2025-08-06 –, MOMBASA (Ballroom 1) 🌐 💬
Language: English
There are many ways to share and access information, and sometimes even edit, when there is no internet. Which are they?
We will be presenting a roundup of the various way people can access Wikipedia offline, but also other contents. Some of these solutions were born from the community, like Kiwix, Wikifundi, or Internet in a box. Others aim bigger and want to empower people to do more, even when there is less.
This panel discussion is as much of a show-and-tell to discuss already available options as a way to look ahead and establish which improvements are needed.
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Capacity building, Other
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This is meant to help empower users and contributors in poorly connected (or censored) areas
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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Everyone can participate in this session
- 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
- 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
Stephane is one of the co-founders of Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader. Living in Switzerland, he's been editing since 2004 and thinks most speaker biographies are boring. His talks are not boring.
Florence Devouard, user:Anthere. Wikipedian since 2002.
* Former chairwoman of Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees
* Co-Executive Director of Wiki in Africa
* Wikipedian-in-Residence at World Intellectual Property Rights (WIPO)
* Co-founder, former Vice-Chair and currently member of Wikimédia France Chapter
As well as
* Financial auditor an member of Les sans pagEs UserGroup
* Member of m:Wikimedians for offline wikis UserGroup (contact member for the affiliate)
* Member of the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network UserGroup
* Formerly treasurer of WikiFranca (hub-to-be for French speaking wikimedia groups)
* Board member of Open Food Facts
* Vice-Chair of Ynternet.org
Key words : Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Africa, IP rights, Open Movement, Community Building, Open Source, Creative Commons, Life-long learning, accountability, Gender Gap, Equity
I am a principal developer of Internet in a Box and a member of the board for Wiki Project Med.
James M. Heilman is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.
With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and is the current president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.
Andrew Lih has been a Wikipedia editor since 2003 and is an administrator on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. He is the author of the 2009 book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia. He is a passionate advocate of collaborative efforts between the cultural and heritage sector and the Wikimedia community. In the United States, he serves as Wikimedian at Large at the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education, and research complex. In 2022, he was named one of the first Wikimedia Laureate for his lifetime of work with the Wikimedia movement.
Wikimaniac, Wikidata editor, co-organizer of the first Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge.
Built the first multilingual offline Wikipedia snapshots, and custom Wikislices, for One Laptop per Child.
A founder of the Public AI Network.