Dear Wikimedians,
Following the success of our WikiGap Nigeria 2025 campaign, which brought
together editors across languages, featured notable Nigerian women in
high-level conversations, and significantly improved the representation of
Nigerian women online, we are excited to build on that momentum in 2026.
Read highlights from the 2025 campaign on Diff here
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/04/bridging-the-gender-gap-celebrating-tā¦>
.
In celebration of International Womenās Day 2026, the Wikimedia User Group
Nigeria proudly announces WikiGap Nigeria 2026, our annual flagship
initiative dedicated to amplifying the visibility of Nigerian women across
Wikimedia platforms.
Since 2018, we have organised WikiGap Nigeria in partnership with the Embassy
of Sweden in Abuja <https://www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/nigeria-abuja/>
and other women-focused organisations. The 2026 edition aligns with the IWD
theme: āGive to Gain.ā
There are several pathways to participate:
1. Contribute to the March Wikipedia Campaign (1ā31 March 2026).
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Create or improve articles about notable Nigerian women
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Contribute in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, English or other language Wikipedia.
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Outstanding contributors will be recognised and rewarded
Register and find the Meta page here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Nigeria_Online_Challenge/2026>.
2. Capacity Development Initiative
1.
Attend the Capacity-Building Training (8 April 2026 - Abuja).
In collaboration with Girls Voices Initiative <https://girls-voices.org/>
(Host Partner ā Abuja) and African Wiki Women
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Women/en>
(Content-Facilitating Partner):
Participants will gain practical editing skills and confidence to
contribute effectively. Know a woman in Abuja? Encourage her to register
here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_9e8ZARQ4BLq64gayfVyxOnEvG75pzlbā¦>
.
2.
Engage in a 3-Month Mentorship Programme.
The trained women participants will receive continued guidance, editorial
support, and peer learning to ensure sustained impact and long-term
engagement coordinated by African Wiki Women.
3. Share Your Story on WFM 91.7 FM.
Selected women will feature live on Women FM 91.7 <https://wfm917.com/>,
Nigeriaās only female-focused radio station, reflecting on the IWD 2026
theme, āGive to Gain.ā Do you know any women? Let them fill out the form to
have them nominated here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOU307YwOyvW5TBiqvCyZp7dCyLIrx3_rā¦>
.
This will also be followed by a capacity-building training session for WFM
91.7 staff and guests at the station's Lagos studio.
4. Attend the High-Level Symposium (9 April 2026).
Hosted at the residence of the Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, this special
gathering will feature:
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A panel of notable Nigerian women will reflect their perspectives on the
theme of IWD 2026.
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Recognition of outstanding contributors from the WikiGap contest.
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Presentation of WikiGap Nigeriaās impact journey since 2018.
Register here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUpYqMDerU6Jhy7CRczOD1xgUd-iTZMpPā¦>
to attend.
Give to gain. Document her story. Close the gap.
We warmly invite individuals, affiliates, user groups, and partners across
Africa and the global Wikimedia movement to collaborate and amplify this
campaign.
Together, we can transform visibility into equity.
Best regards,
Ayokanmi Oyeyemi,
Programs Director
Wikimedia Usergroup Nigeria
Hi Folks,
ESEAP Conference is open for public registration (including staff and self
funded participants anywhere on earth) and is ongoing until 10 March!
Engage with Wikimedians of East, South East Asia and the Pacific from 15 to
17 May. Go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026 to know
more!
Sincerely,
Butch Bustria
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Hello! ESEAP Wikimedians,
We are pleased to announce that general registration
<https://pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/ESEAP-2026/> for ESEAP Conference 2026
is now open.
The conference will take place from May 15 to 17 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
bringing together Wikimedians from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the
Pacific region. This will be a valuable opportunity to meet in person,
exchange experiences, share community achievements, and explore
possibilities for future collaboration and development.
Whether you are a long-time contributor to Wikimedia projects or a newer
member of the community, if you care about free knowledge and community
growth, you are warmly invited to join this annual gathering.
If you hope to meet fellow ESEAP Wikimedians in Kaohsiung this May, please
complete your registration in time. We look forward to seeing you at the
conference and working together toward the future of free knowledge.
Please access the registration page via the button at the top of the conference
homepage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026>.
