Aaqib Anjum Aafi is an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia, a premier university in New Delhi. He is the founder of the Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW), a thematic user-group affiliate of Wikimedia Foundation. He has been contributing to Wikimedia movement since 2019 and is an admin on Wikimedia Commons and the Urdu Wikipedia. He is a seasoned leader in the Indian Wikimedia ecosystem.

At DCW, Aafi has helped establish Wiki Club Jamia, Wiki Club AMU, and Wiki Club Deoband - to help introduce Wikimedia movement in educational institutions, alongside leading all of its programs. There, he also introduced DCW Conversation Hour, an open conversation hour for everyone, which has had 19 editions until now. Aafi has been to WikiConference India 2023, Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedia Summit 2024. In July 2023, he was awarded by Bayt al-Hikmah Deoband for his contributions to Digital Empowerment.

I'm a collaboration enthusiast and Lecturer who recently completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science. Originally from Syria, I've been driven by the impact of limited knowledge access to address social challenges through research and educational initiatives.

Since discovering the Wikimedia Foundation's mission in May 2018, I've been dedicated to supporting its movement, starting with an MSc dissertation focused on enhancing the Wikipedia content translation tool and supporting volunteer translation. During my PhD, I introduced a co-design framework for grassroots solutions and used it to co-designed WikiSync, a collaborative Wikipedia editing tool. Additionally, I co-founded the IDEA Network to systematically support open-knowledge research projects. Presently, I'm focused on participatory design strategies to address social issues like digital poverty, exploring Wikipedia's potential as a medium to provide assistance to those affected.

While I'm not a regular contributor, I'm devoted to researching ways to improve Wikipedia for everyone. Outside of academia, I enjoy music, archery, and, lately, attempting not to break any bones while slacklining!

Senior Technical Support Specialist, Wikimedia Polska.
I joined a team of Wikimedia Polska empoyees in January 2023. My job is to provide tech, oragnisational and administrative support for the WMPL emoplyees and whole community of wiki volunteers. A few tasks I’m right now up to along with the support team are building an on-boarding platform for newcomers, organising contents or wikimedian’s meetings. I’m working in cooperation with the edu team as well on the Wikischool site and courses for teachers. I’m always there, where my help is needed.

Adam Kowalsi is the Director of the Museum of Metallurgy in Chorzów.

Agata Stadnicka - Art historian, graduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She is currently a student of postgraduate studies at the Heritage Academy in the International Cultural Centre in Kraków. She has been working as a Wikipedian in residence at the National Museum in Kraków since 2024. Her particular interests include heritage protection and digital humanities.

Agnieszka Halicka is a librarian and teacher at the Integrative Primary School No. 5 in Konstancin-Jeziorna, PL and a trainer conducting workshops for educators. She publishes on blogs and in magazines.
She runs the eduTriki channel on YouTube, the blog edutriki.pl, and the Facebook page EduTriki – Agnieszka Halicka.
Agnieszka shares her experience as an administrator of several Facebook groups: Genially – Official Polish Group, Wakelet Polska, Flip(grid) Polska, Laboratoria Przyszłości w praktyce, and EduTriki nauczycieli – TIK jakiego nie znasz.
She is a member of the Superbelfrzy RP (SuperTeachers PL) community and serves as an Ambassador for Genially, Wakelet, Flip, SMART Technologies, and EkoEksperymentarium. She is part of the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert community and holds the title of Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow. Additionally, she is a leader within the Polish GEG (Google Education Group). Agnieszka also serves on the board of the School IT Section at the Polish Information Processing Society.
She was listed among the Top 100 individuals who significantly contributed to the development of digital skills in Poland in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She is also included in the Honorary List of the Top 100 and was nominated for the Teacher of the Year 2021 title.

Ahmad Ali Karim is an author, student, and the External Relations Ambassador for Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (WCUGM) with over 4 years of experience in the Wikimedia Movement. He is currently a second-year undergraduate student majoring in political science and minoring in laws at International Islamic University Malaysia, and a weekly columnist on the oldest-surviving Malay newspaper, Utusan Malaysia. With experience in programme managemment and training, he often conducts programmes for WCUGM, and also does vector graphics on the side for Wikimedia Commons, his CUG, and as a side hustle. While also serving as the RCE Youth Coordinator for Regional Centre of Expertise Greater Gombak, he is active in youth empowerment efforts both locally and globally, never forgetting to bring the Wikimedia movement and spirit wherever he goes.

I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Computer Science at King’s College London, United Kingdom. My research revolves around culturally-informed Artificial Intelligence, in particular multimodal knowledge graphs, Web data APIs, music semantics, and knowledge representation and reasoning for digital humanities and cultural heritage.

Alek Tarkowski is the Director of Strategy at Open Future. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. He has 20 years of experience with public interest advocacy and movement building. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science. Previously, he was part of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy process as a member of the Partnerships working group.

A philosopher and researcher specializing in the development of new technologies, particularly green and sustainable technology, humanoid artificial intelligence, social robots, and wearable technology. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2014 from the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. She is also an alumna of The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality, with a specific focus on Second Life.

member of WikiClassics User Group, Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Switzerland, also active in the past in WikiDonne user group, Wikimedia Sweden and Wikimedia Portugal; coordinator for Wiki Loves Monuments in Tuscany, coordinator for Wiki Science Competition.

He is currently primarily active with Wikimedia Switzerland.

Alex Stinson is a Lead Program Strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation who has spent the last decade supporting communities in creating better organized activities. Before that, he was a Digitial Humanist at University and a long term volunteer editor on Wikipedia.

I am Ali (in Arabic: علي) from Iraq, Baghdad.
I have a B.S. in Information Engineering and work in the project management & development field.
I'm a Wikimedian since 2020 and belong to a Wikimedian family where my mother, brother and I are contributing to Wiki projects to enrich the free knowledge on the internet.

Alicia Fagerving is a developer at Wikimedia Sverige, working primarily with Linked Open Data and partnerships. They've been involved in developing the Content Partnerships Hub (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub), with the goal of lowering the thresholds for Wikimedians and affiliates around the world to do great partnerships.

Alicja is the Engagement Lead at Open Future. She has over a decade of experience in communication and community building, and specializes in working at the intersection of technology, digital culture, and social change. Her track record includes setting up participation and storytelling for top companies (such as the LEGO Group and Unilever), social organizations (including TechSoup, Outriders, Creative Commons, and the Engine Room), and cultural institutions (Statens Museum for Kunst and Vi lever på Polsk gallery in Denmark among others).

Alicja holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw, where she specialized in audiovisual culture. She lived in Colombia and Spain and speaks Polish, English, Spanish, and Danish. If you ever want to hear her sing, you can check out her old band’s album (Niskie Ciśnienie), which was crowdfunded and released under CC BY license.

Amihai Bannett has been editing in Wikipedia, since 2006, with tens of thousands of edits, mostly on Hebrew Wikipedia.
Amihai has been active in Wikimedia Israel, promoting free knowledge and photos, along with lecturing about Wikipedia and being interviewed on many media platforms and social networks.
He attended Wikimania twice - in Haifa and Singapore, where he also lectured.
His day job is CEO of Herzog Global, at Herzog College.

Major Gifts Stewardship Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Doctorante en sciences de l'information et de la communication (Phd student)

Chargée de mission formation et évaluation de Wikimédia France

Ana Bragança (user:Anita Braga) is a co-founder and co-coordinator of Wiki Editoras LX lusophone user group, a 5 year a community that aims to bridge the gender gap, as well as other gaps (ethnic, racial, geographic) in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedian since 2019, has also been part of the WikiForHumanRights Lusophone Community Regional Coordination team since 2023.

Flavia Doria (user:XenoF) is a co-coordinator of Wiki Editoras LX lusophone user group, a 5 year a community that aims to bridge the gender gap, as well as other gaps (ethnic, racial, geographic) in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedian since 2020, is a former Community Ambassador at WMF and Member at the Leadership Development Working Group (LDWG). Also a certified trainer for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. And currently the Regional Ambassador for Europe at Art+Feminism.

Andi Inácio is the project manager of the Capacity Exchange (CapX) project. Wikimedian since 2021, is a member of Wiki Movimento Brasil and a co-founder of WikiMulheres+. As a History PhD candidate, she researches decolonial, feminist protocols (and dreams of times of Knowledge Equity) for Wikimedia.

Originally from Brazil, I bring a blend of design thinking and educational expertise to my role as Marketing and Community Manager at Wikimedia Israel. For the past 15 years, I've thrived in both formal and informal education settings, working as a teacher, pedagogical coordinator, and school principal. More recently, my focus has shifted to educational marketing and student recruitment.

After relocating to Israel a year and a half ago, I joined Wikimedia Israel, where I leverage my passion for knowledge sharing to promote Wikipedia editing and empower new contributors.

Andrew has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an administrator on English Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage, and a bureaucrat on Wikispecies. He is interested in supporting languages and sister projects that are not as well represented as English Wikipedia, such as Chinese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikivoyage, English Wikiversity and Wikispecies. He is currently the editor-in-chief for WikiJournal of Science, which seeks to bridge the gap between the academic researcher and Wikimedia communities.

Andrew Lih has been a Wikipedia editor since 2003 and that year was one of the first academics to use Wikipedia in the classroom as student assigned work. He is the author of the 2009 book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia. He currently serves as the Wikimedian at Large at the Smithsonian Institution and Wikimedia Strategist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He is an administrator on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. In 2022, he was named a Wikimedia Laureate for his lifetime work with Wikipedia, and in 2016, he was named the U.S. National Archives Citizen Archivist of the Year.

Employed by Wikimedia Sverige since 2013. I first started working as GLAM-technician which later evolved into a role as Developer and Senior developer. Since 2017 I work as Chief Operating Officer.

Active Wikimedian since 2006 editing under the username Lokal_Profil.

Anna Mazgal is executive director at Wikimedia Europe. Previously, she was a Senior EU Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, and Head of Policy at Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland advocating for freedom of expression and access to information. Former President of COMMUNIA Association for Public Domain.

Philippine-based Wikimedian, Regional Grants Committee Member for ESEAP Region, Let's Connect Liaison for ESEAP Region

I've been part of the Wikimedia movement since 2012. I'm Programs Coordinator of Wikimedia Ukraine where I lead the affiliate's programmatic work, such as content campaigns, editor recruitment efforts, and community support. In my volunteer capacity, I'm an administrator & bureaucrat on Ukrainian Wikipedia. I'm also a member of the Steering Committee of the Wikimedia CEE Hub.

Veteran Wikimedia volunteer and veteran Wikimedia Foundation staff (Lead Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities).

I am a certified Nigerian librarian and the Regional Liaison Officer for the Sub-Saharan Africa on the Let's Connect working group. I am also the Community Coordinator for the Africa Wikipedian Alliance and serves as the Special Advisor for the Wikipedia + Education User Group. Additionally, I am an active member of the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform.
As the founder of the Kwara State University (KWASU) Wiki Fan Club in 2022, I promoted the use of Wikimedia projects among the university's staff and students. My role as a Content Campaign Organizer includes co-organizing the first WikiClimate Campus Tour in Nigeria and leading the inaugural Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Nigeria as a certified Trainer.
My involvement extends to various Wikimedia initiatives within and outside Nigeria. Furthermore,I have provided facilitation and mentorship support to other Wikimedians, fostering collaboration and guiding new editors in their journey to become fully integrated into the Wikimedia community, ensuring they feel safe and have a sense of belonging. My work within the Wikimedia community has been focused on fostering community engagement and promoting open knowledge.

CEE hub coordinator.
Passionate about nature and animals protection.

