Reimagining Collaborations: Communities Beyond Wikimedia

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Reimagining Collaborations: Communities Beyond Wikimedia

Wednesday 24 December 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm IST

36th DCW Conversation Hour

This Conversation Hour features Pavan Santhosh, an experienced Wikimedian and open knowledge practitioner, currently serving as the Program Manager for the Open Knowledge Initiatives at IIIT Hyderabad, continuing his work at the intersection of open knowledge, communities, and institutions. He formerly worked with Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) as a Program Manager from April 2023 to April 2025, and before that served at Quora as a Community Manager and Legal Support Specialist between August 2019 and January 2023.

In this conversation, Pavan will focus on reimagining how Wikimedia communities engage and collaborate beyond the movement, moving past traditional outreach models toward more meaningful and reciprocal partnerships. He will also emphasize the importance of understanding the needs, priorities, and contexts of external communities—rather than merely inviting them to contribute—so that collaborations are built on shared goals and mutual benefit. Further, the conversation will address open licensing, re-licensing, and knowledge sharing practices, with a particular focus on how academic institutions, archives, libraries, and galleries can be encouraged to participate willingly in open knowledge creation by responsibly opening up their collections. Through these reflections, the session aims to foster dialogue on sustainable, inclusive, and two-way collaborations that strengthen the open knowledge ecosystem beyond Wikimedia.

Mode: Online Mode
Location: Zoom

Link (if applicable): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86341057659 – or download calendar item (.ics)

Keywords: DCW Conversation Hour

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