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…
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2026).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
Arbitration
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2017 : 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
2018 : 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12
2019 : 01,…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Brooke Vibber back in January 2021 for my story in the Wikipedia Signpost,
The people who built Wikipedia, technically, which looked back at the technical history of Wikipedia to celebrate the 20th birthday.
I was not able to use all of the responses Brooke sent me for the article, but after re-reading them in light of
current events, I feel it's still worth…
There was a time when Wikipedia was the go-to source for information and one of the most trusted tools for research across the world. From students and journalists to researchers and everyday internet users, millions relied on the platform for quick and accessible knowledge. However, as technology continues to evolve, the way people consume information has also changed.
Today, Wikipedia faces…
Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch.
The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk.
I needed a knock-around laptop, so I bought myself a Minibook for my birthday last year. The more I tote it around, the more fun I’m having with this ridiculous little computer.
Chuwi Minibook…
For close to two years, my involvement in the Wikimedia ecosystem was mostly technical. I contributed through code during hackathons as a member of Wiki Mentor Africa. I understood the connections among platforms such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. I knew their importance, but I also felt there was more I could do. Something was missing in how I was contributing.
That changed…
21/05/2026-27/05/2026
[1] Several animal-related infrastructure features | © imagico | map data © by OpenStreetMap
Contributors.
This quarter, we renewed access to the American
Psychological Association and welcomed the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media
Database (Swissdox) to The
Wikipedia Library. Harvard Business Review is a leadership and management magazine and our partnership unlocks core magazine content, including archives and data. Swissdox provides access to a pool of more than 43 million items from the…
This text is my personal reflection on the announcement that the Wikimedia ESEAP Strategy Summit 2027 will be held in Osaka. I would like to clarify that these are not the official views or opinions of the Wikimedians of Japan User Group, to which I belong, nor of the Wikimedia Foundation or any other Wikimedia-related organizations.
B20180, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Until I joined the…
What does Wiki Loves Africa Entail?
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Wiki Loves Africa** is Africa’s largest openly-licensed annual event, with a month-long photography and media contest encouraging people across Africa to contribute photos, videos, and audio to Wikimedia
Commons. Focused on changing Africa’s visual narrative, the competition runs annually, with a specific theme related to cultural, daily, or natural…
Poster Registration delegates
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for self-funded participation in the Queering
Wiki Conference 2026.
Queering Wiki 2026 is a global gathering for queer contributors across Wikimedia projects and the free knowledge movement. It is a space to connect, collaborate, and collectively advance representation and equity for queer communities…
“Introduction
to Scientific Journalism” has been a free course available on Portuguese Wikiversity since 2021 and has since become a core infrastructure for the training of scientific journalists connected to Brazil’s main public science funding agency, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The course was originally conceived in 2017 through a partnership between Wikimedia Brasil and the…
Community language documenters and archivists have long been recording and preserving their community’s knowledge in audio and video. However, the tools for subtitling, describing, and managing media require expensive infrastructure. Since
2024, we have been
identifying such
technological barriers. Based on the learning, we at OpenSpeaks have also developed a set of tools.
We invite you to…
WMA Women Tech Summit Flyer 2026
What happens when women across Africa are given a space to learn, explore, and grow in tech together? That was the question the first edition of the
Wiki Mentor Africa Women Tech Summit set out to answer. Participants joined from all over Africa, notably Nigeria, Tanzania, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Uganda, Madagascar, Togo, and…
Museums safeguard humanity’s collective memory. They preserve artefacts, traditions, histories, and stories that connect people with their cultural roots. Yet many museums across Asia remain underrepresented online, particularly in languages spoken by local communities. For millions of Bangla speakers, information about these institutions is often scattered, incomplete, or entirely…
When Bryson Parham Jr. set out to find a Wikipedia article to improve as part of his Wikipedia assignment, he wasn’t browsing the online encyclopedia at random. Instead, the Long Beach State University student narrowed his focus to enhancing the biography of a person in STEM whose contributions weren’t yet fully recognized.
