Diversity, Inclusion, and Creativity: The Team Challenges Experience at Wikimania 2026

A new format sparked curiosity at Wikimania 2026: the Team Challenges , a new pre-hackathon initiative designed to bring together people with different skills, experiences, interests, and both technical and non-technical backgrounds to collaborate around a shared challenge: creating and improving tools within the Wikimedia ecosystem in order to co-design the tools that diverse communities need.

As a pilot experience, this space explored new ways of building knowledge within the Wikimedia movement. More than a competition, it became a collaborative laboratory where diversity of perspectives was the main resource for developing new ideas.

It was in this context that Team 09S – Amériques was formed, bringing together participants from different countries who spent two intensive days working collaboratively on a proposal centered on the use and reuse of Wikidata queries through the Query Reuser tool.