2025-08-07 –, MOMBASA (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about the pressing issues facing Wikimedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees host a session at Wikimania each year to share what they've been working on and connect with community members about the priorities and questions they have. As last year, this session will have a short presentation component, followed by breakout discussions on various high-priority topics. We will select the topics for discussion based on community interest closer to the date, but topics will likely revolve around global trends like content reuse and attribution, government regulation of online spaces, AI in Wikimedia, verifiability and neutrality, etc.
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Collaboration, Affiliates
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This session's specific aim is to foster the exchange of ideas between different stakeholders in the movement on critical trends. This will both increase the impact we are able to have as a movement, as well as ensure our long term sustainability in the context of a changing world. The Board aims to build connections across various communities to help prioritize work and enrich their thought leadership.
- 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
Dr. Victoria Doronina is a biologist and a dedicated member of the Wikimedia community. Originally from Belarus, she earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. Since 2006, Victoria had been an active contributor to the Russian Wikipedia, an ArbCom member and administrator and had participating in various Wikimedia projects, including Wikimedia Commons and Russian Wikinews. In 2021, Victoria was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, where she contributes to the Community Affairs Committee, the Product and Technology Committee, and leads the Sister Projects Task Force. She was reappointed to the Board in 2024.
Antanana (Nataliia Tymkiv) is a Ukrainian Wikipedia editor and administrator, member of Wikimedia Ukraine. She has been a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees since 2016, chairing it since 2021. She was a part of the Wiki Loves Earth international team, and organised Wikimedia CEE Meetings in 2014 and 2018 in Ukraine. Since 2013 she has been a member of Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organising team. From 2012 to 2016 served as a Board member of Wikimedia Ukraine, and as its volunteer Executive Director (2013-2015). An experienced editing workshop organiser, VRT agent
My name is Maciej Nadzikiewicz, and I was part of the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team. You may know me from a couple of different things:
– Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (since 2024)
– Wikimedia Europe Board (2022–2024)
– Wikimedia Poland Governance Board (2020–2022)
– Polish Wikipedia sysop (2020–2024)
Long term wikipedian, former chair of Wikimedia Italy, vice chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.