🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ojbuIcX6LVg?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=23750 🎥

10 years ago Roger and Rosie made a short presentation at Wikimania in Mexico suggesting that every editor should take an interest in the low number of women on Wikipedia. The idea took off and the resulting wikiproject was called Women in Red. Wikidata had only just started, but it soon told us that there were 15.5% of biographies that were about women. Over thirty sister projects looked at other languages. Over ten years, hundreds of editors, over 400 editathons from Norway to Kenya and New Zealand and a budget of zero, has resulted in an increase in the percentage to 20%. What did we learn?

🎥 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.

You've heard of photowalks, now how about a smell-walk?

Smell walks are a way to record the smells in a particular area, at a particular time, by a particular person. Whilst Wikimedians are used to photowalks, this session will workshop how we can record information from a smellwalk using Wikimedia projects. I will introduce the topic, with ideas for how I think it could work, then we will do a short smell walk together - either in the venue or outside - and then we will return to the conference room and discuss whether the method works and potentially explore other ideas for the future.