 Great. Hi and welcome to today's section on showcasing new diversity and inclusion through storytelling in the Wikimedia movement. My name is Euphemia Owandu, one of the 14 members of the Wikivibrant project. And with me here today are some of the members of the 14 members, and the person of Douglas, James and Frances, who will also be speaking during this section. We also have an amazing pool of speakers, young speakers from different parts of the world who will be joining us today to join us today as well on this section to talk about what they are doing in their community and that of the other young people, how they are building communities in different parts of the world contributing to the Wikimedia project. Beyond this, we are also going to be looking at our new look today, we'll be unveiling our letter today with the rest of the audience. And at this point, I would like to pass the mic to Frances, who will be jumping in to tell us a little bit about the Wikivibrant project and her work in some regions. Thanks, Euphemia, for this kind introduction. I will start with a little of a personal story. I was one day, one year ago, I was in my town, like, you know, it was holidays, and that girl here, Euphemia, she had an idea. Her idea was to celebrate the International Jout Day in the Wikipedia movement. I mean, it wasn't an idea that started in August that year, but it was August that year when we started. We tried to, well, she asked me some collaboration knowing this project and I was very kind to participate just as my partners here in the core team. And we started with that adventure, which was to make an event and a campaign to celebrate the International Jout Day. The celebration of the International Jout Day, I have here some notes. We held it the 12th and the 13th of August. It was online via Zoom, of course. And we have 71 registered participants, which is, which are very good numbers for being the first time that any of those characteristics was made in our movement. And everyone edited an article on agriculture, food, water, plus climate change. No, those were the topics that were related to the International Jout Day in 2021. And of course, we must add that we had some logistic help with using Zoom and, you know, with the event coming from Wikimedia Austria, Wikimedia Osterreich, which, well, we are very grateful for everything that they did that very first year. As we can see in this slide, so far we've celebrated the local events. The first one was the African Jout Month, which was celebrated between the 5th of November and the 14th of December. And that event, it worked as everything in the Wikibuy brand works. I mean, there are some local events, there are some information from experimental Wikimedians to people who are coming to our community. And the African Jout Month last year was centered on the four E's. Education, employment, entrepreneurship and engagement. We had six countries participating, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. And well, it was the first step that we as Wikibuy brands team made and it was a success. The last event so far that we have celebrated was the European Jout Day. We celebrated the 2nd of April. We celebrated in Valencia in partnership with the IBAC, the Valencian Institute of the Jout. And in this case, we had a format. It was going to be an important event. Unfortunately, the world in Ukraine made that we had to make some changes and switch into virtuality. And it was more focused in a conference format focused on education. We had experiences from five different countries and we can say that it was also a success for both the communities participating and the organizers, the institutional organizers that we have. So basically so far, this is everything that we have done with the International Jout Day. And of course, there are too many things that we still have to do and that we hope that we'll all our wonderful local organizers that we have and all the wonderful local organizers and communities participating that I'm sure that will join us after knowing of this project. We hope that we can do many, many great things in the future. Recording in progress. Now we should give our voice to Euphemia and Agnes. We will talk to us about international events that are already being prepared. Thank you, Frances, for passing the mic back to me. And I'm going to talk briefly about the International Jout Day in 2021, just like Frances previously mentioned, where we had about seven something people who were trying to learn different parts of the world from Africa, from Europe, from the US and from Asia. And because we were starting out as a first time, we are focused on trying to understand some of the challenges that young media face in the media movement and how they can be better supported in doing the work they do. So we had some panel discussions with some young people in the movement who have notable achievements having these discussions and it was really fruitful and also understanding that the project was something that young people were very excited to have. And this year, we are even doing it bigger and better. But Douglas here is going to step in to tell us how we are doing it this year. Over to you, Douglas. Okay, thanks so much Euphemia and thanks Frances. And all viewers out there, thank you for joining this session. I'll first start with a brief story as well, just like Frances. So Wikivibrance, just like Frances mentioned last year is when I came across Wikivibrance. It was actually via the African Telegram mailing list where Euphemia had posted about events happening for the International Youth Day. And I really saw a vision for Wikivibrance because it was something that was quite unique that didn't happen or that was not happening within the movement. And then if it was happening, we didn't actually know details about that within the Wikimedia movement. So that's when my journey started and I'm quite new to the core team for Wikivibrance. I just joined in May this year officially, but we have held activities since 2021. And for this year, 2022, the International Youth Day is being celebrated under the theme of creating a world for all ages. It was officially like commemorated yesterday on 12th August. And it really is something that