How a connection facilitated by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Advocacy team opened the door to a partnership with the International Media and Information Literacy Institute (IMILI), a UNESCO Category 2 Institute with an international mandate.

Sometimes, an important partnership begins with a simple introduction.

For Wikimedia UG Nigeria, that introduction came through Costanza Caniglia of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Advocacy team. What began as an opportunity to connect with a contact within the United Nations system gradually grew into a series of institutional engagements, new relationships, and conversations about how the Wikimedia Movement could contribute to broader efforts to improve information literacy and access to knowledge.

Those conversations eventually led to a major milestone.

On 2 October 2026, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Media and Information Literacy Institute (IMILI), a UNESCO Category 2 Institute established by the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the auspices of UNESCO, through the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation. The Institute is the first of its kind in the UNESCO program on the continent. 

Following the agreement, IMILI formally designated Wikimedia Nigeria as its Knowledge and Programme Partner.

The partnership will support cooperation in Media and Information Literacy, research, advocacy, capacity development, information integrity and digital inclusion. While much of our immediate work will focus on Nigeria and across Africa, IMILI’s international mandate also opens possibilities for wider global engagement.

For us, this is more than the signing of an agreement. It reminds us that the relationships we build through the Wikimedia Movement can create opportunities well beyond our usual spaces.

How the Journey Began

The journey began when Franziska Putz and Costanza Caniglia, staff of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Advocacy team, introduced Wikimedia Nigeria and some other affiliates in the movement to the United Nations system.

That introduction opened a door.

As a Wikimedia affiliate, we build communities, support contributions to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, promote open knowledge, and work with institutions to make knowledge more accessible.

However, we also recognise that the challenges facing the information ecosystem extend beyond any single platform or organisation.

Questions about information reliability, distinguishing credible sources from misleading content, responsible use of digital technologies, and equitable access to knowledge are becoming increasingly important.

These issues also matter deeply to the Wikimedia Movement.

The introduction let us join broader conversations and connect our practical experience as Wikimedians with the work of institutions addressing these challenges.

We didn’t know where the connection would lead, but we understood the importance of being part of the conversation.

Our Engagement with IMILI in Abuja

One important moment in this journey was our participation in a stakeholder engagement organised as an offshoot of IMILI’s official launch.

Olaniyan Olushola and some of our members in Abuja represented Wikimedia Nigeria at the engagement, which brought together stakeholders interested in Media and Information Literacy and in developing a more informed, digitally capable society.

The engagement provided an opportunity to understand IMILI’s mandate, interact with its leadership and other stakeholders, and identify areas where our work could complement one another.

It also allowed us to share our experiences in community-driven knowledge production, open educational resources, digital literacy, and using Wikimedia projects to address knowledge gaps.

As the discussions progressed, we began to see the potential for a relationship that could connect the Wikimedia Movement’s community networks and open knowledge platforms with IMILI’s research, policy and capacity-building work.

Understanding IMILI’s International Mandate

Although the Federal Government of Nigeria established the International Media and Information Literacy Institute, its mandate is not limited to Nigeria or Africa.

IMILI is a UNESCO Category 2 Institute established under UNESCO’s auspices. It operates as a distinct institution rather than as a legal part of UNESCO.

The Institute is designed to serve as an international, regional and national hub for research, policy dialogue, capacity building, advocacy, knowledge production and cooperation in Media and Information Literacy.

Its work addresses issues such as information integrity, misinformation and disinformation, digital competencies, digital citizenship, inclusion and the influence of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on how people access, evaluate and share information.

IMILI’s international outlook is particularly relevant to the Wikimedia Movement.

Wikimedia communities operate across countries, languages and cultures. They bring together volunteers with different experiences but a shared commitment to making knowledge freely available.

Through our partnership with IMILI, we see opportunities to connect these experiences with wider Media and Information Literacy conversations, including relevant international networks and initiatives.

For Wikimedia Nigeria, this means that a partnership rooted in our work in Nigeria can also create opportunities for African Wikimedia communities to contribute their perspectives to international discussions.

Participating in the United Nations Common Country Analysis Exercise

Another important part of this journey was Wikimedia Nigeria’s participation in the first United Nations Common Country Analysis (CCA) Data Validation Exercise, alongside professionals and stakeholders working in Nigeria’s digital and information ecosystem.

The exercise brought together different perspectives to inform discussions on data, development priorities, and the information needed to understand national challenges.

For us, participating in this process was particularly meaningful.

Wikimedia projects depend on access to information, reliable sources, verifiable data and the participation of people who can contribute knowledge from different communities.

At the same time, our experiences have shown us that widely used knowledge resources often lack important information about African communities, languages, histories, and institutions, or make it difficult to access or adequately represent them.

The CCA Data Validation Exercise allowed us to bring some of these perspectives into a broader institutional setting.

It also strengthened our connections with stakeholders working on information, digital development and knowledge-related issues.

Together with our engagement at IMILI, these experiences helped build the relationships and mutual understanding that made further cooperation possible.

From Conversations to a Formal Partnership

After these engagements, Wikimedia Nigeria and IMILI continued discussions on how our organisations could work together.

Both institutions approach knowledge and information from different but complementary perspectives.

IMILI brings expertise in Media and Information Literacy research, policy dialogue, institutional engagement and capacity development.

Wikimedia Nigeria brings experience in community mobilisation, open knowledge projects, digital skills development, knowledge documentation and engagement with volunteers and institutions.

These conversations culminated in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 2 October 2026.

Under the agreement, Wikimedia Nigeria has been designated as a Knowledge and Programme Partner to IMILI.

The MoU has an initial term of two years and may be renewed for subsequent two-year periods by mutual written agreement, subject to a satisfactory performance review.