Dr. Beata Piecha-van Schagen is a historian and graduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her scientific interests include the history of religious culture, working-class culture, intangible cultural heritage of (post)industrial communities, and "history from below." She has led and participated in numerous national and international research projects, such as "Mining Narratives from Zabrze" and "Call Me Steelworks!" Dr. Piecha-van Schagen has coordinated efforts to include coal miners' Barbórka and Steelworkers' Day on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. She currently works at the Museum "Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów."

I'm part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Movement Communications team. I help product teams and communities speak to each other. My main work field is newcomers' first steps.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)

Birgit is the director of product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. She joined the Wikimedia movement as a staff member of Wikimedia Deutschland in 2014 and moved to the Foundation in 2019 to support Wikimedia's developer ecosystem as the director of Technical Engagement. Since 2023, she is focusing on evolving the MediaWiki platform and improving the experiences of developers within our ecosystem.

Brigitte is the director of policy and open culture at Creative Commons. Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters.
Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 2003.

Butch Bustria is an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) and a dedicated Wikimedian based in Singapore. His journey with Wikipedia began in December 2005 and has since been an active contributor to Wikimedia projects, utilizing his spare time to enhance and share knowledge on the platform.

In addition to his on-wiki contributions, Butch has been involved in the Wikimedia movement’s leadership and organizing space. He has played a significant role in events such as Wikimania 2023, where he served as the Event Lead and Program Subcommittee Chair. His commitment to the Wikimedia community is evident through his efforts in fostering collaboration and knowledge dissemination.

C. Scott Ananian began editing articles on Wikipedia in 2005, and since 2013 is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Parsoid project. He also dabbles with LanguageConverter and real-time collaboration in Visual Editor.

Previously, Dr. Ananian was a jack-of-all-trades for the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC). He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He organized Free Sklyarov Boston in July 2001, and in 2004 and 2005 was the lead programmer for the Election Incident Reporting System, which collected real-time data on elections across the US. He's also been a kernel hacker and part-time khipu researcher. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow everyone to discover, share, and learn.

Long term Wikimedian dedicated to gender equality, educational and living heritage initiatives, advocating for diversity within the Wikimedia movement. WikiDonne's Founder & Chair, DEIH proposer, WMF's Gender Gap & Climate Change Certified Organizer.

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Caroline Myrick is a Senior Analyst on the Research team in the Product & Technology Department at the Wikimedia Foundation. Learn more: User:CMyrick-WMF

An Engineer by profession, Wikimedian by passion.
Happy daughter hailing from the east coast of India, believing in creating an inclusive space where everyone has a fair chance to thrive, free from any discrimination or bias.

Claudia is a member of the Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group (WMROMD). Over the past three years, she has been actively involved in writing and presenting about the efforts of editors of the Romanian language Wikipedia. Claudia has initiated and been involved in planning and organizing campaigns, projects, partnerships, and research inquiries for and with this community. She is a library lover, passionate about GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) supporting future communities, and supporter of equity and inclusion.

I am Connor Benedict, the Open Culture Coordinator at Creative Commons. The Open Culture Program focuses on developing policy, at a national, international, and multinational level as well as for institutions, capacity building activities such as the Creative Commons Certificate for Open Culture, open infrastructure, such as the CC Copyright Licenses and Public Domain Tools, and community engagement such as participating in and hosting events related to open culture, copyright, and the open movement.

Cyberpower678 is an established member of the Wikimedia movement, best known for being the author, developer, and operator of InternetArchiveBot (IABot). With a passion for digital preservation and open-source technology, Cyberpower678 has been actively involved in the Wikimedia community for over a decade. Through the development of IABot, Cyberpower678 has significantly contributed to maintaining the verifiability and accessibility of Wikipedia's content, and references, by fixing millions of broken links. This work has been pivotal in combating link rot, ensuring that valuable information remains available for future generations. Cyberpower678's commitment to enhancing the Wikipedia experience through innovative solutions reflects a deep dedication to the principles of open collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Biophysicist and data scientist working at the intersections between Wikimedia and research.

Daria Cybulska has worked at Wikimedia UK since 2012, initially focusing on events, outreach, partnerships, and community development, and now serving as the Director of Programmes and Evaluation. In the last few years, she collaborated on Wikimedia’s 2030 global strategy with colleagues across the globe, a process that brought many reflections about accessibility, inclusion, and equity within collaborative knowledge projects.

Dario Crespi is a wikimedian since 2007. Member of Wikimedia Italia staff, he is involved in projects Tutti i musei su Wikipedia (Empowering Italian GLAMs), Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy, and Wikimedia Italia Certified trainers program.

Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and vice-president of Polish Academy of Sciences;

I'm a Wikipedia editor from 2017. And I started my way as a project manager of Wiki loves monuments in 2022 right after the full-scale invasion has starte in Ukraine. I love this project and I'm always tring to do my work in the best way.

I am Dean Lazarevski.

Deb Tankersley is part of the Product & Technology Department at the Wikimedia Foundation - coordinating and organizing learning and knowledge-sharing initiatives that have broad technical outreach and working to encourage technical community capacity building within the Wikimedia movement. She is the Foundation's coordinator for the bi-annual Outreachy and annual Google Summer of Code (GSoC) internship programs. She also is lead organizer for hackathons, the annual Coolest Tool Award, and Tech Blog.

Policy Director @ WMEU. Love coffee, hate carrot juice.

I am a board member of Egypt Wikimedians User Group and I am the connection and relations officer.
I am Movement Charter Ambassador to the MENA region and a former member of Leadership Development Working Group (LDWG) for one-year-commitment.
I have been an active contributor on Arabic Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons since 2019.
I have led and organized numerous workshops and events and contests in the Egyptian community and the whole Arabic community.
I am the founder of Wikipedian Editor Project, a project that teaches volunteers to contribute on Wikipedia and the other sister projects.
I have been working for Wiki In Africa as a WIA facilitator since April 2024.

Dr Kirsty Ross joined the Wikimedia community in August 2019, at a training session delivered by @Stinglehammer. In 2021, she, along with Dr Sara Thomas (Wikimedia UK) and Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati, co-founded the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Open Knowledge Network (IDEA Network for short) at the University of St Andrews. She won the Up and Coming Wikipedian of the Year (UK) in 2022 for her efforts with the IDEA Network. Since then, she has explored a plethora of ways to integrate Wiki projects into teaching, knowledge exchange, and research. Kirsty likes to hang out primarily on Wikicommons and Wikidata, with occasional forays into Wikipedia. She considers herself to be a WikiShepherd.

Effeietsanders is a Dutch Wikipedian since 2005. He was one of the initiators of Wiki Loves Monuments (2010) and has helped organize the competition for many years. He was named the 2021 Wikimedia Laureate. He was a member of the Wikimania core organizing team in 2021 and is a member of the Wikimania committee.

I am Ege. I am a Computer Science student in Sabancı University, minoring in Gender Studies. I have been a Wikimedian for 3 years, I like analyzing and fixing issues on Wikidata. I have done projects about Queer subjects and about Lexemes on Wikidata. I am really excited by Abstract Wikipedia and want to work on that when it starts.

I am a librarian in Romania and I am proud to be a volunteer on Wikipedia. Recently I've become a member of Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group and I couldn't be happier! I participated in many campaigns on Wikipedia, 1lib1ref, Wikimartisor, Every Book its Reader (organizer in 2023), Roma Day 2024 (organizer), Refugee International Day in 2023, Editing together in English, Tyap and Romanian, a beautiful pilot project. I strongly believe that librarians can bring a huge contribution to Wikipedia, it is the perfect place for them to exercise their professional skills and improve the quality of references. My greatest experience was as the first Wikimedian in Residence in Romania. Then more beautiful moments completed my experience as a volunteer, as I travelled to the most modern public library in Romania and got the chance to teach a group of seniors how to start editing on Wikipedia. The thing that surprised me in a good way was that people were thrilled to discover they could be a volunteer too and as one of my seniors trainees said „Wikipedia gives addiction”. This is my first Wikimania and I am happy to be here and share with you my achievements, my hopes and emotions.

I’m the User Experience Designer and User Researcher for Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes Project. This project identifies and prioritizes technical requirements from diverse users in a collaborative way. The Technical Wishes team aims to build new and improved features in MediaWiki. Currently we are working to improve the ‘Reuse of references within the same articles’. This session will help us work towards that goal.

I design and execute projects that can be aligned with the Wikimedia Movement Strategy, for instance, by reducing the gap for underrepresented communities as the Quechua community is. I lead the QICHWABASE Knowledge Graph that supports a harmonization process of the language and knowledge of Quechua communities across the world.
More about me: elwin.huamanquispe.com

I am Project Manager for Involvement and Advocacy at Wikimedia Sverige. In that capacity, I have recently worked primarily with international partnerships, such as with the UN agencies, and advocacy for the open movement at the national, European and international level. I have an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and live in Stockholm.

A member of Toumon Wikipedian Club Japan. One of the Wikimedian of the Year 2023 winners (Newcomer). Main Wikis: Japanese Wikipedia, Diff (Community blog hosted by Wikimedia Foundation), Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Japanese Wiktionary. Interests: global Wikimedia collaborations, , partnership with GLAM, documentation of Wikimedia Movement, data visualization using Wikidata Query Service, and language preservation on various Wikimedia projects.

Staff member of Wikimedia Deutschland's Movement Relations team and member of the WIkimedia Summit program team.

Evelin Heidel is currently the Program Director for Wikimedistas de Uruguay.

Ewa Caban (EwkaC) – Wikipedian since 2011,member of the Wikimedia Polska, editor of Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource. Organizer of the "Fridays with Wikipedia" editing meetings taking place in Katowice since 2018. Wikitrainer, conducted training, among others: as part of the "1lib1ref" campaign for librarians, for teachers at the Provincial Methodological Center in Katowice, for students of the University of Silesia and as part of the "Wiki-teka" campaign. Member of the Polish jury of the "Wiki likes monuments" photography competition. Co-organizer of the "GLAM - heritage online" conference and wiki-workshops for museums in the Silesian Voivodeship (Katowice 2018). As part of GLAM, she cooperated with, among others: with the Trakt Cultural Tourism Center in Poznań and the Metallurgical Museum in Chorzów. Professionally, as the head of the department of the Heritage Center of the Wojciech Korfanty Institute, she deals with tangible and intangible monuments in the Silesian Voivodeship.

Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh (Jan 2016 to date)

Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland with Wikidata (witches.is.ed.ac.uk)
Wikimedia at the University of Edinburgh website (tinyurl.com/wiki-uoe)

Ziski leads the Global Advocacy team's collaborations with volunteers and affiliates around the world to co-design advocacy campaigns and skill-building programmes so that our movement can better protect and promote free knowledge online. Grassroots energy is essential to the movement's policy initiatives, for those most directly impacted best understand their own local context and needs. To this end, she works closely with communications, community growth, and grant initiatives. She has been at the Foundation since 2021, lives in London, and speaks German and English.

A passionate Wikimedian and free knowledge advocate. I started out by editing the Arabic and English Wikipedias in 2005. In 2014, I became one of the founders of the Wikimedians of the Levant User Group, and I continue to be in its board. I was also involved in establishing the Arabic Wikimedians User Group. I am also a member of Wikimedia UK. In the global movement, I have served on the Affiliations Committee which works closely with and advises the Board of Trustees to approve and support Wikimedia affiliates. I was on the Wikimedia Strategy Steering Committee. I currently serve on the Regional Grants Committee for Africa and the Middle East, one of the first committees in the Movement to become decentralized.

I'm from Bari, Apulia and I'm the vicepresident of Wikimedia Italy. I've been on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects since 2012 and I've been organising events and editathon, projects with schools and universities, Wiki Loves Monuments and even itWikiCon in my region.

