Freddy Veloz
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.
Sessions
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.
Wikimedia LGBT+ is a Wikimedia user group dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community and enhancing the representation of LGBT+ content across Wikimedia projects.
This user group has an especially active community in two primary languages, English and Spanish, and regularly organizes initiatives such as monthly editing contests and awareness campaigns on impactful topics, including Wiki Loves Pride and the HIV/AIDS campaign. Additionally, it is the organizing group behind the Queering Wikipedia Conference.
Following years of sustained efforts in building free knowledge and fostering community engagement, Wikimedia LGBT+ recently received a community grant. In this session, we aim to present the work of WMLGBT+ volunteers and introduce the newly formed team leading these initiatives.