Wikispore Day/2025

Wikispore gets shout-out on list of "Ideas originated from Wikimania" at Wikimania 2025 in Kenya.

WikiSpore Day 0 back in 2019, the picnic that partially inspired Wikispore.

The anniversary of Wikispore Day, observed on August 18, 2025, marks six years from the conceptual sprouting of the Wikispore idea from the Strategy Wiknic in NYC and its subsequent development at that year's Wikimania in Sweden.

Date and platform

Monday August 18:

• 13:00 UTC–14:30

• (9:00 New York, 15:00 Berlin)

• Join on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84661911259

Since Wikispore is probably the only Wikimedia project to be born at a picnic, you are encouraged to participate from a green space outdoors if possible.

Topics

Anything that is on Wikispore, or that could potentially be on Wikispore in the vast utopian future, or other efforts of Wikimedians Innovating New Genres.

Following up on the public consultation about Wikispore, a particular focus will be on:

• m:Requests for comment/Sister Projects next steps (process ongoing, your comments welcomed!)

Other agenda items include:

• WMF process and Incubator
• Art Spore and Canadian project
• Oral history
• Strategic planning for next 2 years
• Regular scheduling of meetings and on-wiki campaigns
• Your lightning talks!

Interested participants

Share your lightning talk or other session ideas!

• Pharos (talk) 14:53, 15 August 2025 (UTC) - a lightning talk on the potential of Art Spore as our flagship project, and building up a production pilot
• Econterms (talk) 13:07, 18 August 2025 (UTC) - Interested in an encyclopedia of our movement, on a small scale, in Wikispore's Org: space