Username:Anthere (She/her). French. Languages : FR N; EN-4.

• Co-Executive Director of Wiki in Africa
• Wikipedian-in-Residence at World Intellectual Property Rights (WIPO)
• Former Chair of Wikimedia Foundation
• Co-founder, former Vice-Chair and currently member of Wikimédia France

Key words : Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Africa, IP rights, Open Movement, Community Building, Open Source, Creative Commons, Life-long learning, accountability, Gender Gap, Equity

More info and contacts
* fdevouard//@//anthere.org
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/devouard/

Florian Grisel is Research Fellow at the French Centre for National Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS). His work explores the convergence of private governance, dispute resolution, and legal globalization through a socio-legal lens. Florian holds degrees from Sciences po Paris (MA), Columbia University (MPA), Yale Law School (LLM) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (PhD). His research has been published by journals such as the Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry and the Journal of Law and Society.

Wikimedia Trainer - Project Manager - Wikimedia ambassador
Since February 2023 : Wiki Loves Earth contest’s regional ambassador for the French-speaking part of the world
Since February 2022 : Product Ambassador for the french community - Wikimedia Product and editing team - Wikimedia Foundation
1st November 2022 to 28 February 2023: Curriculum Developer for the Wikidata project of AfLIA
Since November 2021 : Member of MCDC (Movement Charter / Drafting Committee) – Wikimedia Foundation
Since November 2021: Elected General Secretary of WikiFranca
2019 – 2020 : Trainer and Coordinator of WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique project - Fondation Orange and WikiInAfrica
• Training of cameroonian teachers and pupils of the network of Fondation Orange digital schools
2016 - 2020 : Project Coordinator in Cameroon - Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Earth
November - December 2020 : Trainer of the Visibility Project of African Women in Media (AWiM) with the collaboration of the African Union
• Online training for French-speaking African women media to discover and contribute to Wikipedia in order to make them active contributors
October 2020: French-speaking trainer for the #1Lib1Ref campaign
• Online training for French-speaking librarians to discover and contribute to Wikipedia in partnership with IFLA and AFLIA
November 2018: Main trainer of WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique project – Fondation Orange, WikiIn Africa
• Training of digital mediators from countries participating in the competition in Dakar, Senegal
September - October 2014: Trainer of the Afripedia project : Training in discovery and contribution to Wikipedia and its sister projects, offline Wikipedia distribution (Kiwix)

I am a software engineer and Wikipedian from Guayaquil, Ecuador. I'm passionate about free knowledge, LGBT history and Latin American literature. I'm a Fulbright scholar and got my master's degree in Computer Science at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I've been a Wikipedian since 2008, when I was about 13 years old and have been passionate about the project ever since. Besides Wikipedia, I also contribute to Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. I am a bureaucrat at the Spanish Wikisource.

Volunteer since 2009; General Coordinator of Wikimedia Small Projects (2020-present); Volunteer Advisor for Sister Projects Taskforce (2023-present); Interim Coordinator of LAC Hub (2024-present); PAW Initiative Overseer (2024-present).

Wikimedian at the Basque Wikipedia, also experienced on Commons and Wikidata, now I'm the Executive Director of the Basque Wikimedians User Group.

Executive Director of Wikimedia France

COT member for the abandoned 2020 Wikimania in Bangkok, then a COT member for first online only Wikimania in 2021. The part of ESEAP's renewed hosting of Wikimania 2023 in Singapore. Was part of the community that formed Wikimedia Australia in 2009, I would continue to support WMAU activities before join the committee as Vice President, and later becoming President. I have been with the development of ESEAP since Washington in 2012, been part of organising ESEAP activities. I currently sit on the Wikimania Steering committee and have focused my energies back to photographic contributions on Wikimedia Commons.

I am a GLAM Manager at Wikimedia Serbia, #1Lib1Ref Global Coordinator, and a CEE Liaison for Let's Connect.

I am a 72-year-old woman, grandmother of 4 grandchildren. I studied economics, business administration, accounting and archeology at Haifa University. I started editing on the Hebrew Wikipedia and Commons in 2009. I also edit on the English Wikipedia.
I led several projects in the Hebrew Wikipedia that dealt with education, women and images. I was also in the organizing team of the Wikimania in Haifa. I was a member of the executive committee of Wikimedia Israel for 4 years and now I am a member of the review committee. I was an administrator at the Hebrew Wikipedia for 9 years. And I volunteer in the VRT team.

Haydée is currently Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil and strongly believes that information is power and that sharing information leads us to build more democratic, ethical, transparent, innovative and creative societies and cities. She has been working professionally for more than 10 years in this place where technology and politics meet, where data leads to more assertive decisions.

She is also co-founder and partner of ASK-AR (a data analysis consultancy). She has worked as a consultant for the IDB, the World Bank, as an engineer for the São Paulo Metro and as co-founder of groups/movements that debate gender and/or free software. She holds a Master's degree in Science, is a specialist in Participatory Democracy, Republics and Social Movements and has a degree in Civil Engineering/Architecture (USP).

Kia ora, I’m Heidi Meudt, User:Stitchbird2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stitchbird2) and I am both a Wikimedian and a botany curator. I am originally from the United States but I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I am an active member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Aotearoa_New_Zealand), regularly attending the Wikipedians in Wellington Meetup and other Wiki events in New Zealand. I’m interested in New Zealand's natural history and biodiversity, and I am an active editor on the following projects: Wikipedia (mostly English and some Spanish), Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. I am also Curator Botany at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum_of_New_Zealand_Te_Papa_Tongarewa). I have a PhD in Botany and have published about 50 scientific research papers (see my ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-9071) and over 50 blog posts (https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/author/heidim/). I am also an active botanical collector (https://bionomia.net/0000-0002-2433-9071) and iNaturalist user and curator (https://inaturalist.nz/people/heidimeudt). As a Wikimedian, I edit on topics related to biodiversity, botany, taxonomy, plant species, specimens, scientists (especially botanists and women scientists) and scientific papers.

Hugo Lopez is the lead facilitator of Lingualibre.org, a platform dedicated to audio documentation and open dictionary creation, since the early 2010s. He has collaborated with numerous language communities worldwide, focusing on language preservation, the creation of open educational resources, and language revitalization efforts.

Among his recent projects, Hugo has worked on an e-dictionary for Whistled Occitan, a revitalization initiative for the endangered language of his ancestors, Occitan.

At Wikimania 2024, Hugo will advocate for stronger collaboration between indigenous communities and the Wikimedia movement to better protect and promote local languages.

Diplômée en histoire et sciences politiques, j'ai commencé ma carrière dans les institutions publiques françaises (ministère de la justice, des affaires étrangères et de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche) en tant que responsable communication, avant de devenir journaliste spécialisée sur les enjeux écologiques. J'ai intégré l'association Wikimédia France en 2023 en tant que responsable communication et référente développement durable. Dans la foulée, j'ai commencé à contribuer petit à petit sur Wikipédia (mais je continue d'apprendre) sur l'une de mes passions le lindy hop et le jazz.

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Ilana Fried is a Senior Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. She is a part of the Campaigns team, which builds and improves tools for event organizers.

Ilario Valdelli brings over 30 years of experience in IT projects and has been an active Wikipedian for 18 years. With a background in humanities and a master's degree in computer science, Ilario is staff member of Wikimedia CH since 2013. As Innovation Programme Leader and former Education Manager, he has managed projects, including the integration of artificial intelligence. His work focuses on advancing free knowledge through innovative solutions.

I have been a Wikipedia volunteer since 2006; I am chair of Wikimedia Italia (until 18 May 2024), organiser of Wikimania Esino Lario 2016 and chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee since 2017. In my job, I'm a senior researcher and head of the research area "Culture and Territory" at the Institute of Design at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

Ivan Martinez is a Mexican human rights defender with a focus on Fair Access to Knowledge. He works at the organisation Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales where he is Education and Community Coordinator. He is part of the Wikimedia Mexico Board since 2024.

Jack Wheeler is the Lead Community Tech Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, responsible for the Community Wishlist as well as the Community Tech team. Jack joined the Foundation (and movement) in January 2024; he has previously held Product Management roles at Square, The New York Times, and InVisionApp.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Geography from the University of Ghana, as well as an MSc. in Management and Human Resource Strategy from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, both located in Ghana. Since March 2023, I have served as the Executive Director of Open Foundation West Africa, where I am deeply committed to advancing educational opportunities and leveraging technology to empower communities across the region.

Through my engagement with the Wikimedia movement, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of collaborative knowledge sharing and the importance of making educational resources freely accessible to all. I am passionate about leveraging technology and open collaboration to address educational inequities and empower individuals to reach their full potential.

I have actively participated in various community engagement activities aimed at promoting education, empowerment, and social change. These community engagements often involve collaborating with local organizations, schools, and community leaders to identify needs and develop tailored solutions to address them. Whether it's organizing educational workshops, facilitating community dialogues, or leading volunteer initiatives, I believe in the power of community-driven initiatives to create positive impact and foster sustainable development.

Founder of The Wikipedia Library. Lead at WikiBlueprint. Global Wikipedia strategy consultant.

James is a Principal Software Engineer working for the Wikimedia Foundation as tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team. A Wikimedia volunteer since 2002, James has been staff at the Foundation since 2012.

I'm an Australian contributor, mainly on Wikipedia and Commons. I previously ran The Record project with Wikimedia Australia to get more Australian music content onto Wikipedia.

Wikidata consultant

James Heilman is a cofounder of Wiki Project Med Foundation.

Jamie Flood has been editing since 2016 and has served as Senior Wikipedian at the United States National Agricultural Library since 2019. She is a founding member of the Wikimedians of Indiana User Group and has facilitated editing efforts across the country with various collaborators. Jamie is an experienced community organizer and collaborator and was the Community Manager for the development of the View it! tool. Jamie is passionate about editing around agriculture, women in STEM and other fields, and sharing cultural heritage collections on Wikimedia Commons.

Jan Ainali started editing in 2006 and is an administrator on Swedish Wikipedia. He helped found the Swedish chapter and later became part of the board, the chair person and the first Executive Director. Just before Wikimania in Stockholm, he became co-host of the podcast Wikipediapodden and has now recorded over 200 episodes. In 2019, he co-founded the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. Together with User:Abbe98, he has made over 100 livestreamed Wikidata editing sessions. For work, he runs a consultancy: Open By Default.

Long time Wikimedia contributor, especially to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikiversity. Besides that, Juandev also organizes Edit-a-thons, research and software projects.

Jan-Bart de Vreede has been involved with the Wikimedia movement since 2006. He is a CapX Advisory Committee member, Chair of Wikimedia Nederland and co-host of the quarterly “Wikimedia Europe & Friends” conference call. He served on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees in what was arguably a simpler time and has still managed to make his fair share of mistakes. At Wikimania he is excited for meeting old friends and being involved in the Let's Connect sessions :)

As Policy Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland, Jan-David Franke has been advocating for the release of public broadcasting content under a free Creative Commons license since 2022 and has been overseeing key collaborations between Wikimedia Deutschland, Wiki Loves Broadcast and public service broadcasters in Germany and beyond. In that role, he has also been the chief liaison with the community project “Wiki Loves Broadcast” as well as Wikimedia Europe and the Wikimedia Foundation on the subject.

He is also Wikimedia Deutschland's representative in the "Bündnis F5" (a digital civil society alliance with Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, AlgorithmWatch, Reporters without Borders and Open Knowledge Foundation), "Bits & Bäume" (a movement at the intersection of the digital and sustainability), and the "Bündnis Transparenzgesetz" (a joint civil society effort to bring about a modern transparency law in Germany).

