Event
Wikiversary 2026
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Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia
The conference looks back at 25 years of Wikipediasm, and aims to ask some difficult questions around capacity, impact, and sustainability. Please find the call for abstracts here.
Mode: Hybrid
Location: New Delhi
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Keywords: WikiversaryThe following is the schedule for our Wikiversary conference. It will be updated 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 | Wikipedia and Cognition Research | Dr Safdar Quddus, PhD in Mathematics (2013), Washington University |
| 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 |