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Welcome! This is a voluntary list of participants for the Wikimania 2025 Hackathon. Adding your name here can help you connect with other attendees who share your interests, skills, or are working on similar projects.
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| [[User:YourUsername|Your Name]]
| Python, JavaScript, UX Design
| Wikidata, Gadgets, helping newcomers
| Your Country
| Your Region (Sub-Saharan Africa,South Asia,Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia,Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa.
East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific, Northern & Western Europe,North America)
| [[User_talk:YourUsername|Talk page]], @TelegramHandle
Participant List
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Name
Shared Skills
Interested In
Country
Region
Contact
Example
PHP, Lua, CSS
MediaWiki extensions, performance tuning
Kenya
SSA
Talk
/ @example (Telegram)
Gopa Vasanth
Python, JS
MediaWiki extensions, tools, user scripts, bots
India
SA
Talk
Email
Novem Linguae
PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL
MediaWiki extensions, gadgets, user scripts, bots
USA
Talk
Email
Csisc
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, SPARQL, Java, Pascal
MediaWiki extensions, gadgets, user scripts, bots
Tunisia
MENA
Talk
Email
Fulani215
JavaScript,
Mediawiki& language technology
Nigeria
SSA
Talk
Email
Sunkanmi12
Tech Enthusiast
Wikidata, Gadgets
Ghana
SSA
Talk page
Ssemmanda will
Mediawiki& language technology
Uganda
SSA
Talk
Email
Suyash Dwivedi
Hardware Hacks, HTML, Python, Embedded Systems, User Scripts
Hardware Hacks, HTML, Python, Embedded Systems
India
SA
Talk
Email
Dnshitobu
Python, HTML, CSS, UX Design
Wikidata, Gadgets, Languages
Ghana
SSA
Talk page
Email
, @Dnshitobu
Step May
Débutante en Python (niveau 2), création d'éléments sur Wikidata, ajout de photos
Wikidata, projets pour débutants, Hackathon (nouvelle participante)
Togo
Sub-Saharan Africa
Talk page
@steph_2021
Email
JosefAnthony
Javascript
MediaWiki, Wikidata
Nigeria
WA
Talk
/ @JosefAnthony(Telegram)
Ganyana
Curious Techie
Wikipedia, Wikidata
Kenya
EA
Talk
/ @flesymz(Telegram)
Addshore
Wikidata, Wikibase, MediaWiki, developer environments, golang, CI, PHP and more
UK
Talk
Email
/ @addshore in most places
Birusha
JavaScript, Nextjs
Wikipedia, Wikidata
DR Congo - Goma
East Africa
Talk
/ @BirushaNdegeya(Telegram)
Ayokanmi
JavaScript
Wikidata,helping newcomers
Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa
Talk page
, @ayokanmioyeyemi
Tim Moody
Python, JavaScript
Internet in a Box
Canada
North America
Talk page
Dagmawi Mekonnen
HTML , Java , C# , JavaScript , css
MediaWiki, Wikidata , AI , gadgets, bots
Ethiopia
East Africa
Talk
@Dagmawi
Swayam Agrahari
NextJS, JavaScript, Python
MediaWiki, Commons, Tools, UserScripts
Nepal
South Asia
Talk page
Neechalkaran
Python, JavaScript, php
BOTs, APIs, Userscripts, helping newcomers
India
South Asia
Talk page
@Neechalkaran
Dr. Isaac Andy
NextJS, JavaScript, Python, Wikimania, Wikidata, Wikibase, MediaWiki, developer environments
Hackathon, MediaWiki, Commons, Tools, UserScripts, helping newcomers
Malaysia
South Asia
Talk page
, @isaacandy
Olimasy
Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
MediaWiki, Hackathon, tools and bots (a newcomer)
Tanzania
Sub-Saharan Africa
Talk page
, @OttoNyongole
Jon Harald Søby
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, PHP, Lua
Gadgets, language support, improving the Incubator
Norway
Northern Europe
Talk
Email
@jhsoby
Eugene Agbor
Python, JavaScript, PHP, CI, ML and AI
Wikidata, Gadgets, MediaWiki, mentorship, connecting people
Deutschland
Central & Eastern Europe
Talk page
, @New_Deal233
Valentin Nasibu
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Nest.js, Next.js
Wikidata, MediaWiki, Mentorship, connecting people
DR Congo
Sub-Saharan Africa
Talk page
, @NasibuEl
Navya sri Kalli
Python, JavaScript, UX Design
Wikidata, Gadgets, helping newcomers
India
South Asia
Talk page
, @navya_sri_kalli
Jay Prakash
Python, JavaScript, PHP
Gadgets, MediaWiki extensions, Toolforge
India
South Asia
Talk page
, 0freerunning@gmail.com
SD0001
(Siddharth)
PHP, JS, MediaWiki
MediaWiki core/extensions (I can review your patches!), gadgets, Toolforge
India
South Asia
Talk page, @vp_siddharth, Discord: siddharthvp
Pepe piton
Python, Flask, HTML, CSS
Wikidata, Wikimedia APIs, Paulina tool, connecting people
Uruguay
Latin America
Talk page
AlvinDulle
PHP, VUE, Android App + System Design, Core Java
Wikidata, Codex(Newcomer),MediaWiki,Commons, Wikipedia
Tanzania
Sub Saharan Africa
Talk page
, @Alvin Dulle
Alhassan Mohammed Awal
MediaWiki , Gadgets, translateWiki
Wikidata, MediaWiki, Language/Wikipedia, Commons
Ghana
SSA
Talk page
Email
, @Alhassan Mohammed Awal
Ibrahim ID
HTML, CSS, MediaWiki , Gadgets
Wikidata, MediaWiki, Wikipedia, Commons
Egypt
MENA
Talk
Email
WMF Product & Tech Attendees
Below is a list of Wikimedia Foundation staff attending the Hackathon, along with the areas they can support you with. Feel free to reach out to them during the event if you have questions, want to connect, or need help in their areas of focus.
