Before joining the
Africa Wiki Women On-Wiki Skills Mentorship Program, I had little knowledge about Wikimedia platforms and how they function. I was curious to learn new digital skills and explore opportunities that could help me grow personally and professionally. Joining the program became a turning point for me, as it exposed me to a world of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and online…
Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Previous editions of this bulletin are
on Meta.
The Dagbani
Wikimedians User Group organized a practical Wikipedia training session for members of the BACE Wiki Hub on 6 June 2026. The training formed part of ongoing efforts to equip new and existing contributors with the skills needed to effectively contribute to Wikimedia projects and support the growth of free knowledge.
The session began with a recap of the previous training. Participants…
Murdoch
2026 June 9 (Tuesday), 2:18PM
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Yesterday someone
messaged me about an issue with a wonky little tool I
wrote ten years ago. I actually the thing, because it creates feeds for a couple of things I follow on wikis, but as is often the way with RSS-related code I'd forgotten all about it — it just keeps working and doesn't need any…
I have noted before that many non-English works in science, even from Europe, are often given a quick pass-over in English works and cases range from the failure to cite junior synonyms in taxonomic monographs [ _Ixos fisquetti_ Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842 from a French source has been ignored as a synonym of _Pycnonotus priocephalus_ (Jerdon, 1839) by nearly all taxonomists] to glossing over major…
The Bombay Natural History Society offers an interesting case in the history of amateur science in India and there are many little stories hidden away that have not quite been written about, possibly due to the lack of publicly accessible archival material. Interestingly two of the founders of the BNHS were Indians and hardly anything has been written about them in the pages of the Journal of the…
Crowd might be a bit of a stretch for less than a hundred contributors but George Bellas Greenough (1778 – 1855), one of the founders of the Geological Society of London produced the first geological map of India which was posthumously published in 1855. Greenough was the first president of the Geological Society of London and was reportedly best known for his ability to compile and synthesize…
The years 1883-1885 were tumultuous in the history of zoology in India. A group called the Simla Naturalists' Society was formed in the summer of 1885. The founding President of the Simla group was, oddly enough, Courtenay Ilbert - who some might remember for the Ilbert Bill which allowed Indian magistrates to make judgements on British subjects. Another member of this Simla group was Henry…
Art in black and white is something that is always striking. In early times, when printing technology was still underdeveloped, the woodcut was the choice for illustration. Particularly interesting are the early illustrations of animals and plants. One of the earliest and best known examples of animal illustration printed using the woodcut technique was that of Albrecht
Dürer. His rhinoceros
of…
Murdoch
2026 June 9 (Tuesday), 2:18PM
· mediawiki-feeds · RSS · Toolforge · Wikimedia ·
Yesterday someone
messaged me about an issue with a wonky little tool I
wrote ten years ago. I actually the thing, because it creates feeds for a couple of things I follow on wikis, but as is often the way with RSS-related code I'd forgotten all about it — it just keeps working and doesn't need any…
Within the broader efforts aimed at bridging the gap in Arabic medical content on the internet, the WikiMed Workshop (part of the global Wiki Project
Med) emerged as one of the leading educational initiatives organized by the Wikipedian
Editor Project as part of the activities of the Egypt
Wikimedians User Group. The workshop presented a practical model that combined academic training with…
Latest tech
news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
Semantic MediaWiki 7 is here. It is faster, easier to install, and supports the latest MediaWiki releases.
We are pleased to announce that Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) 7 is now available. As its maintainers, we consider this the biggest release in years: 24 notable enhancements, plus 32 bug fixes. We focused on making SMW faster and easier to run, and the wider ecosystem of companion extensions is…
My heart is still full. I don’t think it will ever be empty again.
Let me tell you about the most beautiful month of my Wikimedia life.
De-stubbing stub articles on Dagbani Wikipedia
Before April 2026, I often edited Dagbani Wikipedia alone at night. My phone was my only companion. The silence was loud. I would write a sentence, save it, then sit back and wonder: _Is…
The history of the Royal Baltic Fleet (1658–1856) remained relatively inaccessible to Spanish-speaking audiences despite its importance for understanding naval development, state formation, and maritime power in Northern Europe. In order to fill this gap,
I dedicate myself to translate and expand content related to the
fleet on Spanish Wikipedia.
The work focused on making information available…
The
Africa Wiki Women On-Wiki Skills Mentorship Program provided me with a unique opportunity to improve my Wikimedia editing skills and contribute to closing the gender gap in knowledge presentation online.
