We're packing our bags (and brushing up our French): see you at Wikimania Paris next week! 🇫🇷 The Content Partnerships Hub is running an in-person Helpdesk on Thursday 23 July, book a slot (https://calendar.app.google/jfuYvU3LTMikZcBr5) or drop by Foyer S2, 10:00–18:00. See you there!

Last call to join Train the Trainer 2026! It's our fully funded programme for anyone who wants to run wikipedia editing events: training in Birmingham, a mentor for your first year, and expenses covered. No expert status needed, just your enthusiasm! https://wikimedia.org.uk/train-the-trainer-2026/

Last Friday we celebrated our birthdays 🎉 Wikipedia turned 25 in January, and Wikimedia UK (us! an independent charity!) turns 15 this November. Congrats again to our Silver Jubilee Award winners: Andy, Kelly, Kirsty, Lucy and Martin 🥂 📸 Simon Crompton-Reid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Our SandBox Sessions are back: free, online, beginner-friendly workshops on real Wikimedia skills. → 15 Jul: translating articles → 15 Aug: fixing Wikidata references (hands-on) → 16 Sep: the Wikidata toolbox All free. Registration links below 👇

Different reasons, same instinct: open knowledge is worth backing. We asked why people support us: some use Wikipedia daily, some want to push back on misinformation, some simply cherish it. Donate, or share our mission with someone who'd want to help. Thank you either way 💙

Where does a donation to a small charity actually go? For us, into people. We're an independent charity keeping knowledge open here. Your gift funds residencies, edit-a-thons, grants and training, so someone, somewhere, can reach knowledge they couldn't before. Donate, share or follow along.

Did you know Wikimedia UK is a charity? Most people don't. We're an independent UK charity keeping knowledge free and open...15 years in. It's Small Charity Week. Donate, share, or follow along if you can. https://wikimedia.org.uk/support-wikimedia-uk/

Meet Owen Blacker our first in our Our Community series 💜 Chair of the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, he's grown it into a funded org with year-round staff and runs queer editing events in Cardiff. Thank you, Owen, for all you do for the community!

We've teamed up with First News, the UK's award-winning children's news brand (and 20 this year!), on a new lesson exploring how Wikipedia works and how to evaluate online information. Part of our free Wiki in Schools toolkit. Thanks to our Education Lead Dr Sally Latham 👇

A 1,000-year-old Quran is on Wikipedia's front page. The Isfahan Quran (993 CE) is written in "new style" Kufic: a script that took rare skill. The folio shown is openly licensed by The Khalili Collections The Khalili Foundation featured thanks to WMUK volunteer Martin Poulter 🙌

We're supporting the Feminist Library with two Transfeminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thons this June: our trainers will help you get started. 📍London, Sun 21 & Sat 27 June. Signup here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transfeminist-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-1988494314022?aff=wikimediauk

History has too often left LGBTQ+ lives out of the record. Wiki Loves Pride is changing that: a global push to document and improve LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia, so our histories stay preserved and free. Because everyone belongs in the record 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It's Volunteers Week and this post is for every volunteer editing, training, translating, photographing, and showing up across the UK. Thank you, none of this works without you ❤️

Today's classrooms need teachers ready to tackle misinformation, AI, online bias. We've partnered with @thoughtfulp4c.bsky.social on a new media literacy course for educators. Interested? Register your interest here: https://www.thoughtful.org.uk/our-offer/courses/bespoke-p4c/media-literacy/

Join us in Cardiff for an evening of queer Welsh history, community, and editing 🌈 As part of Wiki Loves Pride, we’ll be creating and improving articles about Welsh LGBTQ+ history, people, and culture with Wikimedia LGBT+ and The Queer Emporium. Get your ticket here: https://ow.ly/BI7M50Z1vA4

The AI-BRIDGES Symposium comes to Senate House on 28–29 May: two days bringing together institutions, open knowledge platforms, AI developers, researchers and funders. Proud to be supporting this one. Registration closes 21 May 🔗 https://ai-bridges.org/2026/02/13/symposium/

Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Sverige have signed a five-year MOU with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to expand access to reliable information on food and agriculture through Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Richard Nevell, Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK

Wiki Loves Earth 2026 is open. The world's largest nature photography competition runs 1 May–31 July. Your photos can join a freely licensed record of the planet's natural heritage on Wikimedia Commons and illustrate Wikipedia articles read by millions.

Not everyone wants to edit Wikipedia and that's okay! Wikipedia turned 25 this year, and Wikimedia UK (us!) turns 15 later on. There are lots of ways to support open knowledge that don't involve editing. Get involved, your way: wikimedia.org.uk/gift-knowledge-your-way

On World Book and Copyright Day, we're celebrating a new partnership 🎊 We're marking the day with news of a new MOU with @FAO, formalising five years of work with Wikimedia UK and wikimediase.bsky.social to share food security content on Wikipedia and Commons.

#EarthDay is a reminder that access to knowledge isn’t neutral: it’s necessary. As the climate crisis accelerates, the need for reliable, up-to-date and unbiased information has never been more urgent.

The AI-BRIDGES Symposium is coming to London: 28–29 May at Senate House. Free, two days, limited spaces. Please register here: https://ai-bridges.org/2026/02/13/symposium/

Meet Anna Judelson from the Open Education at The University of Edinburgh! Anna helps run edit-a-thons, supports new editors and works on Women in Red to improve representation online. 100 edit-a-thons celebrated, 80k+ words added last year, and over 1mil+ views worldwide. That's real impact!

Most art doesn't survive because it was never shared. Every freely licensed image, every collection on Wikimedia Commons, is how culture stays alive for everyone, everywhere. Happy #WorldArtDay 🎨

Have something to share about language, culture and open knowledge? Submissions are now open for the Language Diversity Conference 2026, taking place 2–4 October in Accra, Ghana. Submit your proposal by 30 April 2026: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_Diversity_Conference

We’re looking for Community Volunteers to support our “Wiki Loves” campaigns. If you enjoy research, communication & making knowledge more accessible, this could be for you. Find out more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1awOMqZqVl1WbxqSp9vBtlGTKMTaHb4XX8L1f7k8uRWY/edit?usp=sharing

You don't need to write a full article, you can start small: - fix a typo - add a missing source - improve a sentence - add an image for better discoverability - translate one article in a different language Gift Knowledge, Your Way!

47% of adults in the UK don’t have a will according to The National Wills Report, 2024. March is Free Wills Month: a moment to think about legacy, responsibility and the impact we leave behind. We’re supporting the initiative alongside Farewill. #FreeWillsMonth #Wills #Testament

How do we build a more equitable digital knowledge ecosystem? Join us on 24 March (online) to explore how Wikimedia, open education and open research can advance knowledge equity with perspectives from South Africa and the UK. Register here: leeds.libcal.com/event/4499551

This month we’re spotlighting Dr Lucy R. Hinnie, Wikimedia & Open Knowledge Adviser at Open Research Leeds. Lucy supports researchers and students to share their expertise openly on Wikimedia, a great example of how universities can strengthen knowledge equity! Thank you Lucy for all your work 🙌