2025-08-09 –, KISUMU (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
With active editor numbers declining, Wikimedia’s Contributor Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group, involves Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (ex-Campaigns) teams. It will highlight efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Join us to learn more and share feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.
This session would be a long session (more than one hour), combining a presentation of features and projects, followed by one or several workshop-style times, where attendees can discuss the different involved teams' projects.
Wikimedia’s Contributor Strategy is a long-term approach to ensuring that volunteers — both new and experienced — can meaningfully engage with Wikimedia projects and continue building the world’s most trusted source of free knowledge. As the internet evolves, editing experiences have become increasingly fragmented, and post-pandemic, active editor numbers have declined. To sustain a thriving volunteer community, we need a clearer, more structured path for participation.
Join 4 Wikimedia Foundation teams (Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection) to learn about their features and offer feedback on the Contributor Strategy. This session will highlight key efforts to:
- Provide a central place for contributors to discover opportunities, manage tasks, and track their impact.
- Offer structured, mobile-friendly workflows that make it easier to contribute productively.
- Strengthen engagement through meaningful feedback, community connections, and clearer pathways for participation.
We’ll discuss how these efforts align with the Wikimedia movement’s goals, ensuring that Wikipedia and its sister projects remain places where new generations of contributors can participate meaningfully. Participants will also have the opportunity to share feedback, discuss community needs, and help shape how we grow and support Wikipedia’s editing community in the years ahead in a workshop format with the different concerned teams
The goal for participants is:
- To learn more about the group initiatives
- To voice their opinion regarding the different options offered
- To leave Wikimania with enough skills to share the group’s goals with their communities
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Campaigns, Events, Capacity building, Collaboration, Product development
- 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
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This strategy will fuel volunteer growth and create a multi-generational project. We strive to facilitate a rewarding contributor experience cycle between discovering compelling opportunities, being equipped to act on those inclusive opportunities, and having a rewarding experience that makes the contributor impact and next sustainable steps clear.
I started editing at French Wikipedia in 2008. I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2015. I'm part of the Movement Communications team, and I work mostly with the Contributors group and the involved teams. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)
I'm a Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Moderator Tools team, where I support projects including Automoderator. I also work on The Wikipedia Library project! In my volunteer capacity I am User:Samwalton9 on the English Wikipedia, where I'm an administrator.
I'm a Product Manager on the Wikimedia Foundation's Growth team, where I work on features that help newcomers start editing and feel confident contributing. I focus on the Newcomer Homepage, Mentorship, Structured Tasks, Community Configuration, and making mobile editing more engaging.
As a former librarian with a background in crowdsourced information platforms, I'm passionate about expanding access to knowledge and empowering people to take part in shaping it.
Ilana is the product manager for the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation, which focuses on building and improving tools for collaborative experiences on the wikis (such as campaigns, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects).