Wikiversary 2026/Program
The following is the schedule for our Wikiversary conference. It will be up-to-date in the next few days.
The MOC for the conference is Rida Naushad Khan, a postgraduate student at the Department of Political Science in Jamia Millia Islamia.
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:15 AM | Welcome Note | Rida Naushad Khan |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Icebreaker Activity | TBD |
| 10:30-11:00 AM | Knowledge Consumption and Contribution Trends: Moving from Blame to Claim (Based on Wikimedia Futures Lab) | Aaqib Anjum Aafi, Founder/Chair, Executive Board, Deoband Community Wikimedia |
| 11:00-11:30 AM | The Role of Wikipedia in Promoting Educational Equity | Majid Bashir, PhD scholar, Department of Sociology, Jamia Milia Islamia |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM - Tea Break | ||
| 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Wikipedia and the Myth of the Universal Reader: Language, Memory, and Uneven Knowledge Worlds | Arjun Kumar, PhD Scholar, School of International Studies, JNU |
| 12-15-12:35 PM | Exploring AI and Wiki: How the two impact each other? | Wikipedian Brainwavewizard, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University. |
| 12:35-12:55 PM | Wikipedia and Formal Learning: a study of Wikipedia activities at St Aloysius Mangalore (case-study) | virtually presented by Santhosh Notagar, HOD and Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Animation, St Aloysius, Mangalore |
| 12:55-01:15 PM | Consensus or Crowd-Sourced Hegemony? | Zeba Ansari, NCWEB, Delhi University |
| 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM - Lunch Break | ||
| 02:00-02:30 PM | Confidence and Leadership: Analysing women in the Wikimedia ecosystem | Gauri Guptaa, BTech graduate, Shambhunath Institute of Engineering and Technology, Allahabad. |
| 02:30-02:50 PM | TBD | TBD |
| 02:50-03:30 PM | Artificial Intelligence-Based Alternatives for Wikipedia: WikiGen and Grokipedia | virtually presented by Houcemeddine Turki |
| 03:30-04:00 PM | Building Communities Digitally | Dr Aishwarya Kumar, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi; formerly Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia |
| 04:00-04:20 PM | TBD | TBD |
| 04:20-04:45 PM | TBD | TBD |
| 04:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Concluding Remarks | Organisers |