Hello everyone,
We are currently putting together the *EduWiki Board Election Committee* and
are inviting interested community members to be part of this process.
This committee will help shape and guide the upcoming board selection
process, supporting coordination, communication, and overall fairness. It’s
a chance to contribute behind the scenes to how decisions are structured
and carried out within the EduWiki Hub
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/EduWiki_…>
.
If you are interested in governance, community processes, or have been
involved in Wikimedia and education work, this could be a meaningful way to
contribute.
Please note that committee members are expected to remain neutral and
should not run in the election. Participation is open to members of
the Wikipedia
& Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
*Apply here:*
https://forms.gle/4nN2nwXJh5YmbEX9A
*Deadline: 30 April 2026*
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
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_…>*
Hi Folks,
There is an active proposal on the Commons Village pump that could
significantly change how video uploads are handled, and your input is
needed.
🎬 The Proposal: Allow the Upload Wizard to automatically convert MP4 to
WebM
Currently, uploading MP4 files to Commons can be a hurdle due to patent
restrictions, often requiring uploaders to use third-party tools like
video2commons to convert files. The Wiki Med team has developed a new
capability that would automatically handle this conversion directly inside
the Upload Wizard, making the process much smoother.
There are currently a few different approaches being discussed and voted on:
* Option 1: Auto-conversion – Convert the MP4 to WebM during upload and
discard the original patented file.
* Option 2: Direct MP4 Uploads – Allow users to upload MP4s directly,
retaining the original file for the future (when patents expire) but
transcoding it to WebM or another free format for viewing, similar to how
TIFF files are handled.
Whether you are passionate about user experience, concerned about software
patents and open formats, or just want an easier way to upload educational
videos, the community needs your perspective.
Head over to the proposal, review the technical and legal discussions, and
cast your vote!
🔗 Read the proposal and vote here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Allow_the…
Sincerely,
Butch Bustria
Hi everyone,
On April 3, we closed the submission period for this year's Wikimedia
Research Fund
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…>.
The proposals we received at this stage were a mix of research proposals
who were invited to a full proposal stage based on an earlier letter of
intent submission stage as well as event and community building proposals
focused on strengthening the Wikimedia research communities. We have a
total of 14 proposals: 10 research proposals and 4 research community
building proposals.
We have started the technical and internal reviews of the proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Under_review_Wikimedia_Research_Fu…>.
Similar to the previous years, we are opening an invitation to you to
provide your feedback about one or more of them by *April 21, 2026 (23:59
Anywhere on Earth)*. Click on the proposal that you want to provide input
about, click on the blue button "Give feedback on the discussion page", and
please do so.
Please note that we will not send a reminder for this email. If you have
questions, email us at research_fund, cc-ed.
Thank you for your time.
Best,
Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington, Research Fund co-chair)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation, Research Fund co-chair)
Dear all,
We are excited to present the 2025 Annual Report of *Open Foundation West
Africa (OFWA).*
This report provides an overview of our work over the past year(2025),
showcasing our programmes, training, partnerships, community engagements,
and outreach activities. It captures the strides we have made in promoting
open knowledge, empowering Wikimedia communities, and broadening access to
information across Africa.
The achievements outlined in this report are a testament to the dedication
and collaboration of our partners, volunteers, and wider community.
Access the full report here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/OFWA_2025_Annual_Report…
We appreciate your continued support and engagement.
Open Foundation West Africa
52 Swaniker St,
https://www.ofwafrica.org/
Hello everyone,
Every project has a story behind it, and the EduWiki Newsletter is a space
to document and share those stories across the Wikimedia education
community.
Submissions for the April 2026 edition are now open. If you’ve been
involved in any Wikimedia and education work, we invite you to write about
it and share your experience.
Articles should be *300–500 words* and can be submitted in English or your
local language. You may also include images, audio, or video to support
your story.
Submit here: *Education Newsroom
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom>*
Submission deadline: *26 April 2026*
We look forward to reading your contributions.
Best regards,
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_…>*
Hello,
Wikilinks have been recently solved using Template Gadgets. The lack of Wikidata integration is an issue, indeed.
Best,
Galder
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From: Kimmo Virtanen <kimmo.virtanen(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2026 11:37 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder158(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Adaptation and Personalization
Hi Galder
Regarding Txikipedia, how significant an issue is using wikilinks and langlinks via templates, or the lack of direct Wikidata integration on the pages?
In any case it is interesting.
Br,
-- Kimmo Virtanen, Zache
On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote:
These are good points, Adam,
That's why we created Txikipedia at the Basque Wikipedia, to serve a younger audience: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Azala. We don't rely on AI summaries, while they are interesting, but on the same spirit of Wikipedia. The results are very interesting, as we are having younger editors writing for their peers.
Best,
Galder
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From: James Heilman via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2026 5:36 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Cc: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com<mailto:jmh649@gmail.com>>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Adaptation and Personalization
A few of us over many years tried to shift the reading level of the leads of EN WP's medical articles and we managed to succeed.
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Readability_of_Engl…
However there was a great deal of pushback with some insisting the reading level be increased again. This was one of the reasons a few of us switched our efforts over to mdwiki.org<http://mdwiki.org/> so we could more easily continue writing for a general audience.
James
On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 5:15 AM Adam Sobieski via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Wikimedia-l,
For whom should large-scale repositories of knowledge, e.g., Wikipedia, phrase their content: article-subject-matter experts, laypeople, or students? Similarly, what about technical documentation? Digital textbooks?
While English Wikipedia provides a vast and accurate source of information, its reading level is said to be generally high, requiring a college-level comprehension. For easier access, Simple English Wikipedia was created, simplifying vocabulary and sentence structures to improve readability and comprehensibility for a broader audience.
What if English Wikipedia and Simple English Wikipedia could be the same Web resource? What if end-users could choose to send site- or article-specific "adaptation parameters", e.g., via HTTP request headers to English Wikipedia servers, to receive one of a multitude of article phrasings available at each article's URL?
That is, what if users could direct their Web browsers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis , for example, and receive an article custom-tailored to their preferred reading levels, language fluencies, and background knowledge (or to a proximate user-modeling cluster or stereotype)? What if these technical features simply worked as users navigated hyperlinks connecting articles to one another, exploring a vast adaptive encyclopedia?
As considered, there would be opportunities for finer-grained adaptations. Articles could have more than two phrasings, e.g., English and Simple English.
While there are multiple technical approaches for delivering these features, each approach presenting its own technical challenges, I am envisioning that generative artificial-intelligence technologies can be of use for adapting, personalizing, and custom-tailoring audience-independent wikitext documents into cachable, reusable, audience-dependent articles served to those end-users who opt to configure and send their "adaptation parameters" to Wikipedia’s Web servers. Other users would, as considered, receive articles' default phrasings.
I am excited about fine-grained adaptation and personalization, in particular as these pertain to educational resources. For these reasons, I recently started a new Adaptation and Personalization Community Group [1].
I am reaching out to invite anyone interested in these topics to browse and participate in our ice-breaker technical discussion forum [2] and to join the new group [1]. Thank you!
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
[1] https://www.w3.org/community/adaptation/
[2] https://github.com/w3c-cg/adaptation/issues
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Wikimedia-l,
For whom should large-scale repositories of knowledge, e.g., Wikipedia, phrase their content: article-subject-matter experts, laypeople, or students? Similarly, what about technical documentation? Digital textbooks?
While English Wikipedia provides a vast and accurate source of information, its reading level is said to be generally high, requiring a college-level comprehension. For easier access, Simple English Wikipedia was created, simplifying vocabulary and sentence structures to improve readability and comprehensibility for a broader audience.
What if English Wikipedia and Simple English Wikipedia could be the same Web resource? What if end-users could choose to send site- or article-specific "adaptation parameters", e.g., via HTTP request headers to English Wikipedia servers, to receive one of a multitude of article phrasings available at each article's URL?
That is, what if users could direct their Web browsers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis , for example, and receive an article custom-tailored to their preferred reading levels, language fluencies, and background knowledge (or to a proximate user-modeling cluster or stereotype)? What if these technical features simply worked as users navigated hyperlinks connecting articles to one another, exploring a vast adaptive encyclopedia?
As considered, there would be opportunities for finer-grained adaptations. Articles could have more than two phrasings, e.g., English and Simple English.
While there are multiple technical approaches for delivering these features, each approach presenting its own technical challenges, I am envisioning that generative artificial-intelligence technologies can be of use for adapting, personalizing, and custom-tailoring audience-independent wikitext documents into cachable, reusable, audience-dependent articles served to those end-users who opt to configure and send their "adaptation parameters" to Wikipedia’s Web servers. Other users would, as considered, receive articles' default phrasings.