Janosh (username: New York-air) has been active on Wikipedia since 2017. He was initially a member of Jungwikipedianer, a German-language community group of young Wikipedia authors. Over time, he took on more administrative tasks in this area and, having previously been active in the field of aviation, is now increasingly involved in recruiting new authors.

He has also been active in the Wiki Loves Broadcast project in the German-speaking community for several years. Since last year, he has been responsible for the internationalization of the project within the project team. Janosh has recently gained some experience in giving workshops on Wikipedia and has also completed a train-the-trainer course in this context.

Co-Founder of WikiPortraits and WikiCred.

Jennryn Wetzler is the Director of Learning and Training at Creative Commons. She has the pleasure of collaborating with brilliant colleagues around the world, creating new partnerships and trainings to increase access to education, journalism, science and research. Some of her favorite collaborations include Wikimedia collaborations, from edit-a-thons to workshops, trainings and co-presentations.

Prior to CC, Jennryn worked on open policy and open educational resources (OER) at the U.S. Department of State, piloting OER use for public diplomacy and global partnerships. She’s also enjoyed gaining a different perspective of education through international development work in Thailand and Niger.

Let’s Connect enthusiast

Jimbo. :)

Librarian and Lecturer at the Maria Grzegorzewska University, Wikimedian and collaborator of the Wikimedia Poland

Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga is a Deputy Head of Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków, Poland. Holding a PhD in economy, she is also an assistant professor at the Cracow University of Economics (UNESCO Chair in Heritage and Urban Studies) and a consultant in the Centre for Cultural Statistics of the Statistical Office in Kraków. She has experience working for the public administration (Department of Culture Strategy and European Affairs in the Ministry of Culture),the cultural sector (Research Institute for European Heritage at the International Cultural Centre in Kraków) and the non-governmental sector (as the Polish coordinator of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures). She is a researcher, a lecturer and an author and an editor of publications on the links between culture and socio-economic development, urban development, cultural policy (incl. the European Capitals of Culture).

Art historian, graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. For years, she has been associated with the third sector and cultural institutions. She has been working at the National Museum in Krakow since 2015. For the last 4 years, she has been an editor of digital resources within the Department of Digitization and Digital Resources Management, taking care of the museum's digital collection and the "zbiory.mnk.pl" portal. Member of the EuropeanaNetwork Association. Creative perfectionist. She works towards an accessible culture and building access to open resources. She is particularly interested in technological possibilities and tools that contribute to the creative reuse of digital heritage for scientific, educational, artistic and popularization purposes.

Jocelyn manages projects and programs related to the CC Global Community & License Stewardship. Prior to this role, she worked for over a year as CC’s Open Culture Manager.

Before CC, Jocelyn worked at The New York Public Library for over five years, first as a Special Projects Manager in the President’s Office, and later as a Program Manager for their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access team. This work helped her cultivate a passion for furthering equitable policies and practices, collaborative project management, and supporting the free exchange of knowledge and culture.

When not she’s not working, Jocelyn can be found in yoga class, reading about history, or dancing at one of her favorite concert venues. Jocelyn is based in Brooklyn, New York.

I've been a Wikimedian for 19 years, and am involved in language support and technology. I am part of the Wikimedia Language Committee, and the maintainer of the Wikimedia Incubator extension. I work as a Community Outreach Specialist in Wikimedia Norge, the Norwegian Wikimedia chapter.

Volunteer since 2008. Member of Wikimedia Chile (WMCL) and Wiki for Minorities (WfMin).

She/her Ghanaian, living in Czechia.
Co-Lead Wiki Hour Initiative
Affcom - Recognition Sub Committee
Regional Grants Committee Member (Past)
Open Heritage Foundation- Wiki Loves Folkore & Feminism and Folklore ( Growth Specialist)

I work as a community relations specialist for the Foundation's Advancement Department. I work mainly with the fundraising teams.

Julia Maria Koszewska, PhD, DocSocSci (Sociology), holds degrees in Library and Information Science (BLIS), Knowledge and Information Management (MA), and Applied Social Sciences (PhD), with additional postgraduate qualifications in International Law. She has made her first edit in Wikipedia back in 2007, and since then contributes mostly to Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata. And also to the broader community. She has served on the Polish Arbitration Committee and is currently in her second term as vice-chair of Wikimedia Polska. Julia as been instrumental in initiating GLAM-Wiki, WikiWomen, and EthnoWiki projects in Poland, enriching the cultural and educational landscape. Additionally, she chairs the Supervisory Committee at the Wolne Lektury Foundation and works as a Senior Library Assistant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Julia also pursues her passion for research as an independent scholar.

KAHOU TOURE est un passionné de la création de contenu et de la diffusion des connaissances. Fort d'une expérience diversifiée dans les domaines des médias, de la réalisation télévisuelle et cinématographique, ainsi que de la création de contenu.
En tant que producteur de médias, réalisateur télé cinéma et créateur de contenu, KAHOU a développé une expertise dans la recherche, l'écriture et la production de contenus de qualité pour une variété de plateformes de communication. Sa passion pour la libre diffusion des connaissances l'a également conduit à s'impliquer dans des initiatives telles que Wikimédia.
De plus, KAHOU a piloté des projets GLAM (Galléries, Libraries, Archives, Muséums) et Afrociné-Wiki Côte d'Ivoire, où il a dirigé des initiatives visant à promouvoir la collaboration entre les institutions culturelles et les projets Wikimédia, ainsi qu'à enrichir le contenu relatif au cinéma africain sur Wikipédia.
Par ailleurs, KAHOU a également été le Chef Projet Armorial des Communes de Côte d'Ivoire, supervisant la collecte et la documentation des armoiries des communes ivoiriennes pour les intégrer dans les projets Wikimédia.
KAHOU croit fermement à l'importance de la collaboration et de l'échange d'idées pour enrichir la société et favoriser le progrès.

Open Science Manager at Wikimedia Polska. I’m responsible for building relationships with the research and expert community, and coordinating Open Science and Open Education projects. My background is in biotechnology & biomedical sciences, I have experience in science communication and community management.

I’m a researcher and a designer and the co-founder of Selkie Design Agency. Since 2007, I’ve been involved in research, and since 2014 I’ve kept my focus on projects related to creating and developing digital products. I co-organise an international conference called World Usability Day Silesia (WUD Silesia). I’m a lecturer at postgraduate User Experience Design studies (SWPS University), E-Marketing (WSE / SWPS University). I pursue my scientific interests in the Laboratory of Personality (Psychology Institute of Psychology Polish Academy of Sciences). My passions lie in cyberpsychology, narrative psychology, personality psychology and social psychology. In research, I focus my attention on areas concerning processes of self-regulation among users of digital products.

Kevin Payravi (User:SuperHamster) is a software engineer from Dallas, Texas, and has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2007. In addition to day-to-day editing, Kevin has developed a number of tools to help wiki readers and editors, including Cite Unseen, View it!, and Indie Wiki Buddy. He also serves on the Board of Wikimedia DC and as an organizer for the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. Each year, he helps organize WikiConference North America and Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States.

I live in Prague and I have been a member and Executive Director of Wikimedia Czech Republic since March 2018. I have been a member of the CEE Hub steering committee since the CEE Meeting 2022 and have long been an active member of the CEE community. I am one of the initiators of the CEE Youth group.
In Wikimedia Czech Republic, we run three main programs - EDUcational Programs, Programs for Community and Programs for Partnerships.
I studied social policy and social work and I used to work as a program manager and director at different Czech NGOs and also at the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Translator, interpreter and lecturer at the University of the Basque Country.

Txikipedia is an encyclopedia for kids between 8 and 13 years old within Wikipedia in Basque language. It was created in 2018. It is the only online encyclopedia for kids incorporated into Wikipedia.

I will present the educational project carried out around Txikipedia at the Zumaia High School (Basque Country). In this project, about 350 students from this school have participated in writing content for Txikipedia. In total, they have created 1,062 articles and uploaded 133 photographs and drawings made by themselves on topics related to their studies.

I am the Programs Director at Wikitongues and am on the steering committee for the Language Diversity Hub. We work with communities, internal and external from Wikimedia, to promote, preserve, and revitalization their languages.

Käbi Laan is part of CoT Wikimania 2024. She has been actively involved with Wikimedia Estonia - from volunteer to board member to executive director. Additionally, she has been part of the CEE Hub steering committee. Currently wearing a volunteer hat.

I am Former board member of Wikimedia Israel and an active member of the Wiki-Woman local project. I am passionate for promoting gender equality on Wikipedia.

Lara Mieg is the Project Manager for the F5 Alliance in Wikimedia Germany’s Public Policy & Public Sector Team. In this role, she coordinates the alliance's work, ranging from its organizational development to the co-conception of political strategies and formats to promote shared objectives. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from Freie Universität Berlin and is passionate about fostering a democratic digitization and equal (digital) rights for everyone. Before joining Wikimedia Germany, she worked towards those aims in a political party and government agencies such as the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

I'm Leaderboard. Currently I'm an admin on three WMF wikis (en.wikibooks, MediaWiki and Meta-Wiki) and normally specialise in the technical area, writing automation tools and helping users with technical-related problems on my wikis (such as importing and abuse filters) and elsewhere.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)

• active in German-speaking Wikipedia for more than ten years.
• areas of interest: women in general, specifically women's movement.
• Co-organisation of online workshop series "60 Minutes – Gender & Diversity in der Wikipedia", and of the editor group wiki:wo:men in Stuttgart
• active member of FemNetz

Lisa Seitz-Gruwell is the Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2016, she helped launch the Wikimedia Endowment and serves as its President.

Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011, Lisa previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at the Rappaport Family Foundation and Skyline Public Works, a fund that blends venture capital with philanthropy; as the District Director and Press Secretary for the California Assembly Majority Leader and in several roles for the then mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom. She also has previously worked as a Political Consultant and Campaign Manager for Democratic candidates in California, Montana, Michigan, Connecticut and Oregon. Lisa was also appointed to serve as a Civil Service Commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco. In addition, Lisa has served as a board member of several organizations including the Montana Environmental Information Center, the Progressive States Network, and the San Francisco Rock Project.

Long term wikipedian, former chair of Wikimedia Italy, vice chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikimedian user since 2006, admin on Italian Wikipedia, Wikidata and Neapolitan Wikipedia, I work for Wikimedia Foundation since 2021. Among other things I do, I currently work as Community Relations Specialist for Wikifunctions, operating as a liaison between the community and the developer team.

Senior Social Media Specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation. Lucas coordinates the organic social media strategy and daily social media management for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation social media channels.

Lucas Pretti is a Brazilian journalist, art worker, activist and researcher. He has been a free culture advocate for over twenty years and has been involved in a wide range of commons-based initiatives fighting for power distribution and people's participation in decision-making.

He is currently the Communications & Advocacy Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), from where he co-leads Open Goes COP, a coalition advocating for openness at the UN Climate Change Conferences.

He is also a PhD candidate in Arts, Literature and Cultural Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). His academic focus is on tracking and promoting commons-based practices among socially engaged communities, with a particular attention to horizontal governance models and emerging organisational aesthetics from the Global South.

I am a Canadian high school teacher living, working and playing around British Columbia, Canada. As an educator, there are many opportunities to inform high school and university students about the workings of Wiki. Although it is a widely used tool, it is often maligned, misunderstood, and not exploited to its full potential. I want to help change that. Currently, I am working with the Wiki Project Med Foundation on their translation efforts: providing free, high-quality healthcare information in peoples' language of choice.

