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Generated (UTC): 09:30, 26 July 2026

Generated (UTC+02:00): 11:30, 26 July 2026

Wikimania 2026 — Day 1: Tuesday

2026-07-21

Time (UTC+02:00)	Ouest Room 🌐	Est Room 🌐	Agora 🌐	Room C+D (in-person only)	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Classe numérique	Loft	Other places	Time (UTC)
09:00–09:30	●Community Users with extended rights preconference Natalia Szafran										07:00–07:30
09:30–10:00		WikiWomen+ Summit Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight	●Artificial intelligence Wiki AI : Building the world's best tools for editing, illustrating, reviewing, and presenting cooperative knowledge alaexis, Samuel Klein	●Governance & Strategy Pre-Conference on Information Integrity on Climate Change: strategic coalition building with Wikimedia communities Luisina Ferrante (WMAR), Evelin Heidel	Creative Commons Salon Anna Tumadóttir, Annemarie Eayrs, Dee Harris, Elliott Bledsoe, Jocelyn Miyara, Melissa Hagemann		●Community Wiki Mixer Barbara Klen, Karo Gruszczyk, Wikimedia CEE Hub, User:Van Anh Dam (WMEU)	●Community Wikimedia Commons Preconference Ailura, GPSLeo			07:30–08:00
10:00–10:30									●Technology Team Challenges Opening		08:00–08:30
10:30–11:00									●Technology Team Challenges		08:30–09:00
11:00–13:00						●Community Users with extended rights breakout discussions					09:00–11:00
13:00–14:30											11:00–12:30
14:30–16:30	●Community Users with extended rights preconference	WikiWomen+ Summit Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight	●Artificial intelligence Wiki AI : Building the world's best tools for editing, illustrating, reviewing, and presenting cooperative knowledge alaexis, Samuel Klein	●Governance & Strategy Pre-Conference on Information Integrity on Climate Change: strategic coalition building with Wikimedia communities Evelin Heidel	●Community Volunteer Supporters Network: Meetup & Mapping Volunteer Support Roles in the Movement Dr Sara Thomas, Vic Sfriso	●Community Users with extended rights breakout discussions	●Education and Advocacy Global Advocacy: Capacity Building Training Dimi_z, Franziska Putz	●Community Wikimedia Commons Preconference	●Technology Team Challenges	●Community CultureStrong: Respecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty on Wikimedia Platforms Shevaun Wright, Dr Terri Janke	12:30–14:30
16:30–17:30											14:30–15:30
17:30–18:30										Club RFI	15:30–16:30
18:30–19:00											16:30–17:00

