Selected from a field of 22 applications, the projects focus on software, offline outreach, and online organizing.... Read more

Wiki Loves Africa is back with ‘music and dance’ as a theme for this year’s competition. Grab your camera and get ready to document the culture of this splendid continent. In addition, this week’s news in brief includes Wikipedia content gets ready for a trip to the moon, Wikimania scholarship committee is open for volunteers, and more. ... Read more

Wiki Loves Monuments drew 277,365 entries from 10,748 participants this year, the largest pool of submissions of any photo competition. Volunteers go through all of those, first on the national level, then for the global finals. The top 15 photos—winnowed all the way down from the more than a quarter-million—will be announced next week.... Read more

We will continue advocating for the privacy and expression rights of the Wikimedia communities, which enable users to freely create and share knowledge.... Read more

Documenting the history of the Paralympics Games on Wikipedia with the help of dedicated volunteers.... Read more

Alex knew the meaning of a hundred English words, could count to six, could answer and even ask questions, how to apologize (when appropriate), and how to protest when people did something he didn’t want.... Read more

Content Translation is getting a major new feature: completely re-written support for templates, making it easier to translate templates across languages.... Read more

Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons are here to help you learn more about the recently deceased Fidel Castro.... Read more