"Users with extended rights" (admins, checkusers, arbitrators, stewards, bureaucrats, oversighters etc.) - are a central component of  Wikimedia communities: the front line of protecting and sustaining Wikimedia projects. Being elected by their communities, they hold community trust and support the safety of the communities and the reliability of the content.
Last year at Wikimania we organized the first ever global convening of users with extended rights. This year we are inviting users for a second edition.
This event will be a place for users to connect with one another, exchange experiences across wikis, brainstorm solutions to problems, discuss areas of emphasis for new collaborative work, to build capacity by learning from each other, and to create a network for support into the future. Topics will include safety, privacy, policy tooling, and cross-wiki experience exchange. The program will be co-created with users with extended rights themselves, making sure that the event will be meaningful for this group.

With both Wikipedia and Creative Commons turning 25, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to jointly celebrate this milestone at Wikimania 2026 in Paris. The Commons Salon is an intimate, participatory gathering marking 25 years of Creative Commons as a lived, human practice.

In small, facilitated circles, Wikimedians, creators, educators, and stewards of shared knowledge will share stories of joy, tension, care, and contradiction, celebrating what openness has made possible. This is a collective moment to reconnect Creative Commons to our relationships, our responsibilities, and our hopes for the next generation.

We would like to propose a full day gathering where participants rotate through curated “salons”. Each salon will be designed to explore different dimensions of CC as lived experience and will produce a shared artifact.

In 2024, the government of Brazil, alongside the UN Secretariat and UNESCO, launched the “Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change”. This multistakeholder effort is an ambitious drive to promote the United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity and advance the Digital Global Compact.

Information integrity on climate change has been in the agenda of the Wikimedia movement, as shown by the five initiatives by Wikimedia groups approved as part of the Mutirão ahead of COP30. In 2025, at Wikimania in Nairobi, we had our first Pre-Conference on Information Integrity on Climate Change. Additionally, the Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Brasil were selected to be one of the first projects being recipents of the Fund coming from the Global Initiative.

This Pre-Conference will:

• Present the Global Initiative and the current high-level policy framework.
• Establish an empirical basis for the discussion, disseminating key research on the topic.
• Evaluate the strategic alignment of Wikimedia communities and other Digital Public Goods with the high-level policy frameworks.
• Design a multi-stakeholder roadmap that translates policy into scalable interventions for Wikimedia and other DPGs to bridge information gaps and ensure the delivery of accurate, reliable and high-integrity climate knowledge.

To accomplish these goals, the Pre-Conference will facilitate high-level strategic exchange, convening stakeholders to translate multilateral information integrity policies into institutional strategies and operational priorities. This process aims to bridge the gap between global frameworks and the practical expertise of the Wikimedia movement's leadership.

Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/PreConf_Info_Integrity

This day is dedicated to using AI to make participation in the Wikiverse
- EASY by reducing friction & helping newbies
- FUN by enabling creativity & exploration
- MEANINGFUL by replacing drudgery with high-value work

We start with where we are now and a hands-on workshop on the kind of community we want to be with AI. Threads for the day include

Tools for Reliability & Defense

• Defending the public record: assisting with anti-vandalism, source verification and detection of AI-mediated spam and slop
• What has changed with LLMs, what hasn't, and where the tradeoffs lie.

Building with AI & Ecosystem Tooling

• AI-assisted development for non-developers
• Current tools & repos for interacting with global knowledge (HuggingFace, PublicAI, Wiki AI skills)
• Expanding global library access for contributors (Internet Archive, The Wikipedia Library, Common Corpus)

More than just Major Wikipedias

• Empowering Small(er) Wikis - AI as a force and challenge for underrepresented languages and knowledge gaps: accessibility and tool discoverability
• Commons & Media - from clearing categorisation backlogs to the disputes over AI-generated images

Also, we'll have a Wikigame and Breakout Tables - small-group tables with an open agenda. Bring a project or just curiosity.

Here's the registration link. If you have Wikimania tickets, you can just drop by, but consider registering anyway - it will help us understand how many attendees will be at the event.

Curious about the full program? See the event page.

It is so much easier to collaborate and create together when you know each other’s names, faces and what connect us!
This is why we are inviting everyone to come and get to know each other before we dive into full Wikimania mode. This is in person session on pre-conference day dedicated to connecting with other: meeting new people and getting to know each other through engaging conversations and fun activities.
The session is organized by Wikimedia Europe and CEE Hub.

Register!

Register HERE.
The session will be split into 2 rounds. You can register to join one of the rounds. There is no specific requirement about which you should choose, but each round will have a slightly different profile.

• Round 1 at 9:30 - 11:00: We encourage affiliates' team members, board members and community organisers to join this round. There will be more opportunity to share experiences and find collaborators.
• Round 2 at 11:30 - 13:00: We encourage anyone who just wants to meet new people to join this round. There will be more opportunity to connect across interests.

The number of spots available in each round is limited and we will reach out to you with a confirmation of your spot before 17th July (Friday before the conference week).

The idea & What to expect

• You will be able to choose topics/tables to join conversations and activities that will help you make new connections.
• You don’t have to be an extrovert, we will support all levels of openness to meet new people.
• The goal is to make it easier to connect across borders, find shared experiences and interests that can be in the future transformed into collaboration, projects or friendships across wikiverse!

Gender equity sessions focusing on empowerment, strategy, and content gaps.

Registration

The Commons Photographers User Group organizes a pre-conference for the members of the user group and all people interested in photography and Wikimedia Commons.

Schedule:

See the full schulde here.

Join us for the opening reception to the Team Challenges!

PLEASE NOTE: Registering for the Team Challenges does not provide access to Wikimania, the Team Challenges are a separate event

For 25 years, the Wikimedia movement has embodied the values of the free and universal sharing of all human knowledge for the benefit of humanity.
In 2026, the challenges we face are greater than ever before. More of the world’s population is online than ever before – but significant inequalities remain in terms of connectivity and access to information. The spread of misinformation and disinformation is also accelerating with the use of AI.

It is to address these developments that we are introducing the Wikimania Team Challenges. This year, we are inviting a specially curated group of experts to join forces with participants in our Wikimania Hackathon to help reflect on what is needed to build the sustainable, inclusive, and universal digital public goods of the future.

We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets !
The Wikimania Team Challenges offers the opportunity to join an international movement working collectively to ensure free access to knowledge. Whether you’re a coding expert or simply curious about free knowledge, your contribution will have a visible impact on a worldwide digital commons: the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia (encyclopaedia), Wikimedia Commons (media library), Wikidata (database), Wiktionary (dictionaries), Wikisource (library) and many others.

Read more and sign up at the Team Challenges page.

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In room A+B (Capacity 50 people)

In this session, Dr Terri Janke, Solicitor Director, and Shevaun Wright, Senior Associate, of Terri Janke & Company (TJC) will share their work developing the CultureStrong Guide for Wikimedia Australia (WMAU). Created in collaboration between WMAU, TJC and an Indigenous Expert Working Group, the Guide provides practical guidance for Wikimedia contributors and users working with Indigenous content across Wikimedia platforms.

The CultureStrong Guide gives contributors and users practical ways to work with Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) on Wikimedia platforms. It introduces a risk-based matrix and practical tools for identifying and working with Indigenous content, recognising Indigenous authority and attribution, and supporting culturally aware engagement on open knowledge platforms.

Through an overview of the Guide and an interactive discussion, attendees are invited to discuss, reflect on and explore how these approaches may be adapted and applied within their own cultural contexts.

Book through Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/culturestrong-respecting-indigenous-cultural-and-intellectual-property-and-indigenous-data-sovereignty-on-wikimedia-platforms

Advocacy and policy professionals from non-Wikimedia organisations will run capacity building trainings for Wikimedians from all over the world. Topics may include developing a communications strategy, coalition building and talking to decision makers.

In 2024, the government of Brazil, alongside the UN Secretariat and UNESCO, launched the “Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change”. This multistakeholder effort is an ambitious drive to promote the United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity and advance the Digital Global Compact.
Information integrity on climate change has been in the agenda of the Wikimedia movement, as shown by the five initiatives by Wikimedia groups approved as part of the Mutirão ahead of COP30. In 2025, at Wikimania in Nairobi, we had our first Pre-Conference on Information Integrity on Climate Change. Additionally, the Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Brasil were selected to be one of the first projects being recipents of the Fund coming from the Global Initiative.
This Pre-Conference will:

• Present the Global Initiative and the current high-level policy framework.
• Establish an empirical basis for the discussion, disseminating key research on the topic.
• Evaluate the strategic alignment of Wikimedia communities and other Digital Public Goods with the high-level policy frameworks.
• Design a multi-stakeholder roadmap that translates policy into scalable interventions for Wikimedia and other DPGs to bridge information gaps and ensure the delivery of accurate, reliable and high-integrity climate knowledge.

To accomplish these goals, the Pre-Conference will facilitate high-level strategic exchange, convening stakeholders to translate multilateral information integrity policies into institutional strategies and operational priorities. This process aims to bridge the gap between global frameworks and the practical expertise of the Wikimedia movement's leadership.

**PLEASE NOTE: Registering for the Team Challenges does not provide access to Wikimania, the Team Challenges are a separate event***
For 25 years, the Wikimedia movement has embodied the values of the free and universal sharing of all human knowledge for the benefit of humanity.
In 2026, the challenges we face are greater than ever before. More of the world’s population is online than ever before – but significant inequalities remain in terms of connectivity and access to information. The spread of misinformation and disinformation is also accelerating with the use of AI.
It is to address these developments that we are introducing the Wikimania Team Challenges. This year, we are inviting a specially curated group of experts to join forces with participants in our Wikimania Hackathon to help reflect on what is needed to build the sustainable, inclusive, and universal digital public goods of the future.
We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets !
The Wikimania Team Challenges offers the opportunity to join an international movement working collectively to ensure free access to knowledge. Whether you’re a coding expert or simply curious about free knowledge, your contribution will have a visible impact on a worldwide digital commons: the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia (encyclopaedia), Wikimedia Commons (media library), Wikidata (database), Wiktionary (dictionaries), Wikisource (library) and many others.
Read more and sign up at https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Team_challenges

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"Users with extended rights" (admins, checkusers, arbitrators, stewards, bureaucrats, oversighters etc.) - are a central component of  Wikimedia communities: the front line of protecting and sustaining Wikimedia projects. Being elected by their communities, they hold community trust and support the safety of the communities and the reliability of the content.

Last year at Wikimania we organized the first ever global convening of users with extended rights. This year we are inviting users for a second edition.
This event will be a place for users to connect with one another, exchange experiences across wikis, brainstorm solutions to problems, discuss areas of emphasis for new collaborative work, to build capacity by learning from each other, and to create a network for support into the future. Topics will include safety, privacy, policy tooling, and cross-wiki experience exchange. The program will be co-created with users with extended rights themselves, making sure that the event will be meaningful for this group.

The Volunteer Supporters Network (VSN) is an open network of Wikimedians who support Wikimedia volunteers.  As a Hub pilot, our mission is to enhance volunteer support in the Wikimedia movement. We want to improve the conditions for online and offline participation of volunteers, to increase diversity and to strengthen the spirit of global cooperation and innovation. By taking part in this session, you’ll be directly contributing to the work of the Hub pilot, and helping us to shape work being done to support people just like you.

There are any number of ways to describe those people doing work in the movement to onboard, train and support volunteers, and any number of things that that job entails! So whether you're a Volunteer manager, Community Coordinator, Trainer, or work in Community Engagement, we'd love to see you. You do not have to already be a member or liaison of the VSN to attend.

This session will feature the following:

• Introduction to the VSN, and a summary of what we've been doing as a Hub pilot
• Opportunity to meet with others working in volunteer support in the movement, to share our experiences and learn from each other
• Contribution to a mapping exercise to understand more about what volunteer support looks like across the movement. Come and tell us more about your role, and about the knowledge & skills that you feel you need.

More information about the VSN and the Hub pilot can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Supporters_Network

This day is dedicated to using AI to make participation in the Wikiverse
- EASY by reducing friction & helping newbies
- FUN by enabling creativity & exploration
- MEANINGFUL by replacing drudgery with high-value work

We start with where we are now and a hands-on workshop on the kind of community we want to be with AI. Threads for the day include

Tools for Reliability & Defense

• Defending the public record: assisting with anti-vandalism, source verification and detection of AI-mediated spam and slop
• What has changed with LLMs, what hasn't, and where the tradeoffs lie.

Building with AI & Ecosystem Tooling

• AI-assisted development for non-developers
• Current tools & repos for interacting with global knowledge (HuggingFace, PublicAI, Wiki AI skills)
• Expanding global library access for contributors (Internet Archive, The Wikipedia Library, Common Corpus)

More than just Major Wikipedias

• Empowering Small(er) Wikis - AI as a force and challenge for underrepresented languages and knowledge gaps: accessibility and tool discoverability
• Commons & Media - from clearing categorisation backlogs to the disputes over AI-generated images

Also, we'll have a Wikigame and Breakout Tables - small-group tables with an open agenda. Bring a project or just curiosity.

Here's the registration link. If you have Wikimania tickets, you can just drop by, but consider registering anyway - it will help us understand how many attendees will be at the event.
Curious about the full program? See the event page.

Gender equity sessions focusing on empowerment, strategy, and content gaps.

The Commons Photographers User Group organizes a preconference for the members of the user group and all people interested in photography and Wikimedia Commons. There will be two main tracks: "photography and projects", where photographers share their projects and experiences with others. The second track will be "Commons policies", where we discuss the future of Wikimedia Commons.

En Salle A+B

In rooms E-F
Program: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Virtual_room

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RCoFueOvMeo?t=1

Digital sovereignty has risen to the top of policy debates in Europe, and around the world. There is growing interest in Digital Commons as a pathway to sovereignty that centres public value and participation. In this context, calls for sustained public funding of critical digital infrastructure have gained real traction — yet the conversation has largely focused on open source software.

Yet Digital Commons are a much broader concept, and Wikipedia stands as a paradigmatic example of foundational knowledge infrastructure that is collectively produced and stewarded. At the same time, it faces mounting pressures: Generative AI has intensified questions of sustainable appropriation; coordinated, well-resourced threats to information integrity are growing in scale and sophistication; and long-standing questions of representation remain unresolved: whose knowledge is reflected in Wikipedia, and whose is absent?

At a moment when policymakers are mobilising around the resilience and reliability of essential digital infrastructure, knowledge infrastructure such as Wikipedia also deserves focus.

This panel brings together voices from the Wikipedia community, partners from civil society and policy experts to explore: How should Digital Commons like Wikipedia be positioned in the digital sovereignty conversation? How can the community engage strategically around questions of reliability, equity, and plurality. What kind of public policies could support Wikipedia and the broader knowledge commons?

Many contributors have heard of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC), but far fewer understand what it actually means in practice for their communities. How does it affect everyday editing? What should you do if you believe a rule has been broken? Where can you seek support, and how do enforcement pathways really work?

This session is a practical “UCoC 101” — a hitchhiker’s guide to understanding the system from reporting to resolution. We will walk through what the UCoC is, how it applies across Wikimedia projects, and the different levels of response available within the movement. Participants will gain a general idea of what issues are basic and can be resolved locally, and where you might have to take it to a different support structure.

For newer contributors, this workshop offers a clear and accessible introduction to rights, responsibilities, and reporting options. For experienced editors, administrators, and community organizers, it provides an opportunity to examine how the an easier guidelines and navigation through the process can be used to manage violations more consistently and sustainably.

The goal is not only awareness, but confidence: helping participants navigate UCoC processes thoughtfully, reduce uncertainty, and strengthen community trust.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/JLUm5WbtDAk?t=658

Panel "Formations à ou avec Wikipédia dans les cursus universitaires" : 3 présentations :

1. Wiki'IST ;
2. WikiMars (résumé ci-dessous) ;
3. mésinformation & Wikipédia (en marge d'un poster) ;
4. (WikiSavoirs) ;
5. échanges avec le public.

L'introduction de Wikipédia dans les cursus classiques d'enseignement universitaire ne va pas de soi. En effet, la majorité de ceux-ci sont basés sur un schéma disciplinaire, approche à laquelle Wikipédia est globalement perpendiculaire. Malgré cela, plusieurs dispositifs permettent divers types de formation :

• au sein d'un cursus, unités d'enseignement dites d'ouverture ;
• au sein d'unités d'enseignement disciplinaires, via un travail particulier.

La modalité présentée ici combine ces deux caractéristiques : une approche disciplinaire, mais donnée dans un cadre d'ouverture. À l'université Grenoble Alpes (France) où nous proposons cet enseignement intitulé "Étoiles & planètes" depuis maintenant plus d'une dizaine d'années, il n'existe pas de parcours de type "planétologie", ni "astrophysique", alors qu'au sein de l'Observatoire en Sciences de l'Univers" (OSUG),, la demande de stages étudiant·e·s pour ces disciplines est, et à l'origine, était, forte. Le cadre que nous avons choisi est donc celui d'un module d'ouverture, proposé à toustes les étudiant·e·s de licence (1è à 3è année universitaire), enseignement sur 10 séances de deux heures, chacune donnée par un·e scientifique spécialiste du domaine (et bon vulgarisateurice), plus un travail collaboratif de synthèse bibliographique, dénommé « projet WikiMars », travaillé tout le semestre.
Ce travail, tutoré, est phasé en trois moments : formation du quadrinôme et choix de l'objet de la monographie ; recherche bibliographique et partage de connaissances ; mise en forme d'article pour Wikipédia (en zone de brouillon).
En 10 ans de réalisation sous cette forme, environ 800 étudiant·e·s ont ainsi été initiés à la contribution à Wikipédia.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ER342VJb3fM?t=1

This session will show you how to get to and use Wikipedia and other Wikimedia resources without an internet connection. When the internet goes down, learning shouldn't stop. It is especially important in places where electricity isn't always reliable, internet access is limited, mobile data is expensive, learning is done remotely, or there is censorship.

You'll learn how to use offline tools like Kiwix to download and access all or part of Wikimedia content. No signal? No problem. We'll walk through how to install and use these tools on Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS devices. You'll also learn how to work with ZIM files, including how to download, store, and share them easily. Additionally, we'll explore other offline resources and simple methods for saving and reading individual articles offline, giving you a complete toolkit for offline access.

Knowledge should be available even when the internet is not. We'll explore real-world examples from Africa and other parts of the world that show how offline Wikipedia has made a difference in schools, during disasters, in prisons, and in remote communities. These stories demonstrate that access to knowledge can truly change lives.

This session is for Wikimedians, educators, and anyone who supports free knowledge, especially those living in areas with limited or no internet access. You don't need technical experience to participate. If you're curious about practical solutions, you're welcome here. Bring your questions. Share your experience. Let's make knowledge accessible everywhere.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/jcFHu20jtgI?t=1726

Internet users are rapidly integrating AI into their online practicises; negotiations are underway between online service providers and AI companies to enable access to numerous practical services through the latter; and legislation isn’t moving quickly enough to halt this transformation. Lately, numerous discussions took place within the Wikimedia movement regarding the consequences and risks of an artificially enhanced web for projects.
Here, we assume that these risks have been acknowledged, and we propose a hypothetical scenario: in a world where search engines and indexed websites become marginal, in favor of an environment where 90% of usage relies on closed applications and generative AI, what levers can the Wikimedia movement use to ensure its continued existence?

Cette table ronde part de trois constats : les internautes modifient leurs pratiques à grande vitesse pour intégrer l’IA dans leurs usages ; des négociations sont en cours entre prestataires de services en ligne  et géants de l’IA pour permettre d’accéder à de nombreux services pratiques à travers ces derniers ; et la législation n’est pas assez rapide pour arrêter la transformation. Ces derniers mois de très nombreuses discussions ont eu lieu dans le mouvement Wikimédia sur les risques, et les conséquences pour les projets, d’un web artificialisé. 
Ici nous partons du principe que ces risques ont été entendus, et proposons une expérience de projection : dans un monde où 90 % des usages passent par des applications fermées et des IA génératives, quels sont les leviers d’action du mouvement Wikimédia pour perdurer ?

Animator: Jeanne Brétécher
Panelists:

• Philippe Saadé, Computer Scientist & Data Analyst, Wikidata MCP, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Alec Tarkowski, Open Future Foundation
• Anastasia Stasenko, cofounder of Pleias
• Lane Becker, President of the Wikimedia Enterprise project

Une conférence en compagnie de Framasoft et de l'April pour comprendre pourquoi contribuer au libre, c’est un peu comme éditer Wikipédia…
Ces deux mousquetaires du Libre défendent, bidouillent et popularisent les logiciels libres depuis des années, avec un humour et une énergie qui feraient pâlir d’envie un article bien référencé.
Pourquoi venir ? Parce que si vous aimez Wikipedia, vous allez adorer découvrir comment ces trois acteurs rendent le numérique aussi ouvert, collaboratif et accessible que votre encyclopédie préférée. Et en prime, vous repartirez avec des astuces pour libérer un peu plus votre quotidien numérique.

To accommodate a larger audience, "Three things about Wikimedia that even experienced Wikimedians might not know" has been moved to Est Room, 12:00pm on Thursday

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/PnHW-dpyOGo?t=43

Wiki Game Jams are workshops during which game makers and Wikimedians come together to build games and interactive art powered or inspired by Wikipedia and its sister projects. In the tradition of serious and civic games, WikiGameJams help expand audiences of Wikipedia by providing access to knowledge in a different format, raise awareness of Wiki projects and even support certain editing tasks.

This workshop aims at equipping other movement organizers and volunteers with the skills for running their own WikiGames events, either focused on digital or physical games, and on creation, further development or community engagement through games. It will present the WikiGameJam 2025-26 events series in the United States, a typology of the games created, a toolkit for planning your own, and support participants in making plans for hosting their own.

About Wiki Game Jam: an initiative from Wikihaus, Wikigamejam events bring together audiences, Wikimedians, developers and designers to envision playful way to engage with and in building knowledge - and wiki projects. Wikigamejam.org

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/5V_Y-BYVlZQ?t=2

Building on the Internet Archive’s work to protect Wikipedia’s references Turn All References Blue, the Internet Archive Europe set the challenge to use contemporary AI techniques to contribute candidate references from academic articles to Wikipedia editors at scale.

The workshop will demo the initial version of the system and introduce editors to the easy to use system.  Archive Sources uses a pipeline of contemporary AI techniques to find academic papers relevant to claims made in Wikipedia articles, from an index of 237 million academic passages. These paper passages may back up existing claims, add missing citations, or surface newer research that updates or nuances what the article currently says. Future work will rank the candidate citation passages to English wikipedia passages in databases.

🗼 Wikimania 2026 will provide two opportunities of creativity, collaboration, and innovation set against the vibrant city of Paris, France. A vital part of Wikimania is the creation of collaboration and learning spaces for technical contributors, curious Wikimedians and knowledge enthusiasts. During this year’s Wikimania, the technical space will host an event where developers, designers, researchers, editors, and community builders from around the world meet to collectively address technical challenges faced by the Wikimedia community.
The technical event will have two main components:

• Team Challenges (pre-event and July 21-22): A hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
• Hackathon (July 23-25): Similar to previous years, the Hackathon will provide an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to collaborate on technical projects and solve problems together.We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets! The Hackathon is open to Wikimania participants.

More information: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Hackathon

Location : Stand 8, S2 level

The Digital Safety Clinic is a dedicated space staffed by Foundation staff knowledgeable in digital safety topics and practices. Its purpose is to educate and empower Wikimania participants to navigate the digital world safely and confidently. Attendees will have the opportunity to address concerns, ask questions, and receive practical solutions to digital safety challenges.

Whether you are a seasoned digital safety practitioner in your day-to-day life, or someone who never or rarely thinks about your digital safety, come have a chat, share your experience or find guidance on topics and concerns you may have.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/JLUm5WbtDAk?t=4826

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how knowledge is created, accessed, and verified. In education spaces where Wikipedia already plays a vital role, AI tools present both powerful opportunities and complex challenges.

This panel brings together education program leaders working across different regions to examine how AI intersects with Wikipedia in formal and informal learning environments. How are educators integrating AI responsibly into Wikimedia assignments? How do we protect reliability while embracing innovation? What does equity look like when AI systems are trained on uneven global knowledge representation?

Panelists will share practical experiences from their programs, including classroom integration, academic integrity concerns, bias mitigation, student skill development, and the evolving role of open knowledge in an AI-driven ecosystem. The discussion will also explore how Wikimedia communities can proactively shape AI conversations rather than react to them.

Participants will leave with practical considerations, ethical frameworks, and replicable approaches for engaging AI within Wikipedia-based education programs while upholding the movement’s values of openness, equity, and reliability.

Moderator: Filip Maljkovic, Wikimedia Serbia.

Panelists: LiAnna Davis (Wiki Education), Luisina Ferrante or Florencia Guastavino (Wikimedia Argentina), Jackeline Bucio García (National Autonomous University of Mexico), and Mohammad Hijjawi (Wikimedians of the Levant)

Related: the Wiki AI pre-conference (full day, 21 July) explores AI tools for editing, reviewing and illustrating Wikimedia content - see meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence/2026_Wiki_AI"

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RCoFueOvMeo?t=5137

Update 19 July 2026: the GRDC published the draft strategy on 17 July, in the hope that those attending this workshop will have opportunity to read it in advance:

• A diff post introducing the strategy is here: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/17/draft-grantmaking-strategy-launched-for-consultation-by-the-grdc/
• The draft strategy text is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Resource_Distribution_Committee/Grantmaking_Strategy_2026

This session presents the first results of the Global Resource Distribution Committee’s work since its official launch at Wikimania 2025. Over the past year, the GRDC has been advancing its core mandate: to design and propose a new resource distribution strategy for the Wikimedia Movement.
This session is designed mainly as a workshop. We will spend a short amount of time presenting the draft strategy, and then move into a collaborative space focused on co-creating the next steps. We plan to divide the session into two parts
Part 1: Present the draft resources allocation strategy

• Share the strategic priorities and goals of the draft strategy.
• Explain the rationale behind the proposed approach to resource distribution.
• Invite communities to contribute ideas, perspectives, and practical insights on implementation.