links to what we do as Wikimedians and what we want to do in the future. Because young people are the driving force for change and we really need to celebrate them on such events and also celebrate their achievements. So this year, we've had a drive for Wikimedians to celebrate their own local events with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. Some of the communities that have participated have applied for support from the foundation through the community resources team. And like we have a meta page that will share probably in the etherpad. But yeah, there are very many communities that are doing activities in regards to youths this year. And I'll write ahead, I'll showcase some of them that are going to share with us what young people are doing within their communities. So we cannot disintegrate the community because we are one people with a common vision. And by that, I mean like connecting this to the theme, we are creating a world for all ages, be it young people, be it those that are beyond their youths, we cannot disintegrate the community, but we can collaborate and work together. And that is also one of the reasons why we are coupling young people and also experienced Wikimedians to support activities and initiatives of youths. Because if you look at the landscape of the movement, you realize that there's a mixture of young people, people who are in their young ages, those who are in the middle ages and those who are at the peak of their youths. Even when you look at most affiliates, like 50% are composed of youths. Like already from the example of the Kaua team for Wikivibrants, we have a mixture of people who are in their early stages of youths and people who are in their late stages of youths. So we can only work together and we can't disintegrate the community because we are one people. And then lastly, usually there's a traditional connection to youths to the sustainable development goals, which is fine, but also what we'd like to do as Wikimedians is connect the activities of the young people to the future of Wikimedia. And most of us might be aware about Wikimedia 2030. And if you look at the vision that we have as Wikimedians by 2030, there will be definitely a large number of youths within the movement. And also, like by 2030, the basis for the future that we want to create would have been created by the current youths that we have today. So that is the reason as to why we are celebrating the International Youth Day and looking at intergenerational solidarity. So youth today will be added out in the future and we can only collaborate and work together. In the next slide, I would like to introduce some of the members that have been spotlighted to share with us our work of to share with us the work that they are doing within their communities. Yes, so next slide when you see your name, I'll invite Romeo. Romeo, if you're there, please go ahead and share with us the work that is being done within your community. Thank you so much. All right, thank you so much. I'm super excited. I don't know, can you get me and. All right, amazing. So thank you so much. I am from the South Sudan, the Wikimedia user group community here in South Sudan. And on this day, we're super excited that actually we are being part of this amazing Wikibibrance program, which is going to be able to like showcase what the youth independently are able to do as far as it comes into, you know, what the youth are doing in solving local community issues and how they're using Wikimedia as a whole to be able to cover up issues concerning like the content gap and issues concerning a lot of stuff. I come from a country that has had a very serious history of war and a history of instability, and hence giving us a very large gap of a lot of things in terms of its own infrastructure, even data itself, even content online. When you come inside stuff about South Sudan, really this was little about it, but this kind of a spotlight where we bring in youths to come together. And I'm excited right now as a young I would really love to show you the number of youth that are right now in the room watching this and ready to be part of this amazing movement to just write and fill in the content gap that is missing about South Sudan. So, so excited man, I don't know that we could even have such kind of energy from a history whereby we have been within war right now we have an economic crisis and all that but we have a lot of youths that are ready to create impactful change by doing this. So, can we just train people and right now we have people sitting here wanting to know more about what is the money what is the commedia how can we contribute how can we do that. So super excited for the support from the commedia foundation as well and every other partner who is there to support us together with even my colleagues Douglas and the others. Thank you so much. I guess who wants fear what to say a lot, but we're excited to be part of the team and yeah. Yeah, anyway, thank you. All right, that's great to hear. So that is actually the essence of the commedia like bringing on board new and underrepresented communities and good enough like youths are very excited. Thanks. Thank you for the story. Romeo so Terry go ahead you can use maybe try to use like around two or three minutes and then when you're done, the next person will be able to present over to you Terry. Hello everyone. My name is Teresia bouquet. I am from the wiki media community is a group in Kenya. And this is my second wiki media to attend wiki mania to attend. And it's been so exciting for me for the last two years when I joined the wiki media community is a group in Kenya. Previously, I really never used to interact so much with Wikipedia. Until recently. I can hear some echo. I don't know if my sound is okay. Now it's working. Please go ahead. Thank you. So what I'm doing in the wiki media community is a group in Kenya is that I am a Wikipedia, first of all, and then also in the social media space I am the one who is curating content for our Twitter page, and also managing the page. And through the collaboration of, you know, my community members, we are trying to do different activities in the wiki space. For instance, my community has tapped into the creativity of young