Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign calling for release from prison for Osama Khalid (User:OsamaK), who has been imprisoned since 2020 for editing Wikipedia (see previous Signpost coverage). Without intervention, he is due for release in 2034. EFF has further profiled Osama as "Offline", which is their broader effort to recognize people who are imprisoned for sharing media, and the context of how and why people face opposition to information sharing.

As a physician, Osama collaborated with Wikimedia Medicine to develop medical articles and to coordinate translation of health topics between English and Arabic. He was among the first subject matter expert allies of Wikimedia LGBT+ to bring needed content review and translation to topics of sexual health, sexually transmitted infection, and reproductive health into that group's discussions. He was very active as a Wikipedia editor in English and Arabic, as a bot operator, in the Wikipedia IRC group chat, and he attended the international Wikimania conference multiple times. He is a super Wikipedian known to many.

As previously reported by The Signpost, a coalition of organizations began to public call for his release in 2024. Osama was arrested arrested with fellow Wikipedia editor and physician colleague Ziyad al-Sufiani (User:Ziad), who was released in 2025. BR

The Wikimedia Foundation has officially closed Wikinews, one of its longest-lasting projects, on May 4, 2026.

We probably just need to re-use the same information from the story I wrote myself back in March, with further details.

Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026

Current status likely we will be reporting on election results, assuming on-time publication 22 May thereabouts

Timeline:

Nominations for the May 2026 administrator elections began 00:00, 29 April 2026 (UTC). Call for candidates through May 5, followed by Discussion phase (May 8–12) and culminating with Voting phase (May 13–19).

TODO - discuss active admin bounce relative to last month's record low

Comment these items out if something happens.

• Milestones: The following Wikimedia projects have reached milestones: Fulfulde Wikipedia (Fula language, also called Fulfulde) reaches 18,000 articles (from Diff).
• Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Harbor, and next week's (beginning 25 May 2026) is Partnership for Peace. Please be bold in helping improve these articles!
• More Wikis block archive.today: As of April 23, consensus to block or deprecate the notorious web archiving service has been reached on the Arabic, English, French, Romanian and Swedish Wikipedias, as well as on Wikidata, French Wikivoyage, French Wikiquote, French Wikibooks, and Dutch Wikibooks. English Wikivoyage has removed links to the site in the mainspace. needs update before release
• Choose your Picture of the Day WISEly...: The Visual Geometry Group (VGG) of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford has developed a new demo for an audiovisual search engine, based on the WISE AI tool, aiming to help users look for images and videos under the Media of the Day category on Wikimedia Commons. You can give feedback on the demo on this page.
• Wikiversity adopts an AI policy: English Wikiversity has adopted an official artificial intelligence policy on April 17, with it being permitted where it follows "good scholarly practices]]". The project also has guidance for editors using it on the project.