Part 2: Co-design next steps
Participants will work in small groups to contribute ideas, identify risks, and propose implementation pathways, with the following prompts as a guide to discussion:

• Where should we start?  What are your initial reflections on what’s been shared? To what extent do you support the proposed direction of travel? Were there any surprises for you?
• The process of drafting the strategy has involved gathering a lot of feedback and insight into key priorities across the movement. From the priorities shared, which do you believe is most pressing in terms of implementation?
• How do you think we could begin to operationalise the strategy? What do you think could be the risks of the new strategy?

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/jcFHu20jtgI?t=5600

Lately, numerous discussions took place within the Wikimedia movement regarding the consequences and risks of an all-AI Web for projects. Here, we assume that these risks have been acknowledged, and we propose a hypothetical scenario: in a world where 90% of usage relies on closed applications and generative AI, what levers can the Wikimedia movement use to ensure its continued existence?

Communities are responsible for the life and reliability of the Wikimedia projects. What can they do to fight AI “enshitification” on the wikis but also support advocacy efforts towards law makers and AI companies ?

Ces derniers temps, de nombreuses discussions ont eu lieu au sein du mouvement Wikimedia concernant les conséquences et les risques d'un Web entièrement basé sur l'IA pour les projets. Partant du principe que ces risques ont été reconnus, nous proposons un scénario hypothétique : dans un monde où 90 % des usages reposent sur des applications propriétaires et l'IA générative, quels leviers le mouvement Wikimedia peut-il actionner pour assurer sa pérennité ?

Les communautés sont responsables de la vie et de la fiabilité des projets Wikimedia. Comment peuvent-elles lutter contre la « désintégration » de l'IA sur les wikis, tout en soutenant les actions de plaidoyer auprès des législateurs et des entreprises spécialisées en IA ?

Animator: Jeanne Brétécher

• Matthias Schindler, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Léna - French community
• Chaotic Enby - English speaking community

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/PnHW-dpyOGo?t=5186

How might we transform a university’s course catalog, expert faculty, and multimedia archives into a global public good through the Wikimedia ecosystem?
This panel explores formal, institutional-scale collaborations that move beyond traditional classroom or departmental-level projects in higher education. We feature an array of emerging approaches and examples, such as from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), University of the Basque Country, and others. These initiatives might be framed as an evolution of traditional Wikimedian-in-Residence and GLAM-Wiki models, extending those proven frameworks of institutional partnership to a university-wide scale.
A focus is the shift toward a "multimedia-first" strategy. By integrating video lectures and course materials into Wikimedia Commons, partnerships go beyond text to bridge critical gaps in climate science, technology history, and women's history.
The session will address critical issues of this type of collaboration:

• Community Integration: Navigating the social and technical challenges of high-volume, automated contributions across multilingual projects.
• The Multimedia Shift: Transitioning a text-centric culture to effectively host, curate, and search complex digital assets like video and structured metadata.
• Sustainability: Moving from isolated, project-based "edit-a-thons" to permanent models that align with a university’s core mission of knowledge dissemination.

Historically, university engagement has been siloed within departments or library collections. This interactive session invites the GLAM, education, and multimedia communities to help shape a new model of engagement that respects the volunteer-led spirit of the movement while amplifying the reach of specialized academic knowledge to billions.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/5V_Y-BYVlZQ?t=4966

Cultural heritage institutions and their collections are fundamental to Wikimedia's mission, providing access to primary sources of history and culture that millions engage with daily. While many memory organizations share the open movement's values, the majority of the world's cultural heritage remains inaccessible online—whether locally or internationally. The Wikimedia movement serves as a crucial stakeholder and ally in supporting institutions seeking to make their collections available, with its global network of volunteers and experts proving essential to this endeavor.

This workshop demonstrates accessible digitization processes and streamlined workflows for Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, specifically designed for resource-constrained institutions. In 2022, the Goethe-Institut in São Paulo, Brazil, collaborating with Wikimedia Brasil and the Moreira Salles Institute, developed a comprehensive practical guide for digitizing and disseminating archival materials at scale within limited-resource environments. The workshop presents this newly translated guide with detailed demonstrations of each implementation stage, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools to undertake similar initiatives within their own institutional contexts. These resources are already being replicated across Latin American institutions through the Goethe-Institut's global network, and this workshop extends these proven methodologies to the broader Wikimedia movement through capacity building and knowledge exchange.

Published collection: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Taking_GLAM_collections_online_at_any_scale

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T6XMoyspuOs?t=927

In this workshop participants will learn about some fresh tools, user scripts that make Wikimedia Commons Contributions reliable and easy, some of the tools user scripts are mainly focused on new comers, campaign organizers, and even for selecting good and relevant images to design graphics brochures etc. in this 90 min hands-on workshop duration, attendees will learn at least 5 new/useful tools.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ER342VJb3fM?t=4995

Attendees to this interactive session will explore recent and upcoming innovations on the Wikipedia apps. Mobile Apps team members will provide a brief introduction: explaining how mobile apps fit into the larger reader strategy, demographic insights of Wikipedia app users (e.g. Country and Language) and sharing a few examples of recent experiments that measurably moved the needle for readers vs those that did not.

Then workshop participants will form small groups and pick from a list of early stage ideas via dot voting and collaboratively build out the concept (vibe coding, live designing, story boarding).. Each group will give their creation a score of impact and reasoning and share it with the wider group. Participants will also have the opportunity to add other reader focused ideas to the team’s backlog. The session will demonstrate the unique capabilities of rapid native mobile app development, surface community perspectives on how the apps can better capture and retain new generations of learners on mobile devices.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/F-Eg4sMuHec?t=750

This workshop will demonstrate three ideas for programs any community with a number of interested experienced editors can start tomorrow with zero budget. One involves outreach to professionals, another is a partnership with national or local governments around Wikidata, and the last one is a contribution campaign for complete beginners requiring next to no training using Wikidata and tools like Cradle or Tabernacle.

In the workshop we will co-create materials for these ideas or for other zero-budget ideas contributed by workshop attendees, so that attendees will come out of the workshop ready to execute (or continue refining the materials for) one or more of these zero-budget programs in their home communities.

A 20-minute presentation version was given at CEE Meeting 2025 [slides]. This expanded workshop will allow to give folks a hands-on experience in creating and running such zero-budget programs.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/PnHW-dpyOGo?t=8810

Are you an educator or researcher? Do you miss having an open, cross-institutional, multi-lingual collaborative space for hosting and collaborating on your classes or research? A space integrated with Wikipedia and the Commons, and where all materials are set to be free-as-in-freedom?

In this workshop we'll show you how to organize a course or research project on this unique Wikimedia project dedicated to supporting educators and researchers in their work. Through examples from of over a decade of experiences from users of Wikiversities in different languages, we'll guide participants to, by the end of the session, have their own personal pages and those for their courses or research projects set up and ready to go.

We'll also discuss technical and social challenges related to the use of wikis in this context, how to overcome them, and how to engage Wikimedia so we can keep improving Wikiversity.

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T6XMoyspuOs?t=4314

Many of our efforts revolve around attracting new editors or supporting long-time contributors. But are we doing the right things to a sufficient degree to support the journey from one end to the other? — Which onwiki and offwiki formats for casual editors are successful? How do we show appreciation for the engagement for the various roles in our movement? And how do we integrate new or young generations into established community groups the best?

In this workshop, community members will exchange their best practices for the social integration of new generations of users who have registered and casually edit but could turn into active community members or even leaders with the right support. After a brief introduction including the presentation of international examples, the participants will be invited to share their experiences either in a fishbowl format or in thematic groups about successful local formats and how they can be adapted to other contexts, about the roles within the local communities and movement activities and how the entry points can be easified, and about the ways of appreciation for any kind of participation in our movement and how we can make this more visible with a clear focus on new generations.

The participants of the workshop will leave the session with a bunch of new ideas on how to help their local communities try out new formats, clarify roles and value all kinds of participation in order to foster and thrive in a vivid and growing Wikimedia movement.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/JLUm5WbtDAk?t=8710

This session introduces the Wikidata Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standardized set of tools that enables large language models (LLMs) to explore and query Wikidata programmatically. While many LLMs can produce syntactically correct SPARQL queries, they often lack a deeper understanding of Wikidata’s data model and domain-specific relationships. The MCP connects LLMs to the Wikidata API and the Wikidata Query Service, guiding them through structured workflows to support users in their research.

A central component of this approach is the Wikidata Vector Database, developed within the Embedding Project. The vector database enables semantic search over Wikidata entities, supporting discovery beyond keyword search and graph traversal. By allowing models to identify conceptually related entities, semantic search provides contextual grounding before query generation.

In this session, we will present the Wikidata MCP and the Vector Database, demonstrate how to leverage language models to explore Wikidata and generate SPARQL queries, and show how this approach supports transparent, grounded responses while reducing hallucinations and misinformation.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ER342VJb3fM?t=8660

Wikisource Reader App is a recently developed free and open e-book reading application for Android users currently available on Google play store. It utilizes the power of Wikidata to fetch readily available books from the free and open digital library of Wikisource projects and provides a clean interface with pleasant reading experience to its users. In the first half of the session, there will be a live demonstration showcasing the different features of the app. In the second half of the session, the participants will learn to enrich bibliographical data on Wikidata according to the FRBR model with understanding of the mandatory criteria required in those Wikidata items for a Wikisource content to be included in the app through a brief hands-on Wikidata workshop. The entire session is intended to be interactive in nature with an aim to gather feedback from the participants and share insights with each other. Hopefully, by the end of the session, the participants will be able to improve data of a few more books for the app and there will be at least one new language Wikisource project ready for the next release.

Useful links:

• Google Play Store: download and install the Android version
• GitHub repo: Contribute to the code
• Phabricator workboard: Submit feature requests and report for bugs
• WikiProject Books: FRBR bibliographic data model
• WSindex API: Fetch bibliographical data from Wikidata
• Translatewiki: Translate the app interface in your language
• Meta-wiki: Read project documentation
• Website: Know more about the app

Italian and Persian language Wikipedia communities organized a collaboration in 2025, it was a one month writing contest editathon in which we would write new articles in Italian about Iran, and new articles in Persian about Italy, with books as prizes for the top editors. This collaboration was a great success, so the Italian community replicated it this year with the Russian community. The format was the same, so the object of the new articles were again out respective countries. This kind of bilateral collaborations could be easily replicated by other communities, especially ones with an established chapter or usergroup, but even in it's absence (both Iran and Russia have severe issues about this). We want to share what worked and what didn't, and help Wikimedia communities to open themselves to the rest of our global movement.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RCoFueOvMeo?t=10925

The following Lightning talks will be presented:

1. À connaissance Libre, IA Libre : promesses, échecs et questions ouvertes – Benjamin Bellamy & Julie Hunter
2. Warming Up the Incubator: How Can We Improve Wikimedia Incubator? – NikolasKHF
3. Tech Strategy of Wikimedia Switzerland 🇨🇭 Open Source unlocks Innovation – Valerio Bozzolan

Reliable references are at the core of Wikimedia projects, yet citation workflows remain complex, inconsistent across language versions, and difficult to adapt to the needs of authors with different experience levels. WMDE Technical Wishes aims to support users who add and maintain references by improving citation features in our “improvements to references”-focus area.

This interactive workshop invites Wikimedians from different projects to explore challenges in referencing workflows and help shape future development priorities of our team. We will discuss current projects – like improvements to Reference Previews, Citoid or to re-using references in VisualEditor – gather the community's sentiment on proposed solutions and collect ideas for future improvements to references.

Workshop attendees might also be interested in attending the Wiki AI pre-conference which features sessions on reference reliability. Other recommended Wikimania sessions on referencing / citations: 1, 2, 3, 4.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/F-Eg4sMuHec?t=6373

تمثيل اللغات المحلية في مشاريع ويكيميديا Representation of Local Languages in Wikimedia Projects
إن تقليص الفجوات اللغوية بتمثيل اللغات المحلية يعرف إشكالات عدة مرتبطة بالانتشار والتدوين، لذلك يأتي هذا العرض لإبراز التحديات التي تواجهها مثل عدم وجود معايير موحدة للكتابة /كتنوع كتابة الأصوات المنطوقة أو الاعتماد على طريقة تدوين اللغات المجاورة لها../ ومشاكل مرتبطة بكتابة المعجم الأجنبي وتنوع الخصوصيات اللغوية المحلية وتعددها، وإشكالية المراجع ونوعيتها..
 أقترح مناقشة هذه القضايا، وفي هذا الإطار أقترح مشاركة أفكاري التالية:
-        تعزيز انتشار المقالات باللغات المحلية بوضع وصلات لها، في المقالات باللغات الممعيرة /خاصة إذا كانت الكلمة في اللغة المحلية اسم علم أو تم اقتراضها في اللغات الأخرى/، فبنقرة على الكلمة في المقالة باللغة الممعيرة نصل إلى المقالة باللغة المحلية...
-        بما أنها لغات شفوية محلية اعتاد الناس على سماعها مع عدم الاعتياد على قراءتها أو صعوبة ذلك )أمام تعدد التنوعات اللغوية خاصة إذا كان الحيز الجغرافي الذي تمثله كبيرا، وتنوع طريقة وحروف تدوينها..( فدعمها بتسجيلات صوتية سيمكن من الإقبال عليها من طرف فئات عدة من المستخدمين، مع الحفاظ على الخصوصية الصوتية التي تضيع في كتابة غير ممعيرة مع ربط هذه الخصوصية بالثقافة المحلية.
-        إنشاء وتطوير المقالات الواصفة لبنية اللغة المحلية وتعزيزها بالمراجع العلمية...
-  ربط المقالات بويكي قاموس، إنه اقتراح عام يسعى لربط كلمات المقالات بويكي قاموس حيث بنقرة على الكلمة يتمكن القارئ من التعرف على معنى الكلمة أو حتى ترجمتها.

ملاحظة: يمكنني تقديم العمل أيضا بالفرنسية مع ترجمة المحتوى المعروض للغة الإنجليزية، لضمان وصول الفكرة بشكل أفضل للجمهور المتنوع ونظرا لما يمثله هذا العمل من أهمية لي ولمساري

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/MlU0wG1RX30?t=1740

The Asia Meetup at Wikimania brings together Wikimedia contributors, affiliates,
and organizers from across Asia to strengthen regional collaboration, exchange
best practices, and identify shared challenges and opportunities. The session will
provide space for networking, lightning sharing, and future partnership building
across Asian communities. This meetup aims to foster cross-border cooperation
and increase representation and visibility of Asian voices within the global
Wikimedia movement.

DEUX RÉUNIONS EN UNE

Réunion du comité des bourses : Évaluation des expériences.
Espace d'échange entre l'équipe d'évaluation 2026 et les membres de la prochaine équipe. Synthèse des enseignements tirés, propositions d'améliorations et de changements.

Réunion du comité programme : Évaluation des expériences.
Espace d'échange entre l'équipe d'évaluation 2026 et les membres de la prochaine équipe. Synthèse des enseignements tirés, propositions d'améliorations et de changements.

This meetup provides an opportunity for informal meetup and networking opportunity for individuals involving in higher education (e.g. instructors, researchers, graduate students, chapter affiliate staff) to discuss their recent activities, experiences and share best practices. Participants are also invited to join the Telegram group: https://t.me/+aY3hZOgnRFI1OTFk

Quienes estamos en contacto directo con alumnado y profesorado que utiliza Wikipedia /entorno Wikimedia necesitamos charlar e intercambiar dinámicas y experiencias para que surjan redes de colaboración. En Wikimanía 2025 tuvimos la oportunidad, casi improvisada, de reunirnos 15 personas que trabajamos estos temas y debatirlo en nuestra lengua. Como docentes, estamos en contacto directo con estudiantes y agentes de cambio, que podrían tener una gran incidencia en el futuro y en el trabajo de la verificabilidad de fuentes. Los capítulos con programas de educación tienen un papel importante, pero trabajar directamente con quienes estamos en contacto directo con estudiantes lo es aún más, puesto que somos quienes estamos en el día a día con el alumnado, somos quienes podemos tomar la temperatura de lo que pasa en el aula, de lo que se siente y se hace en relación con nuestros proyectos. Al fin y al cabo, somos quienes ayudamos a formar conciencia crítica en las nuevas generaciones.
Buscamos poder encontrarnos personalmente, charlar en español, debatir y sobre todo, generar y/o consolidar lazos para seguir trabajando y adoptando nuevas perspectivas para implementar en el aula.

Meet with other Art+Feminism community members and hear about the latest from Art+Feminism.

This session will showcase the experiences of Wikimedians in Residence (WiRs) from around the world, highlighting the evolving nature of their roles, the challenges they face, and the strategies and tools they use across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and beyond. Participants will share insights from both long-standing and newly launched initiatives, offering a wide perspective on scientific, cultural and institutional partnerships. Whether you're just exploring the concept or already working in the field, you’ll walk away with practical ideas, tested approaches, and a deeper understanding of the WiR role.

Meetup Etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimania_2026_WiR_meetup
Google slides link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d9-ACr2r5TtL-ZqWWILyStAMS1IaTUl4OGHOVVB-O6s/edit?usp=sharing

Raspberry Jams are community-led events that happen all around the world. They bring together hobbyists, developers, teachers, students, and open-source enthusiasts to learn, share, and play with Raspberry Pi and will discuss how Raspberry Pi is used for education, digital access, and open knowledge sharing in resource-constrained settings. Lots of new hardware related initiation started other then Internet-in-a-Box so after successful Jam at Wikimania Nairobi we are super exited to host this at Paris.

We at Wiki Med are relaunching the hardware donation program and have 10 laptops to distribute to Wikipedians at Wikimania. This event is open to all who are interested in helping expand the effort.

We currently have partnered with two organizations Turing Trust and PCs for People regarding getting low cost second hand laptops

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/PnHW-dpyOGo?t=17732

Communication is often understood as a support function, a way to disseminate information, promote activities, or increase visibility. This workshop proposes a shift in focus: understanding communication as the infrastructure that sustains community.

Drawing on our experience at Wikimedia Chile, we will show how a strategic change in communication practices contributed to growing our base of volunteers from 25 to 100 people over a two-year period. Rather than focusing solely on campaigns and visibility, this process centered on communication as a tool for building a sense of belonging, trust and commitment.

We will explore elements such as the role of narratives, tone, channels, and active listening, and how these choices helped us grow as a community. The workshop will also address the challenges that can accompany rapid community growth, including expectations, boundaries, retention, and other key lessons learned along the way.

Beyond presenting results, this workshop aims to share replicable lessons and strategies for other Wikimedia groups in their own efforts: how to move from dissemination to community strengthening, how to turn complex ideas into simple narratives, and how to design communication strategies that actively support community well-being.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/F-Eg4sMuHec?t=13468

The following Lightning talks will take place:

1. From Untold Stories to Strong Communities: User with Extended Right on the Fula (Fulfulde) Wikipedia by Fulani215
2. How We Judge: Building Trust in Wikimedia Campaign Evaluation by Dev Jadiya
3. Supporting the People Behind the Knowledge: How Wiki Project Med Uses Reciprocity to Sustain Volunteering and Engagement in Wikipedia by Anna Canatan and Chinthi Dissanayake
4. Women in Wikipedia: Armenia-Côte d’Ivoire by Armineaghayan
5. The 72 women of the Eiffel Tower – inspiration for translations and beyond by Ceryl Evans / MumphingSquirrel

Le programme Éducation de Wikimedia CH poursuit un objectif ambitieux : mettre à la disposition des enseignant·e·s et des élèves des ressources éducatives libres (REL, en anglais Open Educational Resources), accessibles sur les principales plateformes en ligne du système éducatif suisse. Cet atelier présentera les initiatives développées en Suisse, susceptibles d'inspirer d'autres pays.

En cohérence avec les plans d'études nationaux consacrés à l'éducation numérique, ces REL familiarisent les élèves avec des thématiques essentielles : la culture numérique, la production de connaissances référencées, la vérification des fausses informations, la philosophie du wiki et de l'open source (dimension éthique), la résilience démocratique et les enjeux liés à l'intelligence artificielle.

La réussite d'un tel projet repose sur une coopération étroite avec les principaux organismes éducatifs, la conclusion de nombreux partenariats et une approche coordonnée à chaque niveau de la formation, initiale comme continue. L'atelier montrera comment le programme a relevé ces défis dans le paysage complexe de la formation suisse, marqué par son système fédéraliste et ses quatre langues nationales.

Dans le cadre de ce projet pilote, les REL seront d'abord publiées en allemand, puis traduites en français, en italien et en anglais, avant d'être mises à la disposition de l'ensemble de la communauté wiki.

Rejoignez-nous pour découvrir comment la Suisse construit, pas à pas, une éducation numérique libre et multilingue !

🎥 Session recordings: https://youtu.be/jcFHu20jtgI?t=18389

Across the world, cultural heritage institutions and the open knowledge ecosystem are facing growing political pressure. During the last couple of years, we have seen the dismissal of senior GLAM officials and executive orders targeting museums in the United States. Alongside attempts to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion programs have become more common, with similar attacks in Latin America that replicate those from the United States on a no less harmful scale. Examples in Europe have shown how right-wing movements are trying to politicize or diminish cultural heritage and memory institutions. In Ukraine, cultural heritage institutions and monuments are threatened every day by Russia's war.

In the Wikimedia movement, we are dependent on robust and open exchange of knowledge. Still, we are increasingly aware of how quickly open knowledge infrastructures can become defunded, attacked, or censored. These dynamics do not remain confined to national contexts and we see their effects throughout the open knowledge ecosystem and WikiGLAM partnerships.

This panel explores what these shifts mean for institutions and volunteers committed to free, reliable, and equitable access to knowledge. When memory institutions, research infrastructures and organizations are weakened, the Wikimedia ecosystem is directly affected. If we lose access to trusted sources at the same time as our knowledge infrastructures get fragmentized, our founding ground is destabilized.

Bringing together perspectives from international cultural heritage and knowledge institutions as well as the Wikimedia movement, the panel aims to highlight strategies for safeguarding open knowledge infrastructures and marginalized knowledge in times of political turmoil.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/JLUm5WbtDAk?t=15749

Avec la participation de:

• Miguel Tremblay (Dirac)
• Esprit Fugace
• Cédric Tarbouriech (Lepticed7)
• Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin
• Emmanuelle Guebo Kakou (animatrice)

Depuis l'arrivée de ChatGPT, l'intelligence artificielle générative (IAg) transforme concrètement la manière de contribuer aux projets Wikimédia. Pourtant, son usage demeure mal compris, parfois discret, parfois controversé, souvent tabou. Cette présentation propose un retour d'expérience ancré dans la pratique : comment l'IAg peut être utilisée de façon responsable, efficace et conforme aux principes fondateurs de Wikipédia et de Wikidata.

À partir d'exemples réels de contributions, j'expliquerai comment j'utilise l'IA pour :

• assister la traduction et améliorer la clarté rédactionnelle,
• structurer et enrichir des infobox et modèles,
• générer ou adapter des scripts et bots,
• préparer des séries d'imports avec QuickStatements sur Wikidata,
• analyser et neutraliser des biais de point de vue,
• accélérer la recherche de sources et la structuration d'articles complexes.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/zm2J1MTMt0A?t=19

Team Challenges are hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
This session is the presentation of the challenges achieved.

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RCoFueOvMeo?t=18119

Wikinews was launched with an ambitious promise: a free, collaborative, neutral news source written by volunteers. Two decades later, that promise collided with structural reality. This talk examines the process of closing Wikinews as a case study in how ideals, governance, and socio-technical constraints interact inside the Wikimedia ecosystem.

Using the Titanic-iceberg metaphor, I will unpack why Wikinews struggled: the impossibility of real-time verification by volunteers, shrinking editorial capacity, legal and reputational risks, competition with professional journalism, and governance models designed for encyclopaedic content rather than breaking news. Crucially, I will also address why Wikinews lingered for so long—symbolic value, fear of loss, and institutional inertia.

The workshop situates Wikinews within a broader lifecycle framework for Sister Projects and asks hard questions: When does preservation become harm? How do we distinguish “underfunded” from “structurally misaligned”? And where do we go from here?

Rather than an obituary, this session argues for closure as stewardship: a chance to learn, to document institutional memory, and to design healthier futures for current and future Wikimedia projects.

The next WMF Board of Trustees selection cycle is scheduled to open in 2027, with four community-and-affiliate seats open. The WMF Board of Trustees is seeking community feedback on its plans for the 2027 Board selection process. This is an opportunity to engage directly with members of the Board as it evaluates the overall process and brings proposals for change. This session is intended to be interactive with the Board taking questions and feedback from participants on a proposal for change. The session may be broken into smaller groups for focused discussions.

🎥 Session recordings: https://youtu.be/5V_Y-BYVlZQ?t=17912

Workshop for developing a vision and a strategy for Wikimedians in Residence, hosted by members of the Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network, and open to all interested in supporting and developing this particular outreach approach. Will feature several breakout sessions to explore the challenges and opportunities regarding the role and its future, including interactions with AI, funding and partnership models, prioritizing and building needed software features, and joint actions and guidelines for people acting as Wikimedians in Residence across various contexts.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ER342VJb3fM?t=17621

Les tentatives de manipulation de l’information sont de plus en plus sophistiquées sur Wikipédia et dans la presse. Les affaires Pravda, Avisa Partners et Wikizédia montrent que les agences étrangères ou de communication montent en compétence et en coordination sur Wikipédia. En revanche le nombre de patrouilleurs actifs est passé de 300 à 200 sur Wikipedia en Français. Avec l’arrivée de l’IA, de nouveaux outils sont nécessaires pour renforcer la communauté et réduire les risques d’épuisement des patrouilleurs.

Opsci.ai, en collaboration avec WMFr, a donc développé Wikipedia Sensitivity Meter, un outil pour mesurer le risque qu’un article comporte de la désinformation. Ce score étudie trois groupes de métriques sur un article donné :

• Pics d’activité
• Comportement des contributeurs et contributrices (notamment les faux nez déjà listés par la communauté)
• Qualité, notamment la solidité des sources référencées dans l’article

Ces métriques permettent de suivre l’apparition d’anomalies ou de signaux faibles de désinformation. À terme nous aimerions adapter l’outil pour qu’il tourne en arrière plan sur certaines parties oubliées de Wikipédia : de nombreux articles ne sont jamais patrouillés, et WSM pourrait faire remonter des alertes pour attirer l’attention de la communauté sur des articles à risque.

