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News & Events

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 10 February. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
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Wikipedia recognised as a digital public good.

Wikipedia as a digital public good: Wikipedia has been recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance.
Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) Connect: The first edition of this regional community call for 2025 will be held on February 22.
Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next showcase will be about "Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition" and will take place on February 26 at 17:30 UTC.
Celebrate Women 2025: The Gender Organizing community in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign every March called Celebrate Women. Conversation hours to learn about some exciting tools that can support your efforts at closing the gender gap will be held on February 25 at 14:00–16:00 UTC.
Outreachy: Wikimedia Foundation is participating in Round 30 of the Outreachy program that runs from June – August 2025. The deadline to submit projects is March 4 at 16:00 UTC .

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Growth features: The new Community Updates module is a new feature to facilitate the connection between wiki editing initiatives and newcomers.
Simple article summaries: The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has introduced Simple Article Summaries project on select Wikipedias. It aims to display article summaries that would be easy to digest for readers.
Language and internationalization: Five new languages added to Wikipedia as part of the future of language incubation initiative. Read more on the latest edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
Tech News: Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. More updates from tech news week 07 and 08.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

Community Insights: The Community Insights 2024 report captures new insights on newcomers (who are more likely to be younger), their motivations (97% liked that their contributions help others), and how for the first time, more than half of respondents (51%) agreed that the Wikimedia Foundation communicates well about its projects and initiatives.
Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Watch the recording of WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online session 1.
Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC): Are you interested in improving how funds are distributed across the Wikimedia Movement? Apply to be part of the interim GRDC by February 25.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

Public Policy: How Wikimedia projects advance a positive vision for the internet's future through the public domain, the digital commons, and digital public goods.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise has partnered with Ecosia, a Berlin-based search engine.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

Wikimedia Brasil: Wikimedia Brasil becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter!
Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan.
Affiliations Committee: Insights about the future of the movement organization ecosystem from Affiliations Committee Strategy Retreat 2024.

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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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