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PAC2 – CC BY 4.0

Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?

A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.

Unknown Punch artist via Wellcome Collection – CC-BY-4.0

Fudging the numbers

Take 'em away, officers!

Ricardo bob 8 – cc-by-sa-3.0

POSTPONED - Fandoms and the Wiki

A look at the relationship between fandoms and Wikipedia, where they are, what they are doing and, importantly, the biggest issue around them.

Ferfive – cc-by-sa-4.0

A(I)pocalypses afoot

Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.

Natalia Ortega for MAPR and Wikicurious – CCA-SA 4.0

AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default

Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.

Hari Adivarekar – cc-by-4.0

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.

Doug Weller – CC CC0 1.0 UP DD

Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.

Lance Cpl. Isaac De Leon – US Government public domain

On the bright side

Nice comments and real-life rescuers

Ralf Roletschek – CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

Who are our readers?

The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.

Ricardo bob 8 – cc-by-sa-3.0

Can CNN and CBS stay reliable?

Wikipedia's evaluation of the recent events surrounding the CNN and CBS networks, and their reliability.

DarTar – cc-by-sa-3.0

Recent research

TKTK Worthwhile Canadian initiative TKTK

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Robert Cooper (c. 1800) – PD

From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon

Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.

Schiste – cc-by 4.0

Wikipedia at 25: Are we awake now?

Evidence that readership declines at double digit annual rates, half the encyclopedia is written by one percent of editors, and other potentially unsustainable issues.

Technology report

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Simon A. Eugster – GFDL,cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

This world is big and wild and half insane

Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.

Nataev – CC BY-SA 4.0

WikiConference Report

WikiConference 2026 & the importance of in-person community

Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.

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