DCW Conversation Hour

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'''DCW Conversation Hour''' is an open conversation hour by the Deoband Community Wikimedia for everyone in the world. It focuses on Wikimedia movement strategy initiatives such as increasing the sustainability of the movement, and helps invest in the skills and leadership development across Wikimedia entities. The conversation hour innovates in the free knowledge, through the prism of evaluation, iteration, and adaptation.  

DCW Conversation Hour went live for the first time in September 2022. We standardized it in March 2023 when we invited Dr. Nicole Schwitter to present on the effect of offline meetups of Wikimedia communities. Since then, the conversation hour touches on some burning and hot topics that relate to the global free knowledge movement and helps establish a movement wide knowledge base.

Previous editions can be easily accessed through [[DCW Conversation Hour Archive]].

==Our Featured Speakers==

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 | link1  = https://cis-india.org/about/people/cis-team-members#Tanveer%20Hasan%20A%20K
 | title1 = Tanveer Hasan
 | body1  = Executive Director, CIS India
 | image1 = Tanveer Hasan 20180912.jpg

 | link2  = 
 | title2 = Sam Walton
 | body2  = Senior Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
 | image2 = Walton, sam January 2019.jpg

 | link3  = https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Exec8/Introduction_of_Exec8
 | title3 = Butch Bustria
 | body3  = Lead, Wikimania 2023
 | image3 = Wikimedia Summit 2019 - Portrait Butch Bustria.jpg

 | link4  = https://heyne.io/
 | title4 = Marcel Heyne
 | body4  = Founder & Director, Audiopedia Foundation
 | image4 = Marcel Heyne.jpg

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 | link1  = https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholesaad/
 | title1 = Nichole Saad
 | body1  = Founder, Open Learning Collective
 | image1 = Nichole Saad WMF staff photo.jpg

 | link2  = https://library.oregonstate.edu/staff/bridgesl
 | title2 = Laurie Bridges
 | body2  = Professor & Librarian, Oregon State University 
 | image2 = Laurie Bridges.jpg

 | link3  = https://chitraparnasinha.com/
 | title3 = Chitraparna Sinha
 | body3  = Founder, Lekhak.xyz.
 | image3 = Chitraparna Sinha (WWC 2023).jpg

 | link4  = https://about.me/rohini
 | title4 = Rohini Lakshane
 | body4  = Technologist and Interdisciplinary researcher
 | image4 = Wikimania 2015 - Edit-a-thons for bridging the gender gap -Rohini Lakshane (1) (cropped).JPG

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 | link1  = https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astinson_(WMF)
 | title1 = Alex Stinson
 | body1  = Lead Program Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
 | image1 = Alex Stinson-IMG 3315.jpg

 | link2  = https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/schwitternicole/
 | title2 = Nicole Schwitter
 | body2  = Honorary Research Fellow, Warwick
 | image2 = Nicole Schwitter.jpg

 | link3  = 
 | title3 = MAE Dockrat
 | body3  = LanCSAL, University of Johannesburg
 | image3 = Maulana Ashraf Dockrat.jpeg

 | link4  = https://bilalaliansari.com/
 | title4 = Bilal Ali Ansari
 | body4  = Chair, Department of Hadith, Darul Qasim
 | image4 = Bilal Ali Ansari.jpg

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 | link1  = https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:IFried_(WMF)
 | title1 = Ilana Fried
 | body1  = Senior Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
 | image1 = Default pfp.jpg

 | link2  = https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:دنيا
 | title2 = Donia Domiaty
 | body2  = Egypt Wikimedians User Group
 | image2 = Wikimedia-Summit-2024-Portrait-73.jpg
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== Featured Hosts==
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 | link1  = 
 | title1 = Aafi
 | body1  = Founder, Deoband Community Wikimedia
 | image1 = Aafi (cropped).jpg

 | link2  = 
 | title2 = Aishwariya Kumar
 | body2  = Research Scholar, Ambedkar University
 | image2 = Default pfp.jpg

 | link3  = 
 | title3 = Azrah Shafi Shah
 | body3  = Student, Jamia Millia Islamia
 | image3 = Default pfp.jpg

 | link4  = 
 | title4 = Monib Ahmad
 | body4  = Research Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia
 | image4 = Default pfp.jpg

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