2025-08-07 –, MOMBASA (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
This session will explore how the Reader Web and Mobile Apps teams of the Wikimedia Foundation have been working to engage and deepen our connections with our readers and donors to help ensure our movement’s long-term sustainability.
We would like to present current work and findings, as well as sketch out a direction for the future. We would like to discuss the way we approach retaining new and existing generations of readers on our platforms, and how we leverage experimentation and new technologies to achieve our goals.
We would also like to create space to brainstorm together and discuss how communities can work with us to build for current and future Wikipedia readers.
This session will showcase how the Wikimedia Foundation’s Reader Web and Mobile Apps teams are engaging readers and donors to strengthen our movement’s long-term sustainability. In the session, we would like to:
Discuss our overall strategy for readers and readership
Allow representatives of the Web and Apps teams to present our latest work, share key findings, and demonstrate new features we’ve built or are in the process of building.
Discuss how the teams are using experimentation and emerging technologies such as AI - how this approach is different from the past, and how we plan on working with communities through these processes
The session will include strategic overviews, live demos, impact insights from recent initiatives, and time for Q&A for feedback and identifying potential community collaborations.
- What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.
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Collaboration, Product development
- How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
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This session looks at ways that Wikipedia can bring more readers to the wikis from various backgrounds and generations. In this way, it relates to the theme of inclusivity.
- 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
Hi! I'm Olga and I'm a principle product manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. I think about a lot about the readers of Wikimedia projects and work to make their experience on the site better and more engaging.
Joseph Seddon is the Engineering Manager for the Mobile Apps team at the Wikimedia Foundation, supporting the Charts taskforce, and the Wikipedia iOS and Android teams. Prior to this position, Seddon served as a community relations specialist, collaborating with the Wikimedia Enterprise and Fundraising teams. As a volunteer, Seddon is an administrator on the English Wikipedia, focusing on topics related to the space launch industry and lunar exploration. Seddon was formerly involved with Wikimedia UK, serving as a Director and Trustee from 2009-2011 and 2013-2015, respectively.