Name / Username
Role / Team
Areas of Support
Selena Deckelmann
Chief Product and Technology Officer
joined the Wikimedia Foundation
in 2022. I’m attending Wikimania to
connect and listen to our community members
and spend as much time as I can hearing from you all and
learning more about how Wikipedia and our many other projects are functioning
. I’m looking forward to the Users with Extended Rights Day! I also hope to drop in on the hackathon, as well as attend sessions. Please stop me and say hi!
Amanda Bittaker
Chief of Staff/ Developer Outreach
I’m attending Wikimania to support the Hackathon, the
Users with Extended Rights Day
, our
Product and Technology topic tables
, and the
developer corner
. I’ll spend a lot of time in the hackathon room, come find me or let’s schedule some time if you want to
talk about our technical contributors
and how to
build our technical community
or if you need to be
connected to another person in Product and Technology
Sam Walton
Product Manager for the Moderator Tools team
I’d love to chat to
editors who patrol edits
, have
administrator or other advanced rights
, or are otherwise
interested in the maintenance and moderation of Wikimedia projects
. I’m particularly interested in talking about
Automoderator
, our new automated anti-vandalism software, as well as our
ongoing explorations to build a dashboard or homepage for identifying opportunities to moderate content
Onyinyechi Onifade
Senior Technical Program Manager/ Hackathon Coordinator
I’ll be attending Wikimania to coordinate the Hackathon — you’ll find me in the Hackathon room about 80% of the time, so feel free to say hi!
I’m always happy to chat about our
Outreach Programs
the Wikimedia technical community
, or help
connect you with the right person in Product & Technology
Birgit Muller
Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences
I’m working with the teams that focus on improvements to the core platform and infrastructure that powers all wikis and provide services, tools and support to our technical teams and volunteer developers. Come talk to me if you want to chat about
APIs
, Toolforge, MediaWiki or the
impact of crawlers on our infrastructure
and what we’re doing to keep the wikis sustainable for everyone. I’ll be joining the Users with Extended Rights Day and the Hackathon, and you can also find me
at my session
Joydeep Sengupta
Group Design Manager for CommTech and Platforms design
I am quite new to this role (~1 month) and still transitioning. Prior to this I was a Principal UX Designer leading the Community Wishlist experience and some of the actual wishes from the design side. I will run a session on Codex onboarding on the pre-conference day and host a design clinic on the same day afternoon. So come find me if you’d like to use our latest and greatest Codex design system in your on or off wiki projects, and I might be able to help you. During the Wikimania days, keep an eye out for our design desk and come say Hello! to other designers in the foundation. There’ll be 3 of us!
Eric Mill
Group Product Manager for Safety and Security
I lead the Product Safety and Integrity team at Wikimedia, which focuses on platform-level features, tools, and interventions that make the wikis a safer and more secure place for our editors, readers, and all of the volunteers that make this work. For context, PSI is a recently created team, made up of people you may have worked with before from our Trust and Safety Product team and Product Security teams. Come find me or ask for some dedicated time if you have anything you want to talk about!
Mateus Santos
Product Manager of the Content Transform Team
The Content Transform team is responsible for Parsoid, the engine that enables Visual Editor, Wikifunctions and other reading and editing experience. Come talk to me if you want to discuss how your gadgets, user scripts, and other tools can harness the power of our Content platform or find out more about our main projects, like the Parser Unification project which will also have its own
session
. See you in Nairobi!
Nat Baca
Director of Engineering of the Core Experiences teams
Hamjambo! I’m the Director of Engineering of the Core Experiences teams, focused on user-facing features for our projects. This group includes the Reader teams (Reader Experience, Reader Growth, Android, and iOS) and the Contributor teams (Growth, Moderator Tools, Editing, and Connection), as well as the Future Audiences team. I’m happy to chat about any of our teams’ features with you all, which include dark mode, tabs on iOS, edit checks, or even our Roblox game – and more! This is my first time attending Wikimania, and I’m looking forward to meeting all of you.
