User Talk: Libcub

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Overcategorization

I did search through the archives, for "MUST be sourced" (wording from the box), and for "Categories for discussion". I didn't find anything relevant. Can you point me to the right place in the archive? Thanks. Libcub (talk) 07:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
:Sure. I'll take a look.
: Note that since '''''I''''' started at least one of the discussions, and as a result placed the template at the top of the page, I think I can state with fair accuracy that there was consensus.
:Incidentally, I'm wondering what "actions" cause you to think contrary. - jc37 18:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Featured content subcategorization

<nowiki>== Ohmigod ==</nowiki>

Libcub, where was consensus generated to recatogorize all of our FA pages!? Marskell (talk) 08:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

:I have rolled everything back. If you would like to discuss new or different categories, I'd suggest starting a thread at WT:FAC ↗. Marskell (talk) 09:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

That caused a lot of work; Libcub, I follow every featured article page, and have no idea why this recategorization was done. Please discuss future changes at WT:FAC ↗. Sandy<span style="color:green;">Georgia</span> (Talk) 13:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Diffuse

I thought this ↗ was what category people meant when they talk about "diffusion". Does it actually mean something different? And is there an accepted term for this "breaking down"?--Kotniski (talk) 09:12, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I realize that some Wikipedians use the term in that way, but I don't think that meaning is shared in the general population. I don't think it is a good idea to create jargon when a regular word or phrase does the trick, because that is another barrier for entry by new folks. I think "break down" works on its own. I guess we could say "reduce" in the first instance, and "subcategorized" in the second, if you think that would be helpful.

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Hi! I am having a little problem in the article Latin America ↗ with editor SamEV about Brazilian demographics. The main article about Brazil ↗ explains that the "Pardo" population is a a broad category that includes sub-categories such as the Mullattoes, Caboclos (known as "Mestizos" in Hispanic-America) and Cafuzos (known as "Zambo" in Hispanic America). In the Latin America article there is a table that says that 39.1% of Brazilian population are "mulatto" when the correct should be "Pardo". I explained that carefully in the talk page (See Talk:Latin America#Conflict with editor SamEV ↗) but editor SamEV not only ignored my remarks but insist on reverting all my edits. I also tried to reach his in his own talk page but he simply '''erased''' my message. That is not a helpful behavior of his. I should had simply requested to an administrator to block him per the 3 eevert rules and asked for an arbitration since his behaving as his owns the article. However, I want to avoid that since the issue is something very simple, that is, nothing more than to clarify the table that present Brazilian demographics. As it is know, it says that there are '''0%''' Caboclos or Mestizos (the majority of the population in Northern Region, Brazil ↗, Northeast Region, Brazil ↗ and Central-West Region, Brazil ↗) and '''0%''' Cafuzos or Zambos. Could you, please, share your thoughts about it in the article talk page? Thank you very much, --Lecen (talk) 10:36, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hello... while I'm sure you mean well, please do not keep reverting in the link to Procon. There have been a number of discussions about that site in the past few years, in the wake of a series of heavy spamming of links and a promotional contest by the site itself (including a contest with a cash prize for its members if they helped to create a Wikipedia article about the site). It has been deemed unsuitable for use as a reference source - editors are advised to trace material found there back to the original source - and removed as an external link since a large amount of its content (such as the "undergod" page) is simply a series of pro- and con arguments. --'''Ckatz'''''<small><sup style="color:green;">chat</sup> ↗<sub style="color:red;">spy</sub> ↗</small>'' 18:53, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Understanding the English Wikipedia Category System

Hi {{ping|Libcub}} do you already have results from your research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Understanding_the_English_Wikipedia_Category_System ?

I believe such results would be useful in our project Europeana Food and Drink.

You can find some references at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Generic#category, a proposal to reflect Wikipedia categories in Wikidata. It seems this proposal will fail because people criticize categories as outdated, messy, etc. And fail to see their true information value.

If you value ontologies, feel free to interject there. Cheers! --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 08:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Vladimir! As the banner says on the project pages, the project is in hibernation until summer. I was sick for most of last summer, when I was planning to work on the bulk of this project, and got quite behind in pretty much everything in my life, including this project and school. I am dedicating my whole summer 2015 to the project, though, and I should be able to work on it a little bit this term. Libcub (talk) 00:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

::Yes, I was wondering since it was now July whether Wikipedia:Understanding the English Wikipedia Category System ↗ had come out of hibernation. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; font-size:large; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">''Read!''</b> ↗ <b style="color:#006400;">''Talk!''</b></sup> 14:42, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
:::Sorry, I was camping. Yes! I am happy to be able to work on this project again. Are you interested in the project? Libcub (talk) 16:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''
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<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

Editing team community conversation ↗ - CopyVio Check ↗ and Real-time Checks ↗ (03 July 2024, in English)

Growth team community conversation ↗ - New tasks for newcomers and patrollers' burden (16 July 2024, in Spanish)

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''
<small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org ↗''</small>
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Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: ↗ Good projects and good people!

MediaWiki 1.42 general release. ↗

The Community Configuration extension ↗ is released to more Wikipedias ↗.

The Trust & Safety Product team published the Incident Reporting System MVP User Testing Summary ↗ and a project update ↗ on temporary accounts.

Recent changes from the latest Tech News ↗.

Reference Check to be rolled out on all Wikipedias. Read the initial results ↗ from the Edit Check project.

Concluded voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming ↗; new name now ''Community Wishlist''.

“Add an image ↗” suggested edit was released to Wikipedia iOS app ↗ & Donation through native GPay is now available on the Wikipedia Android app ↗.

Talk pages permalinks ↗ are now available at all wikis.

A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graphs ↗ with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Charts.

Wikimedia Enterprise Quarterly technical update ↗ focusing on machine readability, content integrity, and API usability.

Proposal for a Product & Tech Advisory Council ↗.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

Highlights ↗ and achievements & future plans ↗ from Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project ↗.

Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine ↗.

Watch the recording of the 11th edition ↗ of Wiki Workshop ↗ where research sessions on topics like Disinformation, Reliability, Representation and Gender, Governance and Policy, were held.

First edition of WikiLearn News ↗ released, highlighting opportunities and progress in the area of skills development.

The WikiData tools everyone is talking about ↗ during the 2023 LD4 Conference on Linked Data.

The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Unicode Consortium ↗.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

Evaluation of the U4C election results ↗ (ongoing)

Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons ↗ from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
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Thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan from the Japanese Wikipedia community ↗.

Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? ↗ – a recap of sustainability work across the movement and at the Foundation for 2023. Foundation Sustainability metrics for 2023 also available on Meta ↗.

The Wikimedia Foundation's revamped social media strategy is available on Meta ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Board liaisons published reflections on final Movement Charter draft ↗.

June 27 Conversation with Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2024-06-27 Conversation with Trustees ↗: notes & recording ↗ including outcomes of the 20 June Board meeting and a discussion of the movement charter.

Ratification vote on Movement Charter ↗ until '''July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC'''

2024 Board Selection ↗: Candidates ↗ have answered community questions selected ↗ by the Elections Committee.

Affiliates strategy ↗: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (''feedback page ↗'')

Feedback on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle ↗ finished on June 23. The revised version ↗ was published. Updates in July

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Wikimedia Foundation statement on volunteer processes on reliable sources ↗

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''
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<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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Registration for Wikimania Katowice ↗ (7–10 August 2024) is still open. Register to attend in-person or virtually until 26 July.

The call for presentation submissions ↗ for the WikiArabia 2024 is open (until July 28).

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''
<small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org ↗''</small>

The Community Tech team launched a new, continuous '''Community Wishlist ↗'''. Wish submission is now open ↗ and can be filled at any time.

Join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) ↗ as technical volunteers. Applications are open until August 10.

A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extendible Chart ↗. You can subscribe to the newsletter ↗ to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.

CampaignEvents ↗ extension, add an Image ↗ feature on iOS Wikipedia app and more recent changes from the Tech News ↗. Read also other news in the previous edition ↗.

Dark mode - one of the most requested features will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility ↗ and is now available on select wikis, on mobile and desktop, in both reading and editing mode!

MediaWiki insights ↗ into work done to improve security, ease of use, maintainability and overall code health. Also, a 25% increase in the number of authors who have committed more than 5 patches!

Have you ever wished monitoring and fighting vandalism was easier from your mobile device? Edit Patrol ↗ is here to help.

On the value of experimentation – a Future Audiences perspective ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
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Wikicelebrate Ellie from El Salvador ↗, a passionate Wikipedia trainer, event organizer and someone who finds joy in seeing others grow.

Growing visual knowledge on the Wikimedia projects – the experiences of the Image Description Month ↗.

Enhancing Learning with Ancient Manuscripts – Wikisource Loves Manuscripts pilot project ↗ in Indonesia.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
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The call for candidates for the special election of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ is open now until July 19.

Protecting the Wikimedia model, its people, and its values – highlights from the Global Advocacy Team ↗.

Reflections from the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2024 (DRIF24) ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons ↗ from FY23/24 Community Fund Grants

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees published its decision ↗ not to ratify the draft Movement Charter along with proposed next steps (minutes ↗, resolution ↗, appendix ↗).

Movement Charter voting is closed. At the time of drafting, the scrutineers ↗ are working to ensure that all votes on the ballot are valid.

'''Foundation statements'''

Wikimedia Foundation’s Accreditation to the World Intellectual Property Organization was blocked for a fourth time by China ↗.

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<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 22 July 2024

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<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

Where to from here? A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander ↗.

The program for Wikimania Katowice ↗ (7–10 August 2024) is now live! Register now ↗ to attend virtually!

Are you speaking at Wikimania? Here are some resources for speakers ↗.

The Foundation recently opened our first data center in South America. Read about how it is already lowering load times ↗.

Feature updates from the Tech News ↗: Stewards can now globally block ↗ accounts; Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest ↗; and interface of FlaggedRevs ↗ (also known as “Pending Changes”) is improved.

Dark mode will transform Wikipedia's accessibility ↗. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them ↗.

Measure the impact of Wikimedia Commons with Commons Impact Metrics ↗ analytics dashboard, now available ↗ via data dumps and API.

Key findings from user research ↗ about confusion in uploading images to Wikipedia.

This month’s Wikimedia Research Showcase ↗ highlighted the impact machine translation has on both content and readers of Wikipedia and provided interesting insights on how to overcome related challenges. Watch the recording ↗.

The Charts project officially kicked off. The goal of this new initiative is to restore basic data visualization capabilities to the wikis. Check out the project page ↗ and follow our progress on Phabricator ↗.

The CampaignEvents ↗ extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on other wikis. This extension helps manage and make events more visible. Learn about how to request this extension ↗.

The Campaigns Product ↗ & Programs ↗ teams have launched a consultation ↗ on WikiProjects and other forms of collaboration on the wikis. They want to understand why they work (or don’t work) for some Wikimedia communities, and they want to learn what can be done to improve the experience. Everyone is encouraged to share their feedback ↗.

Are you a technical contributor? Check out the latest Technical Community Newsletter. ↗

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

The Wikimania Core Organizing Team (COT) for 2025 is delighted to announce ↗ that the 20th Wikimania will be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya ↗.

The Wikipedia Library ↗ secured new partnerships with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ↗ (IEEE), Central European University Press ↗, and l’Informé ↗ and is adding more content collections ↗ in the library.

