{"code":"BPY3J9","name":"Aafi","biography":"Aaqib Anjum Aafi is an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia, a premier university in New Delhi. He is the founder of the Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW), a thematic user-group affiliate of Wikimedia Foundation. He has been contributing to Wikimedia movement since 2019 and is an admin on Wikimedia Commons and the Urdu Wikipedia. He is a seasoned leader in the Indian Wikimedia ecosystem.\r\n\r\nAt DCW, Aafi has helped establish Wiki Club Jamia, Wiki Club AMU, and Wiki Club Deoband - to help introduce Wikimedia movement in educational institutions, alongside leading all of its programs. There, he also introduced DCW Conversation Hour, an open conversation hour for everyone, which has had 19 editions until now. Aafi has been to WikiConference India 2023, Wikimania 2023 and Wikimedia Summit 2024. In July 2023, he was awarded by Bayt al-Hikmah Deoband for his contributions to Digital Empowerment.","submissions":["GJ939H"],"avatar":"https://app.eventyay.com/talk/media/avatars/Aafi_on_Day_1_of_Wikimedia_India_Summit_2024_C7e27eK.jpg","avatar_source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aafi_on_Day_1_of_Wikimedia_India_Summit_2024.jpg","avatar_license":"Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.","answers":[]}