2025-08-09 –, MERU (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
🎥 Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/IIJaOtycCf0?feature=shared&t=7317 🎥
We want to keep improving the online engagement of Wikimania. In this session, we will briefly present what changed in the online elements of Wikimania in the past years through Eventyay, what we already know we want to improve and then continue into a discussion with our online participants for feedback and ideas.
We want to keep improving the online engagement of Wikimania. In this session, we will briefly present what changed in the online elements of Wikimania in the past years through Eventyay, what we already know we want to improve and then continue into a discussion with our online participants for feedback and ideas.
- What program track best fits your session? This is your session’s primary thematic category.
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Community Engagement
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Conferences
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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Online engagement at Wikimania allows many more people to participate!
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
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Some experience will be needed
- 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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Hybrid, with some speakers in Nairobi and others dialing in remotely
- 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
- Etherpad for the session:
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https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2025_Future_of_Online_Engagement
Lodewijk is a Wikipedian since 2005, active in the Dutch Wikipedia community. He was part of the international team of Wiki Loves Monuments for many years, and is currently chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee.
Elena Lappen is a Movement Communications Manager, working for the Foundation since 2018. She is part of the Core Organizing Team of Wikimania and also contributes to a number of other projects including Diff, Conversations with the Trustees, improving the Foundation's presence on Meta-Wiki, and communications support for other Foundation teams in their collaborative work with Wikimedia communities.
Mario Behling is an open source innovator passionate about fostering collaboration and connecting communities through technology. In 2009, he co-founded FOSSASIA with Hong Phuc Dang. Under his leadership, the organization has launched over 200 open source projects, built a community of 7,000+ developers on GitHub, and pioneered solutions like Eventyay, SUSI.AI, the Pocket Science Lab IoT platform, and Badge Magic.