Three new ''A Wiki Minute'' videos have been released which address reader privacy ↗ and content management on Wikipedia ↗, as well as how Wikipedia differs from social media platforms ↗. Learn how ''A Wiki Minute'' videos have helped increase awareness about our work ↗.

The Committee Support Team year-in-review and reflections ↗.

A new 20-minute audio interview about the WikiLearn platform ↗ with Asaf Bartov ↗, in an episode of the WikipediaPodden ↗ podcast.

More of the Wikipedia core policies curriculum ↗ developed for the Africa Growth Pilot ↗ is available for review. After edits and improvements by the community, recorded videos would become a permanent core policies course on WikiLearn ↗.

One new wiki has been created: Wikivoyage in Czech ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

Voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ is open now until August 10. Learn more about voting and voter eligibility ↗.

US Supreme Court ruling on NetChoice cases: What does it mean for Wikipedia? ↗

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

Announcing the 2023-2024 Research Fund Grantees ↗ and their funded projects.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

The outcomes of the June Board meeting are published on Meta ↗. Agenda for the August meeting is here ↗.

Welcoming new affiliates: Recognition of Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group ↗, Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group ↗, and Wikimedians of Singapore User Group ↗.

The Board of Trustees selection pre-onboarding ↗ and campaign period is open from July 25 to August 26.

Foundation Trustee Dariusz Jemelniak was appointed ↗ to the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, established as part of the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation.

Movement Charter voter feedback: All comments are now on Meta-wiki (65 comments from the affiliates voters ↗ and 447 comments from the individual voters ↗).

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 14 August 2024

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Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania Katowice or revisit your favourites directly from the program ↗, or review the day-long streams on YouTube: Day 1 streams ↗, Day 2 streams ↗, Day 3 streams ↗, Day 4 streams ↗.

The Wikimedian of the Year Awards ↗ at Wikimania paid tribute to amazing Wikimedians who have made significant contributions to the movement. Learn about all of this year's winners ↗.

Daily highlights from Wikimania: Day 1 ↗, Day 2 ↗, Day 3 ↗, Day 4 ↗.

Winners of the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award ↗ was announced at Wikimania.

Highlights of product and tech sessions on Wikimania ↗ with links to description and recording.

The Open Conversation with the Trustees at Wikimania ↗ hosted breakout discussions about the Movement Charter, affiliate strategy and hubs, the proposal for a Global Resource Distribution Committee (hybrid table--had streaming and is available to watch back online), the Product/Tech Advisory Council & Product/Tech priorities, building a sustainable revenue strategy for the movement: online fundraising, Wikimedia Enterprise and the Wikimedia Endowment, and responding to emerging threats to free knowledge: litigation, censorship, disinformation, and trust in an election year.

Catch up on Foundation-led sessions from Wikimania on safety and information integrity: Protecting Children on-Wiki: a Child Rights Solutions Workshop ↗, Information Integrity during Elections: Collective effort to address mis and disinformation ↗, Policy Advocacy Showcase: Stories of policy advocacy work in the movement and future trends ↗.

Wikimania 2024 in Poland celebrates global volunteers ↗ who make Wikipedia and sister projects possible.

'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''
<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>
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Language Community Meeting ↗: Have topics to share or discuss? Add agenda here ↗. (August 30 at 15:00 UTC.

Two new parser functions and more recent changes on Tech News ↗.

Help us better understand WikiProjects ↗ or similar online collaboration spaces. Fill out a brief survey ↗ or share your thoughts on the talkpage ↗.

Parsoid deployed on first production wikis and more updates on MediaWiki Product Insights ↗.

Applications to join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) ↗ are extended until September 16.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

The 4th edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter ↗ (Aug 2024) is available.

Reviving history and spreading the Spirit of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA) in Naga City, the Philippines ↗ and Yogyakarta, Indonesia ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, Global Digital Compact, and Anti-Disinformation Repository: Highlights from the Global Advocacy Team ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''
<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

Language Community meeting ↗ (August 30 at 15:00 UTC).

Cross-Regional Grantee Partner Learning Conversation Part 1 ↗ (August 31 at 07:00 UTC, in English, French, and Chinese Mandarin).

The Wikimedia+Libraries Convention 2025 ↗ will take place in Mexico City from January 15-17, 2025. The scholarship application deadline ↗ is August 31.

ESEAP Community Call ↗ (September 8 at 07:00 UTC).

Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience ↗.

Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News ↗.

Outreachy ↗ (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info ↗).

The Campaign Events ↗ extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested in other language wikis.

The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey ↗ or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki ↗.

Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image ↗ feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.

Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) ↗ are still open until September 16.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

Central Asian community members share their thoughts on Wikimania 2024 ↗.

Take a look at updates on new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects ↗ in the July 2024 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

The Conference and Events Fund ↗ is open for submission until September 2.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

Some next steps on a movement charter ↗: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.

Elections ↗ for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 4 September 2024

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''
<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

The Voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election ↗ is open until September 17. Go to the SecurePoll ↗ voting page to vote.

Scholarship application for Wikisource Conference 2025 ↗ in Bali, Indonesia is open until September 20.

WikiConference Nigeria 2024 ↗ will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from September 12–14.

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 ↗ will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on September 20–22.

Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages Conference ↗ will take place in Waterford City, Ireland on September 25–27'''.'''

Italian WikiConference ↗ will be held in Padua, Italy on September 27–29.

Join Wiki Loves Onam ↗, a photo campaign dedicated to documenting the vibrant and colorful festival of Onam on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs until September 30.

Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This ↗ is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes ↗.

The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of WE1.2 ↗, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the project page ↗ and explore the new feature in the app!

Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update ↗ and help test the charts.

A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki ↗. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page ↗ until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

More recent tech updates from Tech News ↗.

The latest status updates ↗ from Wikifunctions.

Help us find WikiProjects ↗ or other online collaboration spaces!

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

Revamping Movement Strategy Grants ↗ with Hub Focus.

Watch the recordings of Let's Connect Grantee Partner Learning Conversation: Conversation #1 with Wiki in Africa, Wiki Advocates Philippines, and Indic MediaWiki Developers UG ↗ and Conversation #2 with Wikimedia Community UG Malta, Wikimedia MA UG, and Wikimedia Canada ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

Wikimedia Foundation defeats gambling magnate’s lawsuit in Germany ↗.

Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta Team Up Against Harmful Content Online ↗.

Child Rights Impact Assessment at EduWiki Knowledge Showcase and more: Latest updates ↗ from the Global Advocacy team.

Protecting the people: Some recommendations for safety ↗ while contributing to Wikimedia projects.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee published their recommendations ↗ and bid farewell.

Read updates from the July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting ↗.

Learn more about 12 candidates running for 4 seats on the Board by reading their statements ↗ and their answers to community questions ↗.

See the new members of the U4C ↗ following the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election, a new decision making group that will enforce the UCoC in specific circumstances.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 26 September 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''
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<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

"Wikimania Katowice coverage travels around the world ↗" – a curated list of community and media coverage of Wikimania 2024. Over 100 pieces so far have been published about the event.

WikiForHumanRights ↗ will lead a conversation about the future of the campaign with the Africa region ↗ on September 25 at 15:00 UTC.

Let’s Connect ↗: “Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia” ↗ will take place on September 26 at 15:00 UTC.

Wikisource Conference 2025 ↗, the deadline for scholarship applications ↗ has been extended to September 29.

Big Fat Brussels Meeting 9 ↗ will be held in Brussels, Belgium from September 29–30'''.'''

WikiConference North America ↗ will be held in Indianapolis, USA from October 3–6.

WikiIndaba Conference 2024 ↗ will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 4–6.

Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024) ↗: will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 4–5.

ESEAP Community Call ↗ will be held on October 6 at 07:00 UTC.

Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 ↗ is accepting submissions until October 6.

The Language and Product Localisation ↗ team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year's plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).

'''MediaWiki Product Insights''': The latest edition ↗ includes details about: research about hook ↗ handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.

'''Tech News''': Find out about the new automated Special:NamespaceInfo ↗ page, the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery ↗, and more recent tech updates ↗.

'''Wikidata Query Service''': A new change to Wikidata Query Service ↗ will impact certain uses. The project will enter a transition period until the end of February 2025. For more details, visit the announcement page ↗.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Enhanced Free API Accounts ↗: Recurring Credits and More Frequent Updates, early beta release of Structured Contents in Snapshot API ↗, and early beta dataset release to Hugging Face ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Status updates ↗ from September 20.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature on both iOS and Android (T372954 ↗)!

'''Knowledge is Human:''' Read about ongoing work on the 2024 iteration of the "Knowledge is Human" public awareness campaign ↗

'''Server Switch''': A server switch ↗ was completed successfully on September 25 with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 45 seconds ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''
<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest showcase ↗ with the theme of Curation of Wikimedia AI Datasets ↗.

'''Conference and Event Fund''': Updates and changes to the Conference and Event Fund program ↗ beginning in September 2024.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''
<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''UN Summit of the Future Action Days:''' Watch the Wikimedia event ↗ titled "The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a more secure, inclusive, and resilient world ↗" at The Summit of the Future. This is expected to result in a negotiated Global Digital Compact, which represents the final phase of our movement-wide campaign to impact the text of the Global Digital Compact ↗.

'''Wikipedia and the Digital Services Act''': Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

Ahead of UN General Assembly, Wikimedia Foundation calls on governments to ensure the future internet is shaped by communities for the public interest. ↗

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''

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<small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

WikiArabia Conference 2024 ↗ will be held in Muscat, Oman, from October 25 to 27.

WikiConvention francophone 2024 ↗ will be held in Québec, Canada, from November 2 to 3.

AffCom, Case Review Committee (CRC) and the Ombuds commission (OC) ↗ are seeking new member applications from October 14.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''

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'''Tech News''': Updates on Dark Mode, Vector 2022 skin, CampaignEvents extension, and more on tech news ↗.

'''Translation suggestion:''' Sign up to participate in the test project, Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists ↗, which will help organisers identify and add relevant content based on high-impact topics to their Wikipedia.

'''Wikifunctions''': Status updates ↗ from September 26.

'''Wikipedia Apps:''' Check out the latest issue of the Apps Quarterly Newsletter ↗!

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''

<small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta ↗''</small>

'''WikiWomen Summit''': Event summary ↗ at Wikimania 2024.

'''Let's Connect ↗''': Watch recordings of the session Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia ↗.

'''WikiLearn''': The latest online learning opportunities ↗ created by Wikimedians for Wikimedians.

'''Indonesia:''' Training for Indonesian Wikipedia Administrators ↗ to Safeguard Knowledge Integrity Ahead of the Regional Elections

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''

<small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Mexico:''' Wikimedia Foundation files amicus brief in Mexico ↗ urging continued use of intermediary liability protections for user-generated content in Richter v. Google.

'''Paraguay:''' Wikimedia Foundation to Paraguayan Supreme Court: ↗ Do not allow people to abuse the law to suppress legitimate information

'''Global:''' Celebrating a legal victory in Germany against censorship, reflections on Open Culture strategic workshop, and more global advocacy updates ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''

<small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Governance''': Update from Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee ↗, a proposal to ask for help and co-creation in Movement Charter Mapping Exercise ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''

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<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 19 October 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

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How Wikipedia is staying relevant in the AI era ↗: Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander talks about Wikipedia and AI in an interview with the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast.

Wiki for Human Rights ↗ is organizing a call for South Asia, East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific communities to discuss the Future of WikiForHumanRights on October 24 at 10 UTC.