Registration closes on March 10 (AoE), and space is limited. This is the
registration guide
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NH47Son2GF4qRpLyJYO2ckKxGBGrlRPS514ā¦>
and FAQ <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026/FAQ> ā
please review them before registering.
To ensure a safe and welcoming conference experience in line with the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC), this yearās registration follows a new
process. After submitting your information, your application will undergo a
professional safety review before payment instructions are issued and your
ticket is confirmed.
Please provide a valid email address when registering and monitor your
inbox for further instructions.
If you have any questions, please contact conference(a)eseap.org.
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Dear Wikimedians,
In celebration of International Womenās Day, Open Foundation West Africa
(OFWA) is thrilled to announce the third edition of the Shine Her Light
Writing Campaign, running from 4th March to 1st April 2026 under the theme
"African women in governance."
This year is particularly special as it coincides with the 10th Anniversary
of Open Foundation West Africa. For a decade, we have worked to empower
communities and bridge the knowledge gap, and this edition of Shine Her
Light is a testament to our continued commitment to gender equity in open
knowledge.
The Challenge: Despite their immense contributions to politics, science,
leadership, and culture, African women remain significantly
underrepresented on Wikipedia and its sister projects. Shine Her Light is
our collective effort to change that narrative.
How You Can Participate:
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Write and Improve: Join our writing contest to create new biographies or
improve existing articles about notable African women.
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Join the Launch: Be part of our official kickoff event where we will
outline the campaign goals and how to get involved on 4th March at 2:00 PM
UTC. You will receive the Zoom link automatically after registering on
Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Shine_Her_Light_Writing_Campaign_2026ā¦>
.
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Participate in the Anniversary Special: At the end of March, we will
host an "All-Female Brunch & Mentorship Session" in Accra, Ghanaāa unique
space for connection and learning as we wrap up the campaign and celebrate
a decade of OFWA.
Campaign Details:
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Duration: 4th March ā 1st April 2026
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Find all relevant information on the campaignās meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Shine_Her_Light_Writing_Campaign_2026ā¦>
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Focus: African women leaders in politics and advocacy, activists,
professionals, and heads of institutions. Donāt worry if you do not know
where to start; we have curated an article list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Shine_Her_Light_Campaign_2026/Articleā¦>
to help you out.
We invite individuals, user groups, and chapters across the movement to
join us. Whether you are a veteran editor or a newcomer, your contribution
helps ensure that African womenās voices are visible and permanently
recorded for future generations.
Letās work together to shine a light on the stories that matter.
Best regards,
--
Jael Serwaa Boateng
Executive Director
Open Foundation West Africa
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on November 28th at 16:00 UTC! If youād like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/ā¦>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from contributors of the Wikitongues project and Fante
Wikimedia Community.
Got a topic to share? Whether itās a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, weād
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-nov-2025>.
Also, weād like to highlight that the 9th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (October 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/ā¦>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the JulyāSeptember
2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalizationā¦>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? See a curated list of technical contribution tasks here:
T407935 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407935>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
This is a kind reminder that the deadline to submit program proposals
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Program> for Wikimania 2026
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026:Wikimania> is March 1st
(worldwide).
Please ensure that your proposals are submitted *before the deadline*.
Kindly note that meetups and lunches must be submitted in the same way as
any other program proposal. Meetup submissions are mandatory this year, so
if you are planning to organize one, please make sure to complete the
submission process.
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
Best,
Afek
Dear Wikimedians,
We are pleased to invite you to the 38th DCW Conversation Hour [1], a
space dedicated to movement strategy, leadership development, and
innovation in free knowledge.
[2]
Topic: Voice, Vision & Resilience
Featured Speaker: Anusha Alikhan, Chief Communications Officer,
Wikimedia Foundation
Session Key Themes:
* Navigating rapid global changes in tech landscape and public trust
to ensure Wikipedia remains a resilient and credible resource.
* Ensuring the movement stays viable, protected, and sustainable for
future generations.
* Reinforcing Wikipedia's identity as a shared resource for all
humanity.
* Strategies for South Asian communities to become "intentional
messengers"
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday, 27 February 2026
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM UTC | 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM IST
Register to Join [3] Add to Calendar [4]
We look forward to your presence and participation.
Best Regards,
Munazza Farooqui
Chief Communications Officer
Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW)
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Dear all,
We have entered the final week for submissions to the February 2026 edition
of the EduWiki Newsletter. The submission deadline is in *3 days, on 26
February 2026*.