I was born in Prague and currently I live in a little town nearby. Europe in general has been my home for the past 20 years, I have lived in Lithuania and the UK and got a job gig in most of the European countries.
I'm a member and (part-time) Education programmes manager of Wikimedia Czech Republic since May 2019. Since January 2023 I am full-timer, currently as well managing Programmes for Community (editathons, events, campaigns, photographer community).
We run three main programs - Education (4 individual programmes), Community (editors & photographers) and Partnerships (where Wikidata and advocacy fall into).
Most of my work-life I have spend in field of education; mainly the non-formal. I am familiar with and passionate about Youth Work, Learning Experience Design, LifeLong Learning, Erasmus+ programme, Facilitation & Art of Hosting, Graphic facilitation, Impact, Sustainability and Green Events production of events and activities. I do occasionally write publish articles, educational materials and do editors job - e.g. for Council of Europe.
My life got enriched by many things such as: Ultimate Frisbee, slackline, urban cycling or contact improvisation. I love skiing, cross-country skiing, ice-skating and many other sports.
Since 2020 I am a Trager Approach Student and Practitioner. I hold a Greener Event Accessor Certification from Falthmount University in the UK.

Let's Connect Working Group Liaison for North West Europe.

Wikmedian, researcher, digital humanist. Scot living in England. My Wikipedia account can be found at EriedgenArc. My pronouns are she/her. I am interested in gender equity, open knowledge and GLAM. Outside of Wiki I podcast about pop culture, and hang out with my cats.

Lucy Moore is an archaeologist, curator and Wikimedian. In 2024 she completed a quest to write an article on English Wikipedia for a woman from every country in the world

Onwuka Glory, of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria and Igbo Wikimedia User Group joined Wikimedia Foundation as a volunteer editor in the year 2021. I have taken delight in editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikicommons and Wikitionary. I presented a paper in the last year (2023) Wikimania conference. Presently, am working on series of projects.

Luis Carrasco es Biólogo Marino con mención académica en Recursos Naturales y Derecho Ambiental, y cursa un Master en Políticas Públicas en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Le interesan las políticas públicas que protegen y gestionan la biodiversidad y los ecosistemas de Chile, su país natal. Es editor de Wikipedia en español desde 2008 y Director de Wikimedia Chile desde 2020. Es durante este período de tiempo que comprendió la importancia del acceso libre y abierto a todas las fuentes de conocimiento, para cualquier persona que busque saber. Quienes lo conocen saben que siempre está involucrado en diversos proyectos de participación ciudadana, conocimiento libre, medio ambiente, diversidad sexual y juventud.

Lydia Pintscher is the portfolio lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland. She has been with Wikidata since its start over a decade ago. In her free time she supports the KDE community as the vice president of KDE e.V.

Involved in the Wikimedia movement since 2010, Léa Lacroix (user:Auregann) is a community engagement coordinator and event organizer working for various organizations in the movement.

I am the project lead of Project korikath. I started my wikimedia journey as an editor in enwiki but after some time I shifted to Wikimedia commons and started to work with some projects there. I have worked with several wikimedia related organisations, programs and conferences so far.

Wikimania 2024 Lead Organizer
Affiliations Committee Secretary – since 2024
Wikimedia Europe Board Member – since 2022
Wikimedia Poland Governance Board – 2020–2022

My first edit to Wikipedia was in 2010 as part of a school book review, for which my classmates and I earned the following talk page comment: “This isn't a school book review; it's a Wikipedia article.” I hope my edit quality has improved since then!

My work focuses on data privacy. I advise on inquiries and requests we receive from the public, the community, the Foundation, and other entities.

Magdalena Gomulka (m.a.) is a senior-librarian in the Silesian Library in Katowice, Poland. She cooperates with the Polish Librarians’ Association and IFLA. Her professional experience concerns international cooperation, sustainable development and libraries. Had presentations at national and international conferences as well as webinars, ex. IFLA WLIC 2022 in Dublin, UN IGF.

Movement Communications Specialist

Chair of the board and head of policy and advocacy at the Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation, sociologist, researcher, project manager interested in the impact of technology and copyright on culture, education and access to knowledge.

Hi there!

I'm Manavpreet Kaur from vibrant Punjab, India. With a Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Science, my academic journey has been deeply rooted in Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Medicine, with a specialisation in Facial Identification.

But there's more! I'm passionate about Human Rights, global DE&I policies, and ensuring access to knowledge for all. As a free knowledge enthusiast, I believe that education is the key to enlightenment.

I enjoy designing and facilitating programs that build stronger, more inclusive communities. One of my core missions is to empower women and elevate them into leadership roles.

Let's connect and make a difference together!

I'm involved since 2016 in tutoring/teaching Wikipedia courses for multiple universities and GLAMs, and recently in the Wikimedia Italia Certified trainers program. Active on it_wiki since 2004, as a Wikimedian in residence I collaborated on many OpenGLAM projects in Italy (more recently with the Museo Egizio of Turin) and in the Empowering Italian GLAMs project (Tutti i musei su Wikipedia). I'm a member of the Wikimedia Italia staff.

I work as a Events Expert in Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska

My name is Mari. I am from Armenia and I represent Wikimedia Armenia. I joined the Wikimedia Movement in 2018 and I am active on Armenia Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons andWikidata.

Mario Behling is a technologist, deeply passionate about fostering the spirit of sharing and collaboration and connecting people. As a global connector, his strategic bases in Berlin and Singapore are pivotal in championing the transition of companies worldwide towards Open Source technologies. In 2009, alongside Hong Phuc Dang, he founded FOSSASIA, an organisation dedicated to improving lives through the dissemination of open technologies, knowledge, and resources. FOSSASIA, under his guidance, has spearheaded several software projects, including the event management solution eventyay.com and SUSI.AI, as well as open hardware projects like the Pocket Science Lab IoT platform, and the Badge Magic.

Martin Hipangwa is a visionary founder of Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia. He is a librarian by profession and currently works as a research librarian. His interest lies in advocating equitable access to quality information, digital literacy, and incorporating Wikipedia in teaching and learning.

Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and English Wikipedia contributor, trainer and advocate. Current Wikimedian In Residence at the Khalili Foundation and past Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford. Work with universities and cultural institutions to promote open culture, open education, and open access. User:MartinPoulter

Martin Urbanec is a Senior Software Engineer, working with the Growth team, mostly focused on the area of Community Configuration and mentorship. He cares about ensuring autonomy of the Wikimedia communities by giving them an option to change how MediaWiki works. Outside of his role at the Wikimedia Foundation, Martin volunteers as a Wikimedia Steward, serving all Wikimedia projects.

Maryana Iskander (she/her) is the Chief Executive Officer, a senior staff officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the operations of the Foundation and its professional staff. She reports to the Board of Trustees and is supported by the Office of the CEO.

Maryana joined the Wikimedia Foundation after a decade as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a non-profit social enterprise focused on building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. She has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a volunteer-led social movement.

Maryana was born in Cairo, Egypt, before emigrating with her parents to the United States. Since then, she has lived and studied in the United States and Europe before settling in South Africa.

Her career has been shaped by work that melds people, impact, and technology to break down barriers and increase access to opportunity.

Maryana Pinchuk is a Principal Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, leading the Foundation's "Future Audiences" initiative to research and develop new product strategies for ensuring that Wikimedia projects survive and thrive for generations to come. She has been a Wikimedian since 2010.

María Sefidari is a long-time Wikimedian who has held different roles over the years. These include being the founder of Wikiproyecto:LGBT; a founding member and the first Vice Chair of Wikimedia Spain; an Iberocoop co-founder; a co-founder of Wikimujeres; an officer of the Affiliations Committee; part of the organising teams of WikiWomenCamp 2017, Wikimedia + Gendergap Research Meetup ‎2023 and WikiWomen Summit 2024; the former Chair of the WMF Board of Trustees; and a Wikiesfera representative.

Masana Mulaudzi is a feminist economist, community organizer and activist from Johannesburg, South Africa. She currently serves as the Senior Manager for the Campaigns (Organizing) team at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Matej Grochal has been a volunteer chair of Wikimedians of Slovakia for five years and is a contributor to Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata.

For over twenty years, I've been roaming the kingdom of IT&T. I advise clients from various industries on which technologies they need to boost their efficiency and achieve spa-level comfort.
Currently, I'm focusing on supporting technological processes in HR. I emphasize gamification because what could motivate employees more than the prospect of earning digital badges and points that can be exchanged for... well, more digital badges and points;)

Matthew Vetter is Professor of Language, Literature, & Writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He co-chairs the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, a disciplinary project to involve more English Studies academics to contribute to Wikimedia via WikiProject Writing. He is the author, with Zach McDowell, of Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (Routledge, 2021). He is a veteran instructor with Wiki Education, as well as a researcher on Wikipedia-based education. He has also served on the Wikimedia Foundation’s North America regional grants committee for the past three years.

An Ecosystems builder, educator and technology Enthusiast. He is the cofounder of the Wiki Green Initiative, Executive Manager of Open Knowledge Ghana,Co founder of the Ghanaian Language Wikimedia Community and Pidgin Community, He is currently the Africa Coordinator (Anglophone) for Open Knowledge Network.Maxwell is a associate consultant on Open Education and Environmental Sustainability , and Co leads the Open Goes COP global coalition.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPaul_(WMF)

I am the Senior Director of Movement Communications at the Wikimedia Foundation. I am building our movement communications whilst being in awe of the amazing work Wikimedians from all over the world do.

The Movement Communications team works to build bridges. Some of our work includes:

• Movement communications insights
• Diff
• Wikimania
• Wikimedian of the Year
• WikiCelebrate
• Maryana's listening tour, Talking: 2024
• Community Affairs Committee hosted conversations, Afrika Baraza, CEE Connect etc
• Making our movement communications more equitable and inclusive across all regions.
• Engaging the movement with the Foundation's annual plan
• Communicating about Product & Tech developments.
• ComCom
  and more..

ED of Wikimedia Georgia

Since January 2020, Member of the Affiliations Committee.

Melissa has been a leader of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years. She managed the Open Society Institute’s (now Open Society Foundations) work to define Open Access through the Budapest Open Access Initiative and went on to support the development of the global Open Access movement. To mark the 20th anniversary of the BOAI, she spearheaded the development of new recommendations which emphasize that Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to further ends, above all, to the equity, quality, sustainability, and usability of research.

Melissa served as a member of the WMF’s Advisory Board and WMF’s
Selection Committee for Executive Director and Board of Trustees.

Michaela Blanc is a Brazilian art researcher based in the United States. She is a Wikimedian in Residence at the Perez Art Museum in Miami and a Regional Ambassador for Art+Feminism. In 2024, she served on the WikiWomenCamp 2023 scholarship committee; she was a presenter at Wiki GLAM Conference 2023; a speaker at Celtic Knot Conference 2022; and a guest panelist in 2021 in the 20 years of Lusophone Wikipedia. She holds an MA in Museum Education and a BA in Art History. She is the co-founder of NaPupila, a curatorial collective in Brazil.

Lucy Moore is an archaeologist, curator and Wikimedian. In 2024 she completed a quest to write an article on English Wikipedia for a woman from every country in the world.

Giovanna Fontenelle is a Journalist and Historian. She works as a Program Officer for the Culture and Heritage team at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2022 and 2023, she was the General Coordinator of Creative Commons Brasil and still is a member of the Global Network. Her current work is related to GLAM-Wiki, Open GLAM, and Linked Open Data initiatives, especially with museums, in addition to projects on diversity, mainly gender, and knowledge equity. As a volunteer, she has organized edit-a-thons and training for women addressing the gender gap.

Michele works as Senior EU Law & Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Europe. When a new piece of legislation is passed, he advocates to ensure that Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement are preserved. He strives to be sure that lawmakers as well as regulators widely understand the Wikimedia model and respect its functioning & values. In his efforts, he closely works with the Foundation's public policy team and the European national chapters.
He is passionate about EU & media law and the commons.