I am excited about fine-grained adaptation and personalization, in particular as these pertain to educational resources. For these reasons, I recently started a new Adaptation and Personalization Community Group [1].
I am reaching out to invite anyone interested in these topics to browse and participate in our ice-breaker technical discussion forum [2] and to join the new group [1]. Thank you!
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
[1] https://www.w3.org/community/adaptation/
[2] https://github.com/w3c-cg/adaptation/issues
Hello everyone,
The *March 2026 edition of the EduWiki Newsletter* is out!.
This month, we explore 15 unique stories that demonstrate the growing
footprint of Wikimedia in academic spaces worldwide. We are proud to
feature contributions from *Nigeria, Brazil, Ukraine, Serbia, India, Kenya,
the Czech Republic, and North Macedonia.*
These stories provide a deep dive into how our community is evolving:
-
*Nigeria:* Establishing a new Yorùbá Wikipedia Fan Club at Arolu College
and building a thriving student community at Admiralty University.
-
*Brazil:* Educators in Rio de Janeiro exploring Wikipedia as a vital
tool for preserving memory and teaching source verification.
-
*India:* Protecting linguistic heritage and celebrating feminism through
community workshops in Udupi and Vidisha.
-
*Kenya:* Training the next generation of editors through digital
literacy crash courses at the National Library Service.
You can read the full newsletter here: Education Newsletter, March 2026
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> and check out our *highlights
on Wikimedia Commons*
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EduWiki_Hub_Newsletter_March.png>.
We have also opened the floor for *April 2026* submissions. If you have
been working on a project that integrates Wikimedia with teaching or
learning, we invite you to share your journey with the global movement.
-
*Submit your story:* *Education Newsroom*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom>
-
*Deadline for next issue:* 26 April 2026
We can’t wait to read about your community’s latest achievements.
Best regards,
Barakat Adegboye <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BAdegboye_(EdWH)>,
*EduWiki Connectors*
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The community proposal to host the regional [SAARC Conference in 2026 in Nepal](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Programs/Wikimedia_Commu… was declined. The reasons provided was the event would be redundant and an unnecessary expense because a similar conference is planned in India in the year of 2025. However in 2025 conference in India didn't happened and surprisingly our proposal was declined beacuse of that. But why.!!!
While Nepal’s proposal was viewed with skepticism regarding our capacity, the 2025 conference in India failed to materialize due to a failure in financial management and a lack of understanding regarding local FCRA regulations in India. This resulted in a substantial huge waste of Wikimedia Foundation resources. It is disheartening that the Conference Grant Program Officer applied Indian legal constraints as a blanket assumption for Nepal, hindering our community's growth based on a misunderstanding of our local context.
I have a question: How did the legal situation in India affect the decision on a proposal of Nepal?
Looking ahead to 2026 I was doubtful by the current grant applications from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad. I see that a request for 207,000 USD has been submitted for WikiConference India 2026. Simultaneously, the same individual representing the same institution, has applied for an separate 87,554.81 USD for an Open Knowledge Conference within a gap of few months of the first event with same purpose and target participants.
As a Wikimedian this raises serious questions about the equitable distribution and potential misuse of community resources. While Nepal is told to scale down and gain experience with smaller events, a single institution is requesting nearly 300,000 USD for overlapping projects with same people in the organization role and same theme.
If the Wikimedia Foundation is concerned about redundancy and extra costs when it comes to Nepal, why is it being overlooked when a single institution in India applies for two major grants for nearly identical purposes? We need more accountability and a fairer distribution of resources to ensure that all communities not just one can grow. We urge the foundation and the community to investigate these for the benefit of the entire regional community and stop wasting the resources make the process more transparent and accountable.
Regards,Pankaj
Hello, everyone! I'm writing with information about the Ombuds Commission
(OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about
violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of
CheckUser and Oversight tools, on any Wikimedia project for the Board of
Trustees. I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
The application period for new commissioners for 2026-28 recently closed.
The Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
This year’s OC will consist of eleven full members, one advisory member,
and one Steward-Observer.
I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2026 OC:
Appointees for 2026-28
===Ameisenigel ===
Ameisenigel (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ameisenigel>) -
Ameisenigel has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2015. He is primarily
active on German Wikipedia, where he served as an Arbitrator from 2020 to
2022 and from 2023 to 2025, and on Wikidata and is an administrator on both
projects. He is an Oversighter on Wikidata and also serves as a Global
Sysop. Ameisenigel speaks German and English. He has been on the Ombuds
Commission since 2021 and his current term expires in 2028.
