Klara Joklova
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.
Sessions
In 2023, as part of the CEE Hub's activities, we established an informal group of CEE young Wikimedians, which started to meet regularly and work on getting more young people involved. The WMCZ decided to further support and expand this lively and collaborative group of people globally with the very first youth conference, which took place in Prague in May 2025. With them, in a workshop-style conference, we addressed the fundamental question of how to get more young people involved in Wikipedia.
Come find out what we learned about engagement and the perspectives of young Wikimedians.
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.