people in Kenya to mobilize for change in shrinking the gender gaps in Wikipedia. And in the spirit of leaving no one behind, I mean, getting everyone on board, we are trying to put more focus in growing Swahili Wikipedia in Kenya. And in January, actually, we had a capacity building session down in Kilifi at the cost, where we trained guys on how to edit in Swahili. And also we are trying to enhance digital literacy skills through the Wikipedia editing trainings. For instance, in April, we had sessions with about 100 young girls who are techies with an organization called Acura Chicks, that is leading in female tech talent in Africa. And we empowered them on how to, you know, not just consume Wikipedia content, but also to create and contribute towards growing this movement. We have taken part also in photo walks, for instance, wiki long monuments, we've done workshops in person and virtually, and this year, big for us was the wiki for human rights workshop which we launched. And we had a great stand up of young people who are very charged and geared towards creating a society in which every person's rights are respected and upheld, and that was very big for us. And then we have had community meetups for capacity building, both in person and virtual as well. And key also to mention is that we have been taking part in the months of African cinema through the editor tons, which majority of us from the user group have been part of. And wiki loves Africa because Africa is our, you know, is our motherland Africa is home so we can't we can't fail to take part in that. And we have been part of that wiki loves women through the she said campaign, women are very, very integral in in our community. And so we are keen on building that. And the wiki mania conference, this is the second one for majority of us from the user group and we are so excited. Despite the challenges that some of us have been experiencing for the last two days. You know, we are finding solutions for that and most of us are actually watching on YouTube. And we also participated in wiki in the bar and the movement strategy. And for me to join wiki mania movement, it was because somebody inspired me. I mean somebody was there to make me like think and be part wants to be part of this community. And this person is none other than our team lead in the Kenya user group miss Winnie have been to who is actually the female co-founder and female lead for the wiki media community user group in Kenya. And she is under 35. And at this point is where you allow me to actually celebrate her again and congratulate her for, you know, the recent appointment into the wiki media, into the wiki media foundation. As a senior global movement communication specialist in Africa, we knew we are so proud of you as a user group. And thank you for always inspiring us each and every day and pushing us to dream bigger to go out there and volunteer and be change makers in our community in our different ways. And also, I cannot end this without realizing or rather recognizing the efforts of Carol Maura, who is also a part of the community user group in Kenya. And Carol, together with Winnie, really came in at a time when the wiki media community user group in Kenya was, I think it was dead, I will say. But through their magic through their collaboration, they have brought us together. And nowadays, you know, our community is vibrant our community is more involved and engaged in activities in the wiki media movement. So thank you, Carol and Winnie. Please keep on inspiring us, keep on motivating us through different incentives that you know you keep pushing our way. For example, today you can see I'm wearing my wiki mania hoodie. It's called in Nairobi. Yeah. And I know most of us in the user group here are wearing our hoodies and we are warm. Thank you to wiki media. Thank you so much. And just to close, I would like to say that our user group has tapped into the creativity and innovation of young people in Kenya, you know, to mobilize and shrink again the content gaps in wiki media. And as we speak, 85% of our user group members are young people under 35. So congratulations young people you are doing a great, great change to this society. We are proud of empowering you in Kenya to be champions of free knowledge. And I do believe that it's very crucial that young Africans take the prominent role in pushing for knowledge equity and contributing to what the sustainable development goals. So thank you everyone. May you keep contributing through different skills at your capacity. You don't have to just be an editor. You can be a photographer. You can be a graphic designer. You can be a videographer. You can be, you know, an event organizer so keep going. Thank you guys. Well, thank you so much Terry. That's really inspiring. And I know there are very many, a lot of great, great minds, great troops in Kenya. Faith Moanyolo, one of them as well. So and a lot of other youths that are doing great work. So thank you so much. Valentin, I'm not sure if you have Valentin, but maybe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, very good, very good vibes. Fine round, fine round here. Yeah, great to be speaking here. So yeah, hi, I'm Ryan boy in the projects. Yeah, and mainly editing Ukrainian projects. Also, I'm globally globally involved in some cross wiki petroleum and so on. And I'm a member of the community Ukraine and the community of Poland. So, yeah, great, great to be here about. Generally, this is an interesting initiative here because I personally think that young editors and young members of our communities are really once once being a very, very young editor is quite. I'd say. Step step forward for community being relying on young editors. And yeah, generally it's it's good. Good to highlight some action that is being done that have been done in Ukraine and in Poland to that regards. Yeah, for example, we have a lot of, for me, yes, also like once being as a young, very young editor. It's nice to know that there could be real some support from community. But on the other hand, it's really good to understand that at least what we need to do to have in flow of young editors. It's not to demotivate them from I know this this is where a rare actions but sometimes they happen and yeah we need to look maybe a little bit closer into that and to try to like. And it even the most this rare examples of such because yeah, many prominent members of communities are real of young age for in Ukrainian community I can highlight the recently very active user that is vitally. 