 Hello, and welcome to Wikimaniya 2022, the festival of auditions. Preview to see Evitaja Vassna festival in Wikimaniya 2022. My name is Anton, I am from Ukraine and I am part of the core organizing team for Wikimaniya 2022. Thanks to everyone for joining this event and of course huge thanks to the volunteers of the core organizing team, folks from the Wikimedia Foundation and everyone else who have made this event possible. Wikimaniya has been taking place for almost every year since 2005 and this year it is a festival. What does it mean? It means that Wikimaniya 2022 will be most of all fun and vibrant. It is also regional in nature, it has a goal to shine a light on different communities from across our global movement and Wikimaniya 2022 welcomes newcomers, it welcomes people who have never attended Wikimaniya before, people who are new to our movement. This year we have an original approach to scheduling, so Wikimaniya will last four days since today until Sunday and each day schedule is optimized for a different region of the globe. So the first day is optimized for Asia and Oceania, the second day is for the Americas, the third day is for Europe, Africa and the Middle East and finally the fourth and final day will be global. You can find the full schedule on Wikimaniya wiki and it is also available in feedhub which is the workshop platform where Wikimaniya is taking place primarily. Really happy to see all of you here and enjoy Wikimaniya 2022. Welcome to Wikimaniya Festival, hello I'm Nanor from Arabic community and I'm part of 2022 COT. The festival edition of Wikimaniya increases the number of languages supported from 7 in 2021 to 13 this year and our regional approach boosts life interpretation too. So in addition to the UN six languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish offered all days. We have Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese for day one, Brazilian Portuguese for day two and Swahili, Turkish and Ukrainian for day three. So on the last day, the global day, we will have all the 13 languages I mentioned will be available through life interpretation. So welcome to Wikimaniya 2022. Hello, welcome to Wikimaniya 2022. Greetings from Germany. I'm Venus originally from Hong Kong and I'm part of the Wikimaniya 2022 COT organizing team. I would like to introduce the arts, culture and entertainment session to all of you. This session is regionally curated and is made especially by and for our communities. The arts, culture and entertainment program is to highlight the diversity of cultures we have within our global movements. We will enjoy some content from a different region every day. This song, poetry, safari tours, co-pollums and other exciting weeks. We can't wait to see you there. Let's enjoy the arts, culture and entertainment session together and embrace the diversity in our global movement. Hope you all will enjoy Wikimaniya 2022. Welcome to Wikimaniya 2022 edition festival. Greetings to the Wikimaniya volunteers all over the world. I am from Semenin, Turkey. I am from Tunisia and I am a member of the Wikimaniya COT with a special interest in programming and capacity building. The most important aim of this edition is to emphasize what everyone has done and literally everyone has done for the benefit of the media movement for years. Effectively, many communities from all the continents have contributed to transform the Wikimaniya project into a better space of collaboration and social good. We believe that this is worth celebrating and that's why we adopted a hybrid online conferencing with in-person events covering 63 locations in 39 countries. To allow people to discover communities from every continent, we incorporated several sessions from the in-person events into our programs through live streams. Every day, a different community will be featured through a different event showing us what is happening on the ground, the so-called local event integrations. We look forward to having you as attendees of such spaces and to learn more about the customs of Wikimaniya people from different cultures and civilizations. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you're joining us from for the first ever edition of Wikimaniya. Sandra Acheng is my name from Uganda and I'm part of the CoA Organizing Team for Wikimaniya 2022. This year, there are very many fun and exciting Wikimaniya sessions happening throughout the four days. But I would like to specifically highlight sessions on the last day. That is day four, which is happening on Sunday, August 14th, starting at 8 AM UTC. Some of the sessions include the future of Wikimaniya, where we'll have lively discussions, plus the award show of Wikimaniya of the year. You don't have to think of missing out on these amazing sessions, which I must attend. But also, there are exciting announcements of Wikimaniya 2023 and you will not want to miss out on where Wikimaniya will be held next year. See you all on day four and happy Wikimaniya. Hello everyone from wherever you're joining from. My name is Antonim Tavango. I'm attending Wikimaniya 2022, the first ever edition from Tanzania, East Africa. And I'm part of Wikimaniya 2022 CoA Organizing Team. Wikimaniya 2022 is quite unique, since after all detects for all of us to contribute to the ecosystem of free knowledge, it's a year that we come together to celebrate all roles played by each of us to make access to free knowledge possible. Interestingly, we are particularly excited and happy to have newcomers to join this conference, because no prior experience is needed. Come, invite your friend, have fun, and enjoy Wikimaniya 2022. To make that possible, there will be many chances for networking. There is networking room on FIDRO. And also, there are Telegram groups where you can connect with the participants with other experienced editors, with other experienced Wikimaniyans, and so on. So, in this way, we say, Karibusana, you are warmly welcome to Wikimaniya 2022. Good morning from the beautiful city of Lagos. My name is Kayode Yusuf, and I'm a member of the Wikimaniya 2022 COT. During Wikimaniya 2022, we will have support for all attendees. If you need any help throughout the days of this event, you can join the appdex on Telegram. To join the appdex, you simply look on the feed loop page. Just on the left hand corner, you'll see help. If you click on that, it takes you straight to the helpdex, to the Telegram page. We have Wikimaniya volunteers and staff members who are going to be there waiting to help you. Last year, we had a whole lot of newcomers. This year will be the same. So we have a newcomer appdex in the networking space. This is a place where newcomers can come, ask questions to more experienced Wikimaniyans, and, more importantly, connect with people. We look forward to an exciting Wikimaniya 2022. See you there. Thank you. My name is Omar Abib Sandoval Sida. My username in Wikimedia is Omar Samsi. I am from Mexico, also a member of CLT. I'm a computer science engineer. I've been an organizing free software event for 12 years. I'm a board member of Wikimedia Mexico, and I was the co-organizer of Wikimaniya in 2015, and we compare North America Science 2020. In recent years, there have been a series of events, and in this event, we have the virtual context that we have as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to be resilient. One would think that it is easier for the tools we have allowed us to overcarry this period, but it's necessary to have better tools. So within the program of Wikimaniya 2022, we consider having an important space for hackathon. This year, I'm proud to present the Wikimaniya 2022 hackathon, previously, and as a part of Wikimaniya 2015 organizing team. I was also part of the inaugural Wikimaniya 2015 hackathon in Mexico City. This year, it will take place on August 12th and 13th, and it's open to everyone to work together on technical projects, learn new skills, and meet other technical contributors. Check out the hackathon page on the Wikimaniya Wiki for more interesting information. And I'm here to speak to you about some trust and safety issues. So please remember that the friendly space policy is being applied throughout the event, and there are trust and safety volunteers throughout the event that can help you with any trust and safety issues that you might experience with the event. So remember that if you see anything, say something. So if you see any type of harassment happening in any of the platforms or in the Telegram channel, or whatever space related to the event, please reach out to a trust and safety volunteer. You can identify the trust and safety volunteers because they have the safety tag next to their name. And so if you see anything, please, please reach out to any of the trust and safety volunteers. Or in the Telegram channels, you can also reach out to them and explain any issue that might be happening to you. So remember if you see something, please say something. Other than that, try to have a good event as possible, and please enjoy yourselves and have a lot of fun. We have a great Wikimaniya waiting for you, so please, please have fun and be nice to each other. Bye!