Shyamal
An editor on the English Wikipedia for the last couple of decades with an interest in STEM areas particularly around biology, I am also involved in outdoor ecology education. I have been promoting Wikipedia editing especially among the academically-oriented in India.
My lightning talk at Wikimania will be about the Wikipedia Library and how its use might be enhanced by looking at it through the lens of evolutionary biology with parallels to social organisms, stigmergy, and information foraging.
Session
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/WaWk6hNGRrk?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJtMBKTkOdmzfP3ENS24BJ-&t=16292 🎥
The Lightning Talk Showcases are a fun, fast-paced afternoon event filled with 5-minute lightning talks in rapid succession on a range of topics. Wikimania Nairobi will have two Lightning Talks Showcase sessions to highlight some of the most compelling concepts and powerful thinking developing across the Wikimedia Movement. Read more at: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program/Lightning_Talk_Showcases.