Astronomer, Photographer, Wikimedian. WMF Trustee.

Design researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation

Open Education specialist at University of Groningen (Netherlands)

My Wikimedia Username is Alhassan Mohammed Awal. I am a dedicated Wikimedia volunteer and digital language Activist contributing to organizing many Wikimedia projects and events in Ghana and playing leading roles in executing those projects. I am a regular organizer of Wiki Loves projects and Art+Feminism campaigns in Ghana in the past four years. I volunteered in the communication team for WikiIndaba 2021, hosted by Uganda online. I am a dedicated volunteer for LD4 Affinity Group and served as a conference planning committee member for the LD4 2023 virtual conference and I am Co-chairing the same Conference this year which is scheduled to take place in October. I am a Dagbani language Expert and participate in various Wikimedia translation projects from English into Dagbani. I am also interested and committed to contribute to the Wikimedia Technical projects as well. I am a regular volunteer member at CC Open Culture and a Winner of this year's CC activity fund.
Outside of the Wikimedia community, I am an educationist and a mentor providing services to young and upcoming teachers and students. I am an activist for child rights and girl-child education. A volunteer at E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa and Ghana School on Internet Governance Fellow, member of Europeana Network Association, and Community Council Member of Global Voices.
Dagbani is my native language but feel free to engage with me in the English Language which is the official language of my country Ghana

Administrator and checkuser of Ukrainian Wikipedia (User:NickK)
Vice-Chair of Board of Wikimedia Ukraine
Member of the Regional Funds Committee for Northern and Western Europe (NWE)
Member of Wiki Loves Earth international organising team

Nadia is a writer, researcher and designer whose work is at the intersection of tech, the urban, and design justice. She has been working with open source software such as Decidim to push for a more ethical tech and public digital spaces. She is currently working with Platoniq on participation and governance on and offline. She is a collaborator at AIxD on how to create and conceptualize small AI through an ethical and situated framework. Through the Open Future grant she has developed a series of articles and a handbook for artists and creatives to develop AI literacy in English and Spanish. Her upcoming research supports artists and creatives in developing a sense and systems for reclaiming agency in AI governance.

Regional fund committee member for SSA and MENA regions since 2021.

Head of Open Culture Studio at Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation. Art Historian and project manager in the field of digital transformation of cultural institutions, trainer in the field of new technologies.

For the past 11 years, she has been supporting digitisation of museum collections, creating online collections and exhibitions and development of IT tools for creative sharing of cultural heritage. She co-created the digital collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Krakow, the National Museum in Slovakia and the National Gallery in Bulgaria on the international Google Arts & Culture platform. One of the coordinators of the "Open Zachęta" project - one of the largest digitization projects in Poland. Co-author of the publication “Digital heritage of culture. How to prepare for digitization and making your collection available online”.

My name is Natalia Ćwik, I am CEO of Wikimedia Polska. I have more that 17 years of professional experience as a manager with NGOs, business and public administration. I love gathering and sharing knowledge.

Wikimedian for 20+ years, mainly on Wikisource and Wikidata nowadays. I'm interrested in books, lexemes and GLAMs.

Director of Governance and Movement Relations at Wikimedia Deutschland. Talk to me about Movement Strategy 2030, the Global Council, the history of the Wikimedia Summit, governance in membership-based Wikimedia organisations, or saving the planet with karaoke and a vegetarian diet.

I have been working with the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities for almost 10 years. My work has spanned several engineering and product roles. I am currently a Lead Product Manager with the Trust & Safety Product team at WMF.
I am based out of Singapore.

Nikesh Balami is a civic entrepreneur, open data advocate, and tech researcher. He is the co-founder and CEO of Open Knowledge Nepal, a non-profit civic tech organization working to create a fair, sustainable, and open future by advancing open knowledge as a design principle beyond data. With extensive experience in business development, project management, and capacity building, Nikesh has been instrumental in promoting data-driven decision-making across various sectors.

Nikos Likomitros is a Greek Wikimedian. He contributes since 2013, regularly from 2016 there. He has been involved with young Wikimedians since pretty earlier in his Wikimedia career, by helping a lot with cementing a stable community of youth, teenagers and students. He has organized various editathons in Greek Wikipedia and is a member of the Greek Usergroup. Moreover since 2023 he is involved in the Wikivibrance network and he is involved on youth projects, while he is also member of CEE Youth Group. He is interested on affairs related to youth and Wikimedia movement but also for developing communities. He has done Wikimedia outreach in 2 universities so far, being a key member of Wiki for Minorities international network and recently made an online webinar for Greeks in Germany. He also attended CEE Youth Group meeting in Prague, Czechia where he learned a lot about youth projects from around CEE and shared his own experiences. He's interested on international collaborations, the future of the movement, governance, experience exchange and Wikimedia ecosystem.

Nitesh is the part of Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K). As a program officer, she collaborates with Indian communities to support their Wikimedia projects, organize events, and facilitate outreach efforts.

-Javanese and Indonesian Wikimedian.
Username: Kunirasem

I obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Glasgow in 2011, an MSc in Health Psychology from UCL in 2012 and a PhD in Health Psychology and Informatics from UCL in 2022. I work in health and medical research, mostly femtech and in the accuracy of health information.

Olaniyan Olushola, a Nigerian media strategist, entrepreneur, and open knowledge advocate has significantly shaped the landscape of knowledge dissemination in Nigeria. Since founding Wikimedia User Group Nigeria in 2015, he has served as the chairman of the board of trustees of Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation and has been a longstanding Wikimedia editor. His extensive work spans various facets of open knowledge advocacy, including education, event organization, and editing Wikipedia.
In 2017, Olushola co-produced a groundbreaking Wikipedia Campaign in Nigeria featuring prominent artists, which garnered over 17 million views worldwide within three weeks and earned a nomination for the best video at the African Excellence Award 2018. His influence extends to policy discussions, as he engaged with the Nigerian Senate in 2018 to highlight the benefits of open knowledge in enhancing the country's visibility.
Pioneering initiatives such as WikiFanClub, initiated in 2018 at the University of Ibadan, aim to recruit Nigerian undergraduate students into the Wikimedia Movement. As of 2024, the project operates in over ten Nigerian tertiary institutions, benefiting over 1000 undergraduates. Olushola's commitment to preserving indigenous languages led to the documentation of over 150 audiovisuals by 2023, enriching Wikipedia and sister projects.
In 2023, he was crucial in introducing the African Journalism Award, contributing over two thousand reliable sources to enhance African-related content on Wikipedia. Recognized for his impact, Olushola was featured as a panelist at the 2023 Wikiindaba in Agadir, Morocco, discussing the project's success in engaging professionals with Wikimedia initiatives.

My name is Olesia, coming from Ukraine. I’m a part of Wikimedia Ukraine in the role of project manager for the International photo contest Wiki Loves Earth since July 2022 and the Heritage Guard Network project (Ukrainian working group) manager since January 2024.

I am PhD student in Machine Translation at the University of Helsinki, where I contribute to the development of language technologies for minority languages. I graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (University of Barcelona) and hold master's degree in Language Analysis and Processing (UPV-EHU).

I am a language and scientific activist and believe in the power of the collective to transform society. I am a member of the Wikipedia community in the Catalan language and would like to develop open-source systems for Wikipedia to achieve technological sovereignity.

I am Onwuka Glory, from Wikimedia User Group, Nigeria and Igbo Wikimedian's User Group. I became a Wikimedian Volunteer editor from the year 2021. I am from Imo state network. I take delight in editing Wikipedia, Wikicommons, Wikidata, and Wikitionary. I have participated in some project contest . I have conducted some Wiki projects and under gone some trainings. I studied History and International studies and childhood education; am a researcher and children advocate.

Patricia is an Open-Knowledge and Open Culture advocate based in Santiago, Chile. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile.

Rather a pessimist, pl.wiki admin, highest number of edits on pl.wiki, 4,5M edits on commons,

I am Patricia Horrillo, a journalist specialized in communication and social media. Since 2015, I have been coordinating Wikiesfera (UG), a working group established in Madrid (Spain), where I assist more individuals in learning how to edit on Wikipedia and in gaining a deeper understanding of other projects within the Wikimedia universe. I am concerned about the existing knowledge gaps on Wikipedia: gender (on which I gave a TEDx talk titled "Nobody will talk about us (women) if we are not in Wikipedia"), as well as historically invisible minorities (LGBT community, Romani people, etc.) and everything related to the historical memory of Spain. To address these deficiencies, I organize thematic editatonas aimed at attracting new editors to the free encyclopedia.

I'm an Information Systems Engineer with more than 10 years of experience both in the private sector and NGOs. I have also been an activist of the open movement since a young age. I love programming and is always exploring new projects and tools.

MA University of Geneva (2006), MSc University of So Paulo (2011)

I live in Olomouc and since 2022 I'm a Chief Trainer of Wikimedia Czech Republic since February 2022. Since December 2023 I also became Partnership Programmes Manager of WMCR. In Wikimedia Czech Republic, we run three main programs - EDUcational Programs, Programs for Community and and Programs for Partnerships.

Paweł Nowak has been working as a Service Designer and UX Designer since 2008. He is a founder of NOWY - research and design agency (2016) and a founder of WUD Silesia conference - the biggest non-profit design conference in Poland (2010). His professional mission is to design interventions and technologies that empower people and enhance their potential and competencies. He uses complexity science as a lens for gaining new perspectives in the design field. Paweł is a lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Katowice and Sektor 3.0 Fund startup incubation program manager. After work he supports as a mentor, teacher and designer social and educational initiatives.

As a Policy & Advocacy Manager, Pia covers the regulation of ADM systems in Germany at AlgorithmWatch.

Piotr Konieczny is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media & Social informatics, Hanyang University. He has received his PhD degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in the sociology of the Internet and social movements, in particular in topics such as wikis – their impact on individuals and organizations; decision making processes and organizational structure of Wikipedia; patterns of behavior among Wikipedia contributors; relation between wikis and social movements; free culture movement; and teaching with new media.

The education program of Wikimedia Colombia is one of the three programs promoting free knowledge in the country and is currently in the process of contributing to the Wikimedia ecosystem and innovation processes in education.

Lead Public Policy Specialist for Asia and the Pacific of Wikimedia Foundation

Rebecca is the Communications Manager for the Open Climate Campaign, a campaign that aims to increase equitable collaboration in finding faster solutions to the climate crisis through open access.

Prior to joining Creative Commons, Rebecca led the strategy and engagement portfolios at a national academic library association. She has also held executive communication roles within the academic publishing and open infrastructure sectors. Rebecca has been leading open access initiatives for over ten years and has had the opportunity to contribute to the growth of open access not-for-profit publishing and library strategic investments in open. Rebecca is a trained librarian with a MIS from the University of Ottawa.

Rebecca lives in the forest in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada with her partner and two dogs, Henry and Daphne, and is an avid hiker, reader, and meditator.

Renata Avila is an international human rights and technology lawyer and openness advocate. She is helping individuals and organisations access and use data to take action on the most pressing social problems, as well as preserving and enhancing human rights through open standards, policy and advocacy. In her previous practice, focused on strategic litigation for access to information and access to justice, she represented high-profile human rights advocates, including Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu Tum. A former fellow and affiliate of the Stanford Institute of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, she is currently associated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France. She participates on the boards of several organisations, including Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination and the Just Net Coalition. She co-founded the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Progressive International. She has co-authored two books, contributed chapters to several others, and regularly writes for different publications in English and Spanish.