Wikimania 2026 — Day 2: Wednesday

2026-07-22

Time (UTC+02:00)	Amphitheatre 🌐	Ouest Room 🌐	Est Room 🌐	Agora 🌐	Room C+D (in-person only)	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Classe numérique	Loft	Other places	📹 Virtual room	Time (UTC)
09:00–09:15												Virtual room - Morning live Islahaddow	07:00–07:15
09:15–09:25	●Ceremonies and Showcases Orientation session												07:15–07:25
09:25–09:30													07:25–07:30
09:30–10:25	●Artificial intelligence If AI becomes the first web interface, how can the wikimedia movement adapt? Chapters and partners levers for action	●Community Don’t Panic! We have the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the UCoC BRPever, Civvì	●Community Le Libre et vous : et si on éditait le monde ensemble ? Julie Chaumard, Bookynette, Florent Zara	●Education and Advocacy Formations à ou avec Wikipédia dans les cursus universitaires (panel) Anais Liger, Emmanuelle Floch, Éric Lewin, Jean-Michel Lapointe, Pascale Dangoisse	PLEASE NOTE: "Three things about Wikimedia that even experienced Wikimedians might not know" has been moved to Est, 12:00 Thursday	●Technology How to Use Wikipedia Offline: Offline Access Tools and Use Cases Joshua Salazar, Kate Kifa, Maxwell Beganim, Stephane @Kiwix, Tim Moody	●Education and Advocacy Start your own Wiki Game Jam Azeusss, E_mln_e	●Governance & Strategy Defending the knowledge commons: policies for a resilient Wikimedia Aditya Singh, Anna Mazgal, Tanveer Hasan	●GLAM and Partnerships Strengthening Wikipedia with candidate citations into academic literature at scale (200M+) using contemporary AI techniques blmurch, Daniel Erasmus	●Technology Team Challenges	●Community The Digital Safety Clinic S.Sandu		07:30–08:25
10:25–11:00													08:25–09:00
11:00–11:55	●Artificial intelligence If AI becomes the first web interface, how can the wikimedia movement adapt? 2/2 Communities' levers	●Community Zero-budget programs you could start tomorrow Asaf Bartov	●Technology Tools that make Wikimedia Commons Contributions reliable and easy Suyash Dwivedi	●Artificial intelligence AI and Wikipedia in Education: Opportunities, Ethics, and Equity in Practice Filip Maljković / dungodung, Florencia Guastavino and Luisina Ferrante, LiAnna Davis, Mohammad Hijjawi, Jackie Bucio		●Technology Wikipedia Mobile Apps: THE destination for knowledge lovers in a mobile-first world Haley Nordeen, Jaz Tanner	●Education and Advocacy New Frontiers in Higher Education Wiki Collaboration Aiora, Andrew Lih, Curt Newton, Florenciac, Galder Gonzalez, Peter B. Kaufman	●Governance & Strategy GRDC Workshop: Presenting the Grantmaking strategy and co-designing the next steps Delphine Ménard (notafish), Herschal Jackson (WMZA), Lajmmoore, Lucy Crompton-Reid, Mykola Kozlenko	●GLAM and Partnerships Taking collections online at any scale — a practical workshop for GLAMs with limited resources. conbene				09:00–09:55
11:55–12:00													09:55–10:00
12:00–12:25	Opening Ceremony Rehearsal (closed - for speakers only)		●New Generations Social integration of the new generations: How do we turn casual editors into community leaders? Martin Rulsch, Merle (WMDE)	●Artificial intelligence Wikidata MCP: Grounded SPARQL Query Generation Philippe Saade	●Community Writing contests with prizes, a way to exchange knowledge with distant countries - the Italian collaboration with Persian and Russian communities Darafsh, Phyrexian	●Technology Wikisource Reader App - how it works and what you can do Bodhisattwa	●Education and Advocacy Educators and researchers, get on with Wikiversity! Solstag						10:00–10:25
12:25–12:30													10:25–10:30
12:30–12:55		●Community تمثيل اللغات المحلية في مشاريع ويكيميديا kadimi hasna						●Governance & Strategy AI & Governance Lightning Talk Series Benjamin Bellamy, Valerio Bozzolan, Julie Hunter, NikolasKHF	●Technology Make a wish – improving references on Wikimedia projects Johannes Richter				10:30–10:55
12:55–13:00													10:55–11:00
13:00–13:30													11:00–11:30
13:30–14:25		●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Raspberry Jam at Wikimania Paris 2026 Suyash Dwivedi	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup - Réunion des comités des bourses et programme 2026 : Évaluation des expériences Trizek, IvomarDos	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup - Asia Meetup: Strengthening Regional Collaboration Across Wikimedia Communities Betty2407	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: WikiMed Hardware Donation Program Doc James	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Art+Feminism Lunch Celestine, kiraface	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Higher education networking and meetup Andrew Leung	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Almuerzo Red de colaboración docente en español Florenciac, Mikel Zubimendi	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Learn and discuss with the Wikimedians in Residence DMontagne en résidence, Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10), VIGNERON			Virtual room Interviews Michael Barbereau, Zakaria	11:30–12:25
14:25–14:30													12:25–12:30
14:30–15:25	●GLAM and Partnerships Open Knowledge under Attack: How knowledge and heritage institutions can build resilience under the rise of right-wing populism David, JamieF, Karin Glasemann (WMSE), Larissa Borck [User:Tulipasylvestris], Sandra Fauconnier / User:Spinster, Svitlana Vyslinska (WMUA)	●Community Community Lightning talk series I Fulani215, Anna Canatan, Armineaghayan, Ceryl Evans / MumphingSquirrel, Dev Jadiya, Chinthi Dissanayake	●Governance & Strategy WMF Board Election Reforms: Shaping the next Board selection cycle Chuck Roslof, Kathy Collins, Margo Lee, Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik	●Artificial intelligence Table ronde: L'IA générative dans mes contributions Wikimédia : entre le permis, le toléré et le tabou Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin, Cédric Tarbouriech, Esprit Fugace, Miguel Tremblay	●Education and Advocacy Des REL/OER (Open Educational Resources) pour les systèmes éducatifs nationaux Clara Wiest (WMCH), Jean-Marc Wyss (WMCH), Vivian Epiney (WMCH)	●Technology Wikipedia Sensitivity Meter - New tool to monitor disinformation risk on Wikipedia	●Community Communication as Community Infrastructure: Growing a Wikimedia community from 25 to 100 members in two years Katherine Bahamondes, Michelle Collipal Martínez / Mimartinez (WMCL)	●Governance & Strategy Titanic Meets the Iceberg: Closing Wikinews Victoria	●GLAM and Partnerships Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network: Visioning Session Richard Knipel	●Technology Team Challenges closing presentation			12:30–13:25
15:25–15:45													13:25–13:45
15:45–16:00													13:45–14:00
16:00–18:00	●Ceremonies and Showcases Opening Ceremony featuring Wikimedian of the Year	●Ceremonies and Showcases Opening Ceremony featuring Wikimedian of the Year - viewing lounge with snacks and refreshments	●Ceremonies and Showcases Opening Ceremony featuring Wikimedian of the Year - viewing lounge with snacks and refreshments			●Ceremonies and Showcases Opening Ceremony featuring Wikimedian of the Year - quiet room							14:00–16:00
18:00–20:00											●Ceremonies and Showcases 🎉 Opening Party 🎉		16:00–18:00

