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2024:Program/Lightning Talk Showcase II

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Session title: Lightning Talk Showcase II

Session type: Lightning Talk Showcase
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Language: en

Join us for an afternoon of fast-paced, high-impact talks on topics that inspire. Hosted by Sherry Antoine, with guest host Andrew Lih and a welcome from Program Lead Wojciech Pędzich.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFuWtDKxwM&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=24708

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  • Gnangarra
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.
  • Klára Joklová (WMCZ)
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.
  • Rocky Masum
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.
  • Léa Lacroix
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.
  • Asaf Bartov
Veteran Wikimedia volunteer and veteran Wikimedia Foundation staff (Lead Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities).
  • Leserättin
- 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
  • Gerd Müller
  • Lucy Moore (Lajmmoore)
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.
  • Alex Stinson
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.
  • capitainAfrika
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
  • Venzz
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.
  • Daryna
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.
  • Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
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.
  • Nuša Farič
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.
  • Joy
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)
  • Nitesh Gill
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.
  • Brooke Camarda
  • Lucas Pasqual
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.
  • Sam Walton
  • a.muehlich
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