representation and participation. I’ve led various activities and taken part in several community events. Since the end of 2021, I’ve also been collaborating as a Product Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation, supporting Spanish-speaking communities and working with development teams to promote tools and strategies that make Wikipedia more inclusive, diverse, and user-friendly.