Graphic Designer. Secretariat of Wikimedia Small Projects since 2023

Richard Gaines is a human rights and international security professional who leverages more than twelve years of experience in foreign policy and advocacy to promote human rights. Richard currently serves as the Human Rights Policy & Advocacy Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he advances the Foundation’s values and policy positions around freedom of expression, access to knowledge, privacy, and censorship while defending knowledge as a human right.

Product (User Experience) Design
Wikimedia Foundation

I'm Masum-al-Hasan Rocky, known as RockyMasum across all Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedian since 2013, I'm deeply involved in Bangla Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Bangla Wikivoyage. I founded the first Wiki Club in Bangladesh and co-founded the Rajshahi Wikipedia Community, a divisional user community under Wikimedia Bangladesh. Serving as a board member since 2016, I currently hold the position of General Secretary in the Executive Committee of Wikimedia Bangladesh.

Rocío Aravena is a Chilean teacher, researcher, and a fervent advocate for Open Education and Open Technologies. She is a Ph.D. student at the University of Barcelona in the Education and Digital Technologies field and has participated in the Wikimedia Movement for several years. Starting as Program Education Manager in Wikimedia Chile (2019-2023), Rocío is currently collaborating in the Peer Learning Program Let's Connect, and has also participated as a researcher for the development of the Theory of Change for the EduWiki User Group between 2023 and 2024.

Author since 2004/11/1 (main focus Germany and near east). One of the founders of Wikivoyage project (chairman of the association). Administrator, software developer of JavaScript scripts and Lua modules (up to now). Participant of Wikimedia Summits, collaboration with Egypt Wikipedia user group.

I am a veteran EN-WP editor (2007) and EN-WP admin (2009) who has created >5,000 articles, of which >2,200 are women's biographies. I have uploaded thousands of public domain images to Wikimedia Commons, and am also active on Wikidata. On-wiki, I am the co-founder of Wiki Women in Red (2015), now on 34 language Wikipedias, whose scope is to reduce Wikipedia's content gender gap.

In 2021, I was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees where I serve/served on several committees including Audit, Board Governancee, Community Affairs, and Executive. I am the current Chair of the Talent & Culture Committee, and I am a member of the Sibling Projects Task Force.

I served on AffCom (2016-21), the last 2 years as Chair; on the Board of Wikimedia DC (2016-21), the last 5 years as Vice-President. I am the co-founder of WikiWomen's User Group, WikiConference North America User Group, and WikiCemeteries User Group.

In 2016, I was honored to be named Wikipedian of the Year. Two years later, I was Knighted, in part because of my Wikipedia work.

My name is Ruby D-Brown a Wikimedia volunteer with close to 5 years experience in the movement. Currently the representative for WikiWomen Usergroup and Co-founder of Africa Wiki Women. Also the sub-Saharan regional coordinator for wiki for human rights 2023 and 2024.

An intern at the University of Edinburgh working on the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland Project. Recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Computer Science.

Hi, I am User:S.v.Mering, also known as Sabine von Mering. I am a data scientist with a background in botany and live in Berlin, Germany. For several years I have been contributing to the Wikiverse, especially Wikidata. I am involved in several WikiProjects linked to biodiversity, natural history collections, and women in science and research expeditions.
My ORCID profile can be found here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2982-7792

A certified Wikipedia trainer and Brand Ambassador for Curationist.org. I am also the executive director and co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and a steering committee member of the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub.

Sage Ross — User:Ragesoss & User:Sage (Wiki Ed) — has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. As a volunteer, he has written featured articles, reported for and edited The Signpost, run Wikipedia assignments in college courses, and uploaded hundreds of original photos and videos to Commons. He was part of WMF's Public Policy Initiative team in 2010, and has been building technology for Wiki Education for more than 10 years.

Ideographer, generist, cryptanalyst. Stable diffusor.

For the past 3 years, Sanda has been part of the Human Rights Team at the Wikimedia Foundation, currently serving as a Human Rights Specialist. The work focused on protecting community members and ensuring their safety.
Over 10 years of experience in the field of civil society and international organizations on human rights, human security and security sector governance. Researcher and coordinator of studies, author of articles on topics related to information security, identification of corruption risks, analysis of the security and defense sector, coordination of external assistance, drafting a methodology for assessing threats, risks and vulnerabilities towards the security of the state.

Wikimedian since 2003. Art historian working on digital projects in the cultural sector. As Wikimedian, active on GLAM projects, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons.

Sara leads the Open Knowledge Network, which brings together experts of the open movement globally. The Network's main focus is the intersection of tech and democracy, and Sara’s role is to facilitate synergy and collaboration among the members, encouraging the sharing of best practices, and strengthening strategic alignment on topics of interest. Under her direction, the Network has grown larger and stronger. At Open Knowledge Foundation Sara also supports open source and open data communities, and is passionate about all issues linked to community care and health, like governance. Before joining Open Knowledge Foundation, she was part of a project advocating for public libraries to be on the EU agenda (notably for the review of the Copyright Directive), and was part of the team that grew Khan Academy in French.

I'm a Programme Manager at Wikimedia UK, working across Scotland, Wales, & Northern Ireland, and am also responsible for overseeing all volunteering across the UK. I was Wikimedian in Residence for both Museums Galleries Scotland and the Scottish Library and Information Council, and was Scotland Programme Coordinator at Wikimedia UK 2018-2023. I mostly edit on English Wikipedia, but also work on Scots Wiki, Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons. I'm part of the 2023-24 OpenRefine Train the Trainer cohort.

J'ai rejoins le mouvement Wikimédia en 2021. Actuellement, je suis membre du conseil d'administration de Wikimédia France et Wikimédien en résidence à Strasbourg.

Selena Deckelmann (pronouns: she/her) is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. She brings more than 20 years of experience in open source technology, product management and engineering leadership.

Previously, Selena was Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she led a team of 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s greatest achievements including infrastructure projects like Quantum Flow and Project Fission, key features like Enhanced Tracking Protection, and services such as Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko Security Engineering.

Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She was a major contributor to PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world. She is a Python Foundation Fellow and former Major Contributor to PostgreSQL.

Selene Yang es una feminista queer y organizadora comunitaria latinoamericana. Doctora en Comunicación Social por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Se dedica a las cartografías digitales colaborativas feministas y a la creación de datos geoespaciales feministas. Cofundadora de Geochicas, un grupo transinclusivo de mujeres cartógrafas en OpenStreetMap y OSGeo.
Actualmente trabaja como Especialista Senior Global en Diversidad, Equidad e Inclusión en la Fundación Wikimedia. Regional lead Latinoamérica para CHAOSS.

Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator, lecturer, researcher and Open Knowledge advocate, interested in the intersection between Education, Technology, Innovation and Openness.
Her PhD focused on the Semantic Web, specifically Wikidata, as a learning platform. Her Postdoctoral research includes exploring GenAI's impact on knowledge consumption and production; Linked Open Data and its connection to Digital Humanities; Critical Ignoring; and Self-Regulated Learning.
As of 2019, she serves on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.

I am the Product Manager for the Abstract Wikipedia team. I have been with the foundation for 7 years. I contribute to Kannada and Hindi wikis, along with English. I am very passionate about knowledge equity among our wikis and am thrilled to be part of Wikimania 2024!

I'm a lead council in the legal department at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is currently a placeholder.

Hi I'm User:Ambrosia10, also known as Siobhan Leachman. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I co-organise both the Wikipedians in Wellington Meetup as well as the virtual Aotearoa New Zealand Online Wiki meetup, both of which are held monthly. For my contributions to various WikiProjects see https://wikidata.wikiscan.org/user/Ambrosia10 . I'm interested in New Zealand, natural history, the OpenGLAM movement, supporting GLAM engagement with WikiProjects, and increasing the participation with and the generation of content in English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. I am keen supporter of Women in Red, WikiCite, events such as #1Lib1Ref, as well as Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions. I am the chairperson of the BHL-Wiki working group and was awarded the Wikimedia Laureate award in 2023. More detail on my other contributions to the Wiki-verse can be seen on my ORCID profile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-7721.

I'm a software engineer with the Wikimedia Cloud Services team, which is a part of the larger Developer Experience team at WMF. We maintain Toolforge, Cloud VPS and PAWS, interfacing at large with the broader tools ecosystem. My professional interests include building user-friendly platforms, open-source sustainability, and making tech inclusive.

Lead UX Designer and Wikimedia Foundation

I am an organization development specialist and strategy consultant with global expertise in community-driven movements. I am an employee at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. As a volunteer, I am the current chair of the board at Wikimedia Austria. I'm user:Sonkiki.

Srishti Sethi is a Senior Developer Advocate for Language and Product Localization team in the Product & Technology Department at Wikimedia Foundation. Learn more about her at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF).

Stephen Harrison is a journalist who is significant in the wiki community for his coverage of Wikipedia. He is the author of The Editors, a novel inspired by Wikipedia.

Stephen is Director, External Affairs at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. In this role, he works with a team to build understanding of the role of libraries in achieving sustainable, inclusive development, as a basis for improved laws and policies, and successful partnerships

Programmer by formation, Wikipedian for 18+ years.

Subhashish Panigrahi has been a long-term Wikimedian since 2011, the co-founder of Wikimedia affiliate the Odia Wikimedians User Group, and has served the Wikimedia and open knowledge community in professional roles through past leadership roles at Wikimedia Foundation and the Centre for Internet Society's Access to Knowledge, a Wikimedia affiliate. He is a senior civil society leader, filmmaker and researcher, a current board member at the international citizen journalism nonprofit Global Voices and a global network representative for India at Creative Commons. Since 2017, he has catalysed open knowledge/source contributor communities across Asia-Pacific at the Internet Society, in Asia at Mozilla, and in South Asia at the Wikimedia Foundation and the Centre for Internet & Society. In 2023, the 72K transcripted audio recordings in Odia he published under a universal Public Domain release were arguably the largest voice data repository in any South Asian language of that kind. While initiating several open access/knowledge movement ventures, I have created over 5K Wikipedia articles.

Susanna is on Open Culture advocate based in Helsinki. She leads the AvoinGLAM working group and works as interim ED of Open Knowledge Finland. She has initiated the development of Wikimaps Warper to georeference old maps, Wikidocumentaries for exploring the cultural commons, Wiki Loves Living Heritage to spark collaborations for documenting living heritage around the world and organized events such as Hack4OpenGLAM and AI Sauna for the contributors of the cultural commons to come together.

Polish Wikipedian since 2010, admin of Polish Wikipedia since 2011, Lead Movement Communications Specialist working with Product & Technology at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a volunteer, on the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team.

Between 2019 and 2022, the Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Board at Wikimedia Polska.

Tatjana Baleta is the Wikimedian in Residence for Climate at the Global Systems Institute. She works with the research and student community at the University of Exeter and beyond to update and improve cliamte change information on Wikimedia platforms, countering mis- and disinformation in the process. Tatjana is a conservationist and environmental science communicator with 8 yrs international experience working with academia and the non-profit sector.

Wikimedian and teacher from Sabah, Borneo Malaysia. Mainly focused on preserving ethnic languages and cultures in Malaysia through Wiktionary and other projects. Started editing since 2013 in secondary school and currently trying to establish a wiki club in the school I am teaching. Wikimedian of the Year 2023 and also a member of Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia.

Terry Boke is a media & communications consultant based in Nairobi Kenya. She is a member of Wikimedia User Group Kenya and has been contributing to Wiki spaces since 2021. She enjoys writing on Wikipedia, Wikidata and contributing to Wikimedia Commons.

Terry is passionate about shrinking the gender digital divide in Africa and loves mentoring and empowering women and youth with Digital skills and storytelling techniques so that they can continue to tell the beautiful African narratives that are not yet told.

