2025-08-09 –, ELDORET (Clubhouse)
Language: English
Brief presentations from Wikimedian of the Year winners. Each presentation takes 5 minutes. (Total:30 min)
Past Wikimedian of the Year winners show their interests. This presentation will indicate how Wikimedian movement varies. If it is possible, we hope to present back to back.
Participants
User:Eugene Ormandy, theme: Diff, 5min
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (user:Rosiestep) (theme: Wikibreak), 5min
Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı (User: Kurmanbek) (theme: Why visual storytelling impactful for Wiki events?), 5min
Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) Wikimedia Laureate 2022 (theme: The case for a multimedia Wikimedia)
Martin (User:DerHexer) Wikimedia Laureate 2024 (theme: reaching a wide audience in a good way thanks to the new CentralNotice guidelines)
Taufik Rosman (User:Tofeiku), Wikimedian Movement in Malaysia
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Storytelling
- How do you plan to deliver this session? You will be asked to confirm this closer to the date in case of changes to the format.
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Onsite in Nairobi
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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Wikimedians of Year winners consist of Wikimedians in various regions and the award have impact on Wikimedia movement. Collaborative session among winners will become a good opportunity for them to sustain their communication and Wikimedia movement.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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Everyone can participate in this session
- Should your session be selected for the program, do you agree to release your session and supporting materials on-wiki and on the eventyay platform under CC BY-SA 4.0?
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I agree
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a prolific Wikipedia editor (since 2007) and admin (since 2009), as well as a fledgling WikiPortraits photographer (2025). She co-founded the annual in-person conference, WikiWomenSummit (est. Wikimania 2023), and the online content gender gap project, Women in Red (est. Wikimania 2015). Rosie serves as the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston), where her work focuses on women writers, and as the Community Engagement Manager at the University of Queensland (Australia) on the Wikimedia research project “Measuring the Gender Gap.” Previously, she served on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (2021-24). In 2016, Rosie was honored as Wikipedian of the Year; two years later, she was knighted partly because of her Wikipedia work. She makes her home in California, US.
A member of Toumon WIkipedian Club Japan. An Organizer of Wikimedia Japan-Malaysia Friendship and Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship. Having hosted editathons with Japanese GLAM and universities. One of the Wikimedian of the Year winners (Newcomer of the Year 2023).