Astronomer and Social Communicator (UCH). Volunteer editor for Wikimedia since 2017. Her areas of expertise include scientific outreach, Open Science, and the use of open data for research purposes, using platforms like Wikidata.

I'm a rising senior computer science student at Clarkson University who's interested in ethical computing. I'm ultimately interested in the intersection between social change and technological advancement. I also am a Resident Advisor at my school and have been on my school's swim team for 3 years. I'm just beginning to get involved in the Wikimedia movement, having joined my professor on Wikipedia metadata research work a couple of months ago.

I have been actively involved in the Wikimedia movement for over 10 years, with a particular focus on promoting women’s contributions. As a lead volunteer, I have been dedicated to organizing and participating in annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Tel Aviv, collaborating with key cultural organizations such as Artport. I have also attended several Wikimanias, off line in site and online during covid19. My work spans from organizing events to training new contributors and advocating for greater representation of women and marginalized groups on Wikipedia. I am passionate about open knowledge, inclusivity, and fostering a supportive environment for new contributors.

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An editor on the English Wikipedia for the last couple of decades with an interest in STEM areas particularly around biology, I am also involved in outdoor ecology education. I have been promoting Wikipedia editing especially among the academically-oriented in India.

My lightning talk at Wikimania will be about the Wikipedia Library and how its use might be enhanced by looking at it through the lens of evolutionary biology with parallels to social organisms, stigmergy, and information foraging.

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 joined Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda in 2019, I have acquired knowledge from experienced Wikimedians both in Uganda and abroad. I have had the opportunity to be mentored by the best and I am currently passing on the knowledge to a number of Wikimedians, I have attended a number of Wikimanias virtually including the 2022 Wikimania where Wikimedians in Uganda met to celebrate together. I have also been privilaged to have been part of the core organising team for a number of campaigns in Uganda.

Originally from Mexico City.
Pedagogue by UNAM and educator for life.

I have collaborated in different educational departments of museums. Evaluator of curricular plans and programs and I have participated as an adjunct teacher in university-level classes focused on material and immaterial cultural heritage and approach to cyberculture issues.

Wikipedian since 2015 and a faithful believer in free knowledge.

Currently Coordinator of the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program.

I'm Freddy, a wikipedian from Ecuador. I'm a bureaucrat in the Spanish Wikisource, although most of my current edits are in the Spanish Wikipedia. I'm part of the Wikimedistas de Ecuador and Wikimedia LGBT user groups. Most of my edits are focused on literature (particularly from Latin America), LGBT history (particularly from the global south) and Ecuadorian politics.

I work in the Policy Team of Wikimedia Germany since 2022. My focus is EU and international policy, for example I represent the german civil society at the newly founded Internet Governance Forum Germany (IGF-D). My other focus is Disinformation and the positive role Wikipedia is playing in the information environment. Before Wikipedia, I spent more than a decade with stabilising a professional and democracy oriented information space that is supporting human rights, peace and democratic systems.

Manar Yacoub Criner, Global Movement Communication Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation

My name is Lucy and I learnt to edit Wikipedia in 2019. I routinely edit with Wikiproject Women in Red, and have now written a biography for a woman from every country in the world. I have also worked as a Wikimedian in Residence, both for the National Trust and for LEEDS 2023. From 2021 to 2023 I was on the NW Europe Grants Comittee and in 2024 I joined the Wikimedia UK Community Development Committee.

Ceslause joined the Wikimedia movement in 2018 and has been actively involved in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group. He joined Wiki In Africa, a South African NGO in 2021 where he was the Project manager for Wiki Loves Africa Int’l media contest and WikiAfrica Hour vodcast.

He wass Wikimedian-In-Residence at Africa No Filter, leading the African Union’s and Wikimedia Foundation’s partnership project, Africa Knowledge Initiative, aimed at leveraging three AU holidays (Africa Youth Day, Wangari Maathai Day, Africa Day), Wikipedia and its sister projects to close the digital divide about Africans and Africa.

He currently is the Wikimedian-In-Residence leading the AfroCreatives WikiProject, leading the effort to close the gap that exists on the digital space about African film and TV and African literature using Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Richard Nevell has been a member of staff at Wikimedia UK since 2012. In that time he has led numerous partnerships with educational and cultural heritage organisations. He led the Connected Heritage project from 2021 to 2023, and wants more researchers and heritage professional to take part in writing Wikipedia. In his time with Wikimedia UK he had led dozens of training workshops and works closely with volunteers.

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

Mykola Kozlenko (User:NickK) is a member of Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organising team since 2012. He is the Vice-Chair of Board of Wikimedia Ukraine, an administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia and an active contributor on Commons with 50K+ edits.

Jorge Gemetto is a member of Wikimedistas de Uruguay. He has been working for over 15 years promoting access to knowledge and the public domain. He is part of the Latin American technical community and currently leads the Paulina project, where he develops data tools based on Wikidata for cultural heritage. He is also co-coordinator of the Ártica Cultural Center and a member of Creative Commons Uruguay.

I am Masum-al-Hasan Rocky, and I use my username as ROCKY in all Wikimedia projects. I have been a Wikipedian since 2013. I primarily work on Bangla Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Bangla Wikivoyage. I am the founder of the first ever Wiki Club in Bangladesh. I was also involved as a co-founder of Rajshahi Wikipedia Community, which is a divisional user community of local Wikipedians from Rajshahi Division under the local chapter Wikimedia Bangladesh. I am the board member of Wikimedia Bangladesh since 2016, I served as a General Secretary and Treasurer in the executive committee of Wikimedia Bangladesh.

President of Italian Linux Society (300+ voting members).

Tech Commission in Wikimedia Italy.

Author of the Tech Strategy in Wikimedia Switzerland.