Campaign Events tool ↗: a call with the Indonesian communities will be hosted on October 25.

Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists project ↗: an office hour with event/campaign organisers and contributors who use Content Translation ↗ tool will be hosted on October 26th. Visit this page ↗ for more details.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': In issue 2024/42 ↗, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43 ↗, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments ↗, and more updates.

'''MediaWiki''': The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter ↗ is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page ↗ to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.

'''Research:''' The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights ↗.

'''New Content Translation feature''': Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature ↗ helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.

'''Wikifunctions:''' We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget ↗ that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 ↗ and October 17 ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts:''' Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on '''October 29''' to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page ↗. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ ↗'' ''to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page ↗ if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.

'''Knowledge is Human campaign:''' The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign ↗ (landing page ↗) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Wikipedia as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Grants''': Announcing the newest round of Knowledge Equity Fund grantees ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest showcase ↗ with the theme of Wikipedia for Political and Election Analysis ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Latest transparency report''': The latest Transparency Report, covering the period from January to June 2024, is now live on the Foundation website ↗. View also highlights from the report ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Elections''': Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections ↗ has been announced.

'''Affiliates Strategy''': Implementation status of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 6 November 2024

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>

'''Commons Community Call:''' The first community call ↗ with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year will take place on November 21. The theme of this call will be about how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. The call will be hosted by Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann.

'''Conferencia Justicia climática Perú 2024:''' Conference on climate justice, indigenous voices and Wikimedia platform ↗ will be held in Huaraz, Peru from November 8 to 10.

'''Affiliations Committee:''' Applications for joining the Affiliations Committee ↗ is open until November 18.

'''Ombuds Commission and Case Review Committee: '''Applications for joining the Ombuds commission ↗ and the Case Review Committee are open until December 2.

'''Language community meeting:''' A language community meeting ↗ will be hosted on November 29, 16:00 UTC, discussing technical updates and problem-solving.

'''Advisory Council''': The new Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) was announced ↗. The PTAC will try to publish a set of community-validated recommendations that can serve as a potential 2-3 year blueprint for product and technical success.

'''Wikifunctions''': The Abstract Wikipedia team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. More status updates ↗.

'''Tech News''': The Guided Tour extension ↗, which help newcomers understand how to edit, now works with dark mode ↗; Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with potential features that making it easier for readers to discover information on the wikis ↗. More tech updates from tech news 44 ↗ and 43 ↗.

'''Temporary accounts:''' Logged-out editors on 12 wikis, including Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Cantonese Wikipedia, receive temporary accounts ↗ now. This new account type enhances the privacy of logged-out editors and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. Read the new Diff post to learn more about temporary accounts ↗.

'''Mobile apps:''' The Mobile Apps team has released an update ↗ to the iOS app’s navigation, now available in the latest App store version.

'''Campaign Events Extension''': The Campaign Events extension ↗ is now live on two more wikis ↗, Wikidata and the Spanish Wikipedia.

'''Admin Retention''': A survey on Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition ↗ is open until November 11. As part of the Foundation's 2024-2025 Annual Plan, the research team and collaborators are studying recruitment, retention, and attrition patterns among long-tenured community members in official moderation and administration roles.

'''Knowledge is Human:''' The campaign web page ↗, which educates visitors on Wikipedia’s model and why it’s trustworthy, has earned over 140,000 clicks. The campaign has increased pageviews on WikimediaFoundation.org by more than 50%.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': From making a minor maintenance edit in 2005 to being one of the most appreciated Wikimedians in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region: this month we celebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks ↗.

'''Wiki Loves Earth:''' Mountains, Birds and Lakes – Central Asia Edition ↗

'''Future of Language Incubation''': As part of a new Future of Language Incubation ↗ initiative to support language onboarding, Wikipedia is now live for five languages: Pannonian Rusyn, Tai Nüa, Iban, Obolo, and Southern Ndebele.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy''': Reflecting on the anniversary of the EU’s Digital Service Act (DSA), Wikimedians share successes and public policy priorities at digital rights Global Gathering event, and more global advocacy updates ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''English Fundraising''': The Road to Launch: Wikimedia’s 2024 English Fundraising Campaign ↗.

'''Fundraising Report''': Our annual fundraising report ↗ for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is published. Last year, we had over 8 million donors giving an average donation of m:Fundraising/2023-24 Report0.58. We ran campaigns in 33 countries, 18 languages, and received donations from over 200 countries.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br /><small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>
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'''Conversation with the trustees:''' Speak directly with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about their work at the next Conversation with the Trustees ↗ on 27 November from 12:00 – 13:30 UTC.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon:''' Registration is now open ↗ for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2–4, 2025.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting ↗ will be held on November 29 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Wikimania 2025:''' Application for scholarship ↗ to attend Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi is open until the end of December 8.

'''Central Asian WikiCon:''' The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 ↗ will take place on April 19–20, 2025, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Applications to be part of the Program and Scholarship Committee ↗ is open until November 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News:''' Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled ↗ can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions; Stewards can now make global account blocks ↗ cause global autoblocks ↗. Learn about the latest tech updates from tech news 45 ↗, 46 ↗, and 47 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions now has a new Type ↗: rational numbers ↗. They expand the ability to deal with numbers considerably, allowing us to work with fractions and decimals, and not just whole numbers anymore. More status updates ↗.

'''Temporary accounts:''' We are rolling out temporary accounts for unregistered (logged-out) editors ↗ for more wikis including Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Norwegian Bokmål.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Language & Internationalization:''' The fifth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter ↗ is available. Some key highlights ↗: Mooré Wikipedia is live; Keyboard Layouts for Multiple Languages Added; New Projects Added to Translatewiki.net.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest showcase ↗ which looked at external factors that help different language versions of Wikipedia thrive ↗.

'''Wikipedia Library''': What's new ↗ in the Wikipedia Library?

'''Tulu Wikisource''': Welcoming ↗ Tulu Wikisource.

'''CEE Meeting 2024''': Highlights ↗ from Central Asian community members at the CEE Meeting 2024.

'''Let's Connect:''' Let's Connect Learning clinic on Gender Sensitivity Training within Wikimedia communities ↗ was held on November 22.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Audit reports 2023-24:''' Highlights ↗ from the fiscal year 2023–2024 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise:''' Financial report ↗ of Wikimedia Enterprise for the fiscal year 2023–2024.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Updates''': The Board met in Katowice, Poland on August 5 and held its quarterly business meeting before Wikimania. Learn more about the outcomes of the meeting ↗.

'''AffCom''': The Affiliates Committee has resumed User Group recognition work ↗ after a pause to improve the User Group recognition process.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 12 December 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin December Issue

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Talking: 2024 ↗ continues''</small>
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'''Wikimania:''' Open call to host Wikimania 2027 and beyond ↗ is open until end of January 27 anywhere on earth.

'''Tech News''': Chart extension ↗ is now available on Commons and Testwiki; a new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter ↗ will be available as a beta feature ↗; Edit Check ↗ will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. More updates from tech news 50 ↗, 49, ↗ and 48 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': WordGraph dataset is released ↗, which is particularly useful for abstract descriptions for people in Wikidata. More status updates ↗.

'''Wikipedia 2024 Year in Review:''' Wikipedia 2024 Year in Review ↗ launched, showcasing the collective impact of Wikipedia and Wikipedia contributors in the last calendar year. The iOS App also released a personalized Year in Review ↗ to Italy and Mexico, with insights based on reading, editing, and donation history.

'''Wikipedia Android App:''' The Android team has launched the Rabbit Holes feature in the final release of the year as part of Wiki Experiences 3.1 ↗. Currently being tested in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this feature suggests a search term and a reading list based on the user's last two visited articles. For more details or to share feedback, visit the project page ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': From Challenges to Change-Making: We Wikicelebrate Chabota Isaac Kanguya ↗, a passionate contributor from Zambia, whose journey through the Wikimedia movement embodies resilience, collaboration, and a commitment to representing underrepresented voices.

'''Conference:''' Announcing Central Asian WikiCon 2025 ↗ which will be hosted at Diplomat International School on April 19–20, 2025, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

'''Campaigns and topical collaboration:''' The Campaign Product and Programs teams published research on the needs of WikiProject and other topical collaborations. ↗

'''Wikisource''': The journey so far and looking ahead with Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa). ↗

'''CEE Meeting''': Experiences and Highlights ↗ by Central Asian Community Members.

'''Partnership''': Wikimedia Indonesia and Google Join Forces for Wikipedia Content Enrichment ↗ in Indonesia.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest showcase ↗ which discussed AI for Wikipedia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Ongoing litigation:''' Update on litigation in India. ↗

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Elections''': The Board’s Executive Committee shared some thoughts on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections ↗.

'''External media releases & coverage'''

'''Most popular articles:''' Announcing English Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2024 ↗.

'''Interview:''' Jimmy Wales on Why Wikipedia Is Still So Good ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 24 December 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 1

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'''Conversation with the trustees:''' Speak directly with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about their work at the next Conversation with the Trustees ↗ on January 30 at 14:30 UTC.

'''Community Resilience and Sustainability:''' Join the conversation hour ↗ which will discuss Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights on January 30 at 20:00 UTC.

'''Annual Planning:''' Shaping Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 annual goals: Key questions for the Wikimedia movement ↗.

'''Central Asia Wikicon:''' Submission for sessions ↗ is open until March 22.

'''Wikipedia is turning 25:''' We just celebrated Wikipedia's 24th birthday, and are already planning for next year's big milestone! Share your thoughts ↗ on what you have in mind to mark the silver jubilee of Wikipedia.

'''Wikipedia App:''' iOS App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review ↗ feature, providing insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia.

'''Design System:''' Codex – Year 2024 in Review ↗: Key Milestones and Innovations.

'''Tech News:''' The CampaignEvents extension ↗ offers organizers features like event registration management directly on-wiki; The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months; Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke ↗. More updates from tech news Dec 16 ↗, Jan 13 ↗, and Jan 21 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions:''' Wikifunctions shares their Quarterly planning ↗ for January-March 2025.

'''Admin Research Report:''' The Research Team published their final report on administrator recruitment, retention, and attrition ↗ patterns among long-tenure community members in moderation and administration roles.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Distribution of Funds:''' Next steps toward the creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗.

'''Wikipedia Library:''' What’s new in The Wikipedia Library? ↗ (Oct-Dec 2024).

'''Conferences:''' Your Sneak Peak into the 9 approved Wikimedia Conference Proposals for 2025 ↗.

'''Wikimania:''' Road to Nairobi: ↗ Travel Essentials & Tips.

'''Wikisource Loves Manuscripts:''' Meet-up in Bali: Strengthening the manuscript preservation ecosystem ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase:''' Watch the latest showcase ↗ which looked at Reader Attention and Curiosity. ↗

'''Resource Support Pilot:''' Join the discussion about shaping a pilot project ↗ on the English Wikipedia that would fund small resource requests (like books) to support editors in improving content.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy:''' Wikimedians will promote cultural preservation and knowledge diversity at RightsCon 2025. Tune in ↗!

'''Mis- and disinformation''': Training on misinformation and disinformation prevention for communities in Indonesia: A recap ↗.

