I had the opportunity to participate in Wikiversary 2026 , organized to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary.

For many, this milestone represents 25 years of building the world’s largest open knowledge platform. For me, it became an opportunity to contribute not only through participation but through reflection. It was my first conference and my first event with the Deoband Community Wikimedia. Traveling to Delhi felt both exciting and uncertain. Yet what I found was an environment of warmth, intellectual depth, and genuine support.

That space gave me the confidence to raise an important question.

Centering Confidence and Leadership

As part of the program, I presented:

“Confidence and Leadership: Analysing Women in the Wikimedia Ecosystem.”

With two years of experience in Wikimedia, I chose to examine a structural challenge:

Why are women still underrepresented in technical and leadership spaces in India’s Wikimedia ecosystem and what can we do differently?

Rather than focusing on “low…