Dear all,

We are excited to share that the call for program proposals is now officially open!  Review the information on the Wikimania Wiki, and make your submission by 31st March 2025. Whether you will be speaking online or in-person, feel free to submit in any of the Wikimania 2025 official languages i.e French, English, Spanish, Swahili and Arabic.

The theme for Wikimania 2025 is Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability and it highlights our vision for a Wikimedia movement that is accessible to all, fosters collaboration across diverse communities, and prioritizes long-term viability.  

Your submission therefore should have elements connecting to at least one of these:

• Inclusivity: Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase regional and thematic groups as examples of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and affiliates, at different stages of development and from different cultures closely involved and collaborating in an equitable way.
  
  

• Impact: As a distributed, global event, Wikimania will be a way to learn from each other and share knowledge like community initiatives, tools usage, organizing events, governance, online campaigns and edit-a-thons, solving Wiki-related problems, and more.

• Sustainability: Wikimania 2025 will be significant to many Wikimedians as a forum to discuss various strategies , matters confronting the Wikimedia movement and other current and future priorities facing our movement, from technology to policy around the world.

Resources 

You can visit Wikimania 2025 Programming Wikimania Wiki page for more information about the session types and formats, programme tracks as well the proposal questions among others. You can also learn more on the Diff blog post. 

The team will be hosting office hours to support prospective speakers with their proposals. Review the Wikimania Wiki for the call links:

• Thursday, 13 March at 18:00 UTC. Live interpretation will be available in French and Spanish. 

• Thursday, 20 March at 13:00 UTC. Live interpretation will be available in Arabic, French and Swahili. 

If you have any questions please feel free to email us at wikimania@wikimedia.org and also join us on the Wikimania Chat Telegram group t.me/wikimaniachat and connect with other Wikimedians.

We are looking forward to receiving your submission!

Sincerely,

Terry Boke - Communications Lead, Wikimania 2025