'''December's Global Advocacy Newsletter:''' For quarterly insights into the internet governance and policy work the Foundation is doing, subscribe to our Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗. You can see our latest December edition here ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board of Trustees''': The Wikimedia Foundation welcomes community-and-affiliate selected trustees ↗ and the Board appoints Lorenzo Losa its Chair-Elect ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 7 February 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 2

'''2025 reflections''': Reflections on 2025 ↗ from the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive team.

'''Annual Planning''': How can we help more contributors connect and collaborate? ↗

'''Let's Connect''': The next Learning Clinic will be about WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online Part 2 ↗ on February 13 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''WikiCredCon 2025''' will take place on February 14–16 ↗ in San Francisco, USA.

'''Wikisource Conference''' will take place on February 14–16 ↗ in Bali, Indonesia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Future Audiences''': Watch the recording ↗ for lessons from the short video experiments. A new Discord bot experiment as a way to interact with Wikipedia, the Future Audiences Discord server and future plans for experiments around how to use gamification.

'''WikiProjects''': Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Rethinking Collaboration through WikiProjects and Campaigns ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': The newest sister project now has 2000 functions ↗.

'''Tech News:''' Editors who use the “Special characters” editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki; The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to MediaWiki History dumps ↗ to support the Temporary Accounts ↗ initiative. More updates from tech news week 05 ↗ and 06 ↗.

'''Product & Tech Advisory Council:''' The council looked at data, needs and trends to make a recommendation for the Foundation's annual plan. They recommended that improving mobile contribution experiences ↗ has the greatest potential to bring in new and unheard voices onto Wikipedia and sister projects, and improve the experience of readers and contributors most widely. They are requesting feedback and discussion. ↗

'''Structured Tasks:''' The "Add an Image ↗" structured task is being tested on a representative sample of Wikipedias which allows users to add an image and an appropriate caption to a Wikipedia article.

'''Talk page improvements:''' Usability improvements ↗ are being deployed on remaining wikis.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Language Preservation''': Empowering the Next Generation to Preserve Indigenous Languages through WikiKata ↗.

'''Resource Distribution''': Call for candidates for the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) is opened. Apply until Feb 25.

'''WikiLearn''': A new edition of WikiLearn News ↗ highlights how Wikimedia affiliates are leveraging this online learning platform to support the movement.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy Medium blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Diff policy articles ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy''': The Wikimedia Foundation has officially joined the TAROCH (Towards an Open Cultural Heritage Recommendation) Coalition ↗, a campaign run by Creative Commons that aims for UNESCO to release an official recommendation to improve open access to cultural heritage. The team also discussed how media freedom, Wikipedia, and AI connect at the United Nations (UN) Forum on Business and Human Rights; read more monthly updates from the Global Advocacy team ↗.

'''Banner & Logo Policies''': Help us collect examples of community discussions ↗ to run banners or make temporary logo changes.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Welcoming new affiliates''': Recognition of Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br /><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 3

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
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'''Wikipedia as a digital public good''': Wikipedia has been recognized ↗ as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance ↗.

'''Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) Connect''': The first edition of this regional community call for 2025 will be held on February 22 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase:''' The next showcase will be about "Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition" and will take place on February 26 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Celebrate Women 2025''': The Gender Organizing community in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign every March called Celebrate Women ↗. Conversation hours to learn about some exciting tools that can support your efforts at closing the gender gap will be held on February 25 at 14:00–16:00 UTC ↗.

'''Outreachy''': Wikimedia Foundation is participating in Round 30 of the Outreachy program ↗ that runs from June – August 2025. The deadline to submit projects is March 4 at 16:00 UTC .

'''Growth features''': The new Community Updates module ↗ is a new feature to facilitate the connection between wiki editing initiatives and newcomers.

'''Simple article summaries''': The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has introduced Simple Article Summaries project ↗ on select Wikipedias ↗. It aims to display article summaries that would be easy to digest for readers.

'''Language and internationalization''': Five new languages added to Wikipedia as part of the future of language incubation initiative. Read more on the latest edition ↗ of the Language and internationalization newsletter.

'''Tech News''': Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. More updates from tech news week 07 ↗ and 08 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Community Insights:''' The Community Insights 2024 report ↗ captures new insights on newcomers (who are more likely to be younger), their motivations (97% liked that their contributions help others), and how for the first time, more than half of respondents (51%) agreed that the Wikimedia Foundation communicates well ↗ about its projects and initiatives.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recording ↗ of WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online session 1.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee''' '''(GRDC)''': Are you interested in improving how funds are distributed across the Wikimedia Movement? Apply to be part of the interim GRDC by February 25 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Public Policy''': How Wikimedia projects advance a positive vision for the internet's future through the public domain, the digital commons, and digital public goods ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise:''' Wikimedia Enterprise has partnered ↗ with Ecosia, a Berlin-based search engine.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Brasil''': Wikimedia Brasil becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter ↗!

'''Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan ↗.

'''Affiliations Committee''': Insights about the future of the movement organization ecosystem ↗ from Affiliations Committee Strategy Retreat 2024.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 27 February 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 4

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Annual Planning''': Help shape our early-stage thinking ↗ around our Product & Tech work and provide feedback ↗ before budgets and measurable targets are committed.

'''Global Trends 2025''': As part of annual planning, we identify a list of global trends ↗ that will impact the Wikimedia movement, such as changes in how and where people search for and contribute information online, the rise of misinformation and disinformation in online spaces, and evolving regulation of online information providers.

'''Wikimania 2025''': Apply now ↗ to speak at Wikimania 2025 whether to lead a workshop, host a panel, present a poster, or showcase a tool demonstration. Submit your session by March 31 ↗ anywhere on earth. If you're interested reviewing proposals for Wikimania 2025 and helping shape the program, you can fill out a short form to apply to be a program reviewer ↗ by 17 March.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': Scholarship applications are now open until April 4 ↗. This conference will take place in New York City from October 16–19, 2025, under the theme “Wiki’s World Fair".

'''Wikimedia Enterprise and Global Advocacy at SXSW 2025''': Wikimedia Enterprise is coming together with Creative Commons on March 9 ↗ for a day of conversations and panel discussions at SXSW 2025 that tackles the challenges of AI and the preservation and ethical development of open data. Global Advocacy is participating on a panel on March 8 ↗, diving into conversations about the future of the internet.

'''WikiCauserie''': The online bi-monthly meeting aimed at bringing together the French-speaking member communities of WikiFranca will be held next on March 21 at 18:00 UTC ↗.

'''Datacenter Switchover''': All wikis will be in read-only mode for a few minutes for a datacenter server switchover ↗ on March 19 starting at 14:00 UTC ↗ for up to 30 minutes.

'''Tech News''': The wikimedia.org ↗ portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. More updates from tech news week 09 ↗ and 10 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Recommendation API''': We will be removing the recommendation API from the current offerings after March 31 ↗. This API is no longer used by newer versions of the Wikipedia Android Mobile application, which was its sole user.

'''Wikifunctions''': We deployed and tested one of our main milestones for this quarter ↗: the ability to get the right Lexeme given a Wikidata Item, or, put simpler, to get the right word from a thing.

'''Wikimedia Apps''': We are inviting users to help improve Wikipedia mobile app's reading and editing experiences in offline or limited internet use ↗. We will organize focus groups to discuss these experiences in more detail. Share your thoughts and help improve the app by joining the discussion ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Women’s History Month''': Wikimedia Foundation is running a campaign to spotlight some of the Wikimedians working to close the gender gap on Wikimedia projects. The campaign, ''Knowledge is human. Knowledge is her.'' ↗, is aimed at reaching external audiences in Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Gender Gaps" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on March 19 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC)''': The call for candidates is being extended until March 31 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Privacy and Transparency''': Finding the balance between privacy and openness to stay safe in an open movement ↗.

'''Legal Victory''': The Wikimedia Foundation has won a legal victory in Germany’s courts ↗ that sets a legal precedent defending the Wikimedia projects and volunteers against "forum shopping", choosing a court in a jurisdiction whose laws might be more favorable to them.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise and French AI startup Pleias have joined forces ↗ to show that structured, machine-readable knowledge can drive AI innovation while upholding openness, verifiability, and ethical development.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcing the 2025 Ombuds Commission ↗.

'''Universal Code of Conduct''': Wikimedia Foundation has chosen to appoint Jacob Rogers, Associate General Counsel ↗, to the Foundation advisory seat on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C).

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': The Board met virtually on 11 December to hold its quarterly business. See the most recent corporate actions taken on the Board Noticeboard ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 22 March 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 5

'''Wikimania 2025''': Program submission is still open until March 31. Apply now ↗ to speak at Wikimania 2025.

'''Research Fund''': The 2025 Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is launching, inviting proposals from researchers aiming to advance free knowledge through Wikimedia projects. Submit your proposal before April 16 ↗.

'''Central Notice Training''': Learn more about updates to the Central Notice Guidelines ↗ by joining a Central Notice Requester training on March 26 at 14:00 UTC ↗.

'''Design System''': Learn more about Wikimedia’s Codex design system ↗ and how to use it while designing for Wikimedia projects.

'''Tech News''': The improved Content Translation tool dashboard ↗ is now available in 10 Wikipedias ↗ and will be available for all Wikipedias soon ↗; on Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories ↗ has been introduced. More updates from tech news week 11 ↗ and 12 ↗.

'''P&T Annual Planning''': The Product & Technology department publishes its plans ↗ early in the annual planning process, which is on Meta-Wiki and open for feedback ↗. These objectives and key results ↗ are not a list of projects, but instead, a set of directions for problems to solve and impacts to achieve over the course of the year. We look forward to engaging with the community on this plan.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Resource Support Pilot''': The pilot project ↗ on English Wikipedia to fund small resource requests (like books) to support editors in improving content has moved to the next phases of the discussion ↗.

'''Wikisource Conference''': Some highlights ↗ from the Wikisource Conference 2025 in Bali.

'''ESEAP Hub''': Future plans for the ESEAP Hub ↗ one-year pilot project.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Litigation review''': Read key points of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal work last year ↗ to protect free and open knowledge broadly, and the Wikimedia volunteers and projects in particular.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': Announcement of the 2025 Affiliations Committee Appointments ↗.

'''Wikimedia MKD''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia MKD User Group ↗.

'''Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 6

'''Progress on the Annual Plan''': Six-Month Snapshot ↗.

'''Global Trends''': A message from Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees ↗ on global trends and strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view ↗.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The registration ↗ to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon is still open until midnight April 13.

'''Central Asia Wikicon''': The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 ↗ will take place on April 19–20 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

'''Infrastructure''': How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects ↗.

'''Tech News''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan ↗ for details) in April 2025; The Editing team is working on a new Edit check ↗: Peacock check ↗. This check’s goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage. More updates from tech news week 13 ↗ and 14 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Read the latest status updates ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Wikipedia Library''': What’s new ↗ from January to March 2025.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': Missed the last Learning Clinic on "Safe Spaces, Strong Voices: Advancing Inclusion through the UCoC"? Recording is now available ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Transparency report''': The Wikimedia Foundation’s publishes its latest Transparency Report ↗ covering the period from July to December 2024. View highlights from the report ↗.

'''Global Advocacy''': Read the latest developments on public policy advocacy ↗ from Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise Partners with ProRata.ai to Champion Sustainable Search Engine Practices ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Elections Committee''': Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee has appointed a new Elections Committee ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 9 April 2025

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Don't forget about Larry!

