User:Dev Jadiya
Software engineer · Co-maintainer, Superset on Wikimedia Cloud · South Asia Outreach Lead, WikiVibrance
 Speaking at WikiConference India 2026 |
I am from India, and most of my volunteer time goes to the Wikimedia movement, where I work on two sides of the same question: the technology that contributors depend on, and the people and programmes that bring them in and help them stay. I build tools and help keep shared infrastructure running, and alongside that I mentor, organise events and workshops, serve on international photo campaign juries, and translate learning material into Hindi.
I care most about Hindi and other smaller-language communities, where a single well-made tool or one patient conversation can change what a whole community is able to do. I try to work in the open: every project I take on has a public record of what I did and what I learned from it.
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Events and programmes
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What I am doing now
[edit]- Tools and infrastructure. I co-maintain Superset on Wikimedia Cloud, shared data infrastructure for the community, and I build and maintain Clip2Commons, WhichTool and WikiScriptSync on Toolforge. Outside Toolforge I built Election Violence Monitor, an open-data platform for election-violence reporting, and I am investigating Santali (Ol Chiki) OCR for Wikisource.
- Community and mentoring. I lead South Asia outreach for WikiVibrance, founded Wiki Open Learning, and mentor in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program and Road to Wiki.
- Juries and review. I serve on international photo juries, most recently Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 and Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, and I reviewed the Wikimedia Core Curriculum video series for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Milestones
[edit]2026
- Speaker at Wikimania 2026 in Paris on a full scholarship: the Wiki AI pre-conference, a lightning talk on campaign juries, a research poster on Mapping Toolforge, and mentor of the team challenge that built WikiGlance.
- Core team member (communications), scholar and speaker at WikiConference India 2026.
- Speaker at the Language Diversity Conference 2026.
- Translated the complete Wikimedia Core Curriculum (seven modules) into Hindi for the Wikimedia Foundation's WikiLearn platform.
- Trained as a trainer at Train the Trainer 2026, IIIT Hyderabad, on a full scholarship, and designed the programme slides.
- Mentor at the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Hyderabad 2026.
- Lead organiser of the Wikipedia 25 celebration.
- National juror for Wiki Loves Birds and Wiki Loves Earth in the Philippines, and international juror for Wiki Loves Folklore 2026.
- Technical team member for Wiki Loves Food 2026 in India (templates, modules and Upload Wizard).
2025
- Programme reviewer and speaker at Wikimania 2025.
- International juror, Wiki Loves Monuments 2025, the world's largest photography competition, and national juror for Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 in India.
- Founded Wiki Open Learning (December) and launched WikiScriptSync on Toolforge (October).
- Mapped medicinal trees on Commons in the Medicinal Tree Mapping Campaign.
- National co-lead for the first national edition of Wiki Science Competition in India.
- Selected for the Developer Skill Development Program India 2025, with a full scholarship to its in-person conclusion.
- Developer on the Wikimedia Commons Android app, working with Gopala Krishna A, Nivas Ramisetty and Nicolas Raoul.
- Organising team of Wiki Debates and the South Asia Newsletter committee.
2024
- Full scholarships to the Wikimedia Technology Summit 2024 and the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024.
Selected talks
[edit]- Small Wikis in the Age of AI, Wikimania 2026
- How We Judge: Building Trust in Wikimedia Campaign Evaluation, Wikimania 2026
- What India Actually Reads, WikiConference India 2026
- If Our Languages Need English to Survive, What Exactly Are We Preserving?, Language Diversity Conference 2026
- Making easy ways for new technical contributors, Wikimania 2025
- WhichTool: Finding the Right Wikimedia Tool in Any Language, EduWiki Knowledge Showcase
More talks and slides: Presentations on Commons.
Writing: Diff posts on WikiScriptSync, Wikipedia 25 in Vidisha, the EduWiki Hub mentorship, Wiki Science Competition India and Wiki Debates.
Featured in Diff
[edit]- Notes from the Wiki AI pre-conference (August 2026): "Dev Jadiya gave the argument that should reframe everyone's roadmap."
- Day three at the Language Diversity Conference 2026 (October 2026), which describes my talk as one of the most thought-provoking sessions.
- The September 2026 EduWiki Knowledge Showcase (October 2026), featuring WhichTool as my capstone project.
Photos
[edit]More in my Commons category: Dev Jadiya.
Speaking at Wikimania 2026, Paris
With Bernadette Meehan, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
With Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
Presenting Mapping Toolforge at Wikimania 2026
With Asaf Bartov at Wikimania 2026
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Quality images on Commons
[edit]Photographs I took that the Commons community has promoted to Quality Image status.
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The full set: Quality images by Dev Jadiya.
Logbook
[edit]I keep a logbook of every event and project: what I did, what I learned, and what I carry forward.
Get in touch
[edit]I welcome conversations about collaboration, research, tools, mentoring, campaigns, and roles where this work can grow. Write on my talk page, email me, or reach me at dev.wikipedia
gmail.com. My code is on GitHub, my technical tasks are on Phabricator as Dev, and my contributions across all Wikimedia projects are listed at global account information.
This is my personal account; the views here are my own. Last updated 28 October 2026.