Wikimania 2026 — Day 3: Thursday

2026-07-23

Time (UTC+02:00)	Amphitheatre 🌐	Ouest Room 🌐	Est Room 🌐	Agora 🌐	Room C+D (in-person only)	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Classe numérique	Loft	Other places	📹 Virtual room	Time (UTC)
09:00–09:30												Virtual room - Morning live Islahaddow	07:00–07:30
09:30–09:45	●Technology Tabular data vs. structured data - How do we get to a win-win solution? Galder Gonzalez, Lydia Pintscher, Sandra Fauconnier / User:Spinster, Jan Ainali	●Technology An Hour Brainstorming with PTAC Egbe Eugene (Eugene233)	●Governance & Strategy Seat at the Table with the Trustees: Roundtable discussions with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on trends impacting the movement Bobby Shabangu, Christel Steigenberger, Jimmy Wales, Kathy Collins, Lorenzo Losa, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio, Michał Buczyński, Mayree Clark, Nadee Gunasena, Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik, Victoria Doronina	●GLAM and Partnerships Accès refusé ? Le droit d’auteur face aux bibliothèques numériques Camille Françoise, Bernipède, Grégory Miura (GregMiura), Marianne Cosnard (MarianneLC), Ophélie Wang, Patrick Peiffer, Philippe Gambette, René Pigier (RenéLC)	●Community Navigating Challenging Spaces On-Wiki - developing a toolkit to support editors. Dr Sara Thomas, Vic Sfriso	●Governance & Strategy From Pause to Progress: An Affiliate Recognition, Health, and Readiness Clinic Harriet Bayel, Mari Avetisyan		●Community Table ronde: L'universalisme français, ou la tyrannie de la majorité. Pistes pour une Wikipédia francophone plutôt que française. Alexandra Tchuileu, Papischou, Florence Devouard, Miguel Tremblay	●Artificial intelligence Sharing & Collective Action in the Age of AI Annemarie Eayrs, Dee Harris, Jocelyn Miyara	●Technology Hackathon opening			07:30–07:45
09:45–10:25												●Community Quality Over Quantity: Learnings from the 72 Hours Virtual Marathon Edit-a-thon in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group Chinonso Chidi, Hilary Ogali, Mark Lapang, Lucy Iwuala	07:45–08:25
10:25–10:30													08:25–08:30
10:30–10:40											Posters session - S1 floor		08:30–08:40
10:40–11:00													08:40–09:00
11:00–11:30		●Technology Adding and Managing Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons PMG	●New Generations How Wikipedia is seen through the eyes of social media superstars Liv Burke, Lucas Pasqual			●Governance & Strategy De la connaissance ouverte à l'intégrité de l'information Papischou, Konan N'Da N'Dri (Dadrik), Dominique Eliane Yao Sigan	●Education and Advocacy From Training to Measurable Contribution: Evaluating Fact-Checking Programs in Wikimedia Communities Dr Aderohunmu Damilola			●Technology Hackathon			09:00–09:30
11:30–11:55				●GLAM and Partnerships Behind the Scenes: Opening Doors for Wikimedia Commons Photography Matthias Süßen, Raimond Spekking					●Artificial intelligence Harnessing GenAI for Wiki Workflows: a practical workshop for responsible use Andrew Lih, Éder Porto, Samuel Klein, Shani Evenstein Sigalov	●Technology Putting CommonsDB into use Karin Glasemann (WMSE), Marc Maillard, Jan Ainali			09:30–09:55
11:55–12:00													09:55–10:00
12:00–12:25	●Education and Advocacy Keynote: Protéger le savoir libre - Les nouveaux champs de bataille de la liberté numérique Nnenna, Rémy Gerbet WMFR	●Artificial intelligence Building Open Datasets for Global Majority Languages Anastasia Stasenko, Pavan Santhosh, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Puthiya Purayil Sneha	●Community Three things about Wikimedia that even experienced Wikimedians might not know Anton Protsiuk										10:00–10:25
12:25–12:55										●Technology Hackathon			10:25–10:55
12:55–13:20													10:55–11:20
13:20–13:30	Lightning Talk Showcase I Rehearsal (closed - for speakers only)												11:20–11:30
13:30–14:30		●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Wikidata Community Meetup Lydia Pintscher	●Meetup 🥗 Wiki Women* Lunch 2026- From Participation to Power: Strengthening Women’s Leadership in Wikimedia CHINMAYEE MISHRA	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Mélange — A Content Partnerships Hub, GLAM, WiR, Lib, Culture and Heritage Meetup Giovanna Fontenelle, Karin Glasemann (WMSE), conbene, Signe Krantz	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Mentors meetup Trizek (WMF)	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Open Science Meetup Melissa Hagemann	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup - Wiki Loves Monuments Meet-up: Experience & Learnings from Organisers and Participants Lucy Iwuala, Manfred Werner (WMAT) / Tsui	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: WikiCite meetup DrThneed, Daniel Mietchen, Lane Rasberry	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Biodiversity meetup Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10)			Virtual room Interviews Zakaria	11:30–12:30
