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Wikimedia research conference in Ukraine 2025
“Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in the focus of scientific research” is a research community-building conference in Ukraine held in a hybrid format (offline in Kyiv and online) in November 2025 and supplemented with online events before and after.

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In 2025 and early 2026, Wikimedia Ukraine is implementing a Wikimedia research community-building project in Ukraine. We are organizing a national conference in Kyiv and online on November 15, 2025, as well as a set of supporting online activities before and after the conference.

Project plan

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The conference “Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in the focus of scientific research” convened Ukrainian researchers studying Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects on November 15, 2025. Its aims were to connect researchers with each other, with the international Wikimedia research community, and with the Ukrainian Wikimedia community, as well as to present their work to the Ukrainian Wikimedia community and the general public.

The one-day conference featured 30 presentations and discussions from researchers across various disciplines, both STEM and humanities.

We gathered over 40 participants offline and close to 40 online, including by inviting researchers from other countries to present their work.

For more info about the conference, see its program (Ukrainian original / machine-translated English version). You can also see its recording and read a brief recap on Diff.

To build momentum and community before the conference and sustain them afterwards, we'll host six monthly online webinars around the project themes (presenting Ukrainian researchers’ work on Wikimedia to the Wikimedia community and the wider public, presenting international research to Ukrainian researchers, connecting scholars with the Wikimedia community).

Conference group photos

Project progress updates

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Last updated on January 21, 2026

Overall
  • In June we launched a public call to gather researchers studying in Wikimedia or interested in the topic. So far 29 people joined the network.
  • Since July we've held four online events for the Ukrainian Wikimedia community and the research community (research presentation and other webinars). Events were attended by 10-20 people live each and are available to watch on-demand as recordings.
  • In September we launched registration for the conference, which will be held on November 15th. Key links: announcement, information sheet, registration form
  • Registration closed in mid-October with almost 80 people signing up to participate in-person and online; ~30 of them applied to present their research.
  • In November we organized the conference itself. It gathered over 80 people, roughly equally offline and online. The conference included 30 research presentations and discussions. A recording is already available, and the organizers are working on publishing conference proceedings in early 2026.
The list of online events held

Organizers

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The project is organized by Wikimedia Ukraine thanks to grant support from the Wikimedia Foundation through the Wikimedia Research Fund.

The core organizing team includes Mariana Senkiv, Anton Protsiuk and Natalia Lastovets. The organizing team will work with a range of advisors and supporting staff members. If you're interested in joining the project team in any capacity, please contact us at edu(_AT_)wikimedia.org.ua

The conference is organized in partnership with two Ukrainian universities, Kyiv Aviation Institute and Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics.

Learn more & stay in touch

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If you'd like to join the project or have any questions:

Note: the project's primary working language is Ukrainian. However, some conference sessions and online events will be held in English with Ukrainian interpretation & we'll be sharing learnings with the international community in English (e.g. through international conferences and Diff posts).

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