1500 that is being crashing that has been crashing the good articles project is very, very good editor of very young age. In Polish community we have, for example, user Yamnik Starnowa that is being very at young age he's already an administrator and leading member of community that is dealing with organizing of all editants of all a contest and yeah it's it's really inspiring to see such examples. And now that regional chapters of the community foundation can really promote and inspire such young editors to know that know that yeah we have we have a good good movement and good experience ahead of us. Yeah, because, although young editors may seem not not experienced enough not having enough. Yeah, just just life experience. We have multiple examples when, for example, all technicals, all technical stuff in communities or technical stuff in on projects were done by very editors of very young age that's. And yeah, really that is that is very, very nice to see when young editors are being leaders of a community. And I think, generally, generally I'm done. Thanks. Thanks everyone for, yeah, for nice comments. Yeah, and generally, thanks. Thanks for such a session. Wonderful. Thanks, Valentin. I think we'll continue with the flow since we are almost left with less than 20 minutes to wrap up so Nada, please take it away. My name is Nadal Farah. I'm a doctor from Palestine. I'm a member of the Wikimedia 11 user group and we work heritage. Well, I started my Wikipedia journey back in 2018. I had some interruptions in this journey, but the only constant thing was that I want to continue, I want to improve as a Wikimedia and I want to spend more time to spread and share this in movement. I was just an editor when I started this year and now I am on the leadership development working group where I get to participate in the actual implication of the sex recommendation of the movement strategy that endorses investing in skills and leadership development. I have invested in my skills and other colleagues, other Wikimedia and colleagues' skills by coordinating multiple workshops to document Levantine authors works and featured lists on Arabic Wikipedia. Each list has exceeded 80 published books and articles. I have also guided members to translate pictures and photos and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I have co-organized interwiki women collaboration 2020 workshop with my Wikimedia friend Anur. We actually co-organized a lot of workshops together that was directed to newcomers and build capacity and fill gap in Wikipedia content about women. What I most admire about my journey is that it made my free time eventful. It expanded my comfort zone and helped me encounter young promising people in each edit I made and made me want to contribute more and have more people from my community in the movement as it's a place for everyone. So that's basically my journey and I hope everyone have an eventful journey in their Wikimedia journey and in this wikimania and have the inspiration to follow their own path and as I said it's a place for everyone and everyone should give it a shot. So thank you. Thanks. Wonderful work, Neda. And it's great that you mentioned being part of the leadership development working group. So already enough action like for youths being involved in movement strategy implementation. So let's hear from Proteh on what is being done. Proteh, over to you. Thank you, Seth Douglas. My name is Poyezu Proteh, Wikimedia from Rwanda and a member of Wikimedia communities of Rwanda. I'm happy to speak with you, everyone. I'm also the local organizer of the Tukibai branch this year. So I remember when I was training Wikimedia, it is my friend who taught me about, my friend also is a young, who is a youth like me, who taught me about Wikimedia. His target, then I get interested. When I was joining in my community, there were a majority of youth in the Rwanda. In the communities of Rwanda, there was a majority of young people, which I can address as my main motivation, which made me more curious about knowing that learning strategies of movement. Because most of the participants were young, I also aimed to contribute high then so I can be more useful in that community of my age group. So I have started like in July 2020, it's like three years ago. Then I started by editing, by contributing in some of the context of time. I get to maximize my knowledge on editing hints and started training others as also mentoring other young people. This lead me to contributing and attending more international context where I joined Wikibai branch last year, in August I think. Wikibai branch was the African context which was aiming for the youth people to eat about the culture. Then I participated in that opportunity, then I managed to be the winner, the top contributor. I remember I become the second. So after winning that prize, my community also recognized me to be in the main group of Wikibai branch, which has taken place in February. Which also that opportunity gave me another chance to join the Afros Cinema. It was the continental context which aimed to cover the knowledge gap about African cinema, where I also managed to be in a top contributor. I remember he had the third prizes. Also I become the motivation and the motivator to those other young people in my community. Where they have a lot I can teach them, where I have a lot they can learn from me and also still running and learning to be more and active. So in my community young people raise many parts in every angle, whether in volunteer retention, in participating like in YouTube projects. And also I remember last few months we hosted the movement strategy. It was a research but also the young volunteers got involved in that project and we have been doing that for like three years ago. So in sharing ideas with other volunteers they have increased the disability of our media in Africa. Our community in Africa that we have set some strategies and also aimed to shape the