08-10, 10:00–10:25 (Poland), Belgrade (8)
Language: English
Effective communication is key to prevent conflicts, crucial in collaborative platforms like Wikimedia, where documenting conflicts can guide efforts to improve collaboration. We have noticed the importance of this topic through our conversations with the Arabic Wikimedians Community that led us to diagnose the gap happening between different generations.
We aim to collect more qualitative and quantitative data regarding this matter to include the outcomes in our presentation.
Our main objectives will be:
Define the “generation gap” which exists between the young and the old.
Differences between cultures in the way and degree of respecting older people.
How can the generation gap result in differences in opinions and outlooks between the generations
How can it result in conflict and communication difficulties?
How can it affect the work in Wikimedia projects which are open to everyone?
Cases of conflict between generations (gathered by the online form)
Session recording: https://youtu.be/ZtLTHPj8O64?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=3055
The Wikimedia movement is open to anyone, anyone who shares our goals and vision can join. Therefore, we, as community members, have many variations and this is what makes our community an outstanding one but also this creates many challenges. One of these challenges is the generation gap which we may face in online or face-to-face discussion and if we spot light on it we will understand it more and many issues will be solved automatically.
What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?* –Everyone can participate in this session
How do you plan to deliver this session?* –Onsite in Katowice
What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below. –Collaboration, Capacity building
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.
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.