===Arcticocean===
Arcticocean (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Arcticocean>) -
Arcticocean has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2008. He is primarily
active on Meta and English Wikipedia, where he is an administrator and
previously a Checkuser, Oversighter and Arbitrator. Arcticocean served on
the Ombuds Commission in 2020 and 2021 and again in 2023-24 and was the
Commission's first chairperson. His current term on the Ombuds Commission
expires in 2028.
===Chinmayee Mishra===
Chinmayee is an Indian engineer and Wikimedian active since 2016,
supporting open knowledge, regional language content, inclusive community
development, initiatives focused on gender equity and community engagement
within the Wikimedia movement. Her term on the Ombuds Commission expires in
2028.
===Faendalimas===
Faendalimas (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Faendalimas>) - Scott
Thomson, user:Faendalimas, has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2006.
Originally Australian though based in Brazil, he is a taxonomist and
evolutionary biologist with a background in International Wildlife Policy
with current international memberships to the IUCN Climate Crisis
Commission and the Catalogue of Life Global Team specializing in
Governance. His main editing interest is reptiles and amphibians,
particularly their nomenclature and classification. He is most active on
WikiSpecies, where he is a bureaucrat, Checkuser, and administrator.
Faendalimas speaks Portuguese and English. He has served on the Ombuds
Commission since 2021 and as Chair from 2022 to 2023 and again from
2025-2026, and his current term expires in 2028.
===Jnanaranjan Sahu===
Jnanaranjan Sahu (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Jnanaranjan+sahu>)
- Gyana has been involved with Wikimedia since 2011, serving as an admin
and interface admin on Odia Wikipedia. He is a member and contact person of
the [[Odia Wikimedians User Group]], a member of the [[Indic MediaWiki
Developers User Group]], and part of the [[Grants:Regions/South Asia|South
Asia Regional Committee]] (RFC). He builds tools on Toolforge, runs a bot
(Jnanabot), mentors at Indic hackathons, and regularly uploads and
categorizes event photos to Wikimedia Commons. His current term on Ombuds
Commission expires in 2028.
===Mehman===
Mehman (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Mehman>) -
Mehman Ibragimov (user:Mehman) – joined Wikimedia projects in 2016, and his
home wiki is Georgian Wikipedia, where he is most active. Since 2022, he
has been the administrator of the Georgian Wikipedia. Since 2020, Mehman
has been a member of AffCom, where he participates in the recognition
subcommittee. From 2019 to 2023, he was the head and a member of the BoT of
the Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia. Since 2023, he has been the
executive director of the newly recognized chapter – Wikimedia Georgia. His
current term on the Ombuds Commission expires in 2028.
===MrJaroslavik===
MrJaroslavik (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=MrJaroslavik>)
has been a member of the Wikimedia community since 2017, primarily active
on the Czech Wikipedia. He focuses on countering vandalism and serves as a
Global Rollbacker. In 2021, he served as a member of the Ombuds Commission.
His new term on the Ombuds Commission expires in 2028.
===Nehaoua===
Nehaoua (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Nehaoua>) - Nehaoua
holds a master's degree in Highway and Bridge Engineering and currently
works as a Civil Engineer. However, his true passion lies with knowledge
and its free access for all. Since 2009, Nehaoua has been an active
Wikimedian, contributing significantly across various projects like French
and Arabic Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, and Wiktionary. Nehaoua is
fluent in Arabic and French, and is actively improving his English language
skills. He is renewing his term on the Ombuds Commission and his term will
now expire in 2028.
===RoySmith===
RoySmith (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/RoySmith>) - Roy Smith
has been editing Wikipedia since 2004. He has been an admin on English
Wikipedia since 2005 and a checkuser since 2021. Previously an active
sockpuppet hunter, as of late 2023, he has dialed that back to concentrate
more on content creation. He has recently passed the 100,000 edit mark on
English Wikipedia. He is renewing his term on the Ombuds Commission and his
term will now expire in 2028.