Before joining the program, my understanding of Wikimedia projects was limited, but the training equipped me with practical skills and confidence to become an active contributor.
When I go to work, I typically listen to youtubes like this
one on the train. The narrative is typically much better than the visuals; not looking gives me room to edit Wikidata at the same time.
I found this youtube because I searched for "trophic rewilding" and it suggests that the introduction of jaguars in Yellowstone may bring equivalent changes to Yellowstone of what Wolves famously…
___The DEM-Debate project spent almost two years investigating how Wikipedia addressed disinformation during the 2024 European elections through legal and computational analyses. This final report, produced by researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Eurecat – Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya_ , _delivers two sets of recommendations: one specifically targeting the upcoming revision of the…
Contests are some of the most enjoyable ways Wikimedia communities come together. Whether it’s a month-long article-writing competition, an edit-a-thon, or a campaign to improve content in a specific topic area, these events encourage contributors to learn, collaborate, and create high-quality content.
But if you’ve ever helped organize a contest, you know that the work doesn’t stop at…
Language diversity is an important topic to me, as both an active Wikimedian in the Italian chapter and a sysop of Lombard Wikipedia, a regional language of Italy lacking any recognition by the government, so that’s something I always keep in mind when I do my wiki-stuff.
I synthesize my approach as “Wikipedia in Italian is not Wikipedia Italy and Wikimedia Italia is not Wikimedia in Italian”:…
As part of bringing volunteers on board to increase the content of articles creation for Dagaare
Wikipedia, a workshop was organised to train McCoy College of Education students; particularly indigenes of Dagaare language speakers
On Febuary 28, 2026, a total of 48 students who are Dagaare speakers gathered in McCoy Assembly Hall room with 4 lecturers to be taken through what…
For the 32nd round of
Outreachy, Wikimedia Brasil’s participation is targeting another wishlist from our Lusophone Technological Wishlist! Published on May 30th, 2025,
the list encompasses diverse wishes from the lusophone community for our Wikimedia Movement and sociotechnical infrastructure. In our previous participation,
we solved wish #2 with the deployment of ArquiBot. For this round, we…
WikiGap Jakarta, 04 Mei 2026 05 | Chaecilly | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0
Throughout April and May 2026, Wikimedia Indonesia’s Education team organized
Wiki Women’s Month 2026, an annual thematic campaign held to commemorate International Women’s Day and celebrate women’s contributions to science. This year, we adopted the theme #WomeninScience to highlight women who have contributed to…
Fremantle
2026 June 3 (Wednesday), 7:45PM
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The Wikimedia OCR tool now supports rotating the image, thanks to mw:User:Okerekechinweotito.
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My main RSS news feed: https://samwilson.id.au/news.rss
(or Wikimedia.rss, Fremantle.rss, OpenStreetMap.rss, etc. for topic feeds).
Email me at sam samwilson.id.au or leave a comment below…
Imagine reading all the important information on Wikipedia in your own local language? Exciting, enriching and inclusive right? Well, that is what me and thousands of volunteers from Botswana and across the world are striving for in local representation!
_Women pounding sorghum_
Allow me to share my wonderful journey with you as a Wikimedian. My name is Olga Tladi with wiki username…
What we've been up to in May!
3 June 2026, Belinda Spry.
For three days in May, Wikimedians came together to share ideas, learn from one another and strengthen the relationships that underpin our movement. The ESEAP conference 2026 held from 15-17 May in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, was the fourth regional conference for Wikimedia communities across East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Around 150…
WikiConference
North America 2026 will take place in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), on September 25–27, 2026, with the Culture Crawl happening on September 24.
We expect around 250 people to attend. This will include scholarship recipients, guest speakers, and affiliates from across the region. The conference will feature workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities, fostering…
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Daniel Dobriy is the founder and managing director of the company Dobriy AI. He is also a researcher at WU Vienna University and Austria's Bilateral AI Cluster of Excellence.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Italian wikimedians discussing web accessibility at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026
Web accessibility is not merely a technical feature. It is a prerequisite for truly free knowledge. During the recent **
Wikimedia Hackathon 2026** , held in Milan, we came together as a dedicated group hailing from Italy to confront a quiet yet persistent issue: the barriers that prevent visually-impaired…
It’s now roughly halfway through the 2026 Wiki Loves
Earth campaign, which runs 1 May – 30 June. Here’s a little bit about how some of our Programmes staff based in Wales , England and Scotland have been using their time, voluntarily, to raise awareness, encourage participation and highlight the different ways people can get involved with the competition.
I love…