future of our community. So this lead to our community Rwanda is organized as the official media group in Rwanda and we are happy to achieve that. So that's why I can say the youth volunteers are the more active and the more important in our community. That's why we aim to rate them a lot and I am sure the Vibrance project is what we really do. So thank you very much. I'm happy to share you my story. Wonderful. Thanks so much for today and like good to see the budding community in Rwanda. You mentioned something interesting on when you started activities 2020 that was during the COVID-19 lockdown and very many youths had out of time on their plates. So I think we saw a lot of increased contributions. We are like behind schedule behind time but then we have two more slides and probably Rafi could use his time like three minutes. We can probably borrow more time from the Q&A sessions and then we can maybe play one video. So after Rafi will play one video I request the technical team to take note of that. So after Rafi we can play maybe one video then go to that Q&A session. Thank you so much. Over to you Rafi. Rafi are you with us? Are you there? Okay so probably we can have one video played. Over to you technical team. Thank you. Barrage for you to be part of this growing movement. Thank you Viki Vibrance project. Yeah okay so we I think we only I only had the last part of the video. There was some interference but no worries like we'll share this. We'll upload this to the meta page and we'll probably link it in the etherpad. So sorry about that in case you didn't hear the video very well but I would like to now hand over to Francesc to take over the Q&A and then Ophemia will wrap up. Thank you so much. Over to you Francesc. Thanks Douglas. Well we are a little bit short on time but I know that there are some questions in the chat. So if anyone wants to make those questions, let's say by voice now is the moment so please make a comment in the chat and we can invite you to make your questions. Yes Caroline do you want to make your question publicly or should I? Sure hi can you hear me? Yes we can. I just wanted to ask two questions. One what are the challenges like the user groups are facing around all those who have presented. Then again what how are they keeping the young people to continue being on Wikipedia. You know sometimes we face the issue of people will come one day do something then they leave. How do you keep them going in the in the community. Thank you. Thanks to you for your question. I believe that it would be better if our local organizers so perhaps somebody else can answer your question. Just to give some time to somebody to step in I will share my thoughts. When it comes to the challenges for the communities I believe that I mean one challenge there are several challenges one is of you know very related to leadership development of capacity building etc. And in order to you know to mind a little bit on the gap we must say that there are there are I mean this year we have already put that in practice we have implemented some grants for local organizers so we can help them to you know to prepare things with time and without worrying or not etc. That's one hand and the other hand when it comes to engaging young Wikimedians. Well, as we say here in Valencia, every person is a world. So, I mean, this is something that can change a lot from a person to another. I can say that, you know, especially that there are one specific kind of Wikimedians which are the natural born Wikimedians according to a to research that was done by the foundation a couple years ago. And let's say that the people who are born Wikimedians that people who are very, very passionate on free knowledge etc. So we, because this is an event of the movement we are a very specific breed of person of people. And, and I believe that that's difficult because sometimes it's very difficult to find the specific person the appropriate person to to be into Wikipedia and to to enjoy this passionate platform. But as I said at the very beginning I believe that to give a more specific and non philosophical answer I believe it's better to bring it to anybody else. So I don't know if you can add something as she was the person who started with all this initiative if she can, if she can provide a more specific answer. Thank you, Francis. Just to add to what Francis said, and about the questions around what our plans are, our thoughts and getting younger editors to join the movement. So one of the things that was really worrisome to us when we started was acknowledging that there are some Wikimedia communities that you know have any young person in it at all at the moment. For example, from Francis community is about the only person in his community and that is not good for us that is not good for movement sustainability. So one of the things we did this year was to launch the European youth there in this region working with youth institutions with the reading Wikipedia in the classroom program that attracted a lot of young people during the program. Because of short of time, I think I will have to end it there but know that there are two plans or we are happy to unveil that will definitely have more young people in the movement. Thank you. Thank you for your answer. Well, we've reached it almost the end of our of our time so I will invite you again so you can say you're the final statements and to close this session for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Francis again and thank you everyone for joining. I just want to speak about our new look today, which is our new logo that was designed by an international artist by name Jordan as well. Thank you so much to our youthfulness, our stamina and our speed, and then also coming that this thing is happening in a community that is full of bed lovers. This is the new logo have unveiled today and we'll be working with. Thank you everyone who have joined the section to listen to the work of young people. Thank you to our amazing speakers. Thank you to the core team members. You guys are the best the technical team. Thank you for your great work and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Bye bye. Bye bye. Thank you to our amazing speakers. Thank you to the core team members.