2025-08-09 –, MOMBASA (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
🎥 Session recording: https://w.wiki/FQrj 🎥
Wikimedia’s technology landscape is evolving amid changing editor demographics, mobile-first internet access, automation in content moderation, and emerging threats like misinformation and AI-generated content. As new trends shape how contributors and readers interact with Wikimedia projects, understanding these shifts is critical for making informed product and technology decisions. This session will bring together research-driven insights and community perspectives to discuss key trends affecting Wikimedia’s future. Participants will explore topics such as editor growth and retention, mobile usability, moderation challenges, and external digital trends, accompanied by an interactive discussion on how the Movement can proactively address these challenges while enhancing inclusivity, engagement, and sustainability.
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This interactive roundtable will provide a research-driven deep dive into the latest product and technology trends affecting Wikimedia projects, drawing from recent editor metrics, movement surveys and external digital landscape reports. With increasing mobile-first engagement, shifts in content trust, AI-driven knowledge platforms, and moderation complexities, Wikimedia faces both challenges and opportunities in sustaining editor participation and content quality.
The session aims to:
- Present key product & technology trends affecting Wikimedia projects, including editor retention, mobile engagement, and automated moderation.
- Explore external digital shifts, such as the rise of AI-driven content and new information-seeking behaviors.
- Facilitate an interactive discussion using live polling (Mentimeter) to gather community perspectives on challenges and solutions.
- Brainstorm actionable solutions for Wikimedia’s future products, addressing gaps in usability, moderation, and contributor engagement.
Through guided discussion questions, shared experiences, and collaborative brainstorming, participants will gain a holistic view of emerging trends and contribute insights on how Wikimedia’s technology can evolve to remain a trusted, accessible, and sustainable knowledge platform.
- 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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- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Product development
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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Average knowledge about Wikimedia projects or activities
- 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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This session aligns with Wikimania 2025’s themes by examining emerging product and technology trends that impact Wikimedia’s ability to remain inclusive, impactful, and sustainable in an evolving digital landscape. As mobile-first engagement grows, AI-generated content increases, and moderation complexities rise, it is crucial to ensure that Wikimedia’s platforms remain accessible, trusted, and adaptive to new challenges. By discussing trends in editor retention, content integrity, and external digital shifts, this roundtable will foster inclusive conversations about how Wikimedia can better support contributors across diverse regions, sustain community engagement, and develop resilient product strategies that empower knowledge-sharing for future generations.
I’m Kadeem, and I'm thrilled to join the Movement Insights team at WMF as a data scientist contractor with a passion for making meaningful impact.
In my free time, I edit Wikipedia, mainly pages related to the Caribbean, geography and global development.
Over the past nine years, I’ve built a diverse career in data science, program management, and business intelligence, working with organizations in international development, tech for good, and social impact sectors. My roles at Meta and Mastercard allowed me to lead initiatives that blend data-driven insights with real-world applications, from advancing vaccine and climate change information campaigns to building platforms that identify communities vulnerable to climate risks. I’m always excited by opportunities to leverage data for strategic decision-making.