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This is the Wikimedians of Kerala UG's 28th newsletter.
- Updates / Discussions
- On 25th May 2026, we held our May 2026 Monthly Meetup from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm IST. The agenda for the meeting was shared and everyone was welcomed. 10 community members participated in the meeting and discussions.
- Ranjithsiji shared updates about Wiki Loves Theyyam 2026, which was conducted as a pilot project from 17 April to 17 May 2026. Around 650 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by 16 contributors. Discussions were held on organizing follow-up activities closer to the Theyyam season.
- Jinoy shared updates from Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2026 in India, organized in collaboration with Wikimedia communities and partner organizations.
- Around 45 participants took part in the campaign by creating 71 new pages and improving around 327 pages across Wikimedia projects. An offline Wikipedia editing workshop was organised at Embassy of Ukraine, New Delhi along with a cultural activity and continued the online campaign till the end of April.
- Ranjithsiji shared updates from Wikisource Summit 2026, organized at the University of Calicut. A total of 18 participants attended the event, including contributors from other language communities. Discussions focused on collaboration and technical improvements for Wikisource projects.
- Jinoy shared updates about WikiConference India 2026. The conference theme has been announced. The theme for WCI 2026 is "Reimagining the Knowledge Commons" - Community Leadership in an Evolving Wikimedia Ecosystem.
- Ranjithsiji shared plans for a Wiki Loves Schools edit-a-thon, aimed at creating and improving school-related articles using information collected through the SchoolWiki project and previous photography campaigns.
- Ranjithsiji announced preparations for Wiki Loves Earth India 2026, which is planned to begin on 1 July 2026. Community members were encouraged to participate and help document natural heritage sites across India.
- Jinoy and Ranjith shared updates from Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan. The GLUES tool (Global Wikimedia User Information and Statistics) was developed and improved during the hackathon and was presented during the event. The tool provides a centralized dashboard for Wikimedia contributor information and receives valuable feedback from participants across multiple communities. Further enhancements to the tool were discussed.
- Ranjithsiji shared updates about Coordinate Me 2026, an international Wikidata campaign focused on improving geographic coordinates of Wikidata items. Community members were encouraged to participate before the campaign concluded at the end of May.
- Ranjithsiji shared updates on the Malayalam Wikivoyage initiative. Monthly community meetings have been held regularly over the past three months. An analysis tool named Inkpen has been developed and support was requested for the Malayalam Wikivoyage approval proposal.
- Community members also discussed the ongoing digitization of M. P. Parameswaran's works, potential collaborations with DC Books for bibliographic data sharing, plans for Kerala Cultural Month, the Women in Red tool developed by Netha Hussain for identifying missing articles, improvements to mobile navigation templates.
- Ranjith and Jinoy shared an update received on Village pump of Malayalam Wikipedia and to User group's email regarding the participation in the Abstract Wikipedia pilot project. (read more...)
- Events & activities
- On-going events & activities by User Group
- Wiki Loves Earth 2026 in India – Photography campaign dedicated to documenting and digitally preserving India's diverse natural heritage sites on Wikimedia Commons.
- Up-coming events & activities by User Group
- Wikiwomen Camp 2026 - 11th July 2026 - 12th July 2026. Last date to apply for the scholarship is 27 June 2026.
Upcoming meeting: 27th June 2026 – Meeting page | Meetup Registration
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Please help translate.
Highlights
- 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
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
- 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.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- 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
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2026 Newsletter
[edit source]This is our fifty sixth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 5 and 10.
- In the news
- Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Wa, Ghana: Empowering Educators with Media and Information Literacy Skills (SDG 4)
- Amplifying Women’s Stories and Indigenous Knowledge: Feminism and Folklore 2026 in the Igbo Community (SDG 5)
- Art+Feminism Network Organizers at ESEAP Conference 2026 (SDG 5)
- A Reflection on What I Learned at My First International Women’s Day Celebration (SDG 5)
- From Mentee to Builder: My Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program (SDG 4)
- Building Skills and Confidence During My Three-Month Journey Through the On Wiki Skill Program Organized by Africa Wiki Women (SDG 5)
- Why the EduWiki Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education (SDG 4)
- Empowering New Editors to Bridge the Gender Gap: My Experience as a Mentor in the EditHer Africa April 2026 Contest (SDG 5)
- Visible Women Edit-a-thon: Piloting a Collaborative Approach to Free Knowledge in Hong Kong (SDG 5)
- Guiding New Voices: Training Women in Wikidata during the April EditHer Africa Contest (SDG 5)
- Wikimedia Community Usergroup Botswana in collaboration with Art and Feminism on Wikidata Mobile Training 2026 (SDG 5)
- Events
- 10-18 July: Wikiwomen Camp 2026 (SDG 5)
- 14 July Queers & Frauen (SDG 5 & 10)
- 21-25 July: Wikimania is coming up and there are plenty of sessions related to sustainable development. There is now a dedicated page for those sessions at wikimania:2026:Program/SDG related sessions.
- 23 July: From Constitution to Community — Documenting Queer Rights Movements (SDG 10)
- 14 July Queers & Frauen (SDG 5 & 10)
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12
[edit source]Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 19. Please help translate.
This edition uses the new annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).
Highlights
- 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
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- 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
skipcaptcharight, 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
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- 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
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- 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
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- 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
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
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Books & Bytes – Issue 75
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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 75, May–June 2026
Issue 75, May–June 2026
- New partnerships: The Telegraph, Marg, The Tribune newspapers
- Tech tip: Expired partnerships
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