Tesleemah is the only Nigerian Candidate for the Wikimedia foundation board of trustees and the only female from Africa contesting for the bowrd.

She is the first African board member of Wiki Project Medicine. She was the project lead of Wiki and Health articles in Nigeria 1.0, the project lead of Wikimedia Awareness in Akure. She was one of the core organizers of the Wikiclimate Campus Tour Nigeria Project. Outside Wikipedia, Tesleemah is a medical graduand with over 6 years of experience who has worked with different health-related organizations such as Optometry mails, Food and Gene initiative among others. She is the 1st Female President of Ondo State students, Unilorin. Nigeria.

Dr. Tetiana Kolesnykova is the Director of the Scientific Library of the
Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (USUST), PhD in
Social Sciences (Communications), Senior Researcher. She’s the Head of the
Editorial and Publishing Section at the Education Quality Council of USUST;
Chairman of the Organising Committee of the international conference
"University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development"
(http://conflib.diit.edu.ua/); Editor-in-Chief of the journal "University Library at
a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference
Proceedings" (http://unilibnsd.diit.edu.ua); Indexing in Scopus; Chief issue
editor of the journal "Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical
Research" (http://ampr.diit.edu.ua); Indexing in WoS; Head of the Section of
University Libraries of the Ukrainian Library Association (ULA); and member of
the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL; SPARC Europe),
as well as Creative Commons Open Education Platform and OE Global.

Desde 2014 soy voluntaria en Wikimedia, siendo miembro activo de Amical Wikimedia, Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias y WM España. Mi participación en Iberocoop comenzó durante el encuentro en Wikimania 2016 en Italia, y desde entonces he mantenido un compromiso sólido y constante, aportando mis mejores capacidades para construir una visión de futuro para un Iberocoop más cohesionado y consolidado. Como editora especializada en la brecha de género, entiendo la importancia de sumar voces y esfuerzos para cerrar las diferentes lagunas de conocimiento de Wikimedia.

Tiven2240 is a dedicated advocate of the Open Movement, volunteering since 2016. They were drawn to the movement through Wikipedia, where they began their journey of contributing to freely accessible information. As the chief coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore, they work internationally to document and preserve cultural heritage.

I've been editing Wikimedia projects for 20 years. First on Wikipedia, then Commons, Wikidata, and Wikifunctions. I primarily edit about scientific and Australian topics, and have a particular passion for integrating external identifiers!

Tomasz Ludyga is a Silesian Wikipedia administrator interested in activity and usability of small Wikipedias.

PhD in humanities from University of Gdańsk. University lecturer. Really fascinated by the idea of free knowledge and open culture. Wikipedian. President of the board of Wikimedia Polska.

Passionate cyclist and Wikipedian from 2010

currently Program Officer at Wikimedia CEE Hub

Member of the CEE Hub Steering Committee and founding board member of Wikimedia Community User Group Malta.

Wikimedian since 2010.

Especially keen to network with other Wikimedians working on small languages.

I am a Wikimedian, a Co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group with more than ten years of experience in Community and Social Service work. I studied Architecture and practised for some years before venturing into Community and Social Service.

I support the Language and Product Localization team, by engaging targeted communities to provide the product team with community perspectives and feedbacks on different tools and products.

I began working for the Wikimedia Foundation in August 2022. Prior to that I worked at the MHz Foundation on an openGLAM platform. Before then, I was an educator at Columbia University, Parsons the New School of Design, and Maryland Institute College of art (MICA). I am also a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. I am the Product Manager for the newly formed Data Products team.

Interested in data.

Hi there! I'm Renvoy. You probably know me as a global sysop, although my home wiki is the Ukrainian Wikipedia, where I serve as an admin. Also, I have patroller rights on Polish Wikipedia and Commons. In 2023, I was appointed as a member of the Ombuds commission by the WMF.

In more real life I'm a member of Wikimedia Ukraine and Wikimedia Poland. Also, I participate in several initiatives around the CEE hub.

VenzzI have been a contributor to Wikipedia since 2009, the administrator of the Ukrainian and Russian language sections. Member of Wikimedia Ukraine since 2018, currently head of the organization's audit commission. Since 2018, I have been actively involved in conducting and organizing offline and online trainings on editing Wikimedia Foundation projects. I work as a librarian at the Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library.

I am the Cooperation and Decentralization Program Manager at Wikimedia Argentina, where I design and support projects for the Wikimedia Argentina community and the global Wikimedia movement. I am also involved in leading the Volunteers Supporters Network (VSN) and am a member of the Wikimedia LGBT+ user group.

Originally from Buenos Aires, I studied Geography at the University of Barcelona. I later specialized in Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and earned a diploma in Internet Governance from the University of San Andrés.

Victoria Doronina is a Technical Officer in Education Biology and Food Microbiology at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Originally from Belarus, Victoria Doronina was awarded a Darwin Trust Fellowship, which led to a PhD in Molecular Biology (University of Edinburgh, UK). After graduating, Victoria worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in several Russell Group (UK Ivy League) universities, specialising in protein translation. She is also an Associate Member of the Advance Higher Education Academy.

Victoria started contributing to Russian Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator. The second woman ever to be elected and the first to serve twice on the Russian Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, Victoria is a long-standing mediator in a few of the most debated topics and a Featured and Good articles moderator.

In 2011 Victoria became a Wikimedia Community Fellow. She also served on the Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee.

In 2021, Victoria was elected to the WMF Board of Trustees, where she is a member of the Community Affairs Committee, Product and Technology Committee, Executive Committee and the Lead of the Sister Projects Taskforce.

I have been involved with Wikimedia projects since 2017, and am mainly active on the English Wikipedia and English Wikisource. I have been to several Wikimedia events, and presented a poster at Wikimania 2019.

I am known as Dreamy Jazz on WMF projects.

Professionally, I'm a part of the Trust and Safety Product team.

Communications Specialist & Wikimedian who is passionate about advancing Media & Information Literacy. Co-Founder Wikimedia Kenya UserGroup and Afrika Baraza Working Group Member.

An avid WIkimedian with 18 years of editing experience, supplemented by afiiliate governance, hub governance, AffCom term. Translator and interpreter. Concert photographer.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business. Research areas: information quality in open knowledge bases (such as Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata), fake news detection, natural language processing, machine learning. Author of over 50 publications in English, Polish and Russian. More information: https://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en/wlodzimierz-lewoniewski/

Kurmanbek is an active patrol on the Turkish Wikipedia. He works in Wikimedia projects such as creating visual brandings of campaigns and events, running youth programs in local communities, and collaborating with other Wikimedia user communities and Wikimedians. Kurmanbek, who is the founder of Istanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club, is also a member of Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey and CEE Hub Youth Group.

Wikimedian from Tunisia. I joined the movement in 2006. Co-founder of Wikimedia Tunisia, Wikiarabia conference and Wiki World Heritage User Group.

Lead Strategist, movement Strategy

Administrator at Korean Wikipedia and project manager at Wikimedia Korea.

Hi, I am an open-source advocate from Finland. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004 and have been an admin in Finnish Wikipedia since 2010. Currently, I am working part-time at Wikimedia Finland. My interests are software development, AI, linked data, and how these are wrapped around humans.

Je participe énormément dans la création des pages encyclopédiques en rapport avec l’Afrique et la RDC, mettant en place des activités locales des projets Wikimédia pour inciter les personnes en RDC à devenir plus productives des contenus éducatifs. Wikimédien depuis 2017, j'ai formé et accompagné des wikimédiens rdcongolais et mentoré quelques organisateurs locaux.

https://objectif-infos.cd/creation-des-pages-encyclopediques-pour-lafrique-et-la-rdc-la-trentaine-revolue-nixon-mukoko-y-participe-activement/
https://radiodelafemme.net/membre-de-wikipedia-en-rdc-nixon-mukoko-explique-le-fonctionnement-de-cette-plateforme-numerique/
https://www.radiookapi.net/2023/03/17/actualite/sciences/kinshasa-22-personnes-formees-sur-la-redaction-darticles-sur-wikipedia
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CapitainAfrika

Mayaw is Taiwanese Wikimedian and an Amis Wikipedia contributor. Amis Wikipedia now has 1,000+ articles serving a portion of the 20,000 Amis speakers. It is the largest Amis language website, and a cornerstone of Amis language conservation.

Bureaucrat on Malayalam Wikipedia, (w.wiki/tN)
Co-Founder, Wikimedians of Kerala User Group
Member, Wikiproject India,
Contributor to Commons, Wikidata, English Wikipedia.
Technical Editor (LUCA Magazine)
Bureaucrat on Schoolwiki, Panchayatwiki, Parishadwiki.

Kitamura Sae is Professor of English Literature at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2013. She is interested in incorporating women’s history and fan studies into Shakespeare studies. She is also a Wikipedian, and has been active in the Japanese Wikipedia for 14 years.

Úna Hussey is a project manager at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland, specialising in cross-institutional collaboration and community-driven projects. Úna is the project manager of a pivotal work package for the RECHARGE project. This RECHARGE work package is testing participatory business models in ‘Living Labs’ to learn about diversifying funding streams for the cultural heritage sector. Úna has worked in the education area tying collection objects from multiple cultural heritage institutions to educational resources. Her professional background includes extensive experience in healthcare and nonprofit project management. She holds an MA in Fashion and the Environment from the London College of Fashion."

head of the Mobile Digitization Centre department, sociologist, trainer of adults

Łukasz Lamża (born May 25, 1985) is a Polish philosopher, science journalist, and translator of popular science literature. He holds a PhD in philosophy and works at the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Jagiellonian University (CKBI UJ). He is also a columnist for "Tygodnik Powszechny" and a video blogger.
As a philosopher, he specializes in the philosophy of nature and science, including cosmology. He also writes about pseudosciences and futurology. He has published several of his own popular science and philosophical books, translated a dozen, and received two awards. He has also been active in the A.N. Whitehead Metaphysical Society.

See the article about Łucasz on Polish Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz_Lam%C5%BCa

Łukasz's Fields of interest and edits on pl Wikipedia (20 years’ experience, since 2024)

Biology: flatworms, box jellies, intermediate multicellular organisms, direct flow organisms, glass sponges, micrognathozoa, ribbon worms, jaw worms, gastrotrichs, nematomorpha, beetle systematics, water bears, plesiosaurs, belemnites, millipedes, acanthocephala, priapulida, onychophorans, brachiopods.

Philosophy: Anselm of Canterbury, Protagoras, non-being.

Art History: Italian Mannerism, op-art, hyperrealism, nocturne, nude art, abstract painting, Fauvism, magic realism, primitivism, Barbizon school, Spatialism.
Geology and Cosmology: craton, regmatite network, mantle plume, accretionary wedge, terrane, formation of the Solar System, galaxy formation, plate tectonics, large igneous province, continental crust, oceanic crust, Earth's mantle, regolith, turbidity current.

Others: Hopscotch (novel), Thorgal, history of punctuation.

Wen-Ren Bill Lin is an undergraduate student in Applied Foreign Languages at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), focusing on multicultural and multimodal communication. He has worked as an English and Japanese tutor at the Language Center in NTUST since 2022 and participated as a Teaching Assistant in Wikipedia: The NTUST AFL Wikipedia Education Program in 2023 and 2024.

His career interest lies in enhancing communication across departments in the workplace through the application of multimodal communication principles. He has held leadership positions as President of the Applied Foreign Languages Student Association in 2023 and the Japanese Culture Research Club in 2024. He was also a member of Engineers in Action in 2022.

He has attended the 2024 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT). He aims to pursue a master’s degree to deepen his understanding of communication studies and plans to apply this knowledge to improve inter-departmental communication in professional settings.