Remaining on the committee through 2027
===Revi C.===
Revi C. (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Revi_C.>) - revi
started editing Korean Wikipedia in 2013, and became an admin on that wiki
a year later. revi also serves as an oversighter there since 2018, and has
been a Commons admin since early 2014. revi also served as an admin on
Wikidata for 10 years (2013~2023), steward for 5 years (2018~2023), and
admin on Meta for 9 years (2014~2023). On-wiki, revi is mostly interested
in janitorial, anti-spam work and copyright stuff. His current term on OC
ends in 2027.
===Zafer===
Zafer (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Zafer>) - Zafer has
been contributing to Wikimedia projects as a volunteer since 2008 and he is
one of the founding members of the Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
since 2016. He is primarily active on Turkish Wikipedia, Wikidata and
Commons, and he holds admin on Wikidata. He checks recent changes and new
articles at Turkish Wikipedia and is specifically interested in sports
related articles. He contributes wiki projects also by taking photos and
uploading with free licences. This is Zafer's first year on OC and his term
expires in 2027.
Transitioning to an advisory (non-voting) role
===Teles===
Teles (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Teles>) - Lucas is a
Brazilian doctor that became a Wikipedian in 2007 and started to engage
with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became a local CU on the Portuguese
Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and Checkuser rights on Ptwiki for many
years, in different terms. He is currently an administrator on Meta,
Commons and Ptwiki. In 2012, the global community elected him as a steward,
a position he held for more than ten years, until asking removal in 2024.
He has previously served the Ombuds Commission for three consecutive years.
Today, he focuses on his work at AffCom advisoring, global renaming,
occasional anti-vandalism work, translating medical content from English to
Portuguese Wikipedia. His current term on OC ends in 2027.
Steward-Observer
The Steward-Observer serves as a liaison between the Ombuds Commission and
the Stewards. The Steward-Observer is a non-voting, advisory role. The
Steward-Observer was nominated by the Stewards and is appointed by the
Wikimedia Foundation to a one-year term. This year's Steward-Observer is…
===Mykola7===
Mykola (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Mykola7>) has
been contributing to Wikimedia projects since 2018. He has been a steward
since February 2023, and was previously a global sysop, rollbacker, and
renamer. Mykola is an administrator, bureaucrat, and checkuser on the
Ukrainian Wikipedia, and an administrator on Meta-Wiki. He also served as
an Ombud for the Ombuds Commission from 2022 to 2023. His term as an
observer on the Ombuds Commission runs until 2027.
Departing members
Please join me in thanking the following volunteers who are leaving OC, who
have given substantially of their time to serve the commission:
===だ＊ぜ===
だ＊ぜ (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/%E3%81%A0%EF%BC%8A%E3%8…>)
- だ＊ぜ, who also may be referred to as Dasze, has been contributing to
Wikimedia since 2015. He's primarily active on Chinese Wikimedia projects,
where he later served as a director of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong
Kong from 2019 to 2023 while users in Hong Kong were suffering various
affection in and out of Wikimedia projects. His expertise is international
law, human rights law, and statistical and quantitative analysis thereon.
He speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, English and some Japanese.
Dasze resigned from the Ombuds Commission in 2026.
===Emufarmers===
Emufarmers (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Emufarmers>) -
Emufarmers has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2005. He is a
Metapedian who primarily edits the English Wikipedia; he is also a
bureaucrat and sysop on MediaWiki.org, and has provided software support to
many third-party, non-Wikimedia wikis over the years. He has served as a
VRTS administrator since 2015 and has been on the Elections Committee since
2023. He served on the Ombuds Commission from 2019-2021 and again in
2023-24. His term on OC expired in 2026.
===Renvoy===
Renvoy (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Renvoy>) - Renvoy has
been editing Wikimedia projects since 2014. He is primarily active on
Ukrainian Wikipedia, where he serves as administrator. Also he holds roles
of global sysop and global rollbacker. Renvoy speaks Ukrainian, Russian,
English, Polish and Lithuanian. His term on OC expired in 2026.
===Vermont===
Vermont (global account information
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Vermont>) - Vermont
(they/them) has been contributing to Wikimedia projects since 2016. They
have been a steward since February 2022, and previously a global sysop and
rollbacker. Vermont is an administrator and checkuser on Meta-Wiki and the
Simple English Wikipedia, and formerly volunteered on the UCoC Phase 2 and
Revisions drafting committees. They served as Steward-Observer for the
Ombuds Commission from 2023-25 as well. Vermont's term as Steward-Observer
expired in 2026.
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Wikimedia Foundation
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