Youth Conference 2025/Program
Program – How does it all work?
[edit]Youth Conference 2025 is a planned three-day event for young Wikimedians and Wikipedians around the world.
Main topic
[edit]To be held 16-18 May in Prague, Czech Republic. The main scope of this conference will be How to attract young people to Wikipedia?
This meetup of 80 young people from the CEE region and the rest of the global Wikimedia movement will look together for answers on how to make Wikimedia projects and activities more accessible to young people, how to ensure their growth and retention, and what they can do in their communities in this regard.
Character of the meeting
[edit]The nature of the event will be a Meet-up of 80 active young Wikimedians, who will together look for ways to further promote youth involvement in the Wikimedia movement and how they can actively contribute at their own level.
It will therefore not be a traditional conference, but rather a working meet-up to develop the potential of the participants. The format of discussions and working groups will help to do this. The whole three-day meeting will be facilitated by a group of facilitators who, together with the organizers, will ensure the most active space for all participants.
This means that there will be no call for papers, instead, participants will come to the venue to present themselves and their perspectives and maximize their potential for the future.
Pre-meeting task
[edit]Participants can expect to be given assignments before the event begins so that they arrive at the meeting similarly prepared.
Post-meeting task
[edit]They will then leave the meeting with a clearer idea of what and how they can do from their position to advance the Wikimedia movement, and how to support others in their community and other young Wikimedians among themselves.
We will offer everyone the opportunity to create a plan several months in advance and define a support system for its implementation.
We hope to create a supportive network.
[edit]Individual presentation – posters
[edit]Participants will have the opportunity to present themselves individually in the form of posters, the format of which will be specified in due course.