English TLDR : disinformation attempts on Wikipedia are getting increasingly clever and common while the number of users with extended rights is going down on a few linguistic versions. This tool aims to give wikimedians risk signals on specific articles based on three criteria : heat, behaviour and quality. Come try it.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/jcFHu20jtgI?t=23453

Welcome to Wikimania 2026! The opening ceremony will be a dynamic, jam-packed event that celebrates both Freedom, Reliability and Equity as well as Wikipedia's 25th year as its central themes. The ceremony will include:

• An opening video
• A brief welcome from the Wikimania Steering Committee
• Welcomes from the Core Organizing Team
• Entertainment
• Reflections from Bernadette Meehan, the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, on her journey Around the puzzle globe
• Wikimedian of the Year awards ceremony

Welcome to Wikimania 2026! The opening ceremony will be a dynamic, jam-packed event that celebrates both Freedom, Reliability and Equity as well as Wikipedia's 25th year as its central themes. The ceremony will include:

• An opening video
• A brief welcome from the Wikimania Steering Committee
• Welcomes from the Core Organizing Team
• Entertainment
• Reflections from Bernadette Meehan, the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, on her journey Around the puzzle globe
• Wikimedian of the Year awards ceremony

Welcome to Wikimania 2026! The opening ceremony will be a dynamic, jam-packed event that celebrates both Freedom, Reliability and Equity as well as Wikipedia's 25th year as its central themes. The ceremony will include:

• An opening video
• A brief welcome from the Wikimania Steering Committee
• Welcomes from the Core Organizing Team
• Entertainment
• Reflections from Bernadette Meehan, the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, on her journey Around the puzzle globe
• Wikimedian of the Year awards ceremony

Welcome to Wikimania 2026! The opening ceremony will be a dynamic, jam-packed event that celebrates both Freedom, Reliability and Equity as well as Wikipedia's 25th year as its central themes. The ceremony will include:

• An opening video
• A brief welcome from the Wikimania Steering Committee
• Welcomes from the Core Organizing Team
• Entertainment
• Reflections from Bernadette Meehan, the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, on her journey Around the puzzle globe
• Wikimedian of the Year awards ceremony

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/FI-BVfEcjS4?list=PLccLepA9eL7E&t=1124

In rooms E-F
Program: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Virtual_room

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/va53r-1CoSo?t=452

Quelle place pour les œuvres protégées par le droit d’auteur au sein des collections des bibliothèques numériques ? 
Les bibliothèques numériques et les grands projets de numérisation se sont multipliés au sein des bibliothèques nationales, publiques ou universitaires depuis le milieu des années 2000. La plupart de ces projets ont eu pour priorité de conserver et de diffuser des œuvres assez anciennes pour être déjà tombées dans le domaine public. 
Pourtant d’autres initiatives donnent une véritable place au patrimoine et à la production littéraire ou scientifique plus récente, qui est toujours protégée par le droit d’auteur. Cela pose évidemment des questions juridiques spécifiques : comment les institutions appréhendent-elles la numérisation et la diffusion des œuvres protégées au sein des bibliothèques numériques ? Dans quelle mesure le cadre juridique actuel est-il limitant ? Comment l’utiliser de manière à permettre d’accéder aux œuvres protégées et de les réutiliser ? 
Ce panel vise à mettre en lumière les pratiques, les efforts et les limites des personnes qui travaillent à donner accès à ces œuvres en favorisant une comparaison entre les différentes solutions adoptées à travers le monde francophone.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Qg4Y57Ygi4A?t=30

This one‑hour session will convene Wikimedia contributors, technologists, and community leaders to explore how targeted experimentation, improved collaboration infrastructure, and inclusive outreach can strengthen the movement’s capacity to serve its global audience. Building on PTAC’s recommendations, participants will examine ways to:

1. Invest in new communication channels and efforts that help contributors find each other and exchange skills
2. Support both online and offline collaboration and bridge the gap between
3. Respond to the rise of synchronous group‑chat communication
4. Experiment with capacity building and non-editing forms of contribution
5. Expand the pool of Users with Extended Rights (UWER) through more effective tools and clearer pathways.

The session will combine brief presentations, direct feedback collection, and structured breakout activities, culminating in a shared “experiment‑action plan” that participants can take back to their communities and PTAC can develop on for upcoming recommendations to the WMF.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=1059

The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom) plays a central role in supporting a healthy and sustainable ecosystem of Wikimedia affiliates. Following the pause in affiliate recognition, which began in August 2025 and was extended until September 2026, communities across the movement are seeking greater clarity about recognition requirements, governance expectations, and what constitutes a healthy and sustainable affiliate.

This interactive session will provide an overview of the renewed affiliate recognition framework while also exploring the broader principles of affiliate health, governance, and sustainability. Participants will learn about key outcomes of the recognition review process, updated criteria and expectations, and practical approaches on strengthening internal structures, improving organizational readiness, and fostering accountability, inclusivity, and resilience.

The session will combine presentations, discussion, peer learning, and practical self-assessment exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to receive practical guidance and opportunities for dialogue with AffCom members and peers from across the movement.

Objectives

• Share the key outcomes of the 2025–2026 affiliate recognition review process.
• Learn about updated recognition criteria and expectations for Wikimedia affiliates.
• Explore affiliate health principles, governance standards, and sustainability practices.
• Identify common challenges faced by affiliates and practical ways to address them.
• Discuss transparency, documentation, leadership, and community engagement strategies.
• Assess organizational readiness using an Affiliate Readiness & Health Check tool.

Outcomes
Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of affiliate recognition and governance, actionable recommendations, and practical strategies for building sustainable and resilient Wikimedia affiliates.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/FI-BVfEcjS4?t=1115

Welcome to the hackathon!

As we work collectively on pursuing Knowledge Equity, and improving on-wiki coverage of groups and subjects currently underrepresented in the Wikimedia projects, we may well encounter challenges unique to those subject areas. Established editors as well as those new to Wikimedia may feel vulnerable or exposed, or have other negative experiences which leave them discouraged from continuing their involvement with the movement.

In January 2026, Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia LGBT+ and the Volunteer Supporters Network presented the event Navigating challenging topics: creating a toolkit for supporting editors.  This event featured speakers and breakout discussion to bring together advice and best practice both for editors and those supporting editors who work in on-wiki areas which might be considered more challenging.  The event was not recorded, but collaborative notes were taken, and at time of writing, an e-booklet is being produced to share that learning with the wider Wikimedia community.

This workshop is intended to further the discussion around this topic.  Following a short presentation on the outcomes of the January event, participants will be invited to discuss the challenges they have faced, and share potential solutions to those challenges, as we work to improve the support for both editors, and those supporting editors, working in those on-wiki areas which may be fraught with higher conflict.  In order to allow a more open discussion, this session will not be recorded, but an anonymised summation of key learning points will be shared.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/GhsZo2IPxQA?t=1041

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees hosts a session at Wikimania each year as a critical touchpoint with the communities. They share work and priorities and bring big open questions they're wrestling with or want feedback on. In this session, the trustees will begin with a short presentation on trends and priorities, followed by "tables" - breakout discussions on these topics to gather inputs. The topics will likely revolve around the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan global trends - content reuse\, government regulation\, AI and neutrality. Discussions will examine these trends both through the lens of the conference theme of Freedom\, Equity and Reliability\, as well as from both contributor and reader perspectives\, to fully understand how they're shaping Wikimedia and discuss how we respond.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/an-n1prWUPY?t=1002

AI systems rely on massive quantities of web data, drawing on billions of human-created artifacts to train models, generate outputs, and reshape culture. Yet the implicit social contract that once governed how machines interact with the open web is beginning to unravel. Increasingly, creators and institutions are questioning whether contributing to the digital commons still benefits them. Concerns about the exploitation of creative labor, extractive AI practices, and environmental impacts are prompting some to retreat behind paywalls, block crawlers, or remove content entirely.

What happens to the commons when the web no longer wants to be read by machines? A future where knowledge and culture are locked behind proprietary systems is equally troubling. At the same time, many creators are experimenting with AI themselves—exploring new forms of creativity and opening conversations about a spectrum of responses, from resistance to engagement.

Creative Commons is developing new tools that allow content stewards to communicate expectations about how machines and AI operators should access, use, and reciprocate when drawing from the commons. This workshop will introduce early prototypes of these tools and invite participants to engage directly with them.

Through facilitated discussion and small-group activities, participants will explore potential use cases, identify risks and opportunities, and share perspectives from their own communities. Feedback gathered during the session will be synthesized and incorporated into Creative Commons’ ongoing global consultation on AI and the commons, with key insights shared publicly through the CC blog.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/I8CGg8tS6VA?t=772

Avec la participation de:

1. Miguel Tremblay (Québec)
2. Donatien Kangah (Côte d'Ivoire)
3. Alexandra Tchuileu (Cameroun)
4. Florence Nibart-Devouard (France)
5. Raveloaritiana Mamisoa Isabelle (Madagascar).
6. Sabrina Mac Gregor (Québec, Animatrice)

La Wikipédia francophone n'est pas une Wikipédia française, mais lorsqu'il y a confrontation des opinions, c'est souvent la vision hexagonale qui finit par dominer. Les décisions prises par vote majoritaire peuvent alors marginaliser les perspectives des francophones hors de France, qu'ils soient québécois, africains, belges ou suisses. Les conventions de nommage, les critères d'admissibilité et les débats communautaires reflètent parfois un cadre de référence français présenté comme universel.

Cette présentation propose un état des lieux de ce biais, à partir d'exemples concrets tirés principalement du contexte québécois, mais aussi de la francophonie africaine. Elle s'appuie sur mon expérience de contributeur et sur le chapitre de Nathalie Casemajor dans l'ouvrage collectif Le mouvement Wikimédia au Canada (Presses de l'Université de Montréal), qui analyse les protocoles de pluralisation culturelle des savoirs dans Wikipédia.

L'objectif n'est pas de pointer du doigt, mais de proposer des pistes concrètes pour que la Wikipédia francophone devienne véritablement francophone : des mécanismes qui permettent aux communautés minoritaires de faire valoir leurs perspectives sans être systématiquement écrasées par le poids du nombre. Comme ce n'est généralement pas la majorité qui initie l'ouverture envers ses minorités, et cette session s'adresse d'abord aux francophones non français qui souhaitent faire entendre leur voix.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/saeV6bZ7cIk?t=1333

Wikidata is great [no citation needed] but it has some limits. One of them is handling large amounts of data in one item, for example, when there are large time series with high granularity. A Wikidata item has a real size limit, and the web browser may struggle at handling large amounts of data (and even if it can handle it, it may require a lot of scrolling for the user). At the same time, we have the possibility to store data in a more efficient format in the data namespace on Wikimedia Commons. It can even be used to generate beautiful multilingual charts! The downside, though, is that this data is not queryable in the same way data on Wikidata is.

In this open panel we will hear different perspectives from Commons and Wikidata as well as from users and maintainers. Together we will explore possible pathways forward by comparing benefits and trade-offs.

In the movement, metrics often favor volume. But what usually happens when communities decide to choose quality, accuracy, and cultural relevance over edit counts? Launching the 72 Hours Virtual Marathon Edit-a-thon in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and working as a closed group of like-minded interests brought about a change in the narrative, editing better and not just editing more. This session will explore how we redefined what impactful edit-a-thons should look like. We will share practically how we identified existing gaps; launched the cleanup exercise with targeted guidance on quality standards and mentorship for editors; developed to-do lists; and organized training and hands-on review sessions. We’d also discuss how source reliability, indigenous language localization, and quality contributions are essential for the growth of African language Wikipedias.

Poster session time!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Qg4Y57Ygi4A?t=5452

With over 9 million edits as the second most active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, I will present a practical, process-oriented approach to implementing Structured Data at scale.
This workshop focuses on concrete workflows for adding structured information to files and categories, preparing category trees for Structured Data, and integrating content efficiently with Wikidata. Participants will learn which tools and gadgets to use, how to design scalable editing processes, and how to monitor progress using PetScan queries to maintain control over large workloads.
The session is built around real examples and proven methods. It demonstrates not only what to do, but how to do it consistently, efficiently, and in alignment with best practices. Special attention will be given to assessing completeness—understanding when a specific part of a category tree has been properly structured and reviewed.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have practical knowledge enabling them to manage files and categories confidently, improve metadata quality, and implement replicable workflows in their own communities. All attendees will receive documentation to ensure that the presented methods can be fully replicated and adapted locally.
Tools: Wikicrowd, Depictor, Gadgets: ACDC, SDC , img2wd, acdc_pmg, quickpresets on wikidata

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=6385

Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire s'est progressivement engagé dans la préservation de l'intégrité de l'information en ligne, depuis fin 2024. A cet effet, différentes actions, allant de la sensibilisation/formation de nos bénévoles aux techniques de vérification en ligne à la mise en place récente d'une cellule de monitoring, en passant par la participation à des réseaux locaux de promotion de l'intégrité de l'information, ont été déployées. Comment le savoir libre nous a-t-il conduit à l'intégrité de l'info ? Quel intérêt avons-nous à nous y intéresser ?

This workshop is based on experience designing and delivering structured fact-checking training for Wikipedians, volunteer contributors, and newsroom partners across several initiatives in Africa. Through live webinars, edit-a-thons, and ongoing mentorship, participants strengthened existing articles, improved citations, corrected misinformation, translated content into African languages, and produced evidence-based fact-checks.

This session shares what worked, what needed adjustment, and how measurable contributions can be built into training design without complex systems. The workshop will also introduce a four-module open-access MOOC on Wikipedia fact-checking, covering foundations, collaborative workflows, digital verification tools, and ethical considerations.

The MOOC was developed to extend learning beyond live sessions and support sustained, self-directed growth. Participants will leave with practical ideas for designing training that leads to consistent, high-quality contributions within Wikimedia communities.

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/GhsZo2IPxQA?t=6746

By July, 30+ content creators will have developed 140+ videos for Wikipedia's social channels (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube). Wikimania will be a great opportunity to reflect on these efforts together with Wikimedians.

To illustrate the connection between our work, our community, and the future of our movement, the Social team at the Wikimedia Foundation will present our creator strategy – how we intentionally collaborate with creators from diverse backgrounds and cultures, empowering them to interpret and express Wikipedia through their own unique perspectives.

Here are some questions that we hope to answer with this session:

• How do we select creators to partner with? And how can they help champion our mission on social media?
• How can the creators' interpretations of Wikipedia help inform the future of our movement?
• How can collaboration with creators elevate our message to young generations of Wikimedians?
• How can our community be inspired by and learn from these experts?

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/va53r-1CoSo?t=5291

Press conferences and events are good opportunities to take high-quality pictures for Wikimedia Commons. However, this presents challenges because press photography differs from the kind of photography usually done alone, such as photographing monuments or architecture. Raymond, a volunteer press photographer for Wikipedia (or more precisely, the Wikimedia Commons media archive), reports on his interesting work: 'I find myself in very different situations. From diplomatic events to construction site visits, the range of appointments is wide and all require a certain professional demeanour. Working with professional photographers also has to be carefully managed to avoid disagreements. Overall, however, I am rewarded with shots that would otherwise have been impossible or very difficult to take. I would like to illustrate these points in the DTS using examples, explain the opportunities and encourage more Commons photographers to address this topic.' The aim of this workshop is to encourage Wikimedians to get accredited for official press events, so that they can photograph people and places that would otherwise be impossible to capture.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/an-n1prWUPY?t=8377

GenAI tools are increasingly used by Wikimedia contributors, affiliates, and partner organizations, yet questions remain about how to use these tools responsibly, effectively, and in alignment with Wikimedia values.
This 90-minute workshop offers a practical, beginner-friendly introduction to harnessing GenAI for Wikimedia workflows. Rather than focusing on theory, the session will explore concrete use cases related to common wiki activities, such as drafting, summarizing, structuring information, supporting research, and preparing content for contribution.
The workshop emphasizes responsible use, including attention to sourcing, verification, bias, transparency, and community norms. Participants will engage in guided exercises and small-group discussion designed to build confidence and critical awareness.
No advanced technical knowledge is required. The session is intended for contributors and affiliates who are curious about AI tools but want a structured, values-aligned entry point.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have practical strategies they can adapt to their own workflows, along with a clearer understanding of both the opportunities and limitations of generative AI in Wikimedia contexts

CommonsDB is a registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works, fueled by Wikimedia Commons, Europeana, and other media providers. This workshop will show how CommonsDB can be utilized to help during uploads. Users will get guidance to install the gadget and test an upload supported by it. We will also brainstorm more possible use cases beyond the ideas that we already have, and for those who are particularly inspired, map out how they could be implemented. Participants will both get practical knowledge, making future uploads easier, and lay the groundwork for easier workflows for users on Wikimedia Commons, leading to better maintained media.

The proposed discussion aims to gather a set of best practices related to language documentation and creation of datasets for the development of AI models. Data collection for building AI technologies has largely been undertaken by a specific set of stakeholders invested in developing LLMs; open knowledge projects like Wikimedia platforms are a major source of such data. However, the data available in various languages, particularly underrepresented and largely oral languages, is still scarce, and faces issues related to quality and curation. Another challenge is the lack of digitised, domain-specific datasets that contribute to the development of smaller, sovereign AI models. These would strengthen open knowledge projects through community-led dataset co-creation and fair, ethical ownership and use. This discussion may therefore be replicated across various languages and Wikimedia projects, to gather insights on language documentation and the forms of data. Importantly, this model may also promote data minimization and contribute to building a more robust data commons in the long-term. Efforts in the Wikimedia and the larger open knowledge movement already offer good examples, such as Lingua Libre, and Mozilla’s Common Voice. For example, Common Voice offers a model for co-created voice datasets in over 290 languages, which may then be used for a wide range of functionalities. While these projects may not have been developed with their potential use for training of AI models, they now offer a way to imagine co-creation of open datasets, with diversity, equity and access by the commons.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/saeV6bZ7cIk?t=10381

En 2016, la France adoptait la Loi pour une République Numérique, portée par Axelle Lemaire, marquant une étape clé pour l'ouverture des données et la reconnaissance des Communs. Dix ans plus tard, le paysage a radicalement changé : régulations européennes accrues (DSA/DMA), surveillance algorithmique et enjeux de souveraineté. Cette table ronde réunira :
- Mme Axelle Lemaire\, Architecte de la loi de 2016\, actuellement chez Sopra Steria
- Emma Ghariani Directrice du pôle Communs numériques à la Direction interministerielle du numérique
- Nnenna Nwakanma (en ligne) cofondatrice de la Free Software et Open Source Fondation for Africa

Table-ronde animée par Rémy Gerbet, Directeur exécutif de Wikimédia France

Dans cet échange, il sera question de la pérennité de notre modèle de liberté de panorama, de savoir libre et de protection des utilisateurs face aux nouvelles menaces numériques. Entre la nécessité de réguler les contenus haineux et la protection absolue des libertés fondamentales et de l'anonymat, quel espace reste-t-il pour les projets collaboratifs comme Wikipédia ?

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/GhsZo2IPxQA?t=10061

The Wikimedia ecosystem is vast, and learning how to navigate it takes a lot of time. Even experienced volunteers and community leaders don't always fully appreciate the subtle ways in which the system works.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I do have over 13 years of experience in Wikimedia as an online volunteer and 5+ years as an affiliate leader – experience which I'll distil into a workshop that will help people who already have some experience in the movement to understand it better.

Specifically, we'll discuss:

1. “Everything is already somewhere on Meta”. If you are trying to do a task or an activity, it's likely already been done before. But how can you look for examples and replicate them?
2. Making sense of the movement's nebulous power structures. Why is a Wikipedia admin both a “janitor” and a powerful functionary? Why do affiliates have no governing role over their communities and yet often have enormous impact? We'll try to figure out!
3. How to follow the conversations. So much of decision-making happens in places that aren't obvious – from on-wiki talk pages to Telegram groups. How do you figure out where the conversations are happening and how to participate in them?

Since it's a workshop, not a presentation, the session will be interactive – I'll be asking questions to the audience, and we'll do a few exercises together.

🗼 Wikimania 2026 will provide two opportunities of creativity, collaboration, and innovation set against the vibrant city of Paris, France. A vital part of Wikimania is the creation of collaboration and learning spaces for technical contributors, curious Wikimedians and knowledge enthusiasts. During this year’s Wikimania, the technical space will host an event where developers, designers, researchers, editors, and community builders from around the world meet to collectively address technical challenges faced by the Wikimedia community.
The technical event will have two main components:

• Team Challenges (pre-event and July 21-22): A hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
• Hackathon (July 23-25): Similar to previous years, the Hackathon will provide an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to collaborate on technical projects and solve problems together.We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets! The Hackathon is open to Wikimania participants.

More information: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Hackathon

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TBD

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/WXOHV2dbHvs?t=17355

Over the past 15 years, Wiki Loves Monuments has witnessed active and massive contributions from organisers and participants from over 50 countries, and it is still expanding. While each year WLM witnesses an influx of new communities/contributors joining, it is also evidenced that some old contributors are using the exit door. Yet, Wiki Loves Monuments has not outlived its relevance across the board.
However, in a world stricken by man-made destruction (war, bombing) and natural disasters (earthquakes, erosion, tsunamis), it calls to mind and raises pertinent questions of what would be left of the world's heritage and monumental sites if they are all eroded before being documented. In this instance, Wiki Loves Monument becomes a consolation, ensuring preservation and digitisation before eroding and extinction.
It is on the premise of these concerns that this meet-up is proposed - to converge Wiki Loves Monuments Organisers and participants who had, have and are still contributing to the campaign. To hear their challenges, learn from their experiences and celebrate their successes on the journey so far. Encouraging continuity in the preservation of monumental and heritage sites.

This is a thematic meetup/lunch proposal to gather those Wiki editors and other Wikimania attendees interested in or actively enriching the Wikiverse with biodiversity related knowledge. The intent of this meetup/lunch is to provide an opportunity for this diverse community to come together, make connections and to share ideas, workflows and tools in an informal setting.

Etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimania_2026_Biodiversity_Meetup
Google slides link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sR0GIjIDhYqx6rWBoksd4ulDQ5Z_dzQ26hX-C4IjppQ/edit?usp=sharing
Please feel free to add slides if you want to do a brief presentation on your work or WikiProject.

Mentors are a huge part of the Wikimedia Movement. They are the interface between newcomers and the wikis. They often face the same issues, but don't share their solutions much. This year, let's gather to know each other and chat around best practices that can be replicated at all wikis!

The Melange is a meetup for everyone that works with cultural and heritage in the WIkimedia Movement.

Please register for this Meetup via Meta-wiki so we can contact you and follow up afterwards. Here we will also keep the agenda up to date, and you can leave comments on the talk page in advance of the meetup.

The Wikimedia and open science movements share the common goal of developing high quality openly available content, yet collaborations between the communities have been limited.

Over the past 18 months, the project partners* have conducted a survey of Wikimedia affiliates to gain an understanding of open science activities within the movement. The survey provided data for an initial mapping, with roughly 20% of the affiliates responding, and of those, 90% expressed an interest in being informed of, or engaged in, open science activities within the movement.

We shared these results at Wikimania in Nairobi as well as in a blog post on Diff, which resulted in additional affiliates and institutions reaching out to express interest in collaborating.

Building on this strong interest in collaboration, we are organizing a call in March to discuss the development of an Open Science Wiki Community or applying to WMF to establish an Open Science User Group.  Such a community or User Group could raise awareness of open science within the movement, organize convenings, and, critically, provide coordination, as currently there is a lack of awareness of what the affiliates are doing and the potential synergies through collaboration. 
Wikimania presents a unique opportunity to bring those in the Wikimedia movement interested in open science together to meet in person in Paris to discuss next steps for collaborations.

* Project partners: Wikimedia Sverige, Wikimedistas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, BOAI Org.

WikiCite is the Wikimedia project with the goal of making all citations available in Wikidata, for use in Wikimedia projects and beyond. We start with citations to scholarly publications.

This is a non-technical meetup for anyone who wants to discuss better Wikidata integration of citation datasets, university partnerships, or matching Wikipedia writing with scholarly publications.

News for 2026: Wikidata's 2015 SPARQL engine being replaced, so much greater capacity is coming! Wikidata's policies on inclusion and mass imports are in discussion! The Wikidata graph split was finalized in February 2026, and you have new options for accessing WikiCite content! Scholia service is restored using Qlever as a SPARQL engine!

This meetup is a space for the Wikidata community to come together and geek out on open data.
We will meet. We will share stories. We will discuss the intricacies of data modelling. We will admire cool apps that use Wikidata's data. We will dream of pink ponies.

The Wiki Women* Lunch at Wikimania offers a vital informal space for connection, reflection, and solidarity among women and gender-diverse contributors across the movement.
This facilitated lunch session will move beyond networking to structured dialogue around one central question: How do we move from participation to sustained influence and leadership within Wikimedia spaces?
The Wiki Women* Lunch at Wikimania 2026 will offer a facilitated networking space for women and gender-diverse contributors to reflect on leadership, sustainability, and influence within the movement. Moving beyond informal connections, this session will guide small-group discussions on mentorship, governance participation, burnout, and equitable access to resources. Aligned with the conference theme of Freedom, Equity, and Reliability, the conversation will explore how strengthening women’s leadership improves community health and knowledge integrity. Participants will leave with cross-regional connections and one concrete action to advance gender equity in their Wikimedia communities.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/an-n1prWUPY?t=18995

As generative AI tools become increasingly accessible, Wikimedia communities face new challenges around content reliability, verification, and editorial oversight.
This panel explores:

• Risks of AI-assisted content creation
• Opportunities for AI-powered quality control
• Ethical considerations
• Governance approaches for automation

Panelists will present contrasting perspectives (technical, community, and policy-driven) followed by audience Q&A.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/va53r-1CoSo?t=16018

Over the last decade we at Wiki Project Med Foundation have been working to bring interactive graphs to Wikipedia. In the last year or two we have succeeded in introducing two approaches of importing Our World in Data visualizations. As well as introducing workflows that permit translation. These efforts were carried out in collaboration with Our World in Data, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Basque Wikimedians User Group, among others.

