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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?

الهدف 1: تعزيز الانتماء للحركة

النتيجة المتوقعة: يكتسب المشاركون فهمًا لوجهات النظر المختلفة والسياقات المحلية، ويتعاونون لتطوير فهم مشترك للتحديات والفرص، وتصور مستقبل ويكيميديا.

الهدف 2: مناقشة الاتجاهات العالمية الرئيسية وتأثيرها على ويكيميديا

النتيجة المتوقعة: يشارك المشاركون مع الخبراء والبحوث لتعميق فهم الحركة للاتجاهات الرئيسية التي تؤثر على ويكيميديا، ومناقشة كيفية تأثير التطورات العالمية على السياقات الإقليمية.

الهدف 3: اقتراح وتكييف استراتيجيات للحفاظ على الأهمية

النتيجة المتوقعة: يناقش المشاركون الاستراتيجيات الممكنة للاستجابة لهذه الاتجاهات ويبتكرون الأفكار الأولية التي يمكن تطويرها بعد الفعالية.

Wikimedia Futures Lab conversations 2026

In-person events

Frankfurt event on 31 يناير - 1 فبراير: See program and participant list.
Prague workshop after Wikimedia Europe General Assembly on 26 أبريل: more information 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.

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+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.
-The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment we need to deepen our understanding of how the world and internet are changing around us and how these changes are impacting our people and projects.
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-Wikimedians have already begun discussing global trends – from declining trust in online information, to the rise of AI-generated content, shifting regulatory landscapes, and more. The “correct” response is not always clear — but our movement’s capacity for collaboration and knowledge sharing uniquely positions us to learn our way forward through uncertainty.
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+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?
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-The Wikimedia Futures Lab is a process designed to spark a period of focused experimentation across the movement. It will help us ask what the world needs from us and accelerate our ability to understand what works in this new environment.
+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.
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-Through a series of conversations, the Wikimedia Futures Lab aims to fulfill three goals:
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 '''الهدف 1: تعزيز الانتماء للحركة'''
 * النتيجة المتوقعة: يكتسب المشاركون فهمًا لوجهات النظر المختلفة والسياقات المحلية، ويتعاونون لتطوير فهم مشترك للتحديات والفرص، وتصور مستقبل ويكيميديا.
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 '''الهدف 2: مناقشة الاتجاهات العالمية الرئيسية وتأثيرها على ويكيميديا'''
 * النتيجة المتوقعة: يشارك المشاركون مع الخبراء والبحوث لتعميق فهم الحركة للاتجاهات الرئيسية التي تؤثر على ويكيميديا، ومناقشة كيفية تأثير التطورات العالمية على السياقات الإقليمية.
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 '''الهدف 3: اقتراح وتكييف استراتيجيات للحفاظ على الأهمية'''
 * النتيجة المتوقعة: يناقش المشاركون الاستراتيجيات الممكنة للاستجابة لهذه الاتجاهات ويبتكرون الأفكار الأولية التي يمكن تطويرها بعد الفعالية.
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-== Wikimedia Futures Lab conversations 2025 ==
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-Below is a list of workshops hosted by the Futures Lab organizers at different Wikimedia events in 2025.
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-'''You can find a summary of these conversations [[Wikimedia Futures Lab/Summary of regional workshops 2025|here]].'''
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-* [https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/VRYKHM/ ورشة عمل ويكيمانيا]
-* [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025/Submissions/Imagining Wikimedia’s Futures: Global Trends Through Local Lenses|جلسة اجتماع للجنة شرق أوروبا ووسطها]]
-* [[de:Wikipedia:WikiCon 2025/Programm/Vom Globalen zum Lokalen|جلسة لمؤتمر ويكي ألمانيا]]
-* [https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2025/Imagining_Wikimedia%E2%80%99s_Futures:_Global_Trends_Through_Local_Lenses جلسة في مؤتمر أمريكا الشمالية]
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Revision as of 13:23, 20 April 2026

Wikimedia Futures Lab conversations 2026

In-person events

Online events