In response to your {{tq|Don't forget about Larry!}} userbox; isn't that guy an asshat? Polygnotus (talk) 11:50, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 7

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join one of the many conversations ↗ happening over April and May about how Wikimedians around the world are responding to global trends ↗ and help shape the Foundation's annual plan ↗.

'''CEE Catchup''': Join the upcoming global trends workshop for the CEE communities ↗ organized together with the CEE Hub ↗ on April 23 at 16:00 UTC, to discuss AI, NPOV, Wikimedia communities and more.

'''Neutral point of view''': More information and an update ↗ about the work to strengthen Wikipedia's neutral point of view.

'''Wiki Workshop 2025''': Register for the 12th annual Wiki Workshop ↗ taking place on May 21–22. It brings together researchers and scholars from around the globe who are interested in or actively engaged in research and development on Wikimedia projects.

'''Learning Clinic''': The upcoming Let’s Connect Learning Clinic ↗ is focusing on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects (Part 1)" and will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC.

'''Community Resilience and Sustainability''': Quarterly Conversation hour ↗ taking place on April 24 at 18:00 UTC to discuss Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 ↗ will take place on May 2–4.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions ↗ is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia ↗. It is the first Wikimedia project that will be able to call and integrate functions directly into Wikipedia articles. Read more weekly updates on Wikifunctions ↗.

'''Edge Uniques''': Introducing Edge Uniques ↗, a technical approach which consists of privacy-preserving first-party cookies that will enable usability testing of features through A/B testing, more accurate counting of site visits, and a way to stop distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) with better precision.

'''Tech News''': The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29; Last week, the default thumbnail size was increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn’t previously possible due to technical limitations. More updates from Tech News week 15 ↗ and 16 ↗.

'''Outreachy''': Celebrating the excellent contributions from both interns and mentors in Round 29 of the Outreachy internship program ↗.

'''Developer Satisfaction Survey''': The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) ↗ are available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗ · WikiLearn ↗''</small>

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': Celebrating the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest research showcase featuring the theme of "Motivation of Wikipedia Editors ↗".

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Digital Rights''': Wikimedians leading conversations at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025 (DRIF25) ↗.

'''Community Resilience''': To better support community members when they are facing challenges while contributing to Wikimedia projects, the Trust and Safety team worked with the Arbitration Committees to create Project Maps of communities ↗.

'''RightsCon 2025''': Key takeaways on advocacy and inclusion ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 1 May 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 8

'''Marking a transition at the Wikimedia Foundation''': update from CEO Maryana Iskander ↗.

'''Annual Planning''': We published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2025-2026) which prioritizes work to respond to global trends. ↗ Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''WikiForHumanRights''': Join the information session for the 2025 WikiForHumanRights Campaign ↗ on May 9 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Youth Conference''': Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 ↗ will take place on May 16-18 in Prague.

'''AI Strategy''': Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first ↗.

'''Tech News''': Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis ↗, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, now have access to the CampaignEvents extension ↗. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. More updates from Tech News week 17 ↗ and 18 ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia selected as a grant finalist''': Abstract Wikipedia has been selected by the MacArthur Foundation as one of five finalists for their 100&Change competition ↗. The winner will be announced in late 2025.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read some key highlights from the April 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania 2025 will be held in the Nairobi neighborhood of Gigiri ↗ and will host a special one-off preconference day for users with extended rights ↗.

'''Learning Clinic''': The recent Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ was about "Exploring Diff Blog: Sharing your story, & understanding Technical Implementation" and took place on May 6 at 12:00 UTC.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Data privacy''': Arguing for data privacy and safety of internet users worldwide: Our amicus brief in the Snap v. Pina lawsuit ↗.

'''World Press Freedom Day''': We will be advocating for Wikimedia's model and speaking about "Information as a Public Good in the Age of AI" for UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day ↗ event in Brussels.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Risk preparedness:''' We shared the Foundation's approach to risk preparedness as part of the annual plan ↗.

'''Financial Report''': Takeaways from the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 for fiscal year 2023-2024 ↗.

'''Annual Report''': The Foundation published the Annual Reports for both the Wikimedia Foundation ↗ and the Wikimedia Endowment ↗. These reports highlight the impact of work done by our global community of volunteers, staff, and donors over the past year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board and Board committee updates''': The Board met in in March to hold its quarterly business meeting and joined other meetings as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual strategic planning. See the most recent actions and updates on the Board Noticeboard ↗.

'''Wikimedians of Chicago User Group''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedians of Chicago User Group ↗.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Elections Committee update:''' Review and comment on the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules ↗ for the upcoming 2025 selection process. The deadline is May 15 at 23:59 AoE.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 14 May 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 9

'''Global Trends Community Workshop''': Join Foundation staff and trustees on May 28th from 16:00 UTC ↗ for an online community workshop about global trends impacting Wikimedia ↗. This workshop is part of continuous conversations ↗ aimed at connecting the movement and collaborating on the Foundation's annual plan.

'''Wiki Causerie''': Wiki Causerie ↗ call with a focus on discussing the global trends to help shape the Foundation's annual plan will be held on May 23 ↗.

'''ESEAP Summit''': The ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 ↗ will take place in Manila, Philippines on May 23–25.

'''EduWiki Conference 2025''': The EduWiki Conference 2025 ↗ will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on May 30–June 1.

'''Wiki Workshop 2025''': The 12th annual Wiki Workshop ↗ will take place online on May 21–22.

'''U4C Call for Candidates''': The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 elections ↗ are accepting candidates until May 28.

'''Content Translation''': A decade of consistent improvements to the Content Translation tool ↗ yields over two million Wikipedia articles.

'''Charts Extension''': After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment. Please consult our page ↗ to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': Where Abstract Wikipedia fits into the new Wikimedia AI strategy ↗.

'''Tech News''': The “Get shortened URL” ↗ link on the sidebar now includes a QR code ↗. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently. More updates from Tech News week 19 ↗ and 20 ↗.

'''Topical Lists''': Read about the important role of topical lists ↗ in supporting campaigns and editing, as well as strategies for the future development, implementation, and sustainment of list-building support.

'''Two-factor Authentication''': From May 20, 2025, oversighters ↗ and checkusers ↗ will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Read the announcement ↗.

'''Mobile Apps''': The iOS app team is experimenting with an "Activity Tab ↗" on Turkish, Spanish, French, and Chinese Wikipedias to see if inviting new editors to add images through Suggested Edits increases engagement. This insight will guide future improvements to the app experience.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Learning Clinic''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will be about "Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Resolution - Best practices (Part 2)" and will take place on May 27 at 13:00 UTC.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': An important milestone for The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has been reached ↗. More than a million links have been added to Wikimedia projects by Library users.

'''Wikisource''': Watch the video celebrating the global Wikisource community ↗ in safeguarding our cultural heritage for future generations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''India Legal Update''': Good news from our legal team ↗, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s order directing the takedown of the ''Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation'' English Wikipedia article ↗. The Supreme Court’s verdict ↗ upholds the right to report and share information on matters of public interest, including legal proceedings in open courts.

'''UK Legal Challenge''': Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements ↗.

'''UCoC Updates''': The Universal Code of Conduct 2025 annual review ↗ concluded, with community voting approving the proposed changes to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 10

'''Wikimania''': Register now to attend Wikimania Nairobi ↗! Registration for the in-person event will be open until July 13 or while places remain. For joining virtually, you will be able to register at any time.

'''Let's Connect''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will focus on "1Lib1Ref: Tools, Tactics and Innovation". The session will take place on June 5 at 15:00 UTC ↗.

'''U4C Call for Candidates''': The voting period for Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 ↗ is open from June 3 to June 17 at 12:00 UTC.

'''Tech News''': The Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments ↗ to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments; The Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes ↗, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. More updates from Tech News week 21 ↗ and 22 ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': A community-wide discussion for the development of Abstract Wikipedia ↗ is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content ↗, and every opinion is welcomed.

'''Temporary accounts''': Admins, bureaucrats, or stewards will be manually granting access to temporary account IP addresses ↗ to users without certain extended rights. Previously, these users were gaining this right automatically. The decision to change this was made by the Trust and Safety Product team after discussing with almost 20 large Wikipedia communities and Meta-Wiki. See the full message about the change ↗. In addition, the team is finishing work which unblocks rollouts on large wikis. A series of deployments will be happening in June. See the latest project update ↗ to learn about the satisfaction survey, related changes to features and tools, and more.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions ↗ is deployed on five Wiktionaries: Hausa ↗, Igbo ↗, Bengali ↗, Malayalam ↗, and Dhivehi/Maldivian ↗. Users of the five projects are now allowed to call on Wikifunctions' functions freely from their user interface.

'''WikiGames''': A daily trivia game called ''WikiGames ↗'' is coming to the Wikipedia Android app. It invites users to test their knowledge by guessing which historical event happened first based on real events from Wikipedia's "On this day" content. The game's goal is to help new audiences discover a preferred destination for discovering, engaging, and building encyclopedic content. It has been gradually rolled out as an A/B test to 50% of users in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.

'''Wikimedia Cloud VPS''': We have introduced IPv6 to the cloud virtual network ↗, enhancing the platform's scalability, security, and future-readiness.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Two new features Invitation Lists and Collaboration List ↗ that allow organizers to promote events and WikiProjects on the wikis are now available.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''WikiLearn''': Discover how online learning is helping develop Wikidata skills and the new courses coming up this quarter on WikiLearn News May 2025 edition ↗.

'''Youth Conference''': Young Wikimedians gathered in Prague for the first-ever Youth Conference ↗, created ''for'' young people and ''by'' young people.

'''Gender Gap''': Wikimedia Foundation Reflections ↗ on the Celebrate Women* Campaign 2025.

'''Accessibility''': In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025, we would like to look back together and highlight recent improvements and progress ↗ to ensure that the Wikimedia projects are more accessible for everyone.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''India Legal Update''': A victory for free speech, for Wikipedia and Beyond! The Supreme Court of India overturned a Delhi High Court order ↗ that had required the removal of an English Wikipedia article about an ongoing lawsuit.

'''Mandatory 2FA''': Checkusers and oversighters will need to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled, otherwise they won't be able to use their tools. In the future, this requirement may apply to more user right groups. This is to increase the security of user accounts. See the full message ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Election''': Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions ↗.

'''Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group''': Recognition ↗ of Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 11

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': The Chart extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. The Trust and Safety Product team ↗ is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts ↗ on large Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 23 ↗ and 24 ↗.

'''New Engagement Experiments''': We're testing out WikiRun ↗, a fun game that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible! It's an experiment to explore new ways of engaging readers. Give it a try ↗ and let us know what you think on the talk page ↗!

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': How one librarian brought Wikipedia into the classroom and beyond: this month we celebrate Loretta ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next showcase will center around the theme of "Ensuring Content Integrity on Wikipedia" and will take place on June 18 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Resource Support''': Resource Support pilot project is now open to requests ↗. This is a pilot project which aims to support Wikipedia content editors in obtaining resources that they need to improve content on Wikipedia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy''': Read important highlights on public policy advocacy ↗ from Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team.

'''Global Advocacy''': The Global Advocacy team will be representing the Wikimedia Foundation at several events in June and July ↗ – including hosting an edit-a-thon during UN Open Source week and running a booth at the Internet Governance Forum ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Election''': The call for candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection ↗ will be opened on June 17.

'''Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand''': Welcoming Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand as the Latest Wikimedia Chapter ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 24 June 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 12

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': Call for candidates is now open ↗ until July 2 at 11:59 UTC.