Heilman is with Wiki Med
Galder is with Basque Wikipedia
Lionel is a community volunteer
Brian Wolff is with Wiki Med
Tim Moody is with Wiki Med
Yaron is with Wiki Med (moderator)
Liam Wyatt is with the WMF

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/saeV6bZ7cIk?t=19543

This panel will share the insights of Wikimedians from diverse regions and professional backgrounds who are working to strengthen Wikipedia’s climate change content and support informed decisions-making in the face of one of the defining crises of our time. At a time when climate science is increasingly politicised and AI-generated misinformation is proliferating, sharing high-quality, well-sourced, and globally and locally relevant climate information is more urgent than ever.

With experience spanning academic research, science communication and community organising, the panelists share a common goal: improving the quality, accessibility, and equity of climate information on Wikipedia. They each approach that goal from varied regional, linguistic, and institutional contexts.

The session will situate the climate information crisis within today’s broader digital information landscape, including the challenges posed by AI-generated content and coordinated misinformation. Panelists will reflect on lessons learned from their work share how we to improve climate coverage in practice.

Together the panel will explore how Wikimedians can respond effectively to the climate information crisis together while advancing equity, representation, and trust across the movement.

The panel features:

• Tatjana Baleta (South Africa), environmental science communicator and Wikimedian in Residence for Climate at the Global Systems Institute.
• Dr Femke Nijsse (Netherlands/UK), senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and long-time climate contributor to Wikipedia.
• Evelin Heidel (Uruguay), Program Director at Wikimedistas de Uruguay and open knowledge strategist.
• Mohammed Amine Ben Loulou (Algeria), community organizer and Regional Coordinator for Wiki for Climate Change (Maghreb region) campaign in 2023

The rapid growth of AI crawlers is reshaping how human-created knowledge circulates online, often faster than communities, publishers, and platforms can adapt. Last year's Wikimania featured a session from WMF P&T outlining the problem, and one of Wikimedia's responses. This year, we have more examples of how the same trends are affecting knowledge creators beyond Wikimedia, and other response options.

This session brings together a diverse set of organizations experiencing the impacts of large-scale AI crawling from different vantage points: open knowledge platforms, news publishers, internet infrastructure providers, and other online communities either facing or responding to rising scraping demands. Participants will learn how AI crawling differs from traditional search indexing, and why existing expectations of mutual benefit are breaking down. They'll walk away with a greater understanding of how organizations are experimenting with technical, policy, and social responses to protect contributors and sustain participation. The panel explores a central question:  How can we ensure that human relationships, creativity, and shared stewardship continue to power knowledge in an agentic internet? Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how Wikimedia fits into a broader ecosystem confronting similar challenges, and where collaboration or collective action may be possible.
(Panel participants TBA.)

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/4SW50tuPs1o?t=16047

How can you effectively protect your data and Wikipedia? What habits should you adopt to ensure your personal and organization’s digital security?

In this session, we present 10 best practices to help you protect yourself effectively in the digital space.
You will learn how to create strong, unique passwords that can withstand attacks, how to protect yourself using a VPN, and how to recognize the warning signs of phishing emails or scams.

Our ethical hackers will give a demo of how easy can be to introduce into a mailbox and how to prevent it!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/GhsZo2IPxQA?t=19185

This session will begin with a brief high-level overview of Wikipedia’s evolving reader strategy in response to global shifts in information consumption. We’ll discuss trends in readership, pageview changes, and how the Reader Growth and Reader Experience, and Apps teams are responding with concrete examples of what has moved the needle per platform.

We will then go into demo mode, where we show recently released or new and yet unreleased feature ideas. A partial list of potential features to be demo’d are:

• Reading lists: ability to save articles to read later
• Collections: ability to save article snippets, highlights, and images
• Explore feed: recommendations for further reading
• Activity feed: a tab to see recently read articles and recommendations
• Content discovery: web-based exploration from within articles
• Image browsing: new ways of exploring images on articles
• Share button: ability to share articles and portions of articles

Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and provide feedback on all features demo’d.

Participants will then break into small brainstorming groups to “think like a reader,” identifying problem areas and unmet needs to co-create feature ideas that balance innovation with Wikipedia’s core principles. Ideas explored will include ways to encourage readers to participate in Wikipedia, customize or personalize their experience, and discover new things to learn. The session invites collaborative input on how we sustain and grow readership and increase pageviews responsibly.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Qg4Y57Ygi4A?t=18277

Navigating Wikimedia communications and visual design can be hard for those who are not professionals. But does it mean that everything is lost? What to do when you have responsibilities, but you are a communication person by necessity, and not due to your experience?

We often discuss global aspects — communication strategy, press releases, and brand codes for big events — but overlook the need to share experiences about the small things people struggle with in communications and design on a daily basis.

This 60-minute workshop will provide useful life hacks from personal experience and tackle the challenges in communication and design that we face every day. We will not only share our knowledge and secrets, but also look into real cases of what to do and what not, identify the issues you face and try to find the solution.

It is a space for sharing your small challenges in this area without shame or doubt, to create a healthy and supportive community for future newcomers and volunteers in Wikimedia Comms.

We host many hackathons as part of our technical user group sessions. In these hackathons, we have mentors and mentees all the time working on the projects. Its always a trick to map the right mentor to mentees along with right project. There should be a proper overlap of skills between these three entities for the hackathon results to be succesful. This workshop is going to be brainstorming about creating a potential global mentor mentee network for example using platforms like CapEx

Wikipedia’s openness depends on people who are willing and able to participate. That participation does not happen automatically. It is shaped by access, language, trust, mentorship, and the conditions that allow contributors to stay engaged over time.
In this session, Art+Feminism Network Ambassadors working across Asia, Anglophone Africa, and Francophone Africa will share how feminist organizing supports Wikimedia communities in practice. Panelists will discuss experiences such as supporting new contributors, addressing content gaps through community-led programs, navigating regional and linguistic barriers, and responding to challenges like burnout and uneven participation.
The panel will also explore how this organizing work directly affects the reliability of Wikimedia content. Sustainable communities support stronger sourcing practices, shared accountability, and long-term knowledge stewardship. Rather than presenting a single model, the session invites comparison across regions and collective learning with the audience. Participants will have space to share their own community-building challenges, strategies, and questions.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:

1. Gain a clearer understanding of community organizing as essential infrastructure for Wikimedia projects.
2. Learn practical strategies from Art+Feminism Network Ambassadors working across different linguistic and regional contexts.

Identify organizing approaches that can be adapted or replicated in their own communities.

For years, Wikimedia edit-a-thons and writing campaigns such as Wikipedia Asian Month have relied on the Fountain tool to manage article competitions. While historically impactful, Fountain’s aging architecture and limited extensibility created sustainability, reliability, and long-term maintainability challenges for community organizers.
Developed under the Developer Skill Development Program, WikiContest is a modern, open-source, full-stack replacement built with Flask (Python) and Vue.js 3. The project emerged from a structured analysis of legacy infrastructure limitations and the need for a modular, community-driven, and scalable solution.
The platform preserves core contest workflows while introducing significant improvements: configurable timelines, templates, and reference requirements; multi-wiki support; automated rule-based article validation; flexible scoring models (simple and parameter-based); transparent evaluation visibility; real-time dashboards; and downloadable reporting. Role-based governance enables multiple organizers, jury members, and participants to collaborate efficiently, while OAuth integration supports seamless Wikimedia login.
By prioritizing modular architecture, database migrations, and production-ready deployment practices, WikiContest strengthens technical reliability while improving transparency and fairness in campaign evaluation.
Scheduled for Toolforge deployment before Wikimania, WikiContest aims to provide a scalable, maintainable, and community-reviewable infrastructure for global Wikimedia campaigns.
This lightning talk presents the architectural journey, key technical decisions, and governance insights from rebuilding legacy infrastructure demonstrating how community-led, modular open-source design can reinforce freedom, equity, and long-term resilience across Wikimedia campaigns.
GitHub: https://github.com/indictechcom/wikicontest

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=19100

Wikimania 2026 coincides with the 25th birthday of the first Wikipedias – a wonderful occasion to celebrate Wikimedia projects, as well as twenty-five years of the practice and research of free knowledge building.
But this is also a pivotal moment for the web as a whole. Generative AI, rapidly shifting information ecosystems, and increasing pressures on speech, community growth and inclusion, are reshaping how knowledge is created, verified, and used worldwide.
The Research Track is not yet another venue to present a paper. They are interactive spaces where we invite researchers from across disciplines to meet the extended Wikimedia community attending Wikimania Paris 2026.
Together we want to identify and discuss the key structural changes or challenges that the community and its projects will have to face within the next 5–10 years.

This specific track's program was designed and curated by a specific team of researchers and volunteers.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=19530

Initiatives such as Wikipedia, Zooniverse, Reddit, and OpenStreetMap have become foundational digital infrastructure that enable large-scale, collaborative knowledge production. For decades, their volunteers have leveraged AI tools for tasks such as vandalism detection, workflow optimization, or community support. However, the emergence of generative AI introduces qualitatively different dynamics, with implications for trust, governance, and sustainability. While generative models foster new forms of knowledge production, they also pose risks of misinformation, homogenisation, and diminished human agency. In this talk, I will present socio-technical work on how AI, including generative approaches, can be designed and deployed to ensure these infrastructures remain resilient, equitable, and human-centred in an era where high-quality, curated content remains hugely valuable and important.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=21949

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/va53r-1CoSo?t=21452

This workshop aims to test the new features of the Paulina tool for creating and editing Wikidata items about authors and works.

Paulina (paulina.toolforge.org) is a multilingual, Wikidata-based tool hosted on Toolforge that facilitates the discovery of authors and works, helps determine if they are in the public domain, and provides access when works are available on Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, or other platforms.

The new editing features can facilitate engagement with Wikidata by people from the GLAM community and can be used in various Wikidata editing activities and campaigns focused on cultural heritage.

Paulina won the 2025 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award for the most innovative tool.

During the session, a brief explanation of how Paulina works will be given, followed by a detailed presentation of the new features. Participants will test the features, and a final discussion will be held to gather feedback for improving the tool.

As AI systems increasingly rely on web data, the governance of the open web is entering a period of rapid change. Legal frameworks, technical standards, and community norms are evolving simultaneously, raising fundamental questions about who can access knowledge, under what conditions, and with what safeguards.

This workshop brings together legal and technical expertise from the Wikimedia movement and the Common Crawl Foundation to connect principles with practice.
We begin with an overview of the legal frameworks and recent AI and copyright cases, such as LAION or OpenAI vs. New York Times, including text and data mining exceptions, licensing, and ongoing policy debates on opt-out. It will give an overview of how public interests are currently interpreted in different jurisdictions by taking into account the meaning for the Wikimedia movement and CC-licences.

In the second part of this workshop, we examine how these principles are implemented in practice at Common Crawl. Specifically, we will introduce responsible web crawling practices, including adherence to robot.txt,  crawler politeness, transparent identification, and opt-out processes. The Wikimedia movement will gain insight into how public web archives are created and maintained as shared infrastructure for research and open knowledge.

At the end, we want to discuss together with participants how the growing use of crawler blocking, the proliferation of AI-specific opt-outs, and their implications for the accessibility and diversity of web data, can change the open data governance in the age of AI.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/4SW50tuPs1o?t=21329

Metabase (https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/) is a Wikibase Cloud instance created to collect and connect information about Wikimedia movement activities and resources. It is being developed as part of the Content Partnerships Hub, aimed at strengthening the capacity of the global community.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will both learn about the project, its rationale and structure, and be guided in making their first contributions.
The workshop will consist of three parts:
1. Introductory presentation about Metabase.
2. Edit-a-thon.
3. Discussion about the potential of the platform\, any problems encountered\, and how different communities can contribute to and use it in their work.
Objectives:
* Learn what Metabase is, what it is for, and what kinds of information it stores.
* Understand the modelling standards and notability criteria of the platform.
* Understand the differences and similarities between Metabase and Wikidata.
* Explore the contents of the platform using SPARQL queries.
* Contribute to the platform with content relevant to the participants' engagement and interests.
* Generate ideas for how different groups within the Wikimedia community can contribute to Metabase and the data.

Law, especially copyright law, is often identified as one of the main barriers to open knowledge. An existing legal framework can certainly be limiting for open knowledge projects, but it is also possible to use it creatively and push its limits. The main example of a community-lead hijacking of legal rules might be the copyleft (e.g. Creative Commons) licences. This workshop aims at drawing lessons of such experiences. While it is submitted by trained (French) lawyers and advocates, its goal is not to be a legal class. It is meant as a free space for sharing practices of dealing with complex and pre-imposed legal rules when trying to make knowledge accessible.

Can we switch from seeing law as a restriction to using it as a helpful tool? What are our attitudes toward law as proponents of open knowledge: are we circumventing, resisting, ignoring or redefining legal requirements?

If possible, participants should bring their personal laptop.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/saeV6bZ7cIk?t=24454

Join us for an afternoon of lightning talks on fun an important topics in the Wikimedia ecosystem!

1. Another Internet Is Already Here: The Wiki Projects as Digital Public Luxury by Jan-David Franke
2. Empowering GLAM Institutions Through Wikimedia: A Ukrainian–Swedish Training and Leadership Programme by Svitlana Vyslinska (WMUA)
3. India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata by Mathilde Fichen, Pavan Santhosh and Super nabla
4. If It’s Not Online, It’s Invisible: Minority Languages in the AI Era - The Case of Western Armenian by Shahen
5. Partenariats et Patrimoine : Documenter Madagascar à travers les campagnes Wiki et les initiatives GLAM by Raveloaritiana Mamisoa
6. Le Réseau WikiSavoirs : une initiative canadienne francophone pour stimuler la culture libre dans le milieu universitaire du pays The WikiSavoirs Network: a Canadian Francophone initiative to foster a culture of openness in the country's academic community by Jean-Michel Lapointe
7. Des rayonnages de la bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève aux communs numériques. From the shelves of the Sainte-Geneviève Library to the digital commons by Pauline Rivière
8. UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk by Richard Nevell (WMUK)
9. Proyecto MIL: los museos argentinos en Wikimedia Commons by Angie Cervellera & Gonzalo Bazgan
10. SWiP: Strengthening South African Languages on Wikipedia by Lebogang Boemo
11. Connecting GLAM and Communities: Insights from the Wikimedia Italia GLAM Grant by Marta Arosio (WMIT)
12. Who's Missing? Using AI to Spot Wikipedia's Coverage Gwipaps by Jonathan Deamer
13. WikiCurriculum Explorer: Connecting School Curriculum with Wikipedia for Deeper Student Learning by Akbarali
14. Bridging the Divide: Jewish and Arab University Students in Israel Co-Creating Free Knowledge by Michal Wander Schwartz and Abeer Abu Zhaia

How do you take a student who has never opened a terminal and turn them into someone merging patches into MediaWiki's live codebase? WikiClub Tech's "Road to Wiki" program has done this across two cohorts and 8+ engineering colleges in India since 2024. This workshop shares our complete, replicable methodology.
In this hands-on session, participants will work through the actual framework we used. We'll cover the selection pipeline that filtered 260+ applicants to 48 dedicated contributors, the structured learning pathway from MediaWiki installation to Phabricator task completion, the hybrid mentorship model combining online masterclasses with offline campus meetups, and the quality assurance processes we developed after real-world challenges, including addressing LLM-generated contributions. Participants will leave with a concrete toolkit that they can adapt to launch similar programs in their own regions. This includes our Developer Playbook, session templates, and mentorship guides.
Our results speak for themselves. 20 Cohort 1 graduates merged 30+ patches into MediaWiki. Cohort 2 has expanded to 8 colleges reaching 250+ new students. Graduates now mentor the next cohort, creating a self-sustaining contributor pipeline. This model is built to be replicated.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/GhsZo2IPxQA?t=24446

Comment faire découvrir la contribution wiki aux jeunes de 10 à 15 ans, alors que les règles et contenus de Wikipédia/Wiktionnaire/etc. peuvent leur paraître trop complexes ?

Découvrez Le Dico des Ados, le petit frère du Wiktionnaire ! Créé en 2016 (il fête ses 10 ans cette année !), ce site collaboratif (CC BY-SA 4.0), gratuit et sans publicité, accueille des définitions écrites par et pour les jeunes, avec des mots simples et des exemples adaptés à leur quotidien. Soutenu par Wikimedia CH, le projet compte aujourd'hui plus de 6 500 mots.

Cet atelier pratique de 90 minutes vous mettra dans la peau d'un élève. Vous y découvrirez :

1. La genèse et le cadre pédagogique du projet (documenté dans des revues éducatives suisses comme Résonances et Éducateur).
2. Une session de contribution en direct : apprenez à ajouter un mot facilement à l’aide du formulaire d’édition.
3. L'intégration de cet outil en classe et les collaborations possibles avec les bibliothèques.

Que vous soyez enseignant, bibliothécaire ou wikimédien·ne, vous repartirez avec des clés concrètes pour participer à ce projet.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Qg4Y57Ygi4A?t=23461

Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects are available in more than 300 languages. The projects' content is written or translated on wiki pages. But the wiki projects run on a software platform, which has user interface strings, also known as "messages", and they have to be translated, too. This is done on the translatewiki.net website. Contributing user interface translations in languages you know on this platform is one of the most useful contributions that you can make to the universe of Wikimedia projects. This workshop will show you how to do it. People who are experienced with translatewiki are very welcome, too, to exchange your experience and maybe to learn new tricks.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/an-n1prWUPY?t=25514

The Open Knowledge Foundation, its global network, and the Digital Public Good CKAN have enabled, for over two decades, the access, sharing, and reuse of public information and scientific research all over the World. Our skills, technical architecture and community effort have placed many institutions and efforts around open science and open data in a solid place to experiment with AI. But the last three years of innovation have been fast, somehow overwhelming for the communities we work with, with a lot of technical experimentation that is not necessary democratic and accessible for the low tech and low resources communities we initially served and want to empower. That is why the Open Knowledge technical team has embarked in an effort to create an MCP that will work on CKAN that is easily deployable and reproducible to enable data to be accessed and shared easily, by anyone and to power other knowledge ecosystems. We have identified similar efforts across the Wikimedia ecosystem, so this workshop hopes to go beyond sharing our prototype, to explore in a group conversation similar efforts and understand the decisions behind it to guide our next steps.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=24894

As Wikimedia marks 25 years, the way people encounter and engage with our projects is shifting. Search engines, social platforms, AI systems, and other reusers are reshaping how knowledge flows into and out of our ecosystem. This session will share early learnings from ongoing attribution research examining traffic trends, referrers, and what these mean for contributor growth and content health.
Grounded in the themes of Equity, and Reliability, this session invites participants to reflect on how resilient our projects are in a changing information landscape. Together, we’ll ask: Where is our traffic diminishing the fastest? Which traffic sources are strengthening the contributor pipeline? And what does this mean for protecting free, reliable knowledge over the next 25 years?
Participants will reflect on what these trends mean for the sustainability of Wikimedia’s contributor ecosystem and the future of open knowledge.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=25710

The Wikimedia projects face two broad challenges with the recent rise of generative AI: how to keep human traffic and contributions on the Wikimedia sites, and how to navigate the effects of AI on contributions to the projects. To add nuance to the conversations around the latter challenge, we need to understand how AI is being used by Wikimedians today. To do so, we added a series of questions to the upcoming 2026 Community Insights survey, the largest continuous survey of Wikimedians across projects and languages, to understand whether and how editors are using AI in their on-wiki work. This presentation will focus on these findings, and the intersections between use and editor backgrounds (for example, different sizes of Wikimedia projects or editor tenure). The discussion will ask the audience to reflect on these findings, and they may shape audience members' conversations about AI and the Wikimedia movement.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=26294

This lightning talk examines how Wikimedia, as a major knowledge commons, is adapting to the extractive dynamics of contemporary AI systems. It proposes to rethink Wikimedia content not as stable datasets (dumps), but as flows embedded within evolving AI infrastructures. At the core of this talk is a provocative question: “Is Wikimedia a streamable data commons?” Wikimedia projects have become key training resources for large AI models, often accessed through large-scale automated scraping, raising critical issues of reciprocity and sustainability. The talk highlights a shift from open data dumps toward more controlled, stream-based access (via APIs, structured datasets, and RAG-compatible formats) as a strategy to regain agency over data circulation. In this configuration, Wikimedia Enterprise, the WMF’s for-profit subsidiary, acts as a central gatekeeper by offering curated, stream-oriented access pathways. However, this transition raises two major challenges. First, it may reinforce third-party AI services that centralize access to knowledge. Second, it introduces governance tensions: while content production remains collaboratively governed by the community, infrastructure and monetization layers are increasingly centralized within the Foundation, creating a potential disjunction between the governance of content and that of data infrastructures. Format / interactivity plan: The session will combine a short presentation with an interactive discussion structured around a visual map of Wikimedia data flows (from editing to AI integration). Participants will be invited to reflect on scenarios for governing data streams in commons-based ecosystems.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=26938

The Open Knowledge Foundation and CIS at CNRS, assisted by the broader open movement legal, research and technical communities, are working towards a globally validated social, technical and legal infrastructure necessary for the sustainable production and inclusive reuse of a data commons. The problem we are aiming to solve is the shortcomings or inadequate design of current tools towards models for sustainable, inclusive, regenerative, and ethical data commons as well as the social attitudes toward sharing. Many are no longer willing to share unconditionally after seeing works they shared liberally, or even placed in the public domain, used for purposes opposed to their ethics or that effectively contribute to the erosion of fundamental rights.

Offering options now to share and grow the data commons is imperative to opening the possibilities that high-quality data sets bring to small enterprises, researchers, social innovators, artists, scientists, and society in general. We want to share our approaches with the Wikipedia/Wikimedia research community to develop interoperable legal, governance, and technical tools to complete the infrastructure and legal framework for sustainable data commons. Both partners are established leaders with 20 years of experience in open licensing, advocacy, and interdisciplinary backgrounds. The team members are already working on projects with communities. The result we are aiming for in the coming years is to achieve the social, economic, and legal sustainability of open data commons, rather than extraction and value appropriation from open data.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=27633

1. Certaines questions à l’entrecroisement de celles relatives à la manière dont les systèmes d’intelligence artificielle générative (SIAG) sont alimentés et à celles portant sur le droit d’auteur se posent aujourd’hui avec acuité pour des acteurs comme Wikimédia. Des contenus de Wikipédia, produits par des contributeurs, sont largement utilisés par des systèmes comme ChatGPT[1] et par des intelligences artificielles conversationnelles comme Grok. Cependant, les licences qui leur sont relatives, si elles sont Creative Commons, autorisent la réutilisation et le partage à l’identique, mais ne mentionnent pas l’exploitation commerciale et exigent l’attribution aux auteurs. Or, les systèmes d'intelligence artificielle ne respectent pas ces principes.
2. Prenant en compte d’un côté la manière dont sont discutées ces licences en Europe, au sein des associations Wikimédia (France, Allemagne, etc.) en regard de la confrontation avec le droit d’auteur européen, et d’un autre côté la mise en débat par la fondation mère Wikimédia de cette question notamment des SIAG eu égard au droit états-unien, ma participation vise à apporter des suggestions de protection des contenus de Wikipédia permettant à la fois le respect de l’esprit des Creative Commons et une évolution vers la reconnaissance d’une attribution collective n’excluant pas l’opposition à l’exploitation commerciale.

[1] Wikimédia, « Wikilegal/Copyright Analysis of ChatGPT »,  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_Analysis_of_ChatGPT,  consulté le 19 février 2026.

🗼 Wikimania 2026 will provide two opportunities of creativity, collaboration, and innovation set against the vibrant city of Paris, France. A vital part of Wikimania is the creation of collaboration and learning spaces for technical contributors, curious Wikimedians and knowledge enthusiasts. During this year’s Wikimania, the technical space will host an event where developers, designers, researchers, editors, and community builders from around the world meet to collectively address technical challenges faced by the Wikimedia community.
The technical event will have two main components:

• Team Challenges (pre-event and July 21-22): A hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
• Hackathon (July 23-25): Similar to previous years, the Hackathon will provide an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to collaborate on technical projects and solve problems together.We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets! The Hackathon is open to Wikimania participants.

More information: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Hackathon

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=28385

Wikipedia depends on reliable sources, but what kinds of signals actually help predict whether a source will later be judged reliable or problematic? 
Drawing on recent work on language-agnostic modeling of source reliability, I will highlight which families of features appear most useful for prediction across Wikipedia language editions. These include signals derived from a source’s editing history, patterns of reuse, persistence over time, and contextual interactions with editors and articles. Rather than presenting a full system overview, the talk will focus on what these features reveal about how reliability is expressed in practice on Wikipedia.
The main contribution of the talk is to connect technical feature design with Wikimedia’s community processes: if some signals are consistently more informative than others, what does that tell us about how editors collectively identify trustworthy or risky references? By focusing on features rather than model outputs alone, the session provides a compact, interpretable entry point for researchers, tool builders, and community members interested in verifiability and knowledge integrity.

Meetup of the Commons Photographers User Group:

• Getting to know each other
• Results of the preconference (https://w.wiki/P9pc)
• Planning of Commons Conference
• Future of Commons
• Your thoughts

We will join the Commons Photowalk afterwards.
https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wm/wikimania2026/talk/9NSBPV/

Imagine having key health metrics of the Open and the Commons. This would allow us as a movement to create a strategy and build collective power with partners in order to sustain openness.

Following discussions at the Wikimedia Futures Lab in early 2026, we want to begin researching, defining, and drafting health metrics for the digital commons and everything Open. How can we measure a healthy Open Internet with Free Knowledge? Who could be partners in a coalition to monitor the state of Openness?

Let's meet and discuss!

Calling all Wikimedians from the UK & Ireland!