Kirsten Stoller
Product Manager of the Growth team
We build features that help onboard and retain new Wikipedia editors. I would love to chat about anything related to
newcomer experiences, mobile editing, Mentorship features, or Community Configuration
Justin Scherer
Lead UX Designer of the Reader Growth team (formerly Web team)
This is my first time attending Wikimania in person and I’m really excited to meet other people from the movement. Recently,
I designed Wikipedia’s new dark mode, appearance settings, and search experiences
. I’m going to be speaking with folks all week about
new reading experiences on Wikipedia
. Come find me at the design desk and say hello!
Leila Zia
Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation
I’m interested to learn from you during the event:
what you and your community have been working on over the past year and what you look forward to doing in the coming year
. I also look forward to share with you some of the
research and research support that WMF offers to the Wikimedia communities and researchers
. Examples of topics we can connect about:
Research Community events, Research Funds, AI, findings from research on users with extended rights, and NPOV.
Niklas Laxström
Engineering Manager for the Language and Product Localization team and founder of
translatewiki.net
Don't hesitate to talk to me about anything related to languages, language support, translation or how to make sure your code works well in any language.
James Forrester
Tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team
Attending Wikimania as always to support our communities. I'll be presenting about, and leading a workshop on, Wikifunctions, and will also be at the Hackathon. Happy to help out with technical ideas, concerns, and dreams, from editing to reading, and structured data to moderation tools.
Kadeem Khan
Data scientist on the Movement Insights Team
I’ve been at the foundation for almost 9 months and my main duty is the support the Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) with the data and insights they need to make critical recommendations. I have also been heavily focused on helping the Foundation execute on PTAC’s first recommendation which is focused on improving the mobile web experience. I’ll be leading two roundtables at Wikimania: “
Navigating Change: Insights into Product, Participation & External Trends
” and “
Wikipedia’s Mobile Editing Experience: A Friction Point or a New Frontier?
”. Come find me if you want to chat about either of these topics or anything else. See you soon!
Joseph Seddon
Engineering Manager representing the Reader Experience, Reader Growth and Wikipedia Mobile Apps team.
Shwmae! I’ll be helping present at Wikimania about how the Wikimedia Foundation has been trying to improve the experience of Readers across our platforms, exploring what the future could look like for our readers and running a session focused on games and visualisations that utilise our content to create engaging and interactive experiences.
Esther Akinloose
Test Engineers supporting the Editing team
I’m happy to chat about Editing tools, Testing, and whatever JavaScript banter we can get to. Feel free to engage me on non-technical discussions as well. Like some of my colleagues, I’ll be spending a good chunk of time in the hackathon room as well.
Mary Munyoki
Technical Manager in the Language and Product Localisation team (focusing on New and Small language support)
I am interested to chat about
supporting new and smaller languages on the Wikimedia platform through tooling and support approaches
to enable them to move towards their goals - particularly around content building and contribution activity."
Steve Munene
Site Reliability Engineer on the Data Platform Team
I work on the
deployment, configuration and maintenance of the distributed data systems
that comprise Wikimedia data platform. Happy to chat about these and the movement in general.
Derick Alangi
Software engineer on the MediaWiki Platform Team
I can help people who want to
get started with MediaWiki
set up the project on their machine
(to begin contributing to the project). Additionally, I can
assist with MediaWiki configurations, hooks, various aspects of caching (BagOStuff), or set up extensions in MediaWiki.
I also enjoy figuring out various technicalities/challenges (bugs) within MediaWiki, so if your MediaWiki local project is not working for some reason, we can work together to debug it.
Peter Wangai
Software Engineer on the Test Platform team
I'm happy to give guidance if you are having trouble
filing Phabricator tasks
. I'm also happy to chat about
setting up for local development, running tests locally, and Selenium tests.
Kevin Bazira
Software Engineer on the Machine Learning team
I was voluntold to help with the AI table at Wikimania 2025, and I'll be happy to.
Nicolas Ayoub
Group Design Manager for Contributors - supporting the Growth, Editing, Moderator Tools and Connection (ex-Campaigns) teams.
I'm also the lead designer on the Editing team where I've helped build Edit Check and Discussion Tools for VE, and was previously a designer on the CommTech team when I joined the Foundation in 2021. I’ll be joining the Users with Extended Rights Day and the Hackathon. Otherwise come find me at our design desk if you’d like to
try our latest Edit Check prototype
:)
and you'll also get to meet other designers from the team!
C. Scott Ananian
Technical Lead, Content Transform Team
I'm here to help with
wikitext
and
Scribunto
! I'm giving
two talks
in the "Wild Ideas" track at Wikimania, and Mateus Santos and I are talking about the
current rollout of Parsoid Read Views
on Friday.
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