Contributors
Stacy Allison-Cassin is assistant professor in the Department of Information Science in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University where she researches and teaches on topics related to knowledge organisation and knowledge equity and justice. She started editing Wikipedia in 2015 and Wikidata in 2016 and has been an active member of the open community, including the Creative Commons and open access communities, for more than twenty years.
Gabriel Arsenault is associate professor of political science at the Université de Moncton and associate researcher at the Donald J. Institute. He is the editor of The Higgs Years. Leading and Dividing New Brunswick (2025).
Nathalie Casemajor is a professor at the Urbanization, Culture and Society Research Centre of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Her research examines the intersections of culture, technology, and territory. She holds the INRS Chair in Digital Commons and directs the Fernand-Dumont Chair on Culture. She has been a Wikipedian since 2012.
Jean-Michel Lapointe is digital education project manager at Université du Québec à Montréal. A Wikipedian since 2014 and a former academic librarian and teacher, he promotes the educational use of Wikimedia projects in higher education settings.
Pierre Lévy is a philosopher, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and former holder of the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa. He has authored thirteen books translated into more than a dozen languages, including Collective Intelligence, Becoming Virtual, and The Semantic Sphere. He is the CEO and co-founder of INTLEKT Metadata Inc., and the inventor of the Information Economy Meta Language.
Marie D. Martel is an associate professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information at the Université de Montréal. A specialist in libraries and open culture, she is also involved in research and outreach projects related to Wikimedia platforms. She has been a Wikipedian since 2010.
Denise Smith is the Head of the Research Lifecycle Department at Brock University Library. She has practiced academic librarianship since 2013. She has explored Wikipedia and contributed to the Wikipedia movement since 2017, hosting edit-a-thons, teaching undergraduate and graduate students to edit Wikipedia, and researching Wikipedia as a health information resource. She is currently a PhD student at Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Nathalie Thibault is archives curator at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) since 1987. Starting in 2016, she has been collaborating on various digital projects in the cultural field, like data standardization, metadata, Wikimedia projects, digitization, and dissemination of art and archive collections.
Miguel Tremblay is a physicist and has been a contributor to Wikipedia since 2003. With more than 16,000 contributions to Wikipedia, 3000 contributions to Wikimedia Commons, he is on Wikidata as the founder and animator of the Wikiproject on weather observations.
Simon Villeneuve is a physics and astronomy teacher at Cégep de Chicoutimi (Québec). He has fifteen years of experience as a trainer for wikis hosted by the Wikimedia foundation (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons but also Wikisources and Wikinews). A Wikipedian since 2007, he has contributed 10% of the French content on Wikipedia and is recognized as the sixth largest contributor in the world on Wikidata.
Mathieu Wade is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Université de Moncton. His research focuses on Acadian nationalism and the history of land use planning in Acadia.