Come join us for a meetup at this year's Wikimania. Whether you're new to the world of Wiki, or have been around for years, let's get together and meet old friends and new.

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This meetup aims to bring together the Wiki Loves Earth community: organizers, volunteers, contributors, and enthusiasts to share experiences, discuss best practices, and explore opportunities for collaboration. Participants will have a round of introductions, contest updates, and a few activities. Approximate expected number of participants: up to 20.

Such a meetup was previously organized during Wikimania 2024 and Wikimania 2025 and went quite successfully. The informal setting encourages networking, peer learning, and sharing ideas for improving content and participation in the project globally.

Réunion des membres et des communautés francophones (WikiFranca).

Our meetup brings together Wikimedians who identify as neurodiverse or who want to support the needs of this group. We want to intensify our contacts from past Wikimanias and strengthen our collaboration in a positive atmosphere.

This meetup is intended for people interested in Wiktionary to discuss various important or global subjects with each other, such as technical issues, cooperation across linguistic editions and creating a Wiktionary in a new language.

This session is a hands-on, outdoor photowalk designed to document the architectural heritage, public art, and urban life of Paris. Led by the Commons Photographers User Group (CPUG), the walk focuses on capturing high-quality imagery for Wikimedia Commons while fostering community engagement.

Participants will explore Paris to create a visual record that supports the conference theme of reliability and freedom. We will cover practical aspects of field photography, including:

• Framing and Composition: Capturing encyclopedic value for Wikipedia articles.
• Mobile Contribution: Utilizing tools for on-the-go uploads and categorization.
• Structured Data: Understanding how to add "Depicts" statements and multilingual descriptions in the field.

This walk is not just about taking pictures; it is a collaborative mentorship opportunity where experienced contributors share techniques for documenting "Liberté" and "Égalité" in the host city.

Les événements wikimédia devraient être propices pour organiser des rencontres et des échanges informels entre les participants et les participantes.
Il s’agirait donc de proposer une course gratuite sur 5 km (1 heure environ), sans esprit de compétition, ouverte aux membres et bénévoles qui ont envie de courir pour le plaisir et de se retrouver autour d’un moment convivial. L’objectif est simple : partager un temps sportif ensemble pour marquer la Wikimania.

• Point de rendez-vous : devant l'entrée principale du bâtiment de la conférence.
• Afin de démarrer à l'heure, venez déjà habillés en tenue pour courir.
• Cette course pourra être annulée ou reportée en fonction de la météo.

Wikimedia events should provide an opportunity to organize informal get-togethers and exchanges among participants.
The idea would be to offer a free, non-competitive 5-km run (about one hour) open to members and volunteers who want to run for fun and get together for a friendly gathering. The goal is simple: to share a sporting experience together to celebrate Wikimania.

• Meeting point: in front of the main entrance to the conference building.
• To make sure we start on time, please come already dressed in your running clothes.
• This race can be canceled or reported due to weather conditions.

🗼 Wikimania 2026 will provide two opportunities of creativity, collaboration, and innovation set against the vibrant city of Paris, France. A vital part of Wikimania is the creation of collaboration and learning spaces for technical contributors, curious Wikimedians and knowledge enthusiasts. During this year’s Wikimania, the technical space will host an event where developers, designers, researchers, editors, and community builders from around the world meet to collectively address technical challenges faced by the Wikimedia community.
The technical event will have two main components:

• Team Challenges (pre-event and July 21-22): A hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
• Hackathon (July 23-25): Similar to previous years, the Hackathon will provide an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to collaborate on technical projects and solve problems together.We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets! The Hackathon is open to Wikimania participants.

More information: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Hackathon

Session recording: https://youtu.be/ittlbMjucm4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=993

In rooms E-F
Program: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Virtual_room

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T1jTjARbXvY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=957

Throughout 2025, WikiPortraits photographers covered more than 180 events worldwide. As of July 2026, the 95,000+ images produced by the initiative have generated over 4.5 billion views across Wikimedia projects. This global coverage spans significant international events (Eurovision, Nobel Prizes, Cannes Film Festival), to indigenous festivals (Riddu Riđđu, Márkomeannu, Santa Fe Indian Market), to journalism events (Knight Media Forum, National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention), to sporting events (Olympics, World Figure Skating Championships, EuroBasket Women), and much much more.

This panel brings together WikiPortraits organizers and photographers to discuss:

• how WikiPortraits works in practice, on a global scale
• how the network grew to 150+ photographers across 40+ countries
• how Wikimedia photographers and affiliates can get involved
• how Commons photography can serve as a pipeline for new Wikimedia contributors, at a time when there is great community concern about a decline in new editors joining
• what comes next for WikiPortraits in the coming year

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EC3_97TGsM4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=1015

Nearly 10 years after the creation of a dedicated Conflict of Interest Committee, Wikimedia France has entered a new phase: implementing foreign internal policies to structured cultural practices.
Over the past two years, we started training not only for our Conflict of Interest Committee, Audit Committee, and Board, but also our staff and members. This process is much more than a one-time policy effort. Addressing conflicts of interest requires constant work to build transparency, fairness, and collective trust among our members, colleagues, and partners.
In this workshop, we will share Wikimedia France’s journey: where we started, where we are, and where we would like to go. We will also open the floor for reflections from other chapters. Have you experienced challenges within your chapter or community? What were they? How did you address them? Have you developed a policy on this topic?
Let’s learn from one another to build collective resilience around this sensitive issue together.

Online safety legislation is rapidly reshaping the legal environment in which Wikimedia projects operate. Across multiple jurisdictions, governments are adopting regulatory models intended to address online harms, often without fully understanding how community-governed platforms function.
This session presents a comparative showcase of Wikimedia movement engagement with online safety policy processes in Brazil, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Each case will be examined as a learning moment: what strategies enabled meaningful dialogue with policymakers, what was challenging, what worked to overcome challenges. Speakers will explore approaches including coalition-building, proactive strategic comms, engagement with regulators, cross-affiliate coordination, and early risk identification. The session will highlight both effective practices and unresolved tensions between regulation, community governance, and free knowledge principles.
Participants will collaboratively identify a set of core lessons that can inform future advocacy and policy engagement across regions now considering similar legislation. The goal is to move beyond reactive responses toward a shared blueprint for earlier, more coordinated, and more strategic movement action.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YKOImdtm9jg?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=887

Wikimedia volunteers publish community newspapers, such as German Wikipedia's Kurier, English Wikipedia's The Signpost, French Wikipedia's RAW, French Wiktionary's Actualités.

Besides these, Wikimedians present numerous newsletters to alert interest groups of project developments, community accomplishments, available shared resources, and to raise attention to social and ethical issues. Examples of popular newsletters include updates from Wikidata and Outreach.

This workshop will include brief presentations from regular contributors to Wikimedia newspapers and newsletters, then engage attendees to contribute their own news for publication. Could be existing ones or to build a new one, like for Wikisource for example.

Options for contributing will include writing community notices for publications to share, starting the submission process to get editorial review for longer articles which you may wish to develop, or just talking with editors and contributors of publications who may be in the room.

Your favorite community publications will be at this workshop! Also, you are a journalist, and you have freedom to share information as Wikipedia community news, or elsewhere in Wikimedia projects. Editing Wikipedia is not a crime!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RWNgzZChMiA?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=1241

Les bien communs numériques constituent des écosystèmes rares dans lesquels la diversité linguistique peut non seulement être documentée, mais aussi faire vivre des héritages, des cultures qui trouvent difficilement leur place dans le reste du web, propriétaire, par manque de rentabilité.

La gouvernance partagée des communs offre un modèle dans lequel les locuteurs de langues moins diffusées peuvent s'insérer : en reposant sur des communautés ouvertes de contributeurs, ces projets permettent aux locuteurs et aux communautés linguistiques de documenter leurs langues selon leurs propres normes et priorités. Ces modèles participatifs contribuent à réduire les asymétries linguistiques présentes sur le web.

L’intégration de l’intelligence artificielle dans les outils des communs. Utilisée de manière responsable et transparente, l’IA peut faciliter la traduction, l’amorçage de contenus dans des langues sous-documentées ou encore l’amélioration d’outils de transcription et de recherche. Le défi consiste à développer ces technologies tout en évitant de reproduire les biais linguistiques et néo-colonialistes existants.

Enfin, l’ouverture des données constitue un pilier fondamental : des contenus libres et structurés peuvent être réutilisés dans des projets éducatifs, scientifiques ou culturels, contribuant à un écosystème numérique plus inclusif.

En combinant gouvernance communautaire, outils technologiques ouverts et réutilisation libre des données, les biens communs numériques peuvent devenir des infrastructures essentielles pour préserver et promouvoir la diversité linguistique en ligne.

Regards croisés avec la Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France, l'Unesco, et Mathilde Hutin docteure en sciences du langage spécialisée en phonologie.

Animation : Mathilde Hutin, linguist, Lingua Libre and Wikidata researcher
Panelists :

• David Castillo Parra, UNESCO, 
  Secretariat of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, 
  Member of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages Team
  Universal Access to Information and Digital Inclusion Section
  Communication and Information Sector
• Thibault Grouas, chef de la mission Langues et numérique, Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France, Ministère de la Culture
• Pau Giner, Principal User Experience Designer Wikimedia Foundation
• Claudia Marcía, board member Wikimedia Mexico, Wikipedia Maya support

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/DOn9gAdtUD0?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=961

Dans quelle mesure les projets Wikimédia peuvent-ils être considérés comme un terrain d'apprentissage à travers les compétences informationnelles, rédactionnelles et le travail des sources et quelles conditions rendent ces apprentissages effectifs ? Comment articuler cadre institutionnel, exigences académiques et logique communautaire propre aux projets Wikimédia ?

Cette table ronde interroge notamment à l'heure de l'essor de l'intelligence artificielle la place des projets Wikimédia (Wikipédia et Wikidata principalement) comme environnements d’apprentissage. Les projets Wikimédia sont non seulement des ressources consultées par les publics scolaires mais également des espaces où l’on peut travailler des compétences clés : recherche et vérification de l’information, travail sur les sources, écriture et argumentation, collaboration, littératie des données, compréhension des licences et du droit d'auteur. À partir de regards complémentaires, cette table ronde vise à identifier des conditions académiques et organisationnelles de réussite à destination des élèves qui sont les citoyens numériques de demain.

Elle débouchera sur quelques principes concrets pour concevoir des activités compatibles à la fois avec les contraintes scolaires et les logiques de contribution et de communauté propres aux projets Wikimédia.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/hvpOFVZhgnE?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=1093

Zotero translators are the backbone of Citoid which every editor uses to generate citations in the course of writing on Wikipedia. As an upstream toolset, there are more than 700 translators targeting different websites to extract the relevant metadata that the generic translator cannot do. Sometimes the generic translator fails to extract the information we require has the structure of the website or webpage differs from the expected structure.

This session aims to teach interested technically inclined editors on:

1. identifying if a translator is required,
2. where to look for metadata,
3. how to extract the metadata,
4. write the translator and troubleshooting
5. submit pull request to the parent translator repository

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EQ4dNEOlAlY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=1225

This interactive workshop presents two open, browser-based tools created specifically for Wikipedia: WikiAnalyzer v2 and WikiDebate. Rather than focusing on the technology itself, the session centers on what can be done with it to develop critical thinking, analyze bias, and better understand how we construct inferences and reasoning.
The workshop is grounded in a key premise: technology is not neutral. Just as humans have cognitive and cultural biases, artificial intelligence systems can reproduce, amplify, or obscure them. Therefore, the goal is not to promote blind trust in AI, but to create space to question it, analyze it, and understand its limitations.
WikiAnalyzer v2 makes structural patterns in Wikipedia articles visible through indicators such as lexical diversity, reference density, and edit distribution. WikiDebate models arguments as structured networks of claims and evidence, allowing participants to visualize how inferences are constructed and to evaluate the coherence of reasoning beyond ideological positions.
During the workshop, participants will compare AI-generated responses with Wikipedia articles, identify patterns of bias, and reflect on how we reason, what we consider reliable, and why.
By the end of the session, participants will have a replicable framework to foster critical thinking, bias awareness, and digital literacy, using Wikipedia as a living knowledge system.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ittlbMjucm4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=16514

Join us for a live tour of the posters!

In room A+B

Come and exchange coins, banknotes, transport cards, stickers, and other collectible items from all over the world. Bring yours and get from others!

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Exchange_Ideas_Box

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EC3_97TGsM4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=6417

Join the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan, as she travels around the puzzle globe to listen, learn and engage with Wikimedia communities. This session offers  an opportunity to meet the Foundation leadership and together discuss the global trends, how the world and the internet changes, what those changes mean for the Wikimedia Movement - and what the world needs from us now. We will also celebrate 25 years of Wikipedia and discuss all the things we achieved together as a movement.

Bring your curiosity, and love for Wikimedia as we discuss the future together.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=6282

By the time of Wikimania 2026 in Paris, the pilot on the ecosystem of movement organizations will reach its essential milestone of presenting clear proposal for the future landscape of movement organizations. The session will create the opportunity for the participants to hear about the details of the proposal, to then discuss it in the workshop format to clarify any aspects and fully understand the impact to their affiliate and the community. The pilot will move on to experimentation, where any feedback and suggestions improvement from the session will be integrated.

On pense souvent que seules les personnes qui modifient les projets Wikimédia sont des wikimédiens. Mais le mouvement Wikimédia regroupe différentes personnes qui le soutiennent : des donateurs et mécènes, des partenaires, des fournisseurs et prestataires, des bénévoles d'associations locales qui ne modifient pas les articles sur Wikipédia, n'ajoutent pas de photos sur Commons et ne créent pas d'éléments sur Wikidata, mais qui jouent un rôle positif dans le mouvement. Peuvent-ils se présenter comme wikimédiens ? Quels sont les critères pour être considéré comme wikimédien ?

Cette table ronde invite ces personnes à discuter de la question, de leur point de vue sur le sujet et de leur impact au sein du mouvement Wikimédia :

• Laurent MARIE, fondateur de Worteks et mécène à la Wikimania.
• Cyril MICHEL, co-fondateur d’Éclos Production, entreprise chargée des visuels à la Wikimania.
• Michael David MILLER, président de Wikimédia Canada et bibliothécaire agrégé à l’Université McGill.
• Ophélie Wang, co-coordinatrice de Knowledge Rights 21 en France.

Striving for knowledge equity within the movement doesn’t just mean to close knowledge gaps and make marginalised knowledge (more) visible, but to make the community feel more responsible for and able to support a more diverse community as a whole. In the last four years a team at Wikimedia Germany worked on promoting marginalised knowledge and knowledge equity and our team has learned a lot through different approaches in raising awareness for equity and promoting allyship within the community as well as reaching out to newcomers from marginalised communities.

In this session we don’t just want to tell you about what we have learned but rather make this a tangible experience with a train-the-trainer approach as we will work through different exercises and try out methods and concepts that can help individuals and groups to become more aware of structures of power and inequity in knowledge (re)production and develop and strengthen their positioning and allyship for knowledge equity. All methods and materials used in this workshop session will be available on Wikimedia Commons, so participants will leave the session with the ability, understanding, and materials to facilitate all exercises and methods themselves as well as adapting them to their own needs and contexts.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/hvpOFVZhgnE?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=6433

The open data community is, like Wikimedia, a global community of people sharing information and knowledge, while building new tools to make that process easier. Researchers, advocates, governments, and organizations are increasingly making the data they use shareable and interoperable.

This workshop shares experiences, tools, sample templates, and best practices for using open datasets to increase the breadth, quality, and up-to-the-minute accuracy of content on Wikipedia and Wikidata. It will include presentations from two example projects: on immigration enforcement in the United States and on the geography, demography, and politics of Bolivia.

By using data science tools, including code in the programming language R, I have used publicly available data to generate and expand Wikipedia lists, produce infoboxes, automatically calculate prose summarizing demographic changes, and produce starter stubs for use in edit-a-thons. For Wikidata, R scripts can produce batteries of QuickStatements that add census data to municipalities, help clean up and organize taxonomies, and attach geographic coordinates to items at scale. Mapping and data visualization tools can produce multiple, regularly updating images for Commons. Finally, each of these outputs can be produced multilingually.

In the interest of reliability, each of these processes need to be carried out in a transparent, human-in-the-loop way, and provide other editors with a way to look into the scripts, calculations, and decisions that drive this kind of creating. The workshop will both show the tools for this and have time for discussion about best practices for scaling up contributions to Wikipedia.

!! Language : English AND French !!

How do you teach Wikipedia's five pillars to teenagers (or even adults) without putting them to sleep? Meet Wikeys: a collaborative, open-license board game!

In this 90-minute "hop-on, hop-off" workshop, we're turning the conference room into a tabletop gaming lounge. No need to stay the full 90 minutes : drop by, grab a seat, and play one or more 20-minute round!

In Wikeys, players team up as contributors trying to build the best possible Wikipedia article. Place cards to source information, balance neutral points of view, and avoid errors, all while keeping the article well-structured. Before they know it, players have internalized encyclopedic reflexes and mastered the five pillars.

Come play, connect, and discover how to use this free, print-and-play game in your own education and outreach programs!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T1jTjARbXvY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=6228

Un regard croisé Cabale de la Quenelle / Institutions Culturelles sur les actions menées sur le territoire pour alimenter les discussions. Pour une expérience en lien avec les spécificités locales, voici un déroulé sous forme de menu :

• Introduction : anniversaire des 15 ans de la cabale de la quenelle, petit retour en image de l’histoire du projet.
• Valoriser les synergies sur le territoire par des exemples de projets menés avec les institutions culturelles lyonnaises :
  • Des éditathons partout Archives départementales du Rhône et de la Métropole de Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Hospices Civiles de Lyon, Archives municipales de Lyon et Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon.
  • Collaboration avec l’école du Louvre
  • URFIST de Lyon et Delphine Montagne
• Dynamique de territoire et les collaborations croisées :
  • Évènements collaboratifs
  • Participations aux Journées Du Logiciel Libre et au Salon Primevère
  • Formations (URFIST, wikipédiens…)
  • Création de template, tutoriels, transmission entre pairs…
• Les leviers institutionnels :
  • les conventions
  • les labellisations des institutions
• Les freins et les échecs

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EQ4dNEOlAlY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=6533

Wikimania brings together contributors, affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation, and partner organizations from across the movement. It is therefore a natural moment to pause and reflect together on how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and advanced technologies are shaping our projects, communities and shared infrastructure.
This panel, which has now become a Wikimania tradition, offers a structured reflection on the current state of Wikimedia and AI in 2026, anchored in the conference theme of Freedom, Equity, and Reliability.
The discussion will focus on three areas:

1. Highlights and promising practices from the past year. What has worked? What experiments, tools, or collaborations show potential?
2. Current challenges and tensions, including questions around participation, governance, sustainability and required infrastructures and resources.
3. What should we focus on next? What does the movement need in order to strengthen freedom, equity, and reliability in an AI-shaped landscape?

This session is not about one project or initiative -- it is about creating space for shared reflection across roles and perspectives at a time of rapid change. The panel will bring together representatives from different parts of the movement, including 2 community members, 2 affiliates, 1 Wikimedia Foundation, 1 BoT, and 1 like-minded organizations working with Wikimedia projects. Exact participants will be finalized after acceptance, as in previous years.). Together, they will share concrete examples, reflect on emerging patterns, and identify areas where coordination or new approaches may be needed.
The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A with the audience, to ensure broader engagement and reflection.

Panelists include:

• Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia & member of the WMF’s Board of Trustees and Wikimedia Endowment.
• Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning and Data, Wikimedia Foundation
• Lane Becker, Senior Director for Earned Revenue, Wikimedia Enterprise
• Ilario Valdelli, Innovation Programme Lead, Wikimedia CH
• Netha Hussain, Physician and Wikimedian
  And --
• Audrey Tang (remote), CyberAmbassador.tw and Civic.AI.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RWNgzZChMiA?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=9858

Wikimania offers an opportunity to consider how the Wikimedia movement can build inclusive digital knowledge spaces while respecting Indigenous rights. This First Nations panel focuses on an Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) Guide to cultural protocol, developed for Wikimedia Australia and shared as best practice for contributors globally.
Indigenous leaders and Wikimedians from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and Chile will examine how ICIP and IDSov intersect with open knowledge platforms, including Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Drawing on the ICIP & IDSov project led by Dr Terri Janke, panelists will explore:

• How an Indigenous-led ICIP & IDSov Guide can inform respectful contributor practice across the movement
• Tensions and alignments between open access and Indigenous cultural authority
• Practical steps to embed Indigenous rights and responsibilities across Wikimedia projects

Through short reflections and moderated discussion, the session will offer concrete pathways for contributors, affiliates and partners seeking to work responsibly with Indigenous knowledge. Grounded in lived experience and community leadership, it centres self-determined approaches to collaboration.
Panellists

• Dr Terri Janke (Wuthathi, Yadhaigana and Meriam, Australia) - Indigenous lawyer and project lead
• Thérèse Ottawa (Atikamekw, Canada) - Wikimedian, Atikamekw Wiki, and Board member, Wikimedia Canada
• Michelle Collipal (Mapudungún Chile) Wikimedian, Mapudungún Wiki project and Communications Director at Wikimedia Chile
• Migoto Eria (Maori, Aotearoa New Zealand) - Maori community representative and Wikimedian

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YKOImdtm9jg?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=11727

ETHERPAD notes link/ online attendee's feedback pad: https://w.wiki/SbGh

The Future of Wikimania session is designed as a direct listening board for the Wikimania Steering Committee. We want to hear from you, the attendees, to help shape the next trajectory of our global conference. Acknowledging past discussions from 2009 to 2025, we see a very optimistic future for Wikimania. However, as our movement grows, the conference must adapt. This open town hall is a space to share your experiences and ideas. The goal is simple: the Wikimania Steering Committee will use this feedback to create helpful policies that will guide how we meet, share, and celebrate over the succeeding years. We will focus on exciting new challenges like emerging technologies and improving our presentations, while also addressing common community concerns regarding the scholarship process, program development, facilities and how we communicate.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/hvpOFVZhgnE?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=11805

The following Lightning talks will be presented:

1. Connecting Skills, People, and Opportunities Across the Wikimedia Movement by Amanda Jurno and Joris Darlington Quarshie
2. Humaniki is down, here comes Wiki Gender Stats by Danÿa and Natacha Rault
3. Amazing Article Annotations by C. Scott Ananian
4. Towards easier and efficient protection against abusive bots: reaction by ppom
5. Tagzania: using and enriching Commons with a geo-guessing game by Luistxo

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Lingua Libre is a recording tool that allows any registered user to record words in the language of their choosing. The goal is to document language and pronunciation diversity. Recordings are uploaded to wikimedia commons and reused on wiktionaries (automatically for the languages that have a bot version, and manually for others). Lingua Libre has about 1.5 million recordings in more than 330 languages. But some of those languages only have 10 words documented.

At Wikimania we'd like to set up a studio where people can drop in and record words in their own language. This aim to document as many new languages as possible, and boost corpus for languages that do not have many recordings yet. Since Wikimania attracts wikimedians from over 100 different countries we hope to get an astounding number of new languages and words !

Specifics and opening times to be determined with the program committee. The booth will be manned by volunteers, not by me. We would need a small room.

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Event link: https://w.wiki/SXuB
Each Wikimania, Wikimedians from East, South East Asia and the Pacific annually gather for a meetup/ gathering to discuss various topics such as operating and maintaining the Hub, synergies on ideas that would develop content on each of the regional collaboration member countries (bilaterally or multilaterally), discuss concerns that affect the region amongst others. Preparatory discussion on the planned 4th ESEAP Strategy Summit in Japan, 2nd Quarter 2027 is also expected to be in the agenda.

Monthly ESEAP Meetings: https://w.wiki/SXuh

Zoom Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/85308090574?pwd=WlnbIWlziDE7G98TZnzDJGpaFnd0aC.1

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The Afrika Baraza Meetup at Wikimania is a dedicated in-person gathering for African Wikimedians and friends of the continent to connect, reflect, and strategize together. “Baraza,” meaning community dialogue, represents a space rooted in open conversation, shared learning, and collective action.
This meetup will bring together contributors, organizers, affiliates, and partners to exchange updates on their work across the region, celebrate achievements, and discuss common challenges. It will also provide an opportunity for participants—many of whom may be meeting face to face for the first time—to strengthen relationships, explore collaborations across countries and thematic areas, and align efforts with global movement priorities.

Réunion des président·e·s de chapters et UG.

Meetup for chairs of chapters and UG.

This moderated panel will bring together Wikimedia Foundation Product & Technology staff and volunteer editors from different regions and language communities to explore how readership and editing intersect, and how we can thoughtfully deepen those connections with an eye to equity.

Panelists will discuss equitable reader access to knowledge across contexts, including language disparities, machine-translated content, low-bandwidth experiences, regional usage patterns, and accessibility beyond text (such as screen readers and reduced-motion design). From a technology perspective, we will examine how reader-facing features like reading lists, watchlists, and discovery tools can support engagement without overwhelming contributors or compromising core principles.

For more established wikis, the conversation will also explore how to thoughtfully convert passive readers into active and participating readers, who might one day become first-time editors. What encourages participation? What barriers remain? How do we design experiences that invite contribution while respecting different levels of readiness and digital literacy? Volunteer panelists will share local initiatives aimed at strengthening reader engagement and participation, while staff will provide insight into how product decisions balance the needs of readers and editors. Together, we will reflect on how equitable reader experiences can support active participation and long-term movement sustainability.

The Mediterranean Meetup gathers Wikimedians from all countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea for a moment of connection and exchange.

The goal of this cross-continental exchange is to get to know each other among organizations and volunteers from Mediterranean countries to identify our common challenges and opportunities, and build connections that could lead to developing projects together in the future: 
- sharing knowledge and expertise on how we run Wikimedia-related projects ;
- collaboration on activities and programs such as Wiki Loves Monuments / Earth / Folklore ;
- develop projects connected to the sea\, landscape\, migration and climate change.

