Wikimania 2025

Iolanda Pensa - iopensa

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.


Sessions

08-08
14:45
40min
Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia
Iolanda Pensa - iopensa, Lutherking Petercan, Florence Devouard, Donia, islahaddow, chantal, Evelin Heidel

🎥 Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/3UcJ5Tgcthc?feature=shared&t=19743 🎥

The roundtable "Decolonising Knowledge on Wikipedia" aims to contribute to inclusivity in the Wikimedia projects by interrogating our practices, structures, and sources and critically highlighting power dynamics. This roundtable involves current Wikimedia projects and initiatives already focusing on decolonising knowledge, it triggers a broader discussion and collects experiences, examples and recommendations to expand and scale those practices.

GLAM
NAKURU
08-08
17:15
90min
Reflection on 20 years of Wikimania
Andrew Lih, Phoebe Ayers, Lodewijk, Notafish, SJ, Gnangarra, Patricio.lorente, mathias schindler, ProtoplasmaKid, Asaf Bartov, Iolanda Pensa - iopensa, eric luth, islahaddow, Butch Bustria, SGrabarczuk (WMF), Bobbyshabangu, Nina

Reflecting on 20 years of Wikimania with some organizers from many different years!

Village Pump (remote only)
Village Pump (remote only)