“I wanted to find a Black person who was making a real change in her…
TitiNicola, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Volunteer Supporters Network has been operating as a Hub pilot since mid-2025, with the pilot period running until November 2026. In that time we’ve run a number of
Skillshare and Peer to Peer meetings, we’ve
created and shared resources for those working to support volunteers within the movement,
recruited an Advisory Group and shared…
This blog revisits collaborations that began a decade ago, exploring how the questions they sought to answer remain relevant, resonant, and worth emulating today.
_Cross-Lingual Collaboration on Wikipedia: Urdu Wikipedia’s Engagement with Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Chinese Communities through English Wikipedia as a Translation Interface._
The above paper was orally presented at
Maulana Azad…
This was my third time contributing in an event hosted by ESEAP, a collaborative organization for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific region. At ESEAP 2024
Kota Kinabalu, I presented
my personal experiences, but this time I was glad to be able to talk about collaboration. And what was most wonderful was that 13 people from Japan contributed this time, and both young and veteran…
Snapshot of Wiki Loves Mother Tongue in the Igbo Community Event Page
Every 21st February is globally set aside to mark and celebrate the International Mother Tongue Day. The event celebrates and raises awareness of the linguistic and cultural diversity of indigenous languages while encouraging multilingualism. For the first time, the Igbo
community recently joined the global celebration of…
Colorful handwoven kafuna from Ghana, made with straw and
leather handles, arranged on the ground.
The University of Ghana HCI Lab contributed a Dagbanli speech dataset alongside Mozilla Common Voice. Merging two sources with different formats, and matching sentences to an agglutinative language’s lexemes, required us to build a custom three-level matching system.
In the…
Reke Wang / Secretary General of Wikimedia Taiwan
On May 20, just three days after the end of ESEAP Conference 2026 — and only the second day after returning from Kaohsiung to Taipei — I participated, in my capacity as Secretary-General of the Wikimedia
Taiwan, in the “Web Crawling Governance Policy Dialogue” organized by the Institute for Information Industry (III). The meeting was convened in…
_In-person activities from the Every Book Its Reader campaign mobilize editors in 11 Brazilian cities to improve content about literary works, authors, and writers on Wikipedia_.
Wiki Encontro 2026, an in-person event held at the Pio Vargas State Library (Goiás, Brazil) | BMartins (WMB), CC BY-SA 4.0
Between April 10 and 29, the meetings organized by Wikimedia Brasil and local partners engaged…
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Weekly highlight
Earth Day may come just once per year, but the work to better understand, protect, and celebrate biodiversity by contributing to Wikipedia never stops.
When information about a genus of
fig wasp exists only in paywalled journals or obscure publications, its incredible ecological importance, and even its existence, can remain largely unseen. But by developing and expanding Wikipedia articles on…
Somewhere within the pages of a fading, deteriorating mid-century Nigerian newspaper sits a hand-drawn advertisement for a local business, along with a political cartoon that captures the anxieties of its age. For decades, these images existed within newspapers located in physical libraries and archives, largely unseen. Then they were digitised, but it turns out that more could be done to make…
On May 12, 2026,
Bernadette Meehan, CEO of the WM Foundation, attended a meetup with members of the Japanese community. The CEO stopped by Japan before ESEAP
2026, which was held in Taiwan from May 15. Thirteen members of the Japanese Wikimedia community, including members of the
Wikimedians of Japan User Group, participated in the meetup, which was held in a conference room in Tokyo.
Japanese…
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Across Africa, culture is expressed through the many ways people celebrate life, mark transitions, and connect with their traditions. Wiki Loves Africa 2026 brought this to light through its theme, _Rites and Rituals_ , inviting contributors to document these important moments.
The Dagbani
Wikimedians User Group took part in the 2026 edition of
Wiki Loves Africa, joining communities across the…
The CapX platform is continuously being improved by its team to better meet community needs. Recently, it received two major usability updates related to its skills framework.
Now users can translate CapX skills on the new Translate! page, a dedicated interface designed to simplify multilingual contributions. The Capacity Directory also received two new visualization formats, along with an…