The idea of bringing Wikimedians from the Mediterranean together was born during the session "Wiki Sud Italia" at Wikimania 2024, where we noticed that the context and challenges that we are facing in Southern Italy were shared and understood by volunteers from other countries. At this occasion, we created connection with Wikimedians from neighbor countries accross the sea (Malta, Tunisia) and we noticed the interested in a pan-Mediterranean network.

Complementary to existing geographic hubs in the region (Iberocoop, CEE...), the Mediterranean Meetup at Wikimania 2026 aims to establish preliminary contacts and map the interest of Wikimedia volunteers, with the goal to develop into a more structured partnership in the future: 
    - collaboration during the upcoming Wiki Loves Earth campaign
    - organization of a follow up gathering in Malta

The Mediterranean Meetup is brought to you by WikiSud Italia, an informal group of Wikimedians from Southern Italy and beyond!

This session aims to bring together all the South Asian community members, friends of South Asia and other supportive community members to come together and have discussed around the movement in South Asia and form connections/bonds which can be sustained beyond Wikimania.

The meetup is intended as a global meetup for all young Wikimedians who will attend Wikimania. It is open to all participants under the age of 30, and allies of the Youth around the world. The purpose of this meetup building on the success of the 2025 global youth meetup (https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:2025/Meetups/Global_Youth_Meetup) that had more than 30 attendees is to unite the young Wikimedians who are attending the conference, bring them together to discuss things that are important to them, discuss about successful youth activities in the movement and to act as a safe space for Youth.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RWNgzZChMiA?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=18855

Cultural heritage institutions, universities, research centers, governments and public organizations steward vast amounts of carefully curated data. Wikimedia projects, especially Wikidata and Wikibase, provide open, structured, multilingual infrastructures for connecting and sharing knowledge. At the same time, Generative AI systems are reshaping how information is queried, summarized, and reused. Yet these three domains, institutional data, structured open knowledge, and AI systems, often evolve in parallel rather than in coordination. This panel asks: how can institutional data be more sustainably connected to Wikidata and Wikibase, and how can structured, community-governed knowledge meaningfully inform AI systems?
Anchored in the theme of Freedom, Equity, and Reliability, the discussion will explore how lowering technical and organizational barriers can strengthen equitable participation by institutions of different sizes and regions; how structured, referenced data can contribute to more reliable AI outputs; and how open infrastructures can support institutional autonomy in an AI-shaped landscape. While the AI-BRIDGES project will serve as one example of ongoing efforts to address these questions, offering practical insights from research and experimentation, the panel is designed as a broader conversation. Bringing together institutional partners, Open Knowledge experts and technologists, this panel will not only identify shared challenges and replicable pathways forward, but will engage the audience in expanding perspectives and ensuring inclusivity and equity around solutions.

Panelists include:
* Denny Vrandečić (Wikidata founder; Abstract Wikipedia lead) 
* Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata)
* João Alexandre Peschanski (WMBR)
* Pierre-Carl Langlais (Pleias)
* Dee Harris (Creative Commons)

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T1jTjARbXvY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=19299

Continuous support for young active Wikimedians increases their chances of long-term involvement in the movement. How can we support young people individually in long-term and healthy involvement? How can we support their growth and the development of skills and abilities that will enable them to be the best organizers and leaders in their communities? How did CEE Hub approach these questions when building CEE Youth, and how did Wikimedia Czech Republic approach them when organizing the first Wikimedia Youth conference?
Join us to discuss how to strengthen support for young Wikimedians in your region.
The discussion will be moderated by Jessica Stephenson, who oversees Hub development at WMF.
Let's explore ways to promote regional cooperation and develop joint strategies for building young leaders.
What are the important elements that young people value? What plays a role in supporting them? We will draw on the outcomes of the Wikimedia Youth Conference, where we asked these questions directly to the participants.
What should we keep in mind when providing support, and how can we measure its success?
You will learn all this and more during our joint discussion.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EC3_97TGsM4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=16553

Aujourd'hui, une grande partie du patrimoine mondial et des découvertes scientifiques reste enfermée derrière des murs de paiement (paywalls) ou restreinte par des licences restrictives. D'un côté, les GLAM essaient de financer leur numérisation en restreignant l'accès à leurs archives. De l'autre, la Science Ouverte exige une transparence totale et une gratuité des sources pour garantir la fiabilité des découvertes. Au milieu, l'étudiant, le citoyen et le chercheur, notamment de certains pays de l'hémisphère sud, se heurtent à un mur : un féodalisme numérique.
Wikimedia Commons et Wikidata s'imposent comme des alternatives résilientes et gratuites face aux silos des géants de l'édition. L'objectif est de passer d'un savoir "à consulter" à un savoir "à utiliser", permettant à chacun de devenir acteur de la vérification et de la production de connaissances, sans barrière financière.
Comment transformer un manuscrit numérisé en une donnée de recherche universelle ? Cette table ronde explore la synergie vitale entre l’Open Heritage et la Science Ouverte.
Nous analyserons comment le mouvement Wikimédia, agit comme le pont manquant entre ces disciplines. Sans Open Content, la science ouverte reste théorique, car elle manque de sources primaires vérifiables. À l’inverse, sans les méthodes de la Science Ouverte, le patrimoine numérique reste une simple galerie d'images sans profondeur scientifique.
Comment transformer un manuscrit numérisé en une donnée de recherche universelle ? Cette table ronde explore la synergie vitale entre l’Open Heritage (le patrimoine libéré par les musées et archives) et la Science Ouverte (la recherche accessible à tous).

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EQ4dNEOlAlY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=19225

Each Wikimania is an opportunity for the Wikimedia Foundation executive team to share with the movement the priority areas they're focused on across different topics, and to take in questions and feedback. In this session, Foundation executives will discuss progress they've made on important goals and contemplate larger questions related to how Wikimedia is keeping up with an evolving world. They will explore the particular complexities of this moment, looking at opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs, framing the discussion for an audience Q&A or breakout group discussions.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=18998

Wikipedia is one of the few places left where everyday people can meaningfully intervene in an increasingly closed information ecosystem. Participatory design (PD), a design approach in which the people who will use a system play a critical role in designing it, offers a useful lens on what that intervention actually requires. In this talk, I draw an analogy between PD and the collective effort of building and sustaining the Wikimedia projects, asking what lessons PD holds for how we support and encourage participation in Wikipedia. Looking at prior research, I note two gaps — and opportunities — that PD highlights: leveraging community events and programming, and experimenting with decision-making interfaces. I close with research directions where PD methods could help the community build more participatory tools for its own governance.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YKOImdtm9jg?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=18814

L'idée d'une cinquième liberté – la libre circulation des connaissances – est devenue un mot à la mode au sein de l'Union européenne. Pour Wikimedia, cela signifierait un accès beaucoup plus facile aux sources essentielles pour soutenir les projets Wiki, permettant aux Wikimédiens d'améliorer le contenu avec du texte, des sources, des images et des informations sur le patrimoine. Cela représente également un exemple potentiellement puissant pour le reste du monde, en accord avec la mission de Wikimedia qui consiste à promouvoir plus largement le libre accès à la connaissance.

Au cours des prochains mois, la Commission européenne proposera un acte européen sur l'espace de recherche, destiné à être la pièce maîtresse de ce travail. Toutefois, il n'y a aucune garantie de succès : les intérêts particuliers, les lenteurs bureaucratiques et le temps limité disponible peuvent tous conduire à des résultats sous-optimaux.

Programme indicatif

• Introduction
• Vecteur de changement: droits de publication secondaire
• Vecteur de changement: œuvres hors commerce
• Vecteur de changement: protection des institutions de recherche et culturelles contre les contrats abusifs
• Élaboration d'un plan d'action pratique

Objectifs de la session

• Les participants ont une meilleure compréhension de l'état actuel des processus législatifs pertinents de l'UE.
• Les participants ont une idée claire du moment, du lieu et de la manière dont ils peuvent influencer ces processus pour le mieux.
• Nous explorons tous plus en profondeur les liens entre le plaidoyer du Wiki, les bibliothèques, la recherche et d'autres communautés.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/hvpOFVZhgnE?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=19031

Indigenous and minority languages often lack the structured linguistic resources needed to participate fully in emerging multilingual knowledge systems. WikiFunctions, the platform designed to support Abstract Wikipedia, has pioneered fragment experiments that demonstrate how short, context-rich sentences can seed the generation of functions across Wikimedia projects. However, many communities remain unsure how to begin collecting and organizing these fragments or how to translate them into reusable functions that integrate with Wikidata Lexemes and broader knowledge graphs.

This workshop will introduce participants to practical methods for collecting language fragments, illustrate how to create functions from those fragments within Wikifunctions, and demonstrate best practices on balancing lexical data from Wikidata with function-generated content. We will showcase real examples from ongoing experiments and provide guided, hands-on activities that empower contributors to prepare language material ready for Wikifunctions workflows. Attendees will learn how to define lexical items, structure fragments to maximize reusability, and navigate decisions about when to reference external lexemes versus generating content dynamically.

This session improves technical skills and equal participation among Wikimedia contributors, leading to better, more inclusive language representation in future knowledge systems.

The goal of this session is to establish guidelines to organize successful Wikisource workshops.
The participants will contribute ideas on three groups of indicators of success: attractivity of the workshops, quality of contributions and fidelity of users and to animate a hybrid community which contributes both in face-to-face events and online.

• Attractivity of the workshops include various means to improve the diversity and the size of the audience, such as the chosen location, the chosen books to proofread as well as the communication on various channels.
• Ensuring the quality of contributions includes choosing relevant editions for the books to work on, providing an efficient training for both unexperienced and experienced users, reviewing contributions and answering questions, and more generally supporting participants after the workshop and encouraging them to come back.
• Finally, providing a welcoming, inclusive and caring atmosphere during the event to create bonds between participants to allow everyone to interact freely. Discussions about relevant key performances indicators will be useful to evaluate the fidelity of users.

Using post-its, the participants will share ideas on which initiatives to implement and which metrics to use for the evaluation of success or progress.
Association Le deuxième texte will then provide a guide summarizing all ideas shared during the session.

International Wiki conferences provide a great source of knowledge and learning. But they offer much more. They create a unique space for new ideas, partnerships, and future projects. And networking! Yet many participants don’t use this opportunity to network and communicate to its full potential. Some feel insecure about their English, while others may be introverted, feel shy, or simply don’t know where to start.

This session focuses on effective communication techniques for use during the Wiki events. It will offer practical guidance on building meaningful connections even when you don’t feel confident.

We will discuss what prevents participants from networking and the opportunities that may be discovered once the next level of networking is unlocked. We will see why networking matters and explore real examples of how simple meetings at a conference can grow into fruitful collaborations.

We will discuss what to do if English isn’t your first language and your language skills are limited (you will get practical, helpful recommendations and phrases to get started). We will also address shyness and introversion. Thus, it will equip you with simple ways to start networking both online and offline, and use it for good.

Participants will receive a networking mindset framework and preparation tips for before, during, and after the conference. The session focuses on simple steps that can help turn conversations into valuable cooperation for mutual benefit and a win-win approach.

جلسة عملية تُعرّف بأداة QUM (تحليل الجودة العميق) على ويكيبيديا العربية: لوحة تفاعلية داخل الصفحة تُحلّل المقالة وفق مؤشرات جودة متعددة، وتعرض للمحرر ما ينقص المقالة ليصبح مقبولًا أو ليرتقي تدريجيًا نحو مستوى مقالة جيدة ثم ممتازة حسب المعايير المعتمدة. تركز الورشة على تحويل التقييم من “انطباع عام” إلى قائمة مهام واضحة قابلة للتنفيذ، مع مؤشر تقدم يحفّز المحررين على تحسين المحتوى خطوة بخطوة. سنستعرض منهجية التحليل، وكيف تُستخدم الأداة لخدمة المحرر الخبير وكتّاب المقالة الأولى عبر إرشاد عملي للأقسام، والمصادر، والبنية، واللغة، والالتزام بإرشادات الصيانة، مع أمثلة واقعية ووقت للتجربة والأسئلة.

A practical session introducing the QUM tool on the Arabic Wikipedia: an interactive dashboard within the page that analyzes the article according to multiple quality indicators, and shows the editor what the article lacks to become acceptable, or to gradually rise to the level of a good article and then a featured article, according to the approved standards. The workshop focuses on transforming the assessment from a "general impression" into a clear, actionable task list, with a progress indicator that motivates editors to improve the content step by step. We will review the analysis methodology, and how the tool serves both the expert editor and first-time article writers through practical guidance on sections, sources, structure, language, and adherence to maintenance guidelines, with real-world examples and time for hands-on practice and questions.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=21049

À l’aide de la base de connaissances libre Wikidata, les personnes autrices ont analysé le contenu biographique en ligne de 80 dictionnaires et encyclopédies, totalisant un peu plus de 2 millions d’articles biographiques, afin d’établir la proportion d’articles dédiée aux personnalités féminines et masculines. L'objectif est de quantifier la présence relative du fossé des genres (gender gap) au sein de ces publications. En moyenne, il est possible de dénombrer une proportion de 11 à 14 % d’articles sur des personnalités identifiées comme femmes et 86 à 88 % sur des personnalités identifiées comme hommes, avec moins de 1 % de personnalités n'étant pas identifiées dans ces deux genres. Cette analyse met en lumière un déséquilibre structurel persistant dans la production et la diffusion des savoirs biographiques. Elle souligne également le rôle des infrastructures informationnelles dans la reproduction de biais historiques liés à la visibilité, à la reconnaissance et à la légitimité des parcours. En mobilisant Wikidata comme outil d’agrégation et de croisement des données, l’étude montre comment les environnements numériques permettent non seulement de mesurer ces écarts, mais aussi d’outiller des démarches correctives visant une représentation plus équitable.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=21579

Esta sesión presenta resultados de una investigación que analiza la representación de biografías y entidades territoriales en países de América Latina y España dentro de Wikipedia en español. A partir de consultas a Wikidata se observan patrones en la distribución geográfica de las biografías, en la presencia de distintas ocupaciones y en la proporción de biografías de mujeres y hombres. Asimismo, el análisis de entidades territoriales permite identificar los tipos de espacios y elementos que son documentados en cada país.
Los resultados preliminares muestran una fuerte presencia de ocupaciones vinculadas al ámbito cultural, político y deportivo, así como una concentración de entidades que varía entre los países de la región. Este tipo de análisis permite comprender mejor cómo se organiza la información en los proyectos Wikimedia y aporta elementos para reflexionar sobre las dinámicas de producción y representación del conocimiento en comunidades colaborativas.
La sesión busca aportar herramientas para que editores, investigadores y miembros de la comunidad puedan explorar los datos de Wikidata y Wikipedia desde una perspectiva analítica, aprovechando las posibilidades que ofrecen las consultas estructuradas.
La primera parte consistirá en una breve presentación de los resultados del estudio y de las principales tendencias observadas. En la segunda parte se realizará una demostración práctica de cómo construir consultas utilizando Wikidata Query Service (WQS) y cómo analizar los resultados con Google Colab, de modo que los participantes puedan replicar este tipo de análisis y generar sus propios conjuntos de datos.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EQ4dNEOlAlY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24344

This workshop demonstrates how to go from idea to working, deployed tool in under two hours, using Agentic AI (Claude Code).

The workshop is aimed at people with programming experience, to encourage them to experiment with agentic AI coding (which has made a great leap in capability in Nov 2025, and became much better at producing useful code). It is not aimed at encouraging people with no understanding of programming to "just vibe code".

The goal is to generate the idea for the tool right there in the room in the first 10 minutes or so, but I will also prepare a couple of ideas of my own in case there's no creative energy in the room.

How we communicate with each other influences our relationships, the quality of our interactions, and thus also the quality of our collaboration. In a community as complex and diverse as the Wikimedia movement, clear, respectful communication can be a transformative factor: for high-quality collaboration, but also for a community in which people enjoy being active on a long-term basis.
Active listening takes a very concrete and practical approach to this issue. It sharpens our attention and trains our inner observer: What is the other person saying, and how are they saying it? Have I understood everything correctly, or do I want to ask for clarification? And then: How does what has been said affect me, how does it make me feel, how do I want to respond? Active listening means first really being present with the other person before we respond. Not in the heat of the moment, but in genuine understanding.
This sounds simple, but it requires putting aside our own judgments and thoughts, remaining curious, and taking responsibility for our own reactions. Those who practice this develop the ability to understand the perspectives and emotions behind words, thereby actively contributing to building trust and reducing misunderstandings.
The workshop is open to everyone, with or without prior knowledge. It takes place in a safe space: what you share stays in the room.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/EC3_97TGsM4?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=22236

In this workshop we explore how artistic approaches can be used to contribute to pluralist sensemaking around ethnographic collections drawing on the perspectives of the cultures of origin, thus contributing to cultural self-determination. 
We open the dialogue by relating our experience implementing “CultureFLOW”, a novel methodology facilitating artistic creative processes that engage with collective memories around artifacts from ethnographic collections, thereby reenacting and reinterpreting them in a co-creative approach. The “CultureFLOW” methodology extends the traditional GLAM hackathon format, combining the hackathon methodology used to foster engagement around open cultural data with artistic creation. During its first pilot implementation in 2024, arts students from Mexico were invited to engage with artifacts from ethnographic collections in Switzerland and to present their artistic projects at the 10th edition of the Swiss GLAM hackathon. In 2025, the method was implemented at the occasion of the first Hackatón BAM in Puebla and will again be used for its second edition in 2026, opening the scope to ethnographic (and historical) collections in a variety of countries, including Mexico itself.
In view of the resulting artistic projects we analyze how this methodology fosters equity by giving voice to often invisible regional narratives and explore how it can be replicated in other institutions, adapting it to diverse contexts. This second part of the workshop is interactive and practice-oriented: participants map their potential partners and design a CultureFLOW micro-strategy for their own communities, obtaining concrete tools to implement the model in their specific contexts.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/hvpOFVZhgnE?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24321

Projects like Abstract Wikipedia will only succeed with thorough, extensible systems for generating natural encyclopedic language from a single source of informational content. While the current state of ‘language generation’ on Abstract Wikipedia lacks sufficient thoroughness and extensibility, such limitations do not prevent building other systems that use well-developed Wikidata lexemes and items to produce text.

This workshop explores how the Ninai/Udiron system (developed by the presenter) takes Wikidata entities from across diverse languages and makes natural text generation possible in those languages, with help from linguistic references and user preferences. Participants will explore how to write abstract content that expresses complex relationships, represented by both Wikidata statements and assertions too complex for such statements, and how to indicate different stylistic choices in that content. Participants will also learn how to indicate that particular words and expressions should appear under these stylistic choices, and to set up terms that only appear in their language so that they may be imported into other languages. The French and Breton languages will serve as primary pivots around which discussion of other languages’ lexemes and behaviors, including around how concepts may be re-expressed through processes such as loan translation, etymological equivalency, and transliteration.

The presenter hopes that the workshop empowers participants to improve at least one aspect of Wikidata’s lexicographical data in their own languages, so that readers can ultimately benefit from greater possibilities regarding the expression of both encyclopedic and non-encyclopedic information across all languages.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/RWNgzZChMiA?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24432

Join us for an afternoon of lightning talks on fun an important topics in the Wikimedia ecosystem!

Presentations in English and French.

1. Road to 500: When Wikipedia Meets Social Media by laliv g
2. Wikimedia Residencies at UTDT. A WIR experience from an educational program by Florencia Guastavino and Luisina Ferrante
3. Rooting for Knowledge: Why We Need a Wiki-Botanist Action Group Today! by Deon Steyn and Douglas Scott (Discott)
4. Botanists in the Wikiverse: Why thematic engagement matters by Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10)
5. WikiTeny : Impact, apprentissages et modèle réplicable pour l’inclusion linguistique by Andriah Laingo
6. Freedom to Read, Skills to Edit: The Ukrainian Experience of Bringing Students to Wikisource by Viacheslav Mamon
7. Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality: Wiki + GLAM + Gender by Adjovi Essenam Fumey
8. Sybilla: A Prototype to Detect Wikipedia Content Gaps from Reader Demand Signals by Ilario Valdelli
9. AI-assisted Patrolling: Bridging Discord, Pywikibot, and LLMs to patrol small wikis by Vivian Epiney (WMCH)
10. Scaling GLAM partnerships with an open editorial toolkit: the “Sharing culture” path by Dario Crespi and Marco Chemello
11. Editing Cultural Blind Spots: Women in Zarzuela on Wikipedia by Patricia Horrillo Guerra
12. Successful Advocacy in Issues Where Other People Find You Boring and Obnoxious -- Lessons From The LGBTQ Movement by Signe Krantz, policy officer at Wikimedia Sverige
13. Alice’s Adventures in Wikiland: a folk tale about falling down a Wiki rabbit hole by Dr. Sara Thomas

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24247

We share 5 key findings from our research on the Wikimedia projects during the past year that you can utilize in your work. We then facilitate spaces where Wikimedians can share their perspective and knowledge about each of the key findings, exchange proposals for how to use them in their work, and optionally propose follow-up next steps to bring the findings to their work or the work of their communities.

See previous Wikimania's similar sessions:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program/5_Research_Findings_and_How_You_Can_Use_Them_in_Your_Work
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/10_Research_Findings_and_How_You_Can_Use_Them_in_Your_Work

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YKOImdtm9jg?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=23905

How can educators meaningfully integrate Wikimedia into their teaching while ensuring participation, inclusion, and quality?
This interactive workshop guides participants through the practical steps of designing a Wikimedia-based education activity. There will be no lecture. Participants will work in small groups to move from idea to structured plan.
The session begins with participants identifying their teaching contexts and key challenges. Through progressive design challenges, they will define why Wikimedia is relevant in their setting, outline a concrete learning activity, and adapt it to real-world constraints such as multilingual classrooms, limited connectivity, or first-time editors.
Participants will leave with a draft plan that can be implemented in their own institutions or communities.
Facilitators will also introduce practical support structures such as mentorship, peer learning workshops, OER documentation practices, and knowledge-sharing platforms that can strengthen education initiatives globally.
This workshop is collaborative, adaptable across regions, and suitable for educators, librarians, youth organizers, and Wikimedia program leaders.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T1jTjARbXvY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24390

Vikidia and Wikikids are the most active and most visited wikis after Wikipedia in French and Dutch, although less well known and less developed in other languages.
Why and how do these wikis work? Why do they provide an essential service?
I tell about the operating principles of these wikis (very similar to those of Wikipedia), how they actually work, and in particular with participants ranging in age from the target audience of readers to retirees, including teenagers and school projects. Young participants love not only contributing content, but also taking on roles and responsibilities for maintaining the wiki or guiding newer members.

Vikidia attracts many young readers who are happy to find a more suitable resource, with articles that are easier to access and shorter in length.
It fill a gap that wouldn’t be properly addressed othewise, by saying both that younger reader can read Wikipedia or at least the lead sections of an article, and that we definitly don’t write for them especialy by themselves.
Children read Vikidia both for their school work and out of mere curiosity, to raise their general knowledge. It is a valuable addition to the other sources of information available to them: school, family, peers, television, and online content.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/DOn9gAdtUD0?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=21699

Wikiexpeditions is an on-site research project with the ultimate goal of creating or improving different forms of content on topics related to underrepresented local places. This workshop aims to develop leadership, organisational and technical skills by presenting the full process of conducting expeditions from scratch, as well as to give some insights into the successful implementation and development of the Macedonian Wikiexpeditions through the years. Participants will learn how to systematically document underrepresented regions by discovering unmapped places of interest, planning and supplying resources, taking high-quality documentary pictures, geotagging pictures, finding reliable sources, and creating content on Wikipedia and Wikidata. In addition, participants will learn about the differences between expeditions and other outdoor activities with a similar goal, such as photohunts and photowalks, and get some tips on how to efficiently conduct those other activities.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/T1jTjARbXvY?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=24985

The CEE Youth Group is an initiative of the CEE Hub that brings together young Wikimedians (under 30) across Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The group, established in 2023, has turned into a cross-border network that puts a focus on peer learning, leadership development, and the strengthening of the local Wikimedia communities.

Since then, the group has held regular online meetings and three in-person gatherings. Meetings are organised and facilitated by members on a rotating basis, encouraging shared responsibility and active participation. The group provides a safe and open space to discuss challenges, exchange ideas, and support local Wikimedia activities.

In this session, we will share how the group was formed, what has worked well, and what challenges we have faced. We will present key outcomes from 2025 and explain the group’s main focus areas for the future: supporting youth initiatives, developing leadership skills increasing youth visibility in the movement, and improving internal coordination

This study focuses on the “Amar Ekushey Article Contest,” the largest article-writing contest on Bengali Wikipedia, as a case for understanding how contributors participate in Wikimedia communities, how article quality is evaluated, and what affects continued participation. Since 2017, more than 1,700 accepted articles have been created through the contest, with contributions from both new and experienced editors. Using data from several contest editions, the analysis traces patterns in article acceptance and rejection, contributor performance, and recurring quality concerns, including translation problems, incomplete content, and policy-related issues. The study also looks beyond the contest itself by considering post-contest activity. Overall, it highlights how article contests support both content creation and community engagement, while pointing to ways to improve newcomer support, review practices, and long-term participation.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=26652

AI search assistants are increasingly used as entry points to public knowledge and frequently rely on Wikipedia as a foundational information source. This 5+5 session introduces a study examining how gender disparities may propagate across the emerging Wikipedia–AI knowledge pipeline, and invites Wikimania attendees to engage with and reflect on the downstream consequences of Wikipedia content.

The study analyses English Wikipedia Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussions from January–March 2025 (2,317 biographies) to examine gender differences in article retention and referencing practices. These patterns are compared with outputs from two search-enabled AI systems (Google Gemini and Perplexity Sonar). Across both Wikipedia and AI outputs, the analysis evaluates coverage gaps and the composition and reliability of references using Wikipedia’s perennial sources framework.

The results reveal contrasting dynamics across the pipeline. Within AfD discussions in our sample, biographies about women are more likely to be retained than those about men, but they also exhibit stronger referencing practices, suggesting a higher evidentiary threshold for inclusion. In downstream AI systems, references tend to be of lower reliability overall, and outputs about women show weaker referencing practices than those about men. These findings suggest that asymmetries in upstream knowledge infrastructures can propagate through AI-mediated systems that increasingly shape public access to knowledge.

