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Capacity Building: Beyond Article Writing Organizing Wikipedia in Your Language with Categories and Other Curation Tools
1+ day, 54+ min ago (520+ words) April 24th, 2026, the Igala Wikimedia Community hosted a capacity-building session titled "Beyond Article Writing Organizing Wikipedia in Your Language with Categories and Other Curation Tools." The session marked an important step in deepening the community's understanding of how to build not…...
Celebrating a Milestone: Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 Reaches 100, 000 Contributions!
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (507+ words) What started as a vision to document and preserve the world's living heritage has blossomed into a global movement. This year, I am entirely thrilled and deeply humbled to announce as lead coordinator that the Wiki Loves Folklore campaign has…...
Celebrating Wikipedia's 25th anniversary with a major community event in Azerbaijan
19+ hour, 54+ min ago (225+ words) Wikimedia. org On April 18, the Azerbaijani Wikimedia community marked Wikipedia's 25th anniversary with a large-scale celebration, organized by the Azerbaijani Wikimedians User Group (from now on, "the user group) with the support of Azersun Holding. The event brought together around 150 participants,…...
Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP Call for Proposals
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (264+ words) Wikimedia. org COSCUP is the biggest open source annual conference in Taiwan, hosted by and for all the open source community in Taiwan, which the Wikidata Taiwan community has also been participating in with Open Street Map Taiwan since 2019; co-hosting…...
Introducing the Wikimedia Foundation's draft FY 2026-2027 Annual Plan
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (226+ words) This raises critical questions for the Wikimedia movement: How will we do that? By focusing on four key goals in 2026-27:" These goals are enabled by a fourth goal:" To convert casual readers into active readers, editors and donors at higher…...
GLAM & Wikimedia in Q1 2026: A World of Culture in Motion
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1607+ words) Here's a roundup of things that have been happening, but of course there is a lot more to see in the This Month in GLAM Archives as well! The technical backbone of GLAM-Wikimedia collaboration continues to grow stronger, with new…...
Building a Wikimedia research community in Ukraine: a project recap
1+ week, 3+ day ago (319+ words) In June 2025 we launched a public call for researchers working on or interested in Wikimedia topics, and started preparing the conference. Registration for the conference opened in September 2025 and closed in mid-October with nearly 80 sign-ups, around 30 of whom applied to…...
Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia at Manipal University Jaipur: Learning, Innovation, and Community
2+ week, 1+ day ago (598+ words) In January 2026, Wiki Club Tech MUJ (Manipal University Jaipur) celebrated the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia " a platform that has transformed how the world accesses and shares knowledge. The event brought together students, contributors, and knowledge enthusiasts to reflect on Wikipedia's journey…...
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Trains Community Volunteers on Wikimedia Commons
2+ week, 6+ day ago (299+ words) On 6th April 2026, the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group (DWUG) successfully organized a hands-on training session on Wikimedia Commons at the user group office in Tamale. The training brought together community volunteers with the aim of equipping them with essential skills to…...
Ten thousand translated articles: OKA's experience with AI-assisted Wikipedia translation
2+ week, 6+ day ago (734+ words) The author is the founder of OKA, which is the subject of this article. Three years, 80 translators, and10, 000 published articleslater, the experiment has attracted both interest and serious scrutiny. This article reflects on what we've learned, what we've had to improve,…...