Victoria
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.
Sessions
We are thrilled to announce the return of WikiWomen Summit at Wikimania in 2024, marking a significant milestone in our movement's history. This event serves as a pivotal opportunity to unite contributors passionate about addressing the gender gap within Wikimedia projects. See https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/WikiWomen_Summit.
“Forking” - creating a copy of the existing content - is one of the fundamental features of the open-source movement. Russian Wikipedia has spawned numerous forks called “encyclongs” - after early copying that automatically replaced “wiki” with “encylo”. The “encyclongs” usually lack NPOV and promote a particular, usually right-wing POV, have a dedicated if the small community and usually devolve into a dictatorship. Finally, the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war led to the creation of the two forks by long-term wikimedians, wulfson and DrBug. This session will discuss the current state of the Russian Wikipedia encyclongs.
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