After a short talk, participants will take part in a brief activity querying an AI search tool and reflecting on response quality, apparent reliance on Wikipedia, and the trade-offs between reliance on Wikipedia and information voids where strong coverage is absent.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=27361

Wikipedia's contributor base is ageing and shrinking. Meanwhile, a generation of knowledge creators (fluent in TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels) is producing, curating, and fact-checking information at scale, just not here. This lightning talk asks why, and whether it matters.
The short-form video question is deliberately controversial within the Wikimedia movement: proposals to surface Wikipedia content through video have met resistance on grounds of quality control, platform dependency, closed formats, and alignment with commercial AI pipelines. This talk treats that controversy not as a problem to resolve but as a research question to examine. What does the evidence tell us about why younger and creator-generation contributors don't engage with Wikipedia as editors? Is the barrier technical, cultural, epistemic, or structural? And what would genuinely community-governed, open short-form contribution actually look like, if it's possible at all?
Rather than advocating for or against video, this talk maps the tension: between Wikipedia's commitment to openness and its dependence on contribution models that systematically exclude newer creator cultures. The goal is to open a research agenda; on recruitment, format, epistemic norms, and platform politics but also on multimodality, and broader critical digital and AI literacies; these are questions I believe the movement urgently needs to tackle but has so far largely avoided.
Format note: This talk will use concrete data points on contributor demographics and trends, brief examples of creator-gen knowledge practices from adjacent platforms, and a set of open research questions designed to provoke discussion.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/YVS4luvmmvU?list=PLfq0CVoHfK80&t=28069

Editorial conflicts on French Wikipedia reveal deep tensions surrounding the legitimacy of situated knowledge, particularly for Indigenous, Franco-Canadian, and diasporic communities. This lightning talk builds on a previous mapping the topical and intensity dimensions of 78 disputes across 62 articles on French Wikipedia, which established that Quebec-related subjects (41%), Indigenous Peoples (16.7%), and French-speaking communities outside Quebec (12.8%) concentrate the majority of the conflicts studied. This presentation advances that work by reporting concrete findings on two main analytical dimensions.
Grounded in digital communication studies, cultural sociology, and STS, our framework examines how Wikipedia's sociotechnical architecture shapes not only how conflicts unfold, but also what can be legitimated as encyclopedic knowledge. This asymmetry is compounded by a demographic imbalance, with contributors from France representing 71% of the active base compared to 5% for Canadians.
First, normative and discursive framing reveals tensions in which commonality protocols appear to default to a Francocentric standard, potentially disadvantaging contributors defending locally situated knowledge within existing justification frameworks. Second, regulation and resolution suggests that conflict outcomes tend to favor deletion, redirection, or unresolved status for culturally specific content, raising questions about whether governance structures mitigate or reproduce epistemic inequalities.
Beyond diagnosis, this talk aims to propose concrete recommendations for Wikimedia communities, including strengthening locality protocols, supporting underrepresented contributor communities, and revising ambiguous commonality guidelines that inadvertently concentrate cultural authority. Knowledge equity requires not only new content, but structural reform of the protocols that govern what counts as encyclopedic knowledge.

The Bangla Wiki Community Meetup will bring together contributors from Bangla Wikipedia and related Wikimedia projects to strengthen collaboration, share experiences, and align future priorities. The session will focus on community growth, content gaps, cultural representation, and cross-project coordination. Through brief updates and open discussion, participants will identify key challenges and practical next steps to improve sustainability, leadership development, and collective impact within the Bangla Wikimedia community.

A meetup for the community of the CEE region, to chat, connect, and update on the latest regional developments.

CEE you there!

This lunch will be a space for people from the Latin America & the Caribbean region, speaking Portuguese, Spanish, English and French to come together, socialize, and have fun together. We will also use this opportunity to gather and identify priorities, ideas and wishes around Wikimanía 2027 in Santiago and the Regional Conference that will happen in Bolivia in November 2026.

The MENA Connect Meetup brings together Wikimedians from the Middle East and North Africa to connect, share updates, and explore collaboration. Many participants may meet face-to-face for the first time, making this an opportunity to build relationships, discuss regional challenges, and inspire joint initiatives. The session highlights regional voices and fosters dialogue, cooperation, and collective action in line with the spirit of Wikimania Paris 2026.

In the spirit of this year's Wikimania theme, "Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité", the 'WikiOrchestra' will perform a short piece of French music during the Wikimania closing ceremony. The performance will attempt to honour the musical traditions of France, specifically Paris.

All Wikimania participants are invited to join and play or sing along – just bring your instrument or your voice to the conference, and make sure to attend the (short) rehearsal. Ideally, please also let us know in advance if you want to sing along so that we can select a suitable piece, and send you the sheet music that meets your skill level ahead of the conference. If necessary, we will try to provide you with an instrument.

The Russian Language Speakers Meetup at Wikimania Paris is an open, informal gathering for contributors who work in Russian or come from Russian-speaking communities across Wikimedia projects. The meetup aims to create a shared space for connection, mutual support, and honest conversation about the current realities of contributing in Russian in a rapidly changing social, political, and technological environment.

Russian-language Wikimedia projects face a unique mix of challenges: editor retention and burnout, governance tensions, language and terminology debates, cross-wiki fragmentation, and increasing pressure on volunteers operating in different legal and cultural contexts. At the same time, these communities demonstrate remarkable resilience, creativity, and adaptability — from content diversification and outreach to cross-country collaboration.

This meetup is not a formal presentation but a facilitated conversation. Participants will be invited to briefly introduce themselves, share the projects they are involved in, and discuss key questions, such as what is currently the hardest part of contributing in Russian. What support structures work — and which ones fail? How can Russian-language contributors collaborate more effectively across projects, regions, and roles? What do we want Russian-language Wikimedia communities to look like in five years?

The session is intended for editors, functionaries, researchers, organisers, and allies — including non-Russian speakers who want to better understand these communities. No prior preparation is required. The goal is to listen, exchange experiences, surface shared concerns, and leave with a clearer sense of collective priorities and possible next steps.

WMLGBT+ has a culture of organising community meet up at wikimania as this allows us as a community to meet up, share and connect.
We are planning to do the same at wikimania Paris to give our community that mostly exist virtually an opportunity to meet in person.

Meet-up for Wikimedians who love knitting, crochetting, embroidery and so on: let's share our current creative work!

Bring your own stuff if you can (yarn & needles), and come to take a break from the whirlwind of Wikimania!

Like every year at Wikimedia, this session is a great opportunity to exchange between Wikisourcerors (and any people interested in Wikisources) of the world. The meetup is intended for people to discuss and learn from each other about various global or important subjects: technical, digitization, editorial, managing projects, creating a Wikisource in a new language, etc. (maybe a next Wikisource Conference ?)

Wiki-fashion shows are a proud tradition, appearing at Wikimania 2023 and 2024, and at other smaller events around the world.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_fashion_shows

You're encouraged to come dressed in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects, show off your getup on the runway and tell the origin story of how you got them.

Follow up meetup for the WikiFranca community.

Board games mania! Bring your games and play!

Who brings which game? Add yours!

Come belt it out with us!

I would like to invite you to participate in a WikiRace tournament. This will be a chance for 16 players to compete and prove who can navigate Wikipedia the smoothest way - who can find the next bridge in the maze of knowledge.

Please sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wojciech_P%C4%99dzich/Wikimania_2026_-_WikiRaces_Signup

Rules:

• Two players.
• Two laptops.
• Unlimited backtracking available.
• No search features.
• No Ctrl+F available.
• No infoboxes, navboxes or categories, unless offered as a power-up by the host
• Only hyperlinks inside article body text.

🗼 Wikimania 2026 will provide two opportunities of creativity, collaboration, and innovation set against the vibrant city of Paris, France. A vital part of Wikimania is the creation of collaboration and learning spaces for technical contributors, curious Wikimedians and knowledge enthusiasts. During this year’s Wikimania, the technical space will host an event where developers, designers, researchers, editors, and community builders from around the world meet to collectively address technical challenges faced by the Wikimedia community.
The technical event will have two main components:

• Team Challenges (pre-event and July 21-22): A hackathon-style event focused on team challenges that will bring together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community. Please see the Team Challenges page for more details.
• Hackathon (July 23-25): Similar to previous years, the Hackathon will provide an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to collaborate on technical projects and solve problems together.We want to enable newcomers, especially from non-developers backgrounds, to come to meet the Wikimedia communities and bring their own fresh point of view and skillsets! The Hackathon is open to Wikimania participants.

More information: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Hackathon

Venez, on fait un stand avec tous les groupes locaux de France ! Discover France's local groups!
Comme ça on peut :

• Montrer le rôle convivial d’une cabale
• Avoir une comm’ dédiée
  • Faire des flyers
• Valoriser les partenariats du territoire
  • Les brochures des institutions culturelles
  • projets Wiki
• Le rôle des Wikimédiens dans la valorisation de l’histoire d’un territoire
  • Sélection d’articles
  • Proposer des QRpédia pour les grands articles locaux
  • Le travail sur les catégories Commons

Avec un grand mur plein d’images et de QRpédia vers des beaux articles, une grande tables avec pleins de spécialités de toutes les régions de France, et des flyers de nos institutions partenaires ! Et des gens derrières pour en parler à tous les curieux et les curieuses !

In rooms E-F
Program: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Virtual_room

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/40Q219XJc30?t=1193

A workshop to explore different ways Wikimedians can work with the UN and other Intergovernmental Organisations and their content to improve the quality of Wikimedia projects in many languages. The workshop will be run by both UN staff and Wikimedians working with UN agencies and other IGOs.

The UN system’s knowledge resources are high-quality, multilingual, freely available and often published under Creative commons licences. The UN has been producing knowledge for over 75 years, creating 10,000s of publications, 100,000s of images, videos, audio and other resources.

The session will outline processes and worked examples for finding shared goals, project planning, documentation and resources as well as support from the Content Partnership Hub in contacting and working with UN agencies. There will also  be guidance and different ways to find and use reference material, openly licensed text, images and other media from UN agencies. We will also highlight current issues and needs for support from people working in other areas.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/u6tMzowZ10M?t=1264

This hands-on session explores the development of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models for Indigenous languages. It will provide an in-depth overview of how we leverage Mozilla Common Voice for large-scale speech data collection, validation, and annotation to support the creation of open, community-driven language technologies for underrepresented languages.

Participants will gain practical insights into the distinctive linguistic characteristics of many Indigenous languages such as tonal systems, vowel harmony, and rich morphological structures and how these features influence data preparation and model training. The session will also examine both the technical and community-related challenges involved in developing robust ASR and TTS systems for low-resource contexts, as well as the significant opportunities this work presents for advancing digital inclusion.

By the end of the session, participants will better understand how structured community contributions, quality assurance processes, and open collaboration can accelerate progress in building reliable, culturally grounded speech technologies that reflect the voices and knowledge systems of Indigenous language communities.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/nCVeXaAk77c?t=390

The Community Wishlist is evolving, and we want to design its future together.

We heard concerns that the current voting and prioritization process didn't meet community expectations, and that ideally a future wishlist would complement the Foundation's annual plans with dedicated wishlist work.

This session is a collaborative working session to co-create ideas for a first proposal for how wishes should be prioritized in the future. One important part of that work will be designing a transparent, community-driven prioritization framework, including how voting should work. These ideas will then serve to develop a first proposal that can then be shared on wiki for broader community discussion and refinement.

Some of the questions we'll be discussing are:

• Should wish submission be open year round?
• How should voting work? For example, should participants have a fixed number of votes?
• What triage should happen before voting begins?
• What criteria should be used to prioritize wishes?
• How might the wishlist surface big investment areas when needed?

Whether you've participated in the Community Wishlist for years or are new to the process, we'd love your ideas. The goal is to leave the session with a concrete draft proposal shaped by the community.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=1328

Building on the work of the NPOV working group and neutrality workstream, this session will provide the latest update to then engage session participants in breakout conversations about neutrality enforcement on projects, verifiability and reliable sources, and potential of peer learning and support in these areas. This session will provide general information regarding the neutrality landscape, to then practically discuss and find solution to challenges around neutrality enforcement. It is also a space to create peer connections for future collaboration on the topic beyond Wikimania.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/x2TWgWM3NvE?t=1519

Este panel reúne a tres Wikimedistas de Bolivia, Colombia y Perú con experiencia directa en trabajo con comunidades indígenas y documentación de lenguas orales. A partir de nuestras prácticas, exploraremos cómo las comunidades de lenguas minorizadas se relacionan con las plataformas Wikimedia: cómo se nombran a sí mismas, cómo representan su conocimiento y cómo negocian sus condiciones de participación.
La sesión incluye una dinámica participativa diseñada para entornos multilingües y multiculturales: presentaremos escenarios ficticios de trabajo comunitario —¿qué harías si te tocara trabajar con una comunidad con estas brechas específicas?— que luego revelaremos como situaciones reales de nuestras propias trayectorias. Este ejercicio invita a la audiencia a pensar colectivamente sobre planificación participativa, diálogo comunitario y trabajo no extractivista con comunidades.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/KIrq323oVGo?t=1195

For over a decade, Deror Lin’s "Coolest Projects" session was a highlight of Wikimania. It was the stage where we celebrated the projects that made us say, "I wish I thought of that." From 2011 until his last conference, Deror championed innovation that was fun, visual, and inspiring.

In this special 25th-anniversary session, we honor his legacy by reviving the tradition. We are not just looking at history; we are celebrating the "hacks" that expanded what a wiki can do.

A committee of community volunteers will review past presentations and issue a public call for proposals to select the final 10 nominees. These projects represent the full spectrum of our movement's creativity: from the first offline Wikipedia DVD and massive monument photo contests to unique edit-a-thons focused on cooking and photographing local cheeses.

The session will be fast-paced and highly visual. After presenting the 10 finalists, we will hand the power back to you—the audience. Keeping with Deror’s tradition, the winners will be decided by the volume of your applause. Come ready to cheer for the projects that built the joy in our movement.

PLEASE NOTE: WE ASK YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SESSION BY CLAPPING. THIS MEANS THAT THIS SESSION MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT APPRECIATE LOUD APPLAUSE. WE CONSIDERED ALTERNATIVES BUT HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP THE FORMAT AS IT IS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A LARGE ROOM, AND WE WILL ENCOURAGE THE "CLAPPING" PART OF THE AUDIENCE TO SIT TOWARDS THE FRONT AND OTHERS TO SIT MORE TOWARDS THE BACK.

Wikimedia Commons contains more than 135 000 000 files, most of them images of various source and quality. This is an enormous potential for creative activities. In 2025 we have launched CEE Hub challenge Wiki Loves Film with more than 6 countries involved, 59 participants, 404 articles and 448 photos contributed (see the full report here).

If we consider the number of photos from films, about films and filmmakers, there is a huge pool of content for a creative workshop! As part of Wiki Loves Film 2026 (running in July and August) participants will take original photos, scissors and glue and using the technique of collage they will create new images and new contexts and relations.

All the new creative images will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons using the SA feature of CC licence. Results will be presented to the public audience right after the workshop and later online on Wiki Loves Film page.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/XhCmPXzLcEk?t=1029

Across Africa, many minority communities remain underrepresented within the global knowledge ecosystem. Their languages, cultures, and histories are often missing or marginally documented on Wikimedia platforms. While increasing visibility is an important first step, meaningful inclusion requires more than representation, it demands empowerment, ownership, and sustainable participation. This session examines how minority communities can transition from being subjects of documentation to becoming active contributors, organizers, and decision-makers within the Wikimedia Movement. Drawing from practical experience in supporting minority language initiatives and community-led organizing, the presentation will highlight strategies for building inclusive editing communities, strengthening local leadership, improving access to funding, and fostering long-term capacity development. It will also address structural challenges such as digital access barriers, language marginalization, and limited institutional support, while proposing scalable and community-centered solutions. By sharing lessons learned and practical approaches, this session aims to contribute to the broader Movement Strategy goals of knowledge equity and decentralized decision-making. Ultimately, the session calls for a shift from symbolic inclusion to transformative participation where minority communities are not only visible on Wikimedia platforms, but empowered to shape narratives, influence policies, and sustain their own knowledge ecosystems.

The Wikimedia Conference and Events portfolio is instrumental in supporting and shaping up the way our community meets, sustains engagement and collaborates across the globe. Through this workshop we aim to bring together past, present and future conference organizers to share learnings, lessons and best practices while also providing feedback for the continuous improvement and effectiveness of the portfolio. The session will also create space to reflect on how we design events with clear purpose, strong outcomes, and equitable access.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/1uQOSxVcUAU?t=71

Nawat is an indigenous language in danger of extinction. For five centuries, the language has resisted in hiding. Nowadays most nawat-speakers are women, these women are teaching the ancient language to the new generations who want to connect with their roots. The language and wisdom taught by the elders and the technology knowledge of new generations combines to record the language, stories, and new words, helped by Wikipedia, a tool that the nawa community is using to safe-guard and amplify the voices of indigenous women, our nawat teachers.

Join us for a live tour of the posters!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/nCVeXaAk77c?t=5546

Abstract Wikipedia is now the newest Wikimedia project, having launched earlier this year. We will show you how you can create an abstract article on the site, powered by Wikidata and Wikifunctions, and see it previewed in multiple languages. We will demonstrate how you can use this today on Abstract Wikipedia. We will showcase where you can help build up data about your topics on Wikidata, and words and builders for your language on Wikidata Lexemes and Wikifunctions. We will highlight how you might be able to use this in future on your local Wikipedia.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/x2TWgWM3NvE?t=6221

The Programs & Events (P&E) Dashboard allows organizers to effectively train participants in their programs, monitor the work participants do on Wikimedia wikis, and assess their contributions. It also allows them to report metrics on what the participants have done.

It's a powerful tool that's tracked the work of hundreds of thousands of editors across 484 different language versions of Wikimedia projects. Nearly 2,000 program leaders worldwide use it every year to track their programs. But even experienced users probably aren't taking advantage of all the features.

In this workshop, we will teach participants how to use the P&E Dashboard, taking them from the basic steps of getting started, through advanced tips and tools. We will also provide tips on customizing things to support their individual programs, including showcasing how to translate the interface and training modules into their languages. We'll also briefly touch on the Visualizing Impact tool. And, of course, we'll answer all the burning questions from the audience!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/40Q219XJc30?t=6581

Effective governance is essential to advancing Wikimedia’s mission of free knowledge for all. As community-led structures evolve and committees take on increasingly complex responsibilities, it becomes critical to pause, reflect, and intentionally improve how governance works in practice.
This session offers a structured and candid space for committee members, Wikimedia Foundation community governance support staff, Users with Extended Rights, and engaged community members to reflect on Wikimedia’s governance landscape. Together, we will explore what is working well in volunteer group collaboration and decision-making, surface recurring challenges and friction points, and collectively identify actionable improvements for the future.
Through a mix of brief framing, interactive polls, and participatory discussions, participants will share governance “wins,” examine anonymized case examples, and co-create practical next steps to strengthen transparency, clarity, and collaboration. The session aims to move beyond critique toward constructive, solutions-oriented dialogue.
By the end of this session, participants will leave with:

• A shared understanding of current governance strengths and gaps
  
  
  
  
• Concrete ideas for improving processes and coordination
  
  
  
  
• Clear next steps to support continuous governance improvement
  
  
  
  

This conversation is an opportunity to strengthen trust, accountability, and collective stewardship within Wikimedia’s governance ecosystem.

This TED-style Duo Talk follows the evolution of a community partnership model in Bali, from Wikilontar, a local manuscript digitization effort, to Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA), and now to Wikisami, a community-led initiative expanding Balinese knowledge preservation through global GLAM collaboration.

Presented as a dialogue between Sakti Hendra Pramudya, Senior Partnerships Manager for ESEAP at the Wikimedia Foundation, and Carma Citrawati, a community organizer from Bali, the session explores how sustained, trust-based regional support enables local initiatives to grow in scale, confidence, and institutional reach. What began as technical and strategic accompaniment for a small cultural preservation project has evolved into structured engagement with international memory institutions, including emerging collaboration pathways with Leiden University Libraries and the British Library.

Rather than focusing solely on outputs, this session examines the partnership architecture behind community growth: long-term mentorship, bridge-building between local volunteers and global institutions, phased capacity strengthening, and accompaniment that extends beyond grant cycles. This approach reflects Liberté through community agency and self-determination, Égalité through communities engaging global institutions as peers, and Fiabilité through building credible, trusted knowledge infrastructures.

The Bali experience demonstrates how regional partnerships can operationalize equity within the Wikimedia movement, transforming communities from beneficiaries of support into equal partners in knowledge production and heritage stewardship. Participants will gain practical insights for designing partnership pathways that strengthen community ownership while unlocking GLAM relationships otherwise inaccessible.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/u6tMzowZ10M?t=6490

Generative AI is reshaping how knowledge is produced, discovered and trusted. Movement conversations have often focused on impact and risks. This session focuses on agency: how can Wikimedia play an active role in shaping the emerging AI-driven knowledge loop, while safeguarding the integrity of human knowledge production?

Drawing on work done by Wikimedia CH, Open Future and AI-BRIGDES, we offer that this moment calls for us to act and lead by innovating, building and shaping the new ecosystem.

To get there, we are launching Mosaic: a mission for open stewardship of AI and the Commons. Our aims is to unite various movement entities, volunteers and aligned partners, and to work together on defining shared priorities and a clear roadmap. We invite others to join this mission, and to work together towards the AI Impact Summit in June 2027 in Switzerland and beyond.

After sharing the challenge, the vision and what led us to create a consortium, we will be sharing a Statement of Intent that we invite everyone sharing our vision to sign, and open up the room to questions and thoughts. We will finish the session with sharing some practical next steps and invite people to sign the Statement of Intent.

As not everyone is able to join us at Wikimania, we will take results from various meetings happening during Wikimania to a Wiki page and invite others to join. We also invite everyone to read the accompanying white paper: "Wikimedia, the commons and the new AI knowledge loop. A mission for 2030".

For further information before the meeting, please feel free to reach out to Ilario Valdelli, Alek Tarkowski and Shani Eventsein Sigalov thoughtout the week. We hope to see you there!

We are living in a changing world. The world seems increasingly polarized, and shared consensus around what information is true and trusted is fragmenting. Topics that at the center of the public debate can become battlegrounds on Wikipedia, too, and wiki projects are attacked more than in the past. Changes that go beyond Wikipedia makes our volunteers feel more at risk than before. And the long-term consequences of the rise of AI and changes on readership behaviour are on top of our mind.

These issues are at the center of many conversations in the Wikimedia movement, and many sessions here at Wikimania. However, these conversations generally focus on analysing the current situation, understanding the trends, planning for the future: what is missing is how we are living it. On wiki, users with extended rights are feeling overwhelmed. Editors who work on difficult topics are increasingly feeling threatened. Many of us are worried about the future of the Wikimedia projects.

This session is a space for participants to talk about how they are living this situation, and to listen to each other. There will be no presentation: participants will have the main stage.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/g1m5wt2tI7Y?t=6718

A panel of contributors from different offline projects will lead a brainstorming session on how to make free and open knowledge accessible in remote areas. Speakers will share practical experiences while participants can connect to several offline systems available in the room and explore them directly on their own devices.
The session will address key challenges: sourcing equipment (from purpose-built devices and refurbished computers to low-cost solutions such as Raspberry Pi, including DIY approaches like 3D-printed cases and storage choices); working in difficult environments, where reliable power and connectivity cannot be assumed; apps and content, including how to deploy and customize platforms and integrate both global and locally developed materials; and collaborative knowledge sharing, enabling communities not only to access knowledge but also to record and share their own stories through text, audio, and video.
A central goal of the workshop is to give participants a clear overview of the many offline solutions that exist today. Through hands-on demonstrations, speakers will present different hardware setups, power solutions, and software platforms such as IIAB and Kiwix, with examples of customization and content deployment. Participants will learn how to navigate what prospective users at times find to be a confusing landscape of technical choices and gain a practical understanding of how to design an offline knowledge system that fits their context.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=6350

As Wikipedia has celebrated its 25th birthday, many articles start to show their age. The number of articles keeps growing, but the number of editors maintaining them is not. In some fields, including green energy, climate and medicine, reliability of information rapidly deteriorates. Dated information can be dangerous in health care settings, as people might take dated notions seriously. In climate change, dated information can exaggerate uncertainty which is a impediment to action. In energy, it can falsely imply green tech isn't ready to take over yet.

The session will be twofold: there will be a showcase of a couple of large projects that seek to update our most important articles (the cross-language climate denial review, the English Wikipedia Core Contest, the WikiProject Medicine Vital Signs 2026 campaign).

We then continue with workshopping more radical ideas to scale up these efforts in a period where editor numbers are slightly lower than they have been. For instance, should we follow Britannica and drop / delete articles when they're past their sell-by date? Should we trial partially blanking articles in areas where information gets dated rapidly, to stimulate "new growth" of content. Can we leverage wikidata more? Is there potential to use AI to prioritise finding dated and otherwise unreliable information? What practical solutions can you think of to change the tide?

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/x2TWgWM3NvE?t=9874

The following Lightning talks will take place:

1. 6402+: Seeds of Memory (fighting disinformation through Wikidata, art, and collective remembrance) by AmiGueko
2. Around the World in 365 female biographies / Le Tour du monde en 365 biographies féminines by Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik
3. Supporting Participation or Creating Transactional Engagement? Rethinking Internet Data Refunds as Volunteer Support by Sandiooses
4. Adding interactivity to wiki pages using the calculator gadget by Bawolff

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/KIrq323oVGo?t=10368

À l'heure où les manipulations de l'information deviennent des outils de déstabilisation géopolitique, Wikipédia reste l'un des derniers remparts de l'information sourcée et vérifiable.
Pourtant, l'encyclopédie est une cible. Ce panel croise les regards de l'État (Viginum),de la Fondation Wikimedia, du régulateur français l'ARCOM et de l'ONU pour analyser comment protéger l'intégrité de l'information sans sacrifier l'ouverture et la neutralité. Surtout il s'agira aussi d'évoquer comment le mouvement Wikimedia pourra et devra s'adapter dans ce contexte particulier.

