Wikimedia Foundation
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We are the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Working to create a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. donate.wikimedia.org
Your own Wikipedia puzzle: how long does it take you to find Baby Globe in Paris? 👀
🎖️ Wikimedia Laureate: User:Barkeep49 🎖️ Wikimedia Laureate: Britta Gustafson (User:Dreamyshade)
🏅 Honorary Mention: Mari Avetisyan 🏅 Honorary Mention: Hijiri Umemoto (User:Hijiri)
Meet the 2026 Wikimedian of the Year award winners 🌟 Every year, these awards recognize contributors who have made a lasting impact on the Wikimedia movement. Editors, organizers, developers, photographers... The people making free knowledge a reality!
Register for the online event ➡️ wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Re...
Wikimania begins long before the opening session. Volunteers spent months planning this year's conference in Paris. Their work has created a space for the Wikimedia movement to connect and share ideas.
No matter where you are in the world, you can be part of the conversation and connect with the global Wikimedia community.
This is where we start the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement 💭 Every year, thousands of people connected by free knowledge can learn from one another at Wikimania. In 2026, the event takes place in Paris and online.
Dozens of volunteers gathered at the UN Headquarters for the second ever Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Together, they created 60 new articles and made nearly 700 edits to improve Wikipedia's coverage of UN and open source topics. ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07...
What emoji combo describes your Wikimedia unique role best?
Wikimedia content will always remain free and open for everyone. But organizations building commercial products on top of that knowledge should help sustain the ecosystem they depend on. Learn more about Wikimedia Enterprise’s mission ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07...
In their request, the user said "i was 16 and stupid. its been 20 years and I don't even remember doing it at this point." An admin replied "I've unblocked your account. Now get to work!"
Some Wikipedia to-do lists are thousands of articles long. The Microtask Generator was created to make those lists easier to work through. Try it out ➡️ w.wiki/MoH2
Start your journey through the best lists ➡️ w.wiki/BJhq
They are reviewed by the community for sourcing and structure before earning the recognition.
Meet Featured Lists, some of the highest quality list-based pages on Wikipedia.
Want a list of the best lists? Right now, Wikipedia has nearly 5,000 of those.
Did you know … you don’t need to be in Paris to join Wikimania 2026? You can register to attend Wikimania virtually, joining fellow Wikimedians on talks, workshops, community gatherings, and more ➡️ wikimania.org
This week, the Wikimedia Foundation's application for observer status at WIPO, the United Nations agency for intellectual property, was blocked for the sixth time by China.
What happens when 216 contributors from 29 countries come together to build the future of free knowledge? The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 brought together community members in Milan to collaborate in the largest Wikimedia Foundation-organized Hackathon to date. Explore the full recap ➡️ w.wiki/S8Yo
Graphic designer Dominik Bachmann uploaded work from the photography archive of his late uncle, Eric Bachmann, one of Switzerland’s notable photographers of the 20th century. Here's what happened next ➡️ wikimedia.ch/en/news/a-gr...
"More dialogue is what's needed in this moment", says CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation Bernadette Meehan in an interview with The New York Times. "Let's come together and have a conversation based on fact and see where that takes us." Read Read the full interview ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
When truth is under pressure, free knowledge matters more than ever.
Sharing her unique perspective about free knowledge with the “From the Source” podcast, powered by BMe Community, Anusha reflects on how understanding global trends can help not only to adapt storytelling, but also to lead the way in communication. Listen ➡️ youtu.be/VRTpwojJuPo?...
What gives you hope? For Anusha Alikhan, Chief Communications Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, it just might be the 260,000 people who actively edit Wikipedia: “Volunteer conversations, what motivates them to use their time to give free knowledge to the world, are stories that bring me hope”.
What's a Wikimedia fun fact that you already know, but might surprise others?
Wiktionary features more than 10,000,000 entries with English definitions from over 4,800 languages.
