English: With active editor numbers declining, Wikimedia’s Contributor Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group, involves Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (ex-Campaigns) teams. It will highlight efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Join us to learn more and share feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

Join 4 Wikimedia Foundation teams (Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection) to learn about their features and offer feedback on the Contributor Strategy.

This session combines a presentation of features and projects that the four teams part of the Contributors group offer, followed by a workshop-style time, where attendees are invited to imagine the teams' future projects.

Wikimedia’s Contributor Strategy is a long-term approach to ensuring that volunteers — both new and experienced — can meaningfully engage with Wikimedia projects and continue building the world’s most trusted source of free knowledge. As the internet evolves, editing experiences have become increasingly fragmented, and post-pandemic, active editor numbers have declined. To sustain a thriving volunteer community, we need a clearer, more structured path for participation.

This session will highlight key efforts to: - Provide a central place for contributors to discover opportunities, manage tasks, and track their impact. - Offer structured, mobile-friendly workflows that make it easier to contribute productively. - Strengthen engagement through meaningful feedback, community connections, and clearer pathways for participation.

We’ll discuss how these efforts align with the Wikimedia movement’s goals, ensuring that Wikipedia and its sister projects remain places where new generations of contributors can participate meaningfully. Participants will also have the opportunity to share feedback, discuss community needs, and help shape how we grow and support Wikipedia’s editing community in the years ahead in a workshop format with the different concerned teams The goal for participants is: - To learn more about the group initiatives - To voice their opinion regarding the different options offered - To leave Wikimania with enough skills to share the group’s goals with their communities.

Speakers: Benoît Evellin, Sam Walton, kstoller, ifried, Udehb-WMF

Wikimania is the annual global conference of the Wikimedia movement, celebrating free knowledge projects like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikifunctions and the volunteer community that makes them possible. It features presentations, discussions, meetups, training, and workshops on Wikimedia projects and related topics such as free and open-source software, free knowledge, and free content. The event fosters connection, learning, idea exchange, and fun among Wikimedians and free knowledge enthusiasts from around the world.

Wikimania 2025 was held from 5–9 August in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya and online. The theme for this 20th anniversary edition was “Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability.”, bringing attention to the need to ensure a sustainable future for Wikimedia projects and the volunteers and efforts that make them possible.