14:30–14:40	●Wild Ideas Climate Conversations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Sharing Muhammed amine benloulou, Evelin Heidel, Femke Nijsse (Femke), Tatjana Baleta	●Community Design & Communications without a team: practical survival skills for small Wikimedia communities Iryna Boiko, User:Miss Kamola	●New Generations Demo and brainstorm features for Wikipedia Readers! EBlackorby-WMF, Hsuanwei Fan, Olga Vasileva, SherryYang-WMF	●GLAM and Partnerships Bringing Interactive Graphs from Our World in Data to Wikipedia Bawolff, Galder Gonzalez, Doc James, Lionel, Liam Wyatt, Tim Moody, Yaron Koren	●Community Sustainable Networks, Reliable Knowledge: Feminist Organizing Across Regions Anthony Diaz, Celestine, Harriet Bayel, Jessie Mi	●Research [Research track Intro from organizers]	●Education and Advocacy Cyber Smart I 10 Essential Security Practices for Wikipedians Giulio Zucchini, Quentin Louisiade	●Artificial intelligence Collateral Damage? Human Creativity and Interaction in the AI Crawling Era Alek Tarkowski, Anna Tumadóttir, Mark Graham, Monica Westin, Stan Adams	●Artificial intelligence AI, Automation, and Human Judgment: Safeguarding Reliability in the Age of Generative Tools Anwesha C, Ilario Valdelli, Samuel Klein, Houcemeddine Turki	●Technology Mentor Mentee mapping Navya sri Kalli		●Technology WikiContest: A Modular and Transparent Infrastructure for Wikimedia Campaigns Gauri Guptaa	12:30–12:40
14:40–14:50						●Research Keynote: AI and the knowledge commons: Balancing automation and human agency for resilience and trust Elena Simperl							12:40–12:50
14:50–15:15													12:50–13:15
15:15–15:25						●Research State of Wikimedia Research 2025-2026 + 5 Research Findings and how you can use them in your work. Part 1 : Liberté Leila Zia, Benjamin Mako Hill							13:15–13:25
15:25–15:35													13:25–13:35
15:35–16:00													13:35–14:00
16:00–16:10	●Ceremonies and Showcases Lightning Talk Showcase I Angie Cervellera, Gonzalo Bazgan, Jan-David Franke, Jean-Michel Lapointe, Lebogang Boemo, Louis Germain, Raveloaritiana Mamisoa, Marta Arosio (WMIT), Akbarali, Michal Wander Schwartz and Abeer Abu Zhaia, Pauline Rivière, Pavan Santhosh, Richard Nevell (WMUK), Shahen Araboghlian, Super nabla, Jonathan Deamer, Svitlana Vyslinska (WMUA)	●Community User interface localization workshop with translatewiki Amir Aharoni	●New Generations Trop jeunes pour contribuer sur Wikipédia & Co. ? Engager les 10-15 ans avec un wiki sur mesure (l'exemple du Dico des Ados) Vivian Epiney (WMCH)	●GLAM and Partnerships Editing Wikidata with Paulina to improve information on cultural heritage. Jorge Gemetto	●Education and Advocacy Legal self-defense workshop for open-knowledge practitioners Camille Françoise, Ophélie Wang		●Community Hands-on workshop on Metabase, a knowledge base for the Wikimedia movement Alicia Fagerving, conbene	●Artificial intelligence Governing the Open Web in the Age of AI: From Legal Principles to Technical Practice Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Saskia Ostendorff, Malte Ostendorff	●Artificial intelligence When Open Data and Open Science met AI: MCPs bridging the gap GITANJALI YADAV, Patricio Del Boca, Renata Avila	●Technology Road to Wiki: A Workshop on Building Student Technical Contributor Pipelines for Wikimedia Nitesh Gill, Navya sri Kalli, Authorankit07			14:00–14:10
16:10–16:20						●Research What Are Our Traffic Trends Telling Us and Why Does It Matter for the Movement? Kadeem Khan							14:10–14:20
16:20–16:30						●Research Are Wikimedians using AI in their work (and if yes, how)? Findings from the 2026 Community Insights survey Tanja Anđić (User:TAndic (WMF))							14:20–14:30
16:30–16:40						●Research Is Wikimedia a streamable data commons? From Dumps to Data Flows in the Age of AI Extraction Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris)							14:30–14:40
16:40–16:50						●Research From open data to sustainable data commons: A multilayered ecosystem Ramya Chandrasekhar							14:40–14:50
16:50–16:55						●Research Construire un modèle de protection des contributions face à l’enclosure des contenus culturels numériques Christine Chevret-Castellani							14:50–14:55
16:55–17:00										●Technology Hackathon			14:55–15:00
17:00–17:10						●Research Can Source Reliability Be Predicted on Wikipedia? Evidence from Feature Analysis Andreas Kaltenbrunner							15:00–15:10
17:10–17:25													15:10–15:25
17:25–17:30													15:25–15:30
17:30–18:30		●Meetup WikiFranca and francophone meetup Antoine Cannafarina	●Meetup Wiktionary meetup Pamputt	●Meetup Meetup for health metrics of the Open Internet Jens Ohlig	●Meetup Meetup: UK & Ireland meetup Dr Sara Thomas	●Research Research Meetup	●Meetup Wiki Loves Earth International: community meetup Olesia Lukaniuk	●Meetup Wikimedians who have or support Neurodiversity DomenikaBo, Martin Rulsch	●Meetup Commons Photographers User Group Meetup Ailura				15:30–16:30
18:30–18:40											●Community Commons Photowalk: Documenting Paris Through a Wikimedia Lens (Meet at Classe Numerique at 17:30 to start our walk) Gnangarra, Suyash Dwivedi		16:30–16:40
18:40–19:00													16:40–17:00
19:00–20:40											Course conviviale (entrée principale du bâtiment) / Friendly race (building's main entrance) Benoit Soubeyran		17:00–18:40