'''Sister projects task force''': The sister projects task force ↗ has started a community consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews ↗.

'''Wikimania 2025''': Register now ↗ to join Wikimania 2025 virtually from 6–9 August.

'''Neutral Point of View''': This year's annual planning saw many conversations ↗ about the global trends ↗ that affect our movement including neutrality and the NPOV policies ↗.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon 2025''': Highlights from Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, a place where everything is 'technically possible'.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon''': Reflections and insights ↗ from participants and mentors.

'''Wikimedia API''': The MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs ↗ to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse.

'''Tech News''': The Editing team will release Multi Check ↗ to most Wikipedias. This feature shows multiple Reference checks ↗ within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. More updates from Tech News week 25 ↗ and 26 ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': Temporary accounts ↗ were rolled out on ten large and medium-size Wikipedias, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish, Indonesian and more. Deployments on more Wikipedias will follow this week. Share your thoughts ↗ about the project.

'''Mobile Apps''': Mobile Apps team launched A/B test of Tabbed Browsing ↗ on the iOS Wikipedia App. Users in Arabic, English, and Japanese in select regions will see the test.

'''WikiGames''': The Android team launched ''Which Came First?'' — a fun, multilingual trivia game ↗ now available to all Android users in nine languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). It's a new step in making Wikipedia more interactive and engaging for mobile users.

'''Community Wishlist''': Read results ↗ of the recently closed "Wishathon ↗", our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech ↗ to help fulfil more wishes from Community Wishlist.

'''Wikifunctions''': Read Wikifunctions' July–September 2025 plans ↗.

'''CampaignEvents Extension''': CampaignEvents extension ↗ has now been deployed to all Wikipedia, meaning that organizers on any language Wikipedia can now gain access to the extension features directly on that Wikipedia through the Wikipedia local admins.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Let's Connect Peer Learning''': A look into 3 years of Let's Connect and peek into what's next ↗.

'''Knowledge Equity Fund''': How a Knowledge Equity Fund grantee and a Wikimedia affiliate ↗ collaborate on Human Rights.

'''A Wiki Minute Videos''': We published three new 'A Wiki Minute' videos ↗ about what it takes to run Wikipedia and more topics. All videos ↗ are recorded and captioned in Arabic, German, English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Legal''': Administrative update to the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use ↗.

'''Global Advocacy''': Expanding tech policy knowledge at the first big UN Wikipedia edit-a-thon ↗.

'''Legal''': We announced that a Wikipedia admin has joined our UK Online Safety Act lawsuit ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 13

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimania Hackathon 2025''': The Wikimania Hackathon 2025 is inviting you to submit your project idea ↗.

'''WikiWomen* Summit 2025''': The WikiWomen* Summit 2025 ↗ will take place in a hybrid format on 5th August, the pre-conference day of Wikimania 2025. Register now ↗.

'''WikiIndaba 2025''': The scholarship applications and program submissions ↗ are open until 23:59 GMT on July 20.

'''WikiCon Brasil 2025''': WikiCon Brasil 2025 ↗ will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

'''WikiConvention francophone 2025''': The WikiConvention 2025 ↗ will take place in Cotonou, Benin, October 2-5. The call for submissions is open until July 15 ↗.

'''Tech News''': Temporary accounts ↗ have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese; The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled on all Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 27 ↗ and 28 ↗.

'''AbuseFilter''': AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data ↗ in AbuseFilters ↗. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user’s IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.

'''Favorite Templates''': A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery ↗ will be deployed to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser ↗ will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist ↗.

'''Wikipedia App''': We have launched an A/B test of tabbed browsing in the Wikipedia iOS app ↗. This feature allows users to open multiple articles in separate tabs, making it easier to switch between topics, explore, and return to previous reading spots. The test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. We’re collecting feedback and plan to make the feature more widely available soon.

'''MediaWiki''': The MediaWiki Platform team has introduced a unified Built-in Notifications ↗ system, as part of MediaWiki 1.44 ↗, that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications across the platform.

'''Hubs''': Personal, consistent and deeply human: How CEE Hub support the region organizations ↗.

'''Legal''': Good intentions make for bad law in Utah, we argue in our amicus brief in the Netchoice v. Brown case ↗.

'''Wikimedia Organizations''': The Wikimedia Foundation and a group of experienced co-authors with affiliate background have drafted the paper Towards a Healthy Ecosystem of Wikimedia Organizations ↗. This paper aims to be presented as a proposal for the movement at Wikimania in August 2025 in Nairobi. Share your feedback before July 29 ↗.

'''Advocacy''': We have created The Wikipedia Test ↗: a public policy tool and a call to action to help ensure regulators consider how new laws can negatively affect online communities and platforms that provide services and information in the public interest.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next showcase will center around the theme of "Examining the Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Production Communities" and will take place on July 16 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Administrative Update to Our Privacy Policies''': Following personnel changes, we are removing the name of our former point of contact serving the European Economic Area and the UK for questions and requests related to personal data in the privacy policy ↗ and donor privacy policy ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': New resolution from AffComm on User Group recognition interval period ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 18 July 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 14

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimania 2025''': Register to join virtually ↗ the 20th Wikimania taking place from August 6-9 ↗. The programme ↗ has highlights from across Wikimedia projects and communities including the reveal of who will be this year's Wikimedians of the year. ↗

'''Strengthening a neutral point of view''': An overview of NPOV policies across Wikipedia projects, shows that 153 Wikipedias out of 342 (45%) don’t have easily accessible guidance on neutrality. The research was conducted to help understand how neutrality is ensured in our projects. and to provide an opportunity for peer learning across project communities. Read the full research and join the conversation ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': See all the 60 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks ↗ in Tech News week 29 ↗ and 30 ↗. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool ↗ was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': After the rollout of temporary accounts ↗ on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, we are monitoring the impact of this change, and preparing for the next deployments. See the full project update ↗.

'''Add a link''': Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" ↗ to newcomers, as opposed to keeping it open to more experienced editors as well. "Add a link" helps newcomers to start editing ↗, so restricting the feature to them enables Administrators to cater the feature to that specific group, which they can do via the Community Configuration ↗ feature.

'''Digital Safety''': PEN America shares 5 tips for bolstering your safety and privacy online ↗.

'''Amicus brief''': Our amicus brief in Patterson v. Meta ↗: Defending free speech and the open internet in another Section 230 legal case.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': Court hearings for the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK Online Safety Act "Categorisation Regulations" ↗ happened on July 22 and 23. A verdict is not expected until August.

'''Advocacy sessions''': Collaborate for change at these policy advocacy sessions at Wikimania 2025 ↗.

'''Public-Interest content''': Expanding Indonesian Wikipedia with Public-Interest Content through Project Gayatri ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Test''': Learn how to use the Wikipedia Test ↗, a tool to protect the public interest internet.

'''Equity Fund''': As it closes, the Equity Fund has announced its final round of grants ↗ to six past grantees. It will also be providing four "Connected Grants" to movement organizations who will pair closely with one of the grantees to collaborate together.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Content Translation''': Translators who use the Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool ↗ can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions now has a new kind of Types ↗: Wikidata-based enumerations, also known as light-weight enumerations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Endowment''': Sharing the Wikimedia Endowment’s Form 990 ↗ for fiscal year 2023 – 2024. Learn more from the frequently asked questions ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Annual plan''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the Foundation's annual plan ↗ for next year virtually in their quarterly meeting ↗. You can read more about the goals for next year ↗ and a summary of the continuous conversations ↗ that shaped the plan.

'''Board selection''': The Elections Committee shared a list of the all eligible candidates ↗. As there are more than 10 eligible candidates, a shortlisting process ↗ is currently taking place. Representatives of Wikimedia movement affiliates that are currently compliant ↗ with their reporting obligations can participate in the shortlisting process. Learn more about this process and next steps on Meta ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''WIPO permanent observer''': For fifth time, China blocks Wikimedia Foundation as permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 9 August 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 15

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'''Special Wikimania issue''' <small>''This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue''</small>

'''Wikimania Nairobi''': Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 by checking session pages in the program ↗. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.

'''Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025''': The Wikimedian of the Year awards ↗ give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all of this year's winners ↗.

'''Highlights:''' Daily highlights from Wikimania:

* Day 1 - Celebrating 20 years of Wikimania ↗,

* Day 2 - Technology in a changing world ↗,

* Day 3 - Connecting with communities in Africa ↗,

* Day 4 - Bringing generations together ↗.

'''Product and Tech''': Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech ↗ you can watch, with links to the recordings.

'''Affiliate Strategy''': Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus ↗.

'''Twentieth edition of Wikimania''': Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible. ↗

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest update from Tech News week 31 ↗, 32 ↗, and 33: ↗ The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads ↗ to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts ↗ in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': Share your comments ↗ on Collaborative Contributions ↗. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.

'''PTAC''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ published a set of proposed experiments ↗ the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals ↗ are welcomed until August 22.

'''Watchlists and Recent Changes''': The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Please read the latest update ↗, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish ↗ on the topic.

'''Wikifunctions''': The Foundation is working on demonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages ↗. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗ is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses. You can apply now to join ↗ the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting will be held on August 29 at 15:00 UTC ↗.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': The High Court of Justice has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations ↗. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling ↗ emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (April-June 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 9 September 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 17

'''Wikimania 2026''': The scholarship application for Wikimania 2026 is open. Apply now ↗ by October 31.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Help us find inspiring stories ↗ to share during birthday celebrations by September 23.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Readers and Readership Research" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on September 24 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Update to banner and logo policies''': Feedback is requested on proposed policy and documentation updates ↗ regarding the use of banners and logos for advocacy purposes.

'''GLAM Wiki 2025''': The registration for GLAM Wiki Conference ↗ is open until September 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''Better bot detection''': How we are improving bot detection and replacing our CAPTCHA ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': Temporary accounts ↗ are now deployed to almost all wikis except the last 11.

'''User Info''': This new feature ↗ displays data related to a user account when you tap or click on the "user avatar" icon button next to a username. It's meant to be useful for different users with extended rights as well as newcomers.

'''Newsletter highlights''': The latest Readers Newsletter ↗ is now available. It includes considerations about Wikipedia's declining pageviews in the recent years, how the Foundation and communities may work on addressing this together, and the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience.

'''Activity Tab Experiment''': The Foundation launched an experiment testing a new Activity tab ↗ in the Wikipedia Android app to our beta testers. Instead of only showing editing activity, this tab also surfaces insights about reading and donation behavior.

'''Search Suggestions''': To make it easier for users to find articles, logged-out users on both desktop and mobile will see suggestions of articles ↗ for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. All non-English wikis received this update in June and July.

'''Paste Check''': The Foundation is working on a new check: Paste check ↗. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted to ensure it is aligned with the Movement's values. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the information page ↗.

'''Structured Task''': The Add a Link ↗ Structured Task has been fully released at English Wikipedia. This release is an important step in making editing more accessible for new contributors, especially on mobile.

'''Tech News''': Read more updates from Tech News week 36 ↗ and 37 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now available on 65 Wiktionaries ↗ and has a new capability to copy function calls from one Wikipedia to another ↗.

'''Multilingual Contributors''': The Language and Product Localisation team ↗ is launching a CentralNotice campaign ↗ to attract multilingual contributors to specific Wikipedias. The campaign will feature regionally targeted banners to reach potential native speakers.

'''Global Resources''': Introducing the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC) ↗.

