Jump to content

User:NikosLikomitros

From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Nikos Likomitros
Nikos Likomitros, {{{job title}}}
Nikos Likomitros
Share the free knowledge. Let us make a contribution in the greatest team project in history, a work to liberate people from the darkness.

About me

I am a history student in Athens, widely interested in Wikipedia, politics, history, geography. Deeply interested in social subjects and the Wikimedia movement. I am an active participant of the students' movement in Greece, participating in protests and electoral processes inside the university. My other hobbies include photography, reading, and walking. I am also an admin in Greek Wikipedia (verify), although I think that it's rather responsibilities than rights that you get if you become an admin. Linguistic skills: Native language Greek, English, basic Spanish skills, can also understand some Ukrainian, Russian, German.

My work

I love to participate in the movement both in the Greek and the global one. I also participate in WMUG Greece as a member, and try to promote Wikipedia. I also work for the betterment of Greek Wikipedia by organising meetups, improving pages, and helping the users to find their path on the project. I have wrote 7,600 articles in Greek, some fifty in English, I edit Wikimedia Commons and add photos there, also doing some patrolling work from time to time in other Wikipedias. I am heavily interested on Wikipedia statistics. I have a dream: To see the developing world's Wikipedias in par with the ones of the developed world. So I collaborate for this with Wikipedians from abroad and I support developing communities. I began contributing in 2013 in Greek (when I was nine years old), but only periodically until November 2016, when I pernamently began to contribute in Wikimedia. My targets are among others to continue organising Wikimedia offline and online activities, after my first outreach event in November 2023. I also got involved in Translatewiki in 2018. I am also involved in the CEE Youth Group, Wiki for Minorities and other international projects. Moreover I am interested and involved with governance, international partnerships, structure and strategy of the movement, as well conflict resolution.

Contact me

  • E-mail: nlikomitros@gmail.com, twinturbonikos@gmail.com (use any of the two, however the latter is the most used, and that registered with my account; there I receive all Wikimedia movement related mail, so I look the latter more)
  • Meta: NikosLikomitros
  • Greek Wikipedia: NikosLikomitros
  • English Wikipedia: NikosLikomitros
  • Commons Wikipedia: NikosLikomitros
  • Telegram: t.me/nlikomitros. Also very active there, feel free to contact me there too.

Wikimedia events attended/will attend

[edit]

Other online participation in international Wiki events:

  • Brief online speech in Viki Kadam which took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (19 November 2023) via online connection, together with Barbara Klen, which presented the CEE Hub. I spoke about the movement, it's importance and CEE Youth Group as most attendees were young people. It was done as one of the hosts offered the opportunity to CEE Youth Group members to support the CEE Hub presentation with information about the Youth Group.

Also I am working to promote Wikimedia in universities and do outreach, in collaboration and with the support of my affiliate. Empowering Youth in Wikimedia is also my target, both in national and international level.

Outreach events conducted

[edit]
  • Display of Content Translation tool and practice of English language postgraduate students on Translating articles in Greek Wikipedia from English. 37 articles were translated by 9 students. Full report here.
  • Collaboration with Zavarian Armenian school of Athens, where young students will write articles on Armenian culture in Greek. First presentation of Greek Wikipedia took place in 18 February 2025.
  • Virtual webinar for Greeks in Germany (27 March 2024)
  • Virtual presentation for Crete University students (11 March 2024)
  • Wikipedia Lab (23 November 2023). Note that issues with my computer was the reason why it was somewhat erratic.
  • Series of workshops for French philology students (1-23 November 2023)

Other roles

[edit]
  • I support Wikivibrance, and I am one of the key members in Wiki for Minorities, member of the organising team in it's conference project.
  • I am also member of the organiser team in CEE Spring contest, the flagship editathon of CEE Wikipedias and one of the most significant editathons in global scale. Furthermore, I am involved in various things within the movement, particularly those youth-related and I aspire to help the Greek community to grow internally and get a better role in the Wikimedia movement in the long term.
  • Together with Jan Beránek of Czechia, Comms team member for Wikimania 2024, I am co-running the CEE Youth Group Instagram page. That has allowed me to get some knowledge of the field of movement communication.
  • Regional coordinator for Project Korikath, CEE region.
  • I participate in the Wikimania youth program of CEE Youth Group.
  • Other than this, I was member of the Programme committee in Wikimania 2024, allowing me to take an insightful overview of many aspects of Wikimania, including setting priorities and finding the submissions that attendees would like to see in a conference, something very important.
  • COT member, Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025. My duties will not be limited in a certain role, but will traverse various parts where needed, which will unfold gradually.

Interviews for the media, Wikimedia ones and general

[edit]

Written by me for the Wikimedia blog

[edit]

Also I have a great interest for the Wikipedias in the languages of the Global Majority. I greatly admire all the passionate Wikimedians who work tirelessly to improve their language Wikipedia, thus advancing Decolonisation of knowledge, equity of the access of knowledge, and making Wikipedia more complete.

Other Diff articles where there is mention of mine:

Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:NikosLikomitros&oldid=30961585"