Wikimania 2026 — Day 4: Friday

2026-07-24

Time (UTC+02:00)	Amphitheatre 🌐	Ouest Room 🌐	Est Room 🌐	Agora 🌐	Room C+D (in-person only)	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Classe numérique	Loft	Other places	📹 Virtual room	Time (UTC)
09:00–09:30										●Technology Hackathon		Virtual room - Morning live Islahaddow	07:00–07:30
09:30–10:00	●Community Les communs numériques face au défi de la diversité linguistique	●Education and Advocacy From Online Safety Laws to Movement Lessons: What Brazil, Australia, and the UK Teach Us About Influencing Policy Elliott Bledsoe, Franziska Putz, João Alexandre Peschanski	●Artificial intelligence WikiAnalyzer v2 & WikiDebate: Open AI Tools to Teach Critical Thinking and Bias Detection through Wikipedia Carla Constanza Paredes Herrera, Daniela Ávila	●Community Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist Der-Wir-Ing, Lane Rasberry, Noé		●Governance & Strategy From Good Faith to Governance: Tackling Conflict of Interest in a Volunteer Movement Camille Françoise	●Community Behind the Lens: WikiPortraits on a Global Scale Mermoze Adodo, Jennifer 8. Lee, Kevin Payravi (User:SuperHamster)	●Education and Advocacy Les projets Wikimédia comme terrain d’apprentissage : de l’éducation aux médias et à l'information aux communs numériques Alexis Kauffmann, Florence Devouard, Jérôme Hublart, Mathieu Denel WMFr, Philippe Ajuelos	●Technology Translating websites into citations through Zotero Robert Sim				07:30–08:00
10:00–10:25												Posters session - live! Michael Barbereau, Zakaria	08:00–08:25
10:25–10:30													08:25–08:30
10:30–11:00											Exchange idea box (room A+B)		08:30–09:00
11:00–11:55		●Governance & Strategy Future of the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations Kaarel Vaidla	●Artificial intelligence State of Wikimedia & AI 2026: Freedom, Equity, Reliability at a Crossroad Chris Albon, Ilario Valdelli, Jimmy Wales, Lane Becker, Netha Hussain, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Solenne Lazare	●Community Let's get tangible: Promoting knowledge equity and allyship in communities Cin Pietschmann	●Wild Ideas Je ne contribue pas, mais je suis wikimédien Alejandra Reyes WMFr, Cyril MICHEL, MichaelDavid MILLER (BiblioQC), Ophélie Wang	●Governance & Strategy Around the puzzle globe - session with Wikimedia Foundation Natalia Szafran	●GLAM and Partnerships Retour sur les actions culturelles wikimédiennes à Lyon, regard croisé entre la cabale de la Quenelle et les institutions culturelles locales Marion Jonget, Lyokoï, Virginie DE MARCO	●Education and Advocacy Play Wikeys, the board game to discover Wikipedia! ("Hop-on, hop off" workshop) Vivian Epiney (WMCH)	●Technology Making Open Data into Public Knowledge: Automating Contributions to Wikimedia Projects Carwil Bjork-James				09:00–09:55
11:55–12:00													09:55–10:00
12:00–12:25	●Community Keynote: Respecting Indigenous Knowledge in Open Spaces - Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) & Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) across Wikimedia Projects Belinda Spry, Michelle Collipal Martínez / Mimartinez (WMCL), Migoto Eria, Dr Terri Janke, Thérèse Ottawa												10:00–10:25
12:25–12:30													10:25–10:30
12:30–12:55				●Community Future of Wikimania Andrew Lih, Butch Bustria, Effeietsanders, Florence Devouard, Gnangarra, Luis Carrasco					●Technology Technology Lightning talk series Amanda Jurno, Joris Darlington Quarshie, Danÿa, Luistxo, Natacha Rault, ppom, C. Scott Ananian				10:30–10:55
12:55–13:20													10:55–11:20
13:20–13:30	Lightning Talk Showcase II Rehearsal (closed - for speakers only)												11:20–11:30
13:30–14:25		●Research 🥗 Lunch meetup - Research	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Afrika Baraza in person Manar Yacoub Criner	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Mediterranean Meetup Giovanni Pennisi, Léa Lacroix (Auregann), Toni Sant	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Chairpersons (heads of board) meetup Cédric Tarbouriech, Itzike, Jan-Bart, MichaelDavid MILLER (BiblioQC)	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Community readers highlights EBlackorby-WMF, Jon Robson	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Wikimedia Global Youth Meetup Nikos Likomitros	●Meetup ⭐️🥗 Lunch meetup: ESEAP (East, South East Asia and the Pacific) Meetup Belinda Spry, Biyanto R, Butch Bustria, Chlod Alejandro, Feliani (ESEAP Hub), Ivonne Kristiani	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: South Asian Meet Up Rachit Sharma / RASharma ( WMF)		●Wild Ideas Lingua Libre Studio Luc Hervier	Virtual room Interviews Zakaria	11:30–12:25
14:25–14:30													12:25–12:30
