Wikimedia Keleshek Labaratoriyası
| What is the Wikimedia Futures Lab? |
The Wikimedia Futures Lab is a not a single event, but a process composed of a series of conversations designed to spark a period of experimentation across the movement. The Futures Lab brings together Wikimedia affiliates, volunteer contributors, and external experts to deepen our understanding of the impacts that global trends have on Wikimedia.
| What to expect at the Lab? |
At Futures Lab events and workshops, participants draw on expert perspectives, internal knowledge, and data to explore questions such as:
- How will the spread of AI impact human-generated content across the internet, now and over the next 5 years?
- Where and how will people find information on the internet, now and over the next 5 years?
- What are contributors across the internet looking for, and how might that change in the next 5 years?
During the Futures Lab, participants also generate testable hypotheses and “safe-to-try” experiments to be run locally and shared across the movement to accelerate collective learning.
| What are the Lab's goals? |
1-maqset: Qáwenderlik háreketine tiyislilik
- Kútilip atırǵan nátiyje: qatnasıwshılar hár qıylı kózqaraslar hám jergilikli kontekstler haqqında túsinikke iye boladı, olar qıyınshılıqlar hám imkaniyatlar haqqında ulıwmalıq túsinikke iye bolıw ushın birge islesedi hám Wikimedianıń keleshegin kóz aldına keltiredi.
2-maqset: Tiykarǵı global tendenciyalar hám olardıń Wikimediaģa tásirin talqılaw
- Kútilip atırǵan nátiyje: Qatnasıwshılar hárekettiń Wikimediaǵa tásir kórsetetuǵın tiykarǵı tendenciyalar haqqındaǵı túsinigin tereńlestiriw hám globallıq rawajlanıwlar regionallıq shárayatlarǵa qanday tásir kórsetetuǵının dodalaw maqsetinde ekspertler hám izertlewler menen qatnasadı.
3-maqset: áhmiyetli bolıwı ushın strategiyalardı usınıw hám ózgertiw
- Kútilip atırǵan nátiyje: qatnasıwshılar bul tendenciyalarǵa juwap beriwdiń múmkin bolǵan strategiyaların dodalaydı hám ilajdan keyin alǵa qoyılıwı múmkin bolǵan dáslepki ideyalardı qáliplestiredi.
Wikimedia Futures Lab conversations 2026
In-person events
- Frankfurt event on 31 yanvar - 1 fevral: See program and participant list.
- Prague workshop after Wikimedia Europe General Assembly on 26 aprel: full documentation here
Online events
- DCW Conversation Hour, March 29: Online conversation with Nicole Ebber "Wikimedia Futures Lab: Insights and Experiments"
- Monthly online check-ins with experiment owners to foster peer support and share updates on the progress of the experiments. Sign up here to receive the meeting link.
- The 30 minutes calls are hosted on the first Wednesday of the month at 15:30 UTC and on the first Thursday of the month at 14:00 UTC.