'''Funding the Movement''': Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons ↗ from FY 2024-2025 Community Fund Grants.

'''Open Indonesia''': Reflections on Open Indonesia ↗, an event in Bandung gathering communities dedicated to advancing open knowledge to build the country's Open Knowledge Roadmap.

'''WikiWomen*''': Reflections from the WikiWomen* Summit 2025 ↗.

'''Gender & AI''': Is Gendering AI Possible? Reflections from the 2025 Gendering AI Conference ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia ↗.

'''Knowledge Equity Fund''': Wikimedia Ghana User Group receives Knowledge Equity Fund Connected Grant ↗.

'''Wikimania 2025''': ESEAP First Timers at Wikimania Nairobi ↗.

'''César do Paço Lawsuit''': Update about a lawsuit in Portugal ↗ and the Foundation's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal ↗ the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''August board meeting''': Updates on ↗ board appointments and selection, CEO search, work to strengthen Wikipedia's approach to neutral point of view and updates on three pilots around more shared decision-making and shared accountability across the movement.

'''New Endowment board members''': Welcoming New Wikimedia Endowment Board Members, Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 18

'''CEE Meeting''': Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 ↗ will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 26-28.

'''Learning Clinic''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.

'''Big Fat Brussels Meeting''': The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy, Big Fat Brussels Meeting ↗, will take place on October 3-4.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase ↗ taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 38 ↗ and 39 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now available on 123 Wiktionary languages ↗ and have more than 3,000 functions ↗ available.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions ↗, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It was live demoed earlier ↗ and you can follow instructions to test it out ↗.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension was deployed to Wikimedia Commons ↗ and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.

'''Event registration''': Starting the week of October 6, on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ that have the CampaignEvents extension ↗ enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration ↗ as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis ↗ unless requested in Phabricator. More information on Meta ↗.

'''Search Suggestions:''' Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now see suggestions of articles for further reading ↗ on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.

'''Datacenter server switchover''': A successful datacenter server switchover backup test ↗ took place on September 24.

'''Activity Tab now on Android:''' Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab ↗, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

'''Banners & Logos policies''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published draft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikimedia Foundation is creating playful, celebratory interventions ↗ on the Wikipedia portal page ↗, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Please share your inputs ↗ and add your username on the Talk page ↗ if you think your community would be interested in participating.

'''Regional Funds''': Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members ↗.

'''Peer Learning''': Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': Structured Contents now supports Wikipedia tables as structured JSON ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Georgia''': Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter. ↗

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Knowledge integrity''': The Wikimedia Foundation launches a new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times ↗.

'''Highlights from other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

'''National award''': Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ↗ for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.

'''Supporting admins and patrollers''': Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers ↗.

'''Wikimania roundup''': A roundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year ↗ by the French-speaking community's newsletter, ''Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia'' (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).

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''The Signpost'': 2 October 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection''': Announcement of the final ballot ↗ for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision ↗. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23 ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday ↗? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1 ↗.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': WikiConference North America ↗ will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>
thumb|Dark Mode will soon be available on all Wikimedia sites. ↗

'''Mobile Editing''': Insights on mobile web editing ↗ on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.

'''Dark Mode''': Dark Mode ↗ user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.

'''Community wishlist extension:''' The new Community Wishlist extension has been released ↗. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.

'''Paste Check''': 22 Wikis are now testing ↗ a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check ↗, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.

'''Tone Check''': The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.

'''Search Suggestions''': Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia ↗. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.

'''Unsupported Tools Working Group''': A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons ↗ as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 40 ↗ and 41 ↗ including about Sub-referencing ↗ – a new feature to re-use references with different details.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls ↗ across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.

'''WikiLearn''': New Wikipedia online courses ↗ you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.

'''Human Rights''': Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment ↗ on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Digital Safety & Privacy''': Frequently Asked Questions ↗ about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.

'''Transparency Report''': Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report ↗.

'''Privacy Policy''': The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy ↗ is getting a minor update ↗ in preparation for Temporary Accounts.

'''Learning Clinic''': Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Knowledge integrity''': Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information ↗. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 14:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 20 October 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection''': Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes ↗.

'''Global trends''': We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend ↗, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.

'''WECUDI 2025''': The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures ↗ will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.

'''GLAM Conference:''' Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) ↗ will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.

'''WikidataCon 2025''': WikidataCon 2025 ↗ will take place online from October 31 – November 2.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumbtime=0:10|thumb|The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. ↗

'''Making it easier to say thanks''': Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly ↗ from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.

'''Account security''': Improvements to account security ↗ and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': The naming contest ↗ for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3 ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 42 ↗ and 43 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Wikimedia apps''': The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature ↗ into Beta for select regions & languages. Called ''“More dynamic tabs”'', the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.

'''CampaignEvents extension:''' Campaignevents extension ↗ will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List''. For this rollout, Invitation List ↗ will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.

'''Event registration tool:''' Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Digital safety''': Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians ↗.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules ↗ covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.

'''Advocacy''': The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement ↗ that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign ↗ and WSIS+20 ↗ deliberations.

'''GLAM:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement ↗, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''How Wikipedia works''': Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works ↗.

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''The Signpost'': 10 November 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 21

'''Wikimania 2027''': Santiago, Chile is announced as the location for Wikimania 2027 ↗. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).

'''Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good''': Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 44 ↗ and 45 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Activity Tab''': The Wikipedia Android app expands the new Activity tab ↗ to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.

'''Tabbed browsing''': Tabbed browsing ↗ is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Image browsing''': The Wikimedia Foundation launched image browsing ↗, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

'''Temporary accounts''': Temporary Accounts ↗ are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.

'''Abstract Wikipedia naming contest''': The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended ↗ and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

thumb|150px| m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation/Legal/Community Resilience and Sustainability/Human Rights/Digital Security Resources|Digital Safety Resource Center ↗ provides tips and tools to protect yourself online. ↗

'''Privacy in Wikipedia research''': The Wikimedia Foundation published Privacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia ↗, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research. Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians ↗.

'''Digital Safety''': The Wikimedia Foundation is launching Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also our Digital Safety Resources Center ↗ to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.

'''Volunteer roles for movement governance''': The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for the AffCom ↗, Ombuds Commission ↗, and Case Review Committee ↗. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation on November 26 ↗, at 3 AM UTC.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – A new '''free''' self-paced course, all in video with subtitles ↗, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Transparency builds trust''': The latest edition from the series "Lessons from Wikipedia" ↗ explores how deep transparency has helped make Wikipedia one of the most trusted sources on the internet.

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
thumb|link=diffblog:2025/11/10/wikipedia-is-turning-25-older-wiser-and-now-fully-referenced-citation-needed/|Join the celebration for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday party. ↗

'''Board election:''' The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote ↗ has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu ↗ (Bobbyshabangu ↗) and Michał Buczyński ↗ (Aegis Maelstrom ↗), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash ↗ on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open ↗ until November 28.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting ↗ will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 ↗ and 47: ↗ Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web ↗, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for ↗.

'''Reference check''': The A/B test for reference check ↗ has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.

'''Image browsing''': Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing ↗" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Campaign events extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List'', plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution ↗, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session ↗ to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.

'''Dark Mode:''' Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature ↗.

'''Wikimedia Apps''': The Activity tab ↗ in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

'''Usability Improvements:''' Improvements for talk pages ↗ is being rolled out ↗. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences ↗ in “Show discussion activity.”

'''Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit''': Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit ↗ as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Information integrity''': Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta ↗.

'''Understanding movement organizers''': Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review ↗ on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': Draft recommendations ↗ on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Lessons from Wikipedia''': The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes ↗.

'''Artificial Intelligence''': In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable ↗. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.

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''The Signpost'': 1 December 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''CEO appointment''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan ↗ as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party:''' Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta ↗.

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Wishathon:''' 15 patches were written and 5 merged ↗, as part of a Wishathon ↗ for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template ↗), and three more now have a clearer path forward.

'''Activity Tab on Mobile App''': The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab ↗. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.

'''Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps''': The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 ↗ is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.

'''Add a Link''': A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link ↗, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': The second round of voting ↗ on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with ''Abstract Wikipedia'' as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia ↗.

'''Anti-vandalism tool:''' Automoderator ↗, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.

'''Tools to support newcomers:''' Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check ↗, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 48 ↗ and week 49 ↗ include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email ↗ sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona ↗ and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin ↗.

'''Infrastructure''': Unifying our mobile and desktop domains ↗ achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

'''Legal win in France''': Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France ↗ against legal attacks on freedom of speech.

'''CEE Hub''': Overview ↗ of three years of growth, learning, and regional impact of CEE Hub.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Digital Violence''': How the Wikimedia movement is responding to digital gender based violence ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next research showcase will feature a special panel on "Experimentation on Wikipedia" and will take place on December 10 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit Report''': Key takeaways from the Foundation’s audit report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Annual Plan Progress''': A look back at progress made against the plan during the second half of our fiscal year. ↗ Up to date regular updates are included in the Foundation Bulletin.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Sister Projects Task Force''': Results of the consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews ↗: No immediate changes should be made to Wikispore's current technical setup and archive all editions of Wikinews, preserving their content.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Wikipedia's unique revenue model''': How is Wikipedia funded ↗ and how does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia ↗?

'''Most read articles:''' Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 17 December 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

'''Wikipedia turns 25:''' Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration ↗ featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Annual planning''': Key questions for the Wikimedia movement ↗ to shape the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 annual goals. Join the discussion on-wiki ↗.

'''Hackathon''':

*Apply to join the Northwestern Europe 2026 Hackathon ↗ from March 13-14 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Application will close mid-January 2026 or earlier based on event capacity.

*General Registration for the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon is now open ↗! The hackathon will take place in Milan, Italy from May 1 - 3, 2026. Event details can be found here ↗ and registration will remain open until March 30th or until event capacity is reached.

'''Semantic search''': Wikimedia Foundation is working on making it easier to find the information readers want ↗.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 50 ↗, week 51 ↗, and week 52 ↗ include that now edit filters can be set ↗ to automatically suppress their details which will help oversighters to prevent doxxing.

'''Wikifunctions''': The first Wikifunctions Volunteers' Corner of the next year ↗ will take place on February 9.

'''Blazegraph Migration:''' To support the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), we are hosting regular calls starting on January 27 ↗. Wikidata users and tool maintainers are are invited to join ↗, ask questions, and share migration-related concerns.

'''Upcoming Conferences''': Announcing the six Wikimedia conferences funded for 2026 ↗ in the first round.

'''Wikimania 2026''': A glimpse on what the team is currently working on ↗ to prepare for Wikimania 2026 in Paris.

'''Public Policy''': Explore the resources available for public policy advocacy work ↗, including explainers that describe key policy positions, guides on how to build a campaign or write a policy brief, and examples of open letters submitted to governments.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Public-Interest content''': The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC ↗ with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".

'''Wikimedia Research Report''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report ↗, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Read the full annual wrap-up of 2025 of Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ and how the year marked a fundamental shift in open knowledge.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board of Trustees''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees ↗ Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.

'''Affcom News''': Read the year-end issue of AffCom News (July-December 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br /><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗ ·Milestones ↗ ·</small>

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''The Signpost'': 15 January 2026

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''The Signpost'': 29 January 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

'''Annual planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. This is a time of urgency and focus for the Wikimedia projects and we invite you to shape this plan together with us. ↗

'''Year 2 of PTAC''': As it reached its first year, Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) shared a retrospective and proposed future improvements ↗.

