Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign calling for release from prison for Osama Khalid (User:OsamaK), who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia 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.

You can find more details in our prior coverage and in this month's Special report.

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

Nominations for the May 2026 administrator elections began 00:00, 29 April 2026 (UTC), followed by a call for candidates through May 5, then the Discussion phase May 8–12. The Voting phase was open May 13–19.

As of our writing deadline, scrutineering that examines and validates the votes is ongoing, after which results will be posted at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Results. – B

Voting is open for the 2026 election of Universal Code of Conduct coordinators until June 2 (midnight UTC).

The committee is tasked to provide an "equitable and consistent implementation of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)."

Editors can vote once if they meet the following criteria:

• not be site-wide blocked in more than one public project;
• and not be a bot;
• and have made at least 300 edits before 24 April 2026 across Wikimedia wikis;
• and have made at least 20 edits between 24 October 2025 and 24 April 2026.

–M