14:30–14:45	●Artificial intelligence Bridging Institutions, Wikidata, and Generative AI: From Data Silos to Shared Infrastructure Dee Harris, dvrandecic, João Alexandre Peschanski, Lydia Pintscher, Mark Graham, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Shani Evenstein Sigalov	●Research Keynote: Wikipedia as a project of Participatory Design Sohyeon Hwang	●Governance & Strategy Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives Anusha Alikhan, Bernadette Meehan, Bobby Shabangu, Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Nadee Gunasena, Selena Deckelmann, Stephen LaPorte	●Education and Advocacy Légiférer pour la libre circulation des connaissances. De l'ambition à la réforme Camille Françoise, dswyer	●Community Networking Without Fear: How to Connect at International Wiki Conferences Kate Kifa	●GLAM and Partnerships De l'archive au Labo : L'Open Heritage comme socle d'une science ouverte et citoyenne Charlotte Bultel, Margaux Faure (INHA), Xavier Cailleau	●New Generations Bring in the youth! Discussing ways to support youth on a regional level Klara Joklova	●Community Maximizing the effects of Wikisource workshops about women writers LeDeuxiemeTexte, Nivopol, Philippe Gambette, PhGauron	●Technology Making indigenous languages ready for Wikifunctions Dnshitobu				12:30–12:45
14:45–15:05												●Technology تحليل الجودة العميق (QUM): من مسودة إلى مقالة عالية الجودة عبر لوحة تفاعلية ترشد المحررين / Deep Quality Analysis (QUM): From Draft to a High-Quality Article Through an Interactive Dashboard. ماهر سامي	12:45–13:05
15:05–15:15		●Research Cartographier le fossé des genres dans les ressources biographiques : une analyse à grande échelle avec Wikidata Simon Villeneuve, Marie D Martel											13:05–13:15
15:15–15:25		●Research ¿Qué y quiénes están presentes en Wikipedia en español? Explorando patrones de representación del conocimiento Agustín Zanotti											13:15–13:25
15:25–16:00													13:25–14:00
16:00–16:05	●Ceremonies and Showcases Lightning Talk Showcase II Andriah Laingo, Dario Crespi, Viacheslav Mamon, Douglas Scott (Discott), Adjovi Essenam Fumey, Florencia Guastavino and Luisina Ferrante, Ilario Valdelli, laliv g, Patricia Horrillo Guerra, Dr Sara Thomas, Signe Krantz, Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10), Vivian Epiney (WMCH), Marco Chemello	●Research State of Wikimedia Research 2025-2026 + 5 Research Findings and how you can use them in your work. Part 2 : Équité Leila Zia, Benjamin Mako Hill	●Artificial intelligence Building a Wikimedia tool with agentic AI [workshop; programming experience required] Asaf Bartov	●Education and Advocacy Using Wikimedia in Education: A Practical Workshop by the EduWiki Hub Barakat Adegboye, Bukky658, BJames (EdWH), João Alexandre Peschanski, James Rhoda, Rita Maliqi, Rita Maliqi	●Community Communicating as Human Beings. Active Listening Lorenzo Losa, Miriam Konert (WMDE)	●GLAM and Partnerships Facilitating Artistic Reappropriation of Ethnographic Collections as a Form of Cultural Self-Determination Beat Estermann, Sandra Palacios	●New Generations Vikidia: why children love and need their own wiki encyclopedia Astirmays	●Community Wikiexpeditions training: How to conduct outdoor activities aimed at exploring and documenting local places? Kiril Simeonovski, Toni Ristovski	●Wild Ideas From Abstract Content to Concrete Text with Wikidata Lexemes Mahir Morshed				14:00–14:05
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16:10–16:30							●New Generations Lessons from the CEE Youth Group Nal Mencin, Nikos Likomitros						14:10–14:30
16:30–16:40		●Research From Rejection to Retention: Analyzing Bengali Wikipedia’s Largest Article Contest Ankan Ghosh Dastider											14:30–14:40
16:40–16:50		●Research From Wikipedia to AI Answers: Gender Gaps in the Knowledge Pipeline Patrick Gildersleve											14:40–14:50
16:50–16:55		●Research The edit button nobody clicks: short-form video, creator-gen volunteers, and Wikipedia's recruitment gap Giota Alevizou											14:50–14:55
16:55–17:00													14:55–15:00
17:00–17:10		●Research Beyond Neutrality, or How Editorial Protocols Shape Cultural Knowledge on French Wikipedia SabrinaMacGrg											15:00–15:10
17:10–17:25													15:10–15:25
17:25–17:30													15:25–15:30
17:30–18:30	Rehearsal of the WikiOrchestra (closed – orchestra members only) Lukas Mezger	●Meetup WMLGBT community meet up Bisi Alimi, Vic Sfriso	●Meetup CEE Meetup Natalia Szafran	●Meetup Wiki-needles meet-up .Anja.	●Meetup Bangla Wiki Community Meetup ROCKY	●Meetup Wikisource Meetup VIGNERON	●Meetup LAC Meetup Evelin Heidel, Luis Carrasco, Caleidoscopic	●Meetup MENA (Diwan) Connect Manar Yacoub Criner	●Meetup Russian Language Speakers Meetup Victoria				15:30–16:30
18:30–19:00		●Meetup Wiki Fashion Show Richard Knipel				WikiFranca governance meetup Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin							16:30–17:00
19:00–20:30		●Ceremonies and Showcases 🎤 Karaoke 🎤 Barbara Klen, Natalia Szafran	🏁 WikiRace Wojciech Pędzich				Board games evening						17:00–18:30