'''Account security''': All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA), providing a simple and secure way ↗ to log in.

'''Wikifunctions''': An overview of the quarterly plan (January–March) ↗ and how it connects to the broader goals for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 03 ↗, 04 ↗ and 05 ↗ include unregistered contributors on blocked IPs can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block ↗ by creating a temporary account.

'''Collaborative contributions''': Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a learning session ↗ to share new releases around collaborative contributions ↗ and discuss future project ideas.

'''Structured task''': The Revise Tone Structured Task ↗ is now live in A/B testing on pilot wikis: English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French Wikipedia. It helps new editors improve promotional language in existing articles through a quiz style onboarding experience and a guided in article suggestion.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>
thumb|"The Birthday Cake Song" is an original song created for Wikipedia's 25th Birthday, performed by the WikiChoir, featuring Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons content. ↗

'''Wikimania 2026''': Call for sessions ↗ is open until March 1.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best with docuseries, time capsule, and more ↗.

'''Virtual celebration''': In case you missed it, over 10,000 people have watched the virtual celebration ↗ that brought together generations of Wikimedians ↗, featured an ode to the talk page ↗, a dramatic reading of a real talk page ↗, a Magnetikpunk song dedicated to Wikipedia ↗, a passing of the cake baton from Maryana to Bernadette ↗, "The Birthday Cake Song" ↗ and more. All of it written and performed by humans of Wikimedia.

'''Birthday mascot''': Meet the Wikimedian ↗ whose casual sketch inspired Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot.

'''Legal''': Learn about two recent submissions advocating the need for proportionality in Brazil’s new online child safety law ↗.

'''Policy:''' The Global Advocacy team shared a report from digital policy organization InternetLab about the intersection between the open knowledge movement and public interest journalism ↗.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee''': Refreshed Funding Principles ↗ are ready for review.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Solving puzzles together''': A final reflection from Maryana Iskander ↗.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Mistral AI and Wikimedia Enterprise announced a new strategic partnership ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 17 February 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

'''Wikipedia Library''': Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships ↗, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.

'''Annual Planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan ↗ together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations ↗ about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Patrolling improvements''': A new feature available on Special:Contributions ↗ shows temporary accounts ↗ that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.

'''Wikifunctions''': How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated ↗ into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.

'''Suggestion Mode''': A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, ↗ is now available on English Wikipedia ↗ for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".

'''WDQS Blazegraph Migration''': As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed ↗. Using the published evaluation methodology ↗, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 06 ↗ and 07 ↗ include the new Watchlist labels ↗ feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Funding Principles''': The interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) has published a first version of the Funding Principles ↗ which guides the broader grantmaking ecosystem across the Wikimedia Movement. Share your feedback in the Discussion ↗ page.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia in Warsaw ↗.

'''Responsible AI''': Why the Global Index on Responsible AI ↗ matters for Wikimedians.

'''Open Knowledge''': Why the Open Knowledge Movement and Public Interest Journalism must unite forces ↗. Shared principles and interdependence, points of convergence and the path forward.

'''Journalism Awards:''' Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards ↗ are now open until March 1. Presented by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the awards seek to recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.

'''UN General Assembly''': Wikimedia Foundation was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall about Wikipedia’s role in global digital governance ↗.

'''Advocacy''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies ↗ regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes. Specifically, the new "Use of Wikimedia sites for advocacy purposes" ↗ policy, and updates to the guidelines for CentralNotice usage ↗ and requesting wiki configuration changes ↗. The policies establish clearer processes for advocacy activities, and require notification of Foundation staff for some proposed uses of the Wikimedia sites.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Reflections from a Wikimedian ↗ who attended the Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

'''Birthday mode''': This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias ↗ have joined in the fun.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons''': Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day ↗.

'''Etherpad cleanup''': For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April ↗. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.

'''Activity tab''': Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab ↗ to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.

'''Reference Check''': The feature Reference Check ↗ has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

'''Semantic search''': The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic ↗ and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta ↗ is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.

'''Navigation experience''': The Foundation will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

thumb|right|Screenshot of the current prototype of Abstract Wikipedia, showing a two sentence article about Kolkata. ↗

'''Site notices''': Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice ↗ and MediaWiki:Anonnotice ↗) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 08 ↗ and 09 ↗ include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikifunctions''': Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview ↗.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC ↗.

'''Language''': New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗ highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects ↗.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recordings of past learning clinics ↗ about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': You can watch the recording ↗ of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities ↗".

'''Hubs''': Lessons from hub pilots ↗.

'''Banners & logo policies''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts ↗ on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.

'''Digital Safety''': The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise ↗.

'''Human centered AI''': Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots ↗" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

'''Inclusive AI''': Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 10 March 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

'''Supporting readers''': For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience. ↗

'''Server switch''': All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests ↗, which happen twice a year ↗.

'''Tools improvement''': The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ continued improvements to Video2Commons ↗ in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas ↗, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.

'''Wikipedia 25 Grants''': The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds ↗ to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.

'''Experiments''': The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline ↗, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.

'''Article guidance''': Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page ↗ (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis ↗. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article ↗.

'''Wikifunctions:''' You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output. ↗

'''Editing feature''': Suggestion Mode ↗ is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.

'''Paste Check''': Paste Check ↗ is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.

'''Mobile experience''': The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized ↗ so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.

'''Two-factor authentication''': For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 10 ↗ and 11 ↗ include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

thumb|right|200px|WikiCelebrates Mervat. ↗ ↗

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': Celebrating Mervat ↗, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia ecosystem''': The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations ↗ has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape ↗. It welcomes your review and feedback ↗.

'''Fundraising''': The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published ↗ on meta.

'''International Women's Day 2026:''' Women, visibility, and the future of trusted knowledge on Wikimedia ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Earth 2025''': See the winners ↗ from the 13th annual edition of the globe-trotting photo contest.

'''Wikimania 2026''': While most Wikimania program submissions are closed, the research track is open until March 31 ↗. It accepts proposals from both professional researchers and Wikimedians.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

'''Supporting the mobile experience''': The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps ↗. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion ↗!

'''Wikimania 2026''': Registration for Wikimania 2026 ↗ is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.

'''Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region''': On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up ↗- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations ↗ we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe ↗ to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Crawlers:''' The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests ↗ that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.

'''Moderator tools for newer editors''': Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard ↗. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.

'''Account creation on mobile''': Mobile editors at several wikis ↗ are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile ↗ and increase participation.

'''Verification email redesign:''' The verification email sent to new accounts ↗ that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.

'''Retaining notification history''': Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool ↗. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 ↗ and 13 ↗ include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Experiments''': Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗ to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the Microtask generator tool. ↗

'''Digital rights and free knowledge''': Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 ↗ from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually ↗.

'''Microtask Generator''': Learn more about the Microtask Generator ↗, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.

'''WikiLearn''': Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News ↗ where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.

'''Diff Event calendar''': The event calendar on Diff is now redirected ↗ to the list of events on Meta-wiki ↗. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.

'''Grantmaking Strategy''': The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit report''': Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report ↗.

'''Enterprise partnerships''': Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge ↗ and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Endowment Board''': Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors ↗.

'''Affiliate recognition''': Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:04, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

'''Community Wishlist update''': This monthly update covers ↗ how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels ↗, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature ↗; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search ↗; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas ↗ in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes ↗ here.

'''Goal setting for edit-a-thons''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature ↗, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session ↗ on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.

'''Collaboration with the United Nations''': Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations ↗ to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗''' <br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Design mock for mobile page previews. ↗

'''Navigating articles on mobile''': The Foundation is launching an experiment ↗ to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. ↗ This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.

'''Editing tools for new editors''': Tone Check ↗ was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia ↗ as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.

'''Managing watchlist labels''': The new watchlist labels ↗ feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate ↗ for logged-in readers.

'''Latest Wikifunctions''': Check out the partial list ↗ of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 ↗ and 15 ↗ include an ongoing A/B test ↗ running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Community discussions on Semantic Search''': The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search ↗ for members of the CEE Youth Group.

'''Don't Blink!''': This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team ↗ include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.

'''Digital rights and inclusion''': Take a look at the sessions ↗ that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) ↗ 2026.

'''Manuscript preservation''': The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops ↗ to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (''lontar'') from the Leiden University Library collection.

'''Youth content creators''': Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia ↗ for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.

'''Legal and Safety Contacts''': The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page ↗, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.

'''Building shared principals for the internet as a public good:''' The Global Advocacy team published a blog ↗ with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE ↗) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ↗) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikidata API''': Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available ↗ through Wikimedia Enterprise.

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join the America APP call ↗ on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting ↗ between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki ↗ and in community spaces ↗ around different regions and projects.

'''Futures Lab:''' The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab. ↗

'''Fundraising Hub:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub ↗ on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission ↗, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews editions will be closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

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''The Signpost'': 21 April 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8

'''Annual Planning''': The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''Global conversation''': A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan ↗ will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.

'''Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content''': The Attribution API ↗ is now in beta ↗. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework ↗ in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

'''Feedback on Article guidance''': Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines ↗ and share your feedback on the project talk page ↗. Check out the step-by-step ↗ and video ↗ instructions.

'''Games Hub available on Android''': The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games ↗ in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes ''Which Came First? ↗'', with more games coming soon.

'''Update to Wikipedia app for iOS''': A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Confirming email addresses''': On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses ↗ now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address ↗ helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts ↗ that have an email set had not confirmed it.

'''Testing mobile web page previews''': Mobile page previews ↗ experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.

'''Account creation experiment''': Account creation experiment ↗ is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.

'''Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps''': The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment ↗ on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.

right|thumb|150px|Top read element on the current Explore Feed on Android ↗

'''Latest experiments''': See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. One upcoming experiment ↗ is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers ↗ as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya ↗ marked this milestone.

'''Reading lists now a beta feature''': New accounts are now opted into Reading lists ↗ by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.

'''Structured Contents''': Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 ↗ and 17 ↗ include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review:''' The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals ↗ have begun.

'''Events and conferences''': Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference ↗ (May 15-17), WikiConference India ↗ (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America ↗ (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference ↗ (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki ↗ (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia ↗ (Nov 6-8).

'''Around the puzzle globe in the America region''': More than 60 people joined America call ↗ to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report ↗ covering July to December 2025.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

'''Community Protection''': Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment ↗ to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.

'''Stronger protections against bots''': Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach ↗ to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report ↗. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Mock-up of the Wikipedia app reading challenge. ↗

'''Reading Challenge''': As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe ↗. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.

'''Latest experiments''': One upcoming experiment ↗ is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Change in how new users are autoconfirmed''': The account age for autoconfirmed users ↗ will now start ↗ from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.

'''Organized Reading lists''': All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.

'''Thumbnail size preferences''': Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes ↗: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.

'''Wikifunctions''': To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input ↗: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 ↗ and 19 ↗ include improvements on Global Watchlist ↗. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Planning''': We welcome your feedback ↗ on the main talk page ↗ for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places ↗ for the coming fiscal year.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest ↗.

'''Community Conferences''': The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings ↗ taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews have been closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) ↗ to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.

'''Grantmaking''': The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking ↗, and published their monthly update for April ↗.

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''The Signpost'': 22 May 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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''The Signpost'': 21 June 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

'''Other Movement-curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗''</small>

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