If you have been planning to share your Wikimedia and education projects,
events, research, reflections, or community experiences, this is the moment
to do so. Each contribution helps document our collective efforts and
strengthens learning across our global community.
Submissions are welcome in *any language* and may include images, videos,
or audio.
Please submit your story via the *Education Newsroom
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom>* before 26
February 2026. We look forward to receiving your work.
Barakat Adegboye <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BAdegboye_(EdWH)>,
*Communications Assistant,*
*EduWiki Hub
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/EduWiki_ā¦>*
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on February 27th at 16:00 UTC! If youād like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Prā¦>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. In our upcoming meeting, weāll hear about a
new Wikidata Visibility Initiative and updates on the CapX Translat-a-thon.
Got a topic to share? Whether itās a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, weād
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-feb-2026>.
Also, weād like to highlight that the 10th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (February 2026)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/ā¦>
is now available. This newsletter provides updates from the
OctoberāDecember 2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in
various language-related projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Feel free to translate this message into your local language and share it
on your village pump or other community channels to help spread the word.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone,
The February 2026 Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday,
February 25, at 9:30 AM PT / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1772040600>. Our theme this month is *AI
and Communities*.
*We invite you to watch via the YouTube
stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/qW5IQJv84HY
<https://www.youtube.com/live/qW5IQJv84HY>.* As always, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month, we will have two presentations:
*LLMs in Wikipedia: Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in
Knowledge Communities*By *Moyan Zhou (University of Minnesota)*Large
language models (LLMs) are reshaping knowledge production as community
members increasingly incorporate them into their contribution workflows.
However, participating in knowledge communities involves more than just
contributing content - it is also a deeply social process shaped by
members' level of expertise. While communities must carefully consider
appropriate and responsible LLM integration, the absence of concrete norms
has left individual editors to experiment and navigate LLM use on their
own. Understanding how LLMs influence community participation across
expertise levels is therefore critical in shaping future norms and
supporting effective adoption. To address this gap, we investigated
Wikipedia, one of the largest knowledge production communities, to
understand participation in three dimensions: 1) how LLMs influence the
ways editors gather knowledge, 2) how editors leverage strategies to align
LLM outputs with community norms, and 3) how other editors in the community
respond to LLM-assisted contributions. Through interviews with 16 Wikipedia
editors with different levels of expertise who had used LLMs for their
edits, we revealed a participation gap mediated by expertise in adopting
LLMs in knowledge contributions across knowledge gathering, alignment with
community norms, and peer responses. Based on these findings, we challenge
existing models of novice editors' involvement and propose design
implications for LLMs that support community engagement, highlighting
opportunities for LLMs to sustain mentorship, knowledge transmission, and
legitimacy building by scaffolding and feedback, process documentation, and
LLM disclosure by good-faith editors.*AI Didn't Start the Fire: Examining
the Stack Exchange Moderator and Contributor Strike*By *Yiwei Wu
(University of Texas at Austin)*Online communities and their host platforms
are mutually dependent yet conflict-prone. When platform policies clash
with community values, communities have resisted through strikes,
blackouts, and even migration to other platforms. Through such collective
actions, communities have sometimes won concessions, but these have
frequently proved to be temporary. Although previous research has
investigated strike events and migration chains, the processes by which
community-platform conflict unfolds remain obscure. How do
community-platform relationships deteriorate? How do communities organize
collective action? How do the participants proceed in the aftermath? We
investigate a conflict between the Stack Exchange platform and community
that occurred in 2023 around an emergency arising from the release of large
language models (LLMs). Based on a qualitative thematic analysis of 2,070
messages from Meta Stack Exchange and 14 interviews with community members,
we reveal how the 2023 conflict was preceded by a long-term deterioration
in the community-platform relationship, driven in particular by the
platform's disregard for the community's highly valued participatory role
in governance. Moreover, the platform's policy response to LLMs aggravated
the community's sense of crisis, triggering strike mobilization. We analyze
how the mobilization was coordinated through a tiered leadership and
communication structure, as well as how community members pivoted in the
aftermath. Building on recent theoretical scholarship in social computing,
we use Hirschman's exit, voice, and loyalty framework to theorize the
challenges of community-platform relations evinced in our data. Finally, we
recommend ways that platforms and communities can institute participatory
governance to be durable and effective.
Looking forward to seeing many of you,
Kinneret
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>*