Wikimania 2026 — Day 5: Saturday

2026-07-25

Time (UTC+02:00)	Amphitheatre 🌐	Ouest Room 🌐	Est Room 🌐	Agora 🌐	Room C+D (in-person only)	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Classe numérique	Loft	Other places	📹 Virtual room	Time (UTC)
09:00–09:30										●Technology Hackathon	●Wild Ideas Le méga-Stand des groupes locaux - The Mega-Stand of French local groups Lyokoï	Virtual room - Morning live Islahaddow	07:00–07:30
09:30–09:40	●Wild Ideas The Coolest Projects: 25 Years of Creativity and Innovation (Tribute to Deror Lin’s Legacy) Itzike, Jan-Bart	●Governance & Strategy Learn and share. Nurturing neutrality on our projects. Kaarel Vaidla	●Artificial intelligence Building Speech Technology in Indigenous Languages with Mozilla Common Voice Dnshitobu, Sadik Shahadu	●Education and Advocacy Nombrar antes de editar: autonomía comunitaria y lenguas orales en Wikimedia Jesedmateo, Leonardi José Fernández Fernández, Caleidoscopic	●Community Wikimedia Conferences and Events: Shared Learnings Andrea Romanos Roca, Rachit Sharma / RASharma ( WMF)	●GLAM and Partnerships A practical guide to working with United Nations agencies and their resources John Cummings	●Community Wiki for Minorities: From Representation to Empowerment Fulani215	●Wild Ideas Wiki Loves Film – creative workshop Klara Joklova, Pavel Bednarik, Tadeáš Bednarz	●Community Community Wishlist: What's Next? Marshall Miller, Sonja Perry			●Education and Advocacy Wikipedia, a tool to safe-guard indigenous women's voices. Alicia Marroquín, Timumachtikannawat	07:30–07:40
09:40–10:00													07:40–08:00
10:00–10:25												Posters session - live! Michael Barbereau, Zakaria	08:00–08:25
10:25–11:00													08:25–09:00
11:00–11:55		●Governance & Strategy Update needed: practical and radical ideas to keep Wikipedia reliable Femke Nijsse (Femke)	●Artificial intelligence Launch of Mosaic: the mission for open stewardship of AI and the commons Alek Tarkowski, Ilario Valdelli, Shani Evenstein Sigalov	●Education and Advocacy Become a Programs & Events Dashboard Superuser LiAnna Davis	●GLAM and Partnerships From Wikilontar to Wikisami: How Regional Partnerships Power Community-Led Growth in Bali Carma citrawati, Sakti Pramudya (WMF)	●Governance & Strategy Community Governance “The Good, the Bad, and the Way Forward” MKaur (WMF)	●Community Life as a wikimedian in a more complex world Lorenzo Losa, Miriam Konert (WMDE)	●Community Offline Hands On, a panel-led workshop on the challenges of enabling Access to Free Knowledge benoit, Garba John, Goudi John, Doc James, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Stephane @Kiwix, Tim Moody	●Technology Abstract Wikipedia workshop: Let's create a multi-lingual article! dvrandecic, jforrester, Luca Martinelli [Sannita]				09:00–09:55
11:55–12:00				●Community Community Lightning talk series II Bawolff, AmiGueko, Justice Okai-Allotey, Maciej Nadzikiewicz / User:Nadzik									09:55–10:00
12:00–12:20	●Governance & Strategy Keynote: La Citadelle de Verre - Wikipédia face aux nouvelles stratégies d'ingérence numérique Costanza Sciubba Caniglia, Michele Failla, Rémy Gerbet WMFR												10:00–10:20
12:20–12:25													10:20–10:25
12:25–12:55													10:25–10:55
12:55–13:00													10:55–11:00
13:00–13:30	Rehearsal - Closing ceremony (closed - for speakers only)											Giant puzzle globe		11:00–11:30
13:30–14:30		●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup - Wiki Loves Games: A Meetup for Creative Technologists, Game Makers and Enthusiasts E_mln_e, Jennifer 8. Lee	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup - First Wikimedia International: let's talk about workers' unions C. Scott Ananian	●Meetup 🥗 Climate change, environmental issues & sustainable development lunch Jan Ainali	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: 3D in Wikimedia meetup: getting 3D object support working Douglas Scott (Discott)	●Meetup 🥗 Wiki Loves Folklore & Feminism and Folklore: Community Meetup Joris Darlington Quarshie, Tiven2240, Suyash Dwivedi	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Looking forward the 10º #VisibleWikiWomen campaign: lessons from the past, inspiration for the future Mariana Fossatti	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Ukraine & friends meetup Iryna Boiko, Марися Лебідь	●Meetup 🥗 Lunch meetup: Wikimedians of Canada meetup / Rencontre de la communauté wiki du Canada SophieWMCA				Virtual room Interviews Zakaria	11:30–12:30
