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This Month in Education: March 2026
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Volume 15 • Issue 3 • March 2026
- Advancing 21st-Century Education: Proposal to Establish the Yorùbá Wikipedia Fan Club at Arolu College of Education, Ilemona
- Awareness Programme on Language and Culture Protection by KWUG
- Teachers from Various Institutions in Rio de Janeiro Explore Wikipedia as a Means of Preserving Memory and Checking Sources
- Edu Wiki Nigeria Co-Founder Facilitates Textbook Donation to AHAJAS Integrated School, Gombe
- Inside Wikimedia Ukraine's education program
- Karavali Wikimedians at Mangaluru Design Summit 2026
- One School, One Article Campaign Wrap Up
- Seeds of Knowledge: A Wiki Project that Sparked a Community at ADUN
- Student workshops at Serbian Universities: enriching Wikipedia with topics on culture and technology
- The Open Knowledge Alliance: Wikimedia and Libraries
- Wikimedia CR published updated guide for beginners
- Wikimedia goes back to the classroom in Brazil
- Workshop on Feminism and Folklore 2026 by Wiki Club SATI
- “Wikimedia MKD in Action: Teacher Conferences and Education Activities
- Wikipedia & Libraries: Building New Contributors
Wikimedia Apps Newsletter – First Quarter of 2026
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Hello, and welcome to the first newsletter of 2026!
In this edition, we’ll walk you through the main updates, experiments, and improvements in the Wikipedia mobile apps during January, February, and early March.
iOS
[edit]This quarter focused on scaling and improving the Activity Tab experience.
We released the Activity Tab to all users and continued refining it with:
- New editing insights, including all-time impact, recent activity, and views.
- Monthly highlights such as most viewed edits and contributions.
- Improved onboarding and empty states for different user types.
- Better navigation within reading history and timelines.
- Continued survey collection (extended through April).
We also fixed several issues related to saved article syncing, timeline, and deleting items.
Results from scaling
[edit]Our goal was to increase account creation by 5%. The results significantly exceeded expectations:
- Account creation increased by 91% after scaling.
- 25% of all new accounts were created through the Activity Tab.
- 18.5% of new users saved an article, and 2.9% made an edit.
We also observed stronger retention among Activity Tab users:
- 93.8% of logged-in users returned to the app.
- 91.8% of logged-out users returned.
- Compared to overall app return rates of 81.9% and 72.1%.
Learnings
[edit]- Personalization continues to drive account creation.
- Users are more likely to engage in reading than editing.
- Navigation changes need clearer communication.
Next steps
[edit]- Improve clarity around the History location in Search.
- Add clearer messaging and guidance, especially for logged-out users.
The team also focused on preparations for migrating the app to Liquid Glass, planned for April. We completed a gap analysis and audit, and then triaged and prioritized tasks.
- Adding “close all tabs” functionality.
- Highlighting the active tab.
- Introducing long-press previews.
- iOS designs for the “Which came first?” game were completed.
As part of ongoing improvements:
- History was moved into the Search tab.
- Adjustments are being made to better support logged-out users and reduce confusion.
Other iOS Updates
[edit]- Integrated hCaptcha into account creation for test wiki.
- Conducted Explore Feed audit and design groundwork.
- Fixed multiple bugs, including issues with search, saved articles, and donation flows.
Android
[edit]We began testing a new hybrid search experience that combines keyword-based and natural language search.
- The experiment is now available in beta for Greek, English and Portuguese Wikipedia.
- Users can opt in or out of the experience.
- This is part of Phase 1 of the Information Retrieval project.
Other Android Updates
[edit]- Continued work on hCaptcha integration for account creation on test wiki.
- Improved donation clarity by adding ISO currency codes.
- Updated image handling to match MediaWiki standards.
- Ran an A/B test for the Google Play product page (Japanese users).
We also fixed several issues, including:
- Background re-login issues.
- Incorrect article titles in Year in Review.
- Reading list syncing problems.
- Translation and UI inconsistencies.
Cross-Platform
[edit]Across both apps, we continued design and research work to rethink the Explore experience, with the design principles of:
- Retention before depth: reasons to come back matter more than any single deep read.
- Discovery through remixing: snippets and previews lead into articles, never replace them.
- Transparent personalization: "Because you follow..." not a black box.
- Calm, trustworthy browsing: productive and credible.
Design work continued on improving the Explore feed:
- Two visual directions were developed and wireframed.
- Different onboarding approaches were explored.
- User testing is being prepared.
Our current hypothesis is that a more personalized and structured feed will help users better understand its value and increase daily usage. User testing will help determine the direction to move forward.
The Apps team has started conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the mobile apps.
The goal is to better support both new and experienced editors, and to guide users toward the right editing tools.
Community input is welcome, and discussions are ongoing.
Looking Ahead
[edit]This quarter focused on scaling successful features, especially the Activity Tab, and continuing foundational work on Search and Explore feed.
We’re seeing strong signals around personalization, engagement, and new ways to guide users through reading and editing.
Thank you for following along, and stay tuned for the next updates later this year.
~~ARamadan-WMF11:46, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: March 2026
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This Month in Education: April 2026
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Volume 15 • Issue 4 • April 2026
- Empowering Knowledge: Wikimedia MKD Education Update
- WikiScholar: A School-Level Initiative to Promote Free Knowledge in Bangladesh
- Wikipedia for School 2025–2026: A Competition That Continued Despite Frost, Power Outages, and War
- Wikimedia UK and Thoughtful delivery new media literacy teacher training course
- Wikimedia CR supporting SDG's in Czech schools
- University Students’ Mandatory Internships at Wikimedia Armenia
- Third year of collaboration with Aleksandër Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania
- Students Discover Open Source and Learn Wikipedia and Wikidata Skills for the First Time in Zarqa, Jordan
- Leveraging on Wikipedia as a tool for curbing Health Misinformation and Disinformation in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State, Nigeria
- Governance and Public Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Learning Tool in Sustainability Education through UNESCO Designated Sites
- A month full of encounters with students in Brazil
This Month in GLAM: April 2026
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