Speakers :

• Anne-Sophie DHIVER, Directrice adjointe de VIGINUM
• Benoît Loutrel, membre du collège de l'Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (Arcom)
• Costanza Sciubba Caniglia, Knowledge Integrity Strategy Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation
• Charlotte Scaddan**,** Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, Office of the Under-Secretary-General, UN Global Communications

Table-ronde animée par Michele FAILLA, Lead EU Law & Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Europe

Outside the main doors of the venue.

Celebrate WIkipedia's birthday with us by helping build one of the largest jigsaw puzzles ever assembled in France !

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🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/1uQOSxVcUAU?t=12294

This meetup is open to anyone working on topics related to climate change, environmental issues, and sustainable development, particularly the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Are you a researcher working on how climate denial shows up in Wikimedia projects? Are you editing on environmental issues in your country? Are you an organizer of the Wiki for Sustainable Futures campaign? Are you part of the User Group Wikimedians for Sustainable Development? Are you working as a Wikimedian in Residence to add climate & environmental content to Wikimedia projects? Then join us in this meetup! This meetup will be an informal space to chat, connect, and discuss about potencial collaborations. If you are interested in any of these topics, its implementation and on- and off-wiki, or just want to chat, feel free to join the meetup.

This has been moved to a larger room: EST! Community members are welcome to attend!

Wiki Workers United is a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, and the US employees of the Foundation are attempting to organize a labor union under US law. Many employees of the Foundation and affiliates outside the US already have labor unions which represent them. How can we build a dialog between these unions to advance the aims of the movement and those professionals employed to aid the movement? How can multiple nation-based unions coordinate to advocate for the needs of global workers? How does the labor union movement interact with the volunteerism which is the core of the Wikimedia movement communities?

Both union-eligible professionals with employment in the Wikimedia movement and allies (editors and otherwise) are invited. We will discuss how labor unions can help and work with our movement, and how professionals and allies can aid in the effort. Those with organizing experience who can add their expertise to our conversation are especially welcome.

Join us for a discussion of these topics! In order to provide a safe forum for discussion, this meetup will not be recorded.

Have you ever played a Wikidata game? How about listening to Wikipedia? Have you been making, or wanting to make, your own wiki games or interactive art? This meetup is for you!

We are bringing together creative technologists, game makers, and enthusiasts of the above to discuss all thing Wiki and games. It could be games to interact with knowledge; games for Wikipedia and GLAM partners; games to encourage adding content to Wiki projects; interactive installations and everything in between. The meetup is intended to connect people with these shared interests across the movement and bounce off ideas!

There is a strong and growing need to host 3D rendered objects on Wikimedia platforms (especially on Commons and Wikipedia). Many objects and locations in the world can best be understood and viewed using 3D rendered displays of them. Hosting 3D objects on Wiki articles also makes those article subjects more engaging for the reader whilst also updating Wikipedia and Commons. A valuable modernization of our platform. In theory there is limited support for hosting 3D however it is very limited and severely lacking. Additionally we have a number of partner organisations, especially amoungst GLAM institutions, who are interested in donating content to Commons. Locations that host 3D renderings are becoming increasingly commercialized creating an ever stronger use case for 3D support on Wiki.

Currently there is a community of Wiki editors, activists, and developers who are working on this problem. However this community needs greater coordination and a platform for communication on a number of issues ranging from streamlining Wiki hosting with the WMF to selecting the most appropriate 3D object formats to use. This event will provide that platform to discuss these issues and coordinate action to deliver 3D support for Wikipedia and the other Wikis!

Since 2018, Whose Knowledge? and partners have co-organised #VisibleWikiWomen, a global campaign to make images of womxn, especially Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, and non-binary individuals, available on Wikimedia Commons and the broader internet. This is a meetup for partners, organisers, participants, and everyone who is interested in learning about  #VisibleWikiWomen, and in contributing to our participatory design for the 10th edition in 2027. During the meetup, we will share reflections from our consultancy report highlighting achievements, challenges and recommendations for the campaign. We shall collect feedback and actionable ideas from partners and allies around the issues identified in the report, such as image diversity, structured data, challenges of generative AI, GLAM partnerships and opportunities for strengthening the VWW community. Participants are invited to bring ideas for the theme of the10th campaign, or for local initiatives we can support as part of our community.  Come and enjoy the conversation!

The WikiArt Session at Wikimania is an interactive team-building event for those interested in Ukrainian culture. It will strengthen the connection between wiki projects and the art of various cultures to unite the Ukrainian wiki community with others. This session is a warm gathering of the Ukrainian wiki community with international "friends"—Wikipedians. An innovative Ukrainian wiki project that combines Wikipedia editing with art studies, cultural heritage preservation, and inclusive education. The WikiArt meetup session combines art through the use of wiki projects (videos, audio, and images from Wikimedia Commons, winged words, phraseological units, and famous expressions from Wikiquote, interesting facts from wiki articles and Wiktionary, etc.). Participants will have the opportunity to communicate with each other by creating a joint art masterpiece, express their thoughts through associations with metaphorical cards, and learn about the culture of different wiki communities. Everything will take place under the main slogan of Wikimania in Paris: «Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité».

Wikimedia Canada is hosting a meet-up for any and all Wikimania attendees that are based out of Canada. We hope to facilitate connections and foster a sense of community between Canadian contributors.

Wikimédia Canada organise une rencontre pour toutes les personnes du Canada présentes à Wikimania. Nous espérons faciliter les liens et favoriser un sentiment d'appartenance à une communauté entre les contributeurs et les contributrices du Canada.

This meetup brings together contributors and organisers of Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore to share experiences, challenges, and ideas for documenting intangible cultural heritage and women’s cultural knowledge on Wikimedia projects. The session will focus on collaboration, practical solutions, and building cross-community connections.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/nCVeXaAk77c?t=18180

In the Workshop we will add sources to Wikidata Statements and it can lead to discussions about what sources are good and maybe also to Exchange about circular references. So cases where an external Site Takes the Wikimedia Projects Most likely Wikipedia or Wikidata as a source.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/u6tMzowZ10M?t=18992

What might the agentic web mean for free knowledge projects and heritage institutions? The agentic web refers to an emerging environment in which AI agents autonomously navigate platforms, interact with services, and gather and synthesize information. This panel explores the implications of this transformation for digital commons and GLAM institutions. What infrastructures and interfaces may be needed to respond to the anticipated rise in agent-driven traffic? How can free knowledge and GLAMs help shape the standards that will structure these new forms of interaction? What synergies can be developed between public institutions and digital commons to address shared challenges? Bringing together perspectives from computer science, the Wikimedia movement, and the French National Library (BnF), the panel aims to share expertise and identify avenues for collective action.
Speakers:

• Jean-Philippe Moreux (AI Chief, BnF) will provide the BnF’s perspective and highlight shared challenges;
• Ilario Valdelli (Innovation programme lead Wikimedia CH) will discuss advocacy strategies;
• Chris Albon (WMF, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering) will present the implications for Wikimedia and how to prepare for these transformations;
• Moderator: Nathalie Casemajor, Professor at INRS (Canada).

The panel (in English) will be followed by a Q&A. Questions in French are welcome and will be translated by the moderator.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/x2TWgWM3NvE?t=18663

Wikipedia’s future depends not only on content quality, but on whether contributors feel safe, respected, and supported while participating.

“Digital hygiene” in Wikimedia spaces goes beyond cybersecurity. It also includes how we manage conflict, prevent harassment, support moderators, protect contributor privacy, and create conditions where diverse communities can thrive. When contributors burn out, withdraw, or feel unsafe, our movement’s freedom, equity, and reliability are directly affected.

This panel explores digital hygiene as a structural question for the movement: How do we balance openness with protection? How do we ensure equity when safety is experienced differently across communities? How do we sustain reliable governance without overburdening volunteers?

The session will combine short interventions, structured dialogue around key tensions (openness vs. safety, transparency vs. privacy, volunteerism vs. sustainability), and audience participation. Instead of prescribing solutions, we will propose a Digital Hygiene Experiment Canvas, to help communities identify risks, test small-scale initiatives and share learnings with the intent of strengthening sustainable participation across projects and languages.

If Wikimedia is to remain free, equitable, and reliable, contributor well-being must be treated as core infrastructure.

The panelists currently confirmed are
* Florence Devouard (host). Co-ED of Wiki in Africa. Expert on the Community Care Programme at Wikimedia CH. Former chairwomen of the Wikimedia Foundation.
* Sanda Sandu. Senior Human Rights Specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation
* Owen Blacker. Chair of Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
* Rémy Gerbet. ED of Wikimédia France
* Delphine Ménard. Global Ressources Distribution Committee

As with previous Wikimania events, lawyers from the Wikimedia Foundation will present an annual update on some of the latest litigation and enforcement trends affecting the movement, talking about some of the most important cases from the past year.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=19167

Reliability and trustworthiness are fundamental values underpinning the Wikimedia movement. Urgent challenges confront these aspects of the movement in a variety of ways, some of which research can help to address. In this talk, I make two arguments at the intersection of movement strategy, community leadership, and research. First, I describe a conceptual approach for mapping the attack surface of the Wikimedia movement and projects as instances of ''critical epistemic infrastructure,'' a class of public goods with distinct attributes and vulnerabilities that are increasingly targeted in adversarial ways. Second, as part of a strategic response to these attacks, I argue for more rigorous empirical assessment of projects and artifacts, drawing from ongoing work on Neutral Point of View (NPOV) that began as part of the WMF-convened NPOV Working Group over the past year. Putting these two pieces together—understanding the attack surface and rigorous empirical assessment—offers a path for research to support movement integrity and strategy.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/1uQOSxVcUAU?t=15896

The Global Rise of Age Verification Regulations: We are seeing a huge influx of regulation targeting a specific idea: that certain kinds of information are not appropriate for people of all ages and that access to those kinds of information on the internet should be limited. The idea itself is not generally controversial–many people agree that exposure to some forms of expression can be harmful for kids–and age-based restrictions on physical access to some kinds of content, like pornography, do exist in the law. We are seeing more and more of these laws come into effect across the globe. These laws require some sort of a technical block to either access certain content or all content depending on age.

These laws often have a specific narrative around child safety but they can be so much broader in scope. Legal mandates to impose age-based restrictions on the internet conflict with Wikipedia’s prime objective, infringe human rights, and threaten the open internet. Let's have an open discussion within the Movement about the trends in these laws and what, if anything we can do to avoid or mitigate them. This would be structured as a constructive dialog to workshop solutions, rather than a review of specific age verification laws

The full-scale war in Ukraine has radically changed the life of the wiki community, but at the same time it has become a catalyst for women's solidarity. In our presentation, we will talk about how Ukrainian female Wikipedians and educators — despite shelling, blackouts, and forced displacement — not only continue their volunteer work on Wikipedia, but also create sustainable networks of mutual support.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/KIrq323oVGo?t=18867

The Coolest Tool Awards recognize developers who have created tools that do something new and exciting, help Wikimedia communities, and build essential workflows. Come see the 2026 winners, as nominated by the Wikimedia community!

Come learn about a new format created by this year’s volunteer hackathon committee: The Team Challenges! This hackathon-style event brought together developers and non-developers, Wikimania attendees and the local technical community to address 11 key challenges that impact the Wikimedia community. We will share the approach, outcomes and successes!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=21368

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=19167

Wiki Loves Maps Mentorship Program est une initiative dédiée au renforcement des capacités des contributeurs Wikimedia dans le domaine de la cartographie libre et des données géospatiales ouvertes. Ce programme vise à accompagner de nouveaux mentors et participants dans l’utilisation d’outils cartographiques, la contribution à des projets comme OpenStreetMap et Wikidata, et l’intégration de données géographiques fiables dans les projets Wikimedia. À travers un cadre structuré de mentorat, des sessions pratiques et un accompagnement personnalisé, le programme met l’accent sur la qualité des données, l’interopérabilité et l’impact communautaire. Il encourage particulièrement la participation des communautés sous-représentées, notamment en Afrique, en soutenant l'usage des données ouvertes locales utiles à la documentation du patrimoine et à la visibilité des territoires sur les projets wikimedia.
Cette session présentera la vision, la méthodologie et les premiers résultats du programme, tout en ouvrant un espace d’échange sur la manière de renforcer la collaboration entre cartographes, wikimédiens et acteurs de l’open data.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/40Q219XJc30?t=24540

CHATONS ("kittens" in French) is short for Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidary Hosters Collective. This collective aims to federate organizations hosting decentralised,  ethical and free online services. Our goal is to give our users delightful alternatives to GAFAM services while keeping their online life private. CHATONS is composed of \~100 French speaking orgs, under the banner of values cherished by Wikipedia: Neutrality, Inclusion...
Those hosters participate to the Free Software and Free-culture movement by offering online services based on free software. They observe a common charter aiming notably at ensuring the confidentiality of the data they host.

Local groups across Italy are busy organizing a variety of activities, meet-ups and campaigns to increase engagement in the projects and recruit new volunteers. We would like to share the model of local coordination established by Wikimedia Italy and its great results and let you put it into practice.

From editathons and Wiki Loves Monuments exhibitions to educational projects and public events, there is always something interesting happening today. Local coordination groups in Italy are making their mark, let's take a look at success stories from regions like Apulia, Lombardy, Sicily, Piedmont, where active local groups are organizing both online and offline campaigns.Their efforts are not only increasing engagement and public participation, but also finding new ways to promote Wikimedia projects in Italian and minor languages to cultural institutions. Join us discovering how these local groups are bringing a fresh wave of enthusiasm to Wikimedia projects and working in a synergistic collaboration pattern!

Our presentation is structured as a workshop where you will learn how to build a local coordination structure.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/u6tMzowZ10M?t=24365

More and more, people are finding information through AI tools on search platforms and chatbots instead of visiting trustworthy sources directly. As more people encounter information through chatbots and algorithmic summaries, Wikipedia must evolve to remain a direct, trusted source for information retrieval. A part of this evolution includes working on the ability to make it easier and more intuitive to find things – whether by showing better answers to queries, or allowing people to ask queries in natural language rather than complex keywords.  This session will explore how search on Wikipedia is adapting to this new reality. We will share research on internal search behavior, including how readers use descriptive queries and full questions, and what this reveals about shifting expectations. Participants will see a live demo of  search experience allowing for natural language, or semantic, search and learn about early experimentation, key findings, and the trade-offs involved in balancing precision, discoverability, and trust.

In this hands-on workshop, attendees will test real-world use cases inspired by modern reader behavior: asking full questions, using natural language, and exploring descriptive search queries. Together, we will reflect on the results and brainstorm ways to improve information discoverability, navigation, and reliability while upholding Wikimedia’s core principles. The session invites collaborative discussion on how we defend open knowledge by strengthening Wikipedia’s role as a primary destination.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/XhCmPXzLcEk?t=19299

In Serbia, in 2025, university and faculty blockades occurred across the country. The blockades were caused by dissatisfaction among students, citizens, and the academic community with the political situation in the country. This situation significantly affected the educational program of Wikimedia Serbia and, therefore, its metrics. Within the Educational Program, the Wikipedia in Schools program was implemented on a reduced scale due to the suspension of work of a large number of educational institutions, but activities were successfully continued when conditions allowed. This lecture is on how to do a more flexible approach to the goals of the Educational Program by observing education outside the framework of standardized schooling, such as working with older community members, volunteer groups, and members of the international community. However, in an environment of socio-political instability, the stagnation in educational institutions is inevitably reflected in the work of institutions related to the development of culture and science. Therefore, it is also necessary to emphasize the importance of free knowledge and the importance of the concept of lifelong learning in moments of socio-political stability.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/KIrq323oVGo?t=24280

Relive the great moments and say goodbye to your Hackathon colleagues - until next time!

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/nCVeXaAk77c?t=22460

LINK to add your Lightning talk: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Unpopular_Opinions:_Bold_Lightning_Talks_to_Shake_Up_Wikimedia

Building on the success of the Wikimania 2025 version, this lightning talk meetup invites Wikimedians to share “unpopular opinions” or “wild ideas” about the movement’s future. Whether it’s appointing admins by lottery, removing old policies, or challenging longstanding governance beliefs, the goal is to stir the pot without spilling it.

This session encourages respectful disruption to spark deeper conversations. We are looking for:

• Ideas too bold for an RfC: Concepts needing a stage, not a survey.
• Global Perspectives: Exploring how a “radical” idea on one Wikipedia language edition might be common sense on a smaller project, and vice versa.
• Critiques with solutions: Radical fixes for persistent problems.
• Satire with a point: Using humor to address institutional hurdles.

Format & Participation: Each speaker gets 5 minutes. To ensure a truly global dialogue, we will prioritize a diverse mix of voices—balancing contributors from the Global North and Global South, and editors from projects of varying sizes. We want to hear from "fresh voices" as much as we do from longtime contributors.

Designed as an evening social gathering, this is a space to laugh, cringe, cheer, or quietly nod. You might not agree with every idea, but you’ll leave thinking differently.

The Rules: Be bold, be constructive, don’t be mean, and strictly abide by the Friendly Space Policy.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=24370

Visualising Wikipedia is a visual analytics tool developed within the research project “Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change: Assessing Online Open Content and Supporting Community Engagement. The Case of Wikipedia” (2025–2029).

The tool enables the exploration, analysis, and monitoring of groups of Wikipedia articles through interactive visualisations, supporting the work of Wikimedia volunteers, researchers, and institutions. Its goal is to provide evidence-based insights into content coverage, quality, gaps, and dynamics, facilitating informed interventions and community engagement.

The current prototype focuses on Wikipedia articles in English, Spanish, French, and Italian related to climate change and sustainability. It is designed to assess the current state of coverage of these topics and to test targeted interventions. Once fully developed, the tool will be adaptable to any subject area by leveraging Wikidata and Wikipedia categories, with the possibility to extend it to additional languages. Developed in collaboration with the Wiki Education Impact Visualizer, it will be released as an interactive dashboard comparable to the existing Wikimedia event dashboard.

The research project is led by the SUPSI in collaboration with the Wiki Education Foundation, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa, and Open Climate Campaign, with the endorsement of Wikimedia Italia, the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, grant 10.003.183), and the active involvement of Wikipedia and Wikidata volunteers. The research team includes Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator and concept), Giovanni Profeta (coordinator and designer), Chiara Somajni, Florence Devouard, Sage Ross, Nicole Schwitter, Cristian Scapozza, Florian Maximilian Meier, and Ahmed Amine Hassou.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/x2TWgWM3NvE?t=23780

Every week, elections happen somewhere in the world. Keeping track of who holds power — across 261 countries and territories — is too big a job for any single team.

EveryPolitician is a global, open database of nearly 700,000 political office-holders, revived by OpenSanctions after being paused in 2019. Our goal is to commoditize political data by making Wikidata the definitive community-maintained source for it — freely available to journalists, researchers, and citizens worldwide.

PoliLoom is the tool we built to get there. It semi-automatically enriches Wikidata with political data from the web, with humans in the loop to ensure quality. No Wikidata expertise required to get started.

In this workshop, participants will use PoliLoom to contribute political data for politicians in their region or language, submitting verified information directly to Wikidata. We'll close with a discussion on growing the contributor community.

Come with a Wikipedia account. Leave having improved the public record on who holds power.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/g1m5wt2tI7Y?t=24320

Have you ever stumbled upon a beautifully dynamic list or a rich, complex infobox on a Wikipedia article and felt that spark of curiosity—asking yourself, 'How do I bring this magic home to my own community?'
This is an invitation to pull back the curtain on the most soulful and powerful Wikidata-driven templates moving through our global ecosystem. We’re turning the session into a collaborative wish list space. Bring the features you’ve been dreaming of, and together we’ll dive into bringing them to life in your articles. 
We’ll keep our hearts centered on localizing these templates to reflect the community's identities. Think of this as our collective sandbox—a safe, creative environment to play with structured data. We plan for you to leave this session with the tools and the confidence to put Wikidata into action immediately.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=24888

This presentation synthesizes two research projects on fossil fuel industries. The first is a large-scale multilingual analysis led examining mentions of climate change in fossil fuel articles across 4 UN languages + Portuguese. The second is my Master’s thesis, where I did an in-depth qualitative analysis of seven major fossil fuel companies with presence in South America, comparing their Spanish Wikipedia entries with responses from ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview.

Our findings reveal a structural disconnect: corporate articles often acknowledge climate responsibility, but articles on climate change don't link back to specific industries. On Spanish Wikipedia, content quality is low, with promotional tones and outdated data, and a heavy reliance on corporate websites. These practices create important knowledge gaps, which GenAI tries to solve with mixed results. This includes citing social media (including YouTube and Meta-owned posts), while under-citing traditional media. Wikipedia and GenAI barely cited research. In comparison, while Wikipedia articles tried to remain descriptive, GenAI answered with an “economic development vs. environmental protection” framing to the descriptive prompts. This poses interesting questions around reliability, sourcing practices, and neutral point of view.

Fossil fuel companies have a long-standing tradition of participating in climate disinformation campaigns, and therefore they are a good limit case to test assumptions on how they are being represented in the current information ecosystem. The presentation will share high-level findings and conduct prototyping community-led oversight and regulatory frameworks to ensure reliable knowledge about corporations.

The explosion of large language models (LLMs) on the commercial scene has led to a fresh set of challenges and threats to Wikipedia's editing model and the integrity of its information. Wikipedia has long relied on trust in the good faith of fellow contributors, who however may not be knowledgeable about the limitations of AI. Moreover, while bad actors are not unknown to Wikipedia, LLMs and in particular AI agents allow them to operate autonomously at scale and increasingly convincingly, making the detection and filtering of AI-generated edits a task both immensely challenging and essential to the survival of Wikipedia. Wikipedia's policies and decision-making process were not designed for the speed at which AI technology has evolved, and as a result policy decisions have lagged significantly behind the challenges being faced on the ground. In this talk we will explore the impact AI technology currently has on Wikipedia's editorial integrity and how the community has responded, and provide possible avenues to adapt to this threat model, in particular the efforts of Wikiproject AI Cleanup and how LLMs themselves may be harnessed to address these problems.

The following Lightning talks will be showcased:

1. Lessons Learned from Indonesia's government Wikimedia SUL Page block by Jeromi Mikhael
2. Wikipedia Editing as a Mental Health Practice by Kate Kifa
3. Crowdsourcing Media for Public Knowledge: A Case Study of Indonesia’s August Unrest and November Floods by Jeromi Mikhael

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8

To ensure knowledge integrity, Wikipedia content must be verifiable and supported by reliable secondary sources. Over the years, Wikipedia editors have developed mechanisms to enforce these policies in order to reduce the presence of unreliable references.

This session will showcase recent research conducted at the Wikimedia Foundation on source reliability, with a focus on understanding and characterizing the mechanisms that editors apply to assess and manage references such as perennial sources lists (WP:RSP). We will present findings on how reliability is defined in practice, how it varies across contexts, and how editors coordinate their efforts to maintain high sourcing standards. Finally, the session will introduce Reference Risk, a novel language-agnostic approach designed to strengthen and scale these efforts across all Wikipedia language editions.

The ultimate goal of the session is not only to maximize awareness and adoption of these research-driven approaches among Wikimedia volunteers, but also to create space for feedback, dialogue, and collaboration.

Wikipedia's core mission is to be a source of credible information. This requires maintaining the credibility of not only internal articles but also external references. The community has spent 25 years figuring out what is/isn’t a reliable source, and has developed several resources to share this knowledge. One is the Perennial Sources list that ranks sources by their reliability. However, this list lacks machine-readability, is only available for a handful of languages, and has little knowledge sharing between different language projects. English Wikipedia is the most developed and even that ranks only a few hundred websites (out of countless millions).

WikiSignals aims to close these gaps. Participants in the WikiCred initiative are developing the WikiSignals.org website to provide reliability-related signals for sources being considered for citations, references, and external-link lists. It returns domain data and credibility indicators for over 70,000 websites, including global traffic rank, registration date, and reliability assessments from sources inside and outside Wikipedia — information useful for judging the domain-level source credibility. Our goals are to:

1. Help readers and editors make decisions about the credibility of online web-based sources at scale (such as for editing articles or for community discussions on general source reliability).
2. Provide a single, centralized source of data in a machine-readable format for developers in Wiki projects such as Wikidata and LiftWing.

The project was initiated at WikiCredCon 2025. Partners include SimPPL, Iffy.news, Veri.FYI, AfroCROWD, Factiverse, Internet Archive, CUFinder, and WebAIM.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/IKDrJJMUDW8?t=27044

For claims to be deemed reliable on Wikipedia, not only should they cite "reliable sources", but they should also be clearly entailed from their cited sources. Given how relatively easier it is to construct spurious or misinformed citations—an art at which LLMs excel—than to detect them, the risk they pose to the verifiability of content on Wikipedia is likely to increase in the coming years, unless mitigated.
As well as using openly accessible sources, specifying in-source location indicators (such as page numbers, etc.) or quoting targeted segments facilitates the verification of citations and lowers its cost. Although these practices are made possible through various citation template keywords and how-to guides, they remain only suggestive and sparsely applied on the collaborative encyclopedia.
This ongoing research analyses the use of in-source location parameters, in order to better understand and mitigate the risks caused by spurious citations. Following a presentation of this analysis on citations from English and French Wikipedias, this session will be used to make a case to encourage the use of in-source location parameters, and suggest ways to do so. This could mean more explicit recommendations in the guidelines and policies, changes in existing citation tools, new tools to analyse citations, or a combination of those different approaches.

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/KIrq323oVGo?t=29699

The closing ceremony will invite attendees to reflect on their experience at Wikimania 2026, and close out the event with a bang. The ceremony will include:

• Entertainment
• Closing remarks from the Core Organizing Team
• Event reflections and thank yous from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan
• A handover to the Santiago team, organizers of Wikimania 2027
• Sendoff for the closing party

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An other room to enjoy the ceremony!

Another room to enjoy the closing ceremony

Join us for the Wikimania Paris group photo!

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