14:30–14:50	●Ceremonies and Showcases 🏆 Coolest Tool Awards 🏆	●Research Keynote: How research can strengthen the movement: Understanding and assessing threats to fundamental Wikimedia values Aaron Shaw	●Artificial intelligence Agentic AI: Strategic Synergies for Digital Commons and GLAMs? Chris Albon, Ilario Valdelli, Jean-Philippe Moreux, Nathalie Casemajor (Seeris)	●Community Digital Hygiene in Wikimedia Spaces: Legal, Social, and Community Strategies for Sustainable Participation Delphine Ménard (notafish), Florence Devouard, Owen Blacker, Rémy Gerbet WMFR, S.Sandu		●Governance & Strategy Global Legal Developments and Trends Phil Bradley-Schmieg	●Education and Advocacy The Global Rise of Age Verification Regulations : What can we do about it? Amanda Jardine, Aly Marino, Stan Adams	●Education and Advocacy Women's solidarity in time of war: how ukrainian female wikipedians are building resilient networks of cooperation. Качуровська, Zhanna Oleksiienko, Liubov Suvernova Любов Суверньова	●Technology Adding sources to Wikidata Statements Hogü-456				The Dicotheque: explore the dictionaries of Wikisource(s)	12:30–12:50
14:50–15:00														12:50–13:00
15:00–15:05	●Ceremonies and Showcases Highlights from the Team Challenges													13:00–13:05
15:05–15:15		●Research State of Wikimedia Research 2025-2026 + 5 Research Findings and how you can use them in your work. Part 3 : Fiabilité Leila Zia, Benjamin Mako Hill												13:05–13:15
15:15–15:25													●Community Wiki Loves Maps Mentorship Program Akouete	13:15–13:25
15:25–15:30														13:25–13:30
15:30–16:00														13:30–14:00
16:00–16:10	●Ceremonies and Showcases Hackathon Closing Ceremony	●Research Visualising Wikipedia: Testing the tool (first release) chiara somajni, Giovanni Profeta, Iolanda Pensa - iopensa	●Artificial intelligence Can cats see in the dark? Defending open knowledge through natural language search and information retrieval EBlackorby-WMF, Jaz Tanner, SherryYang-WMF	●Community Who is running the world? Political data matters. Ada Homolova, Johan Schuijt	●GLAM and Partnerships Bottom Up: learn how to grow your local Wikimedia projects initiatives (workshop) Ferdinando Traversa, Mattia L. Nappi	●Governance & Strategy BECOMING A CHATON: From web-hosting decentralization to the construction of a sovereign governance ppom, Romain 'Lodart' Lebouc, Vincent, Vincent Peugnet	●Education and Advocacy Educational program during university lockdown Milena Milenković	●Technology Your Favourite Wikidata Templates in Action (hands-on session) Ifeatu Nnaobi	●Wild Ideas Unpopular Opinions & Wild Ideas (Lightning Talk Meetup) Andrew Lih					14:00–14:10
16:10–16:20		●Research Invisible Giants: Mapping Fossil Fuel Industry Representation on Spanish Wikipedia and Generative AI Evelin Heidel												14:10–14:20
16:20–16:25		●Research Defending Wikipedia as a reliable source in the age of AI Ellia Lebleu, Hubert Lau												14:20–14:25
16:25–16:30														14:25–14:30
16:30–16:40		●Research Reference Risk: A Research-Based Approach to Source Reliability in Wikipedia Pablo Aragón (WMF)					Education and Heritage Lightning talk series Jeromi Mikhael, Kate Kifa							14:30–14:40
16:40–16:50		●Research WikiSignals.org: Helping editors evaluate reference reliability Webrunner95												14:40–14:50
16:50–16:55		●Research Citation Location Needed: a case for citing specific segments within sources to improve verifiability on Wikipedia Mario Morvan												14:50–14:55
16:55–17:00													14:55–15:00
17:00–17:30													15:00–15:30
17:30–18:25	●Ceremonies and Showcases Closing Ceremony	●Ceremonies and Showcases Closing ceremony	●Ceremonies and Showcases Closing ceremony			●Ceremonies and Showcases Closing Ceremony (Quiet room)							15:30–16:25
18:25–19:00													16:25–17:00
19:00–19:30	●Ceremonies and Showcases Group photo												17:00–17:30
19:30–21:30											●Ceremonies and Showcases 🎉 Closing party 🎉		17:30–19:30