The agreement identifies several areas of cooperation:

• Research and knowledge sharing: Supporting work on information integrity, digital resilience, artificial intelligence, algorithms and related developments in the information ecosystem.
• Capacity building: Exploring joint workshops, seminars, training and certification initiatives for educators, journalists, community leaders and other stakeholders.
• Advocacy and public awareness: Promoting Media and Information Literacy through outreach, campaigns and policy engagement.
• Resource mobilisation: Exploring opportunities to secure support for jointly agreed activities.
• Gender equality and inclusion: Supporting greater participation by women, girls and underrepresented communities in digital and knowledge spaces.
• Regional and international cooperation: Connecting relevant programmes and experiences with networks and initiatives in Nigeria, across Africa and internationally.

The agreement also gives IMILI opportunities to share research findings, technical expertise, and academic guidance, and to facilitate engagement with the wider international Media and Information Literacy community, including relevant UNESCO networks where appropriate.

Wikimedia Nigeria will contribute its community experience, field-level insights, networks and knowledge of Wikimedia projects to support mutually agreed programmes.

Why This Matters to the Wikimedia Movement

One lesson we have learned through our work in Nigeria is that making information available is only part of the challenge.

People must also have the skills to find information, evaluate its reliability, understand its context and use it responsibly.

This is where Media and Information Literacy connects strongly with the Wikimedia mission.

Wikipedia offers opportunities to teach people about reliable sources, citations, verifiability and responsible knowledge sharing.

Wikimedia Commons provides access to freely licensed images, audio, and other media resources for education and research.

Wikidata lets you organise and connect structured information to support research, technology, and knowledge discovery.

Other Wikimedia projects also support language documentation, education, and the preservation of cultural knowledge.

Our partnership with IMILI creates a framework to explore how these resources and experiences can support Media and Information Literacy programmes.

It also creates opportunities for Wikimedia contributors to learn from researchers, educators, media professionals and institutions working in this field.

We believe that the exchange can be valuable in both directions.

Connecting Our Work to Nigeria’s Digital Public Goods Agenda

As Wikimedians, our work promoting open knowledge, digital inclusion and community participation aligns with Nigeria’s growing interest in digital public goods.

Nigeria’s decision to join the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) is another important development for Wikimedia Nigeria, particularly as Wikipedia and Wikidata have been recognised as digital public goods.

This development is also relevant to our partnership with IMILI. While digital public goods expand access to open resources, Media and Information Literacy helps people develop the skills to find, evaluate, and use information responsibly.

Through this partnership, we hope to explore opportunities for research, capacity building and knowledge exchange, while engaging libraries, educational institutions and Wikimedia communities to promote information integrity and informed civic participation.

Although our partnership with IMILI is separate from the DPGA, we believe it can complementNigeria’ss digital public goods agenda and create further opportunities for Wikimedia communities to contribute their experience in open knowledge and digital inclusion.

Opportunities for Wikimedia Communities in Nigeria, Across Africa and Beyond

Although Wikimedia Nigeria is the organisation entering into this agreement, we see potential benefits that extend beyond our immediate community.

Across Africa, Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and language communities already undertake work that connects with Media and Information Literacy.

Some are supporting educational programmes. Others work to improve access to reliable information in local languages, document cultural heritage, develop digital skills, or address gaps in online knowledge.

These experiences deserve greater visibility in international discussions about information access and digital inclusion.

Through our relationship with IMILI, we hope to explore opportunities for interested Wikimedia communities to participate in relevant training, research, knowledge-sharing and advocacy initiatives.

IMILI’s international reach is particularly significant here.

It offers a pathway to connect experiences from Nigeria and other African countries with wider international conversations, while also creating opportunities to learn from approaches being developed elsewhere.

These possibilities will depend on jointly agreed programmes, available resources and the participation of relevant partners.

For now, the key development is establishing a formal cooperation framework.

What Comes Next?

With the MoU signed, our next task is to turn the areas of cooperation into practical activities.

We look forward to working with IMILI to identify shared priorities, develop an implementation roadmap and explore programmes where our combined experience can make a meaningful contribution.

We are particularly interested in opportunities that bring Media and Information Literacy closer to communities, educational institutions and underrepresented groups, while demonstrating the practical value of Wikimedia projects.

We also hope to share lessons from the partnership with other Wikimedia affiliates that are interested in building relationships with institutions working in similar fields.

The agreement does not automatically create financial obligations for either organisation. Specific funded activities will require separate arrangements.

This makes planning, resource mobilisation, and identifying realistic priorities important parts of the next phase.

A Lesson in the Power of Connections

As we reflect on this journey, one thing stands out: the value of connections within the Wikimedia Movement.

Costanza Caniglia of the WikimediaFoundation’ss Advocacy team facilitated an introduction that created opportunities for engagement we might otherwise have found difficult to access.

Our participation in IMILI stakeholder engagement in Abuja and the United Nations Common Country Analysis Data Validation Exercise helped us build relationships, share our perspectives, and better understand other institutions’ priorities.

Those engagements eventually helped create the foundation for a formal partnership.

We sincerely appreciate Franziska Putz and Costanza Caniglia for facilitating the initial introduction, as well asIMILI’ss leadership and the individuals who contributed to the conversations that followed.

This experience also offers a useful lesson for Wikimedia affiliates: advocacy and institutional partnerships are not only about securing immediate project support. They also involve building trust, joining relevant conversations, and showing how the Wikimedia mission connects with broader societal priorities.

Sometimes, the most valuable outcome of an introduction is not immediately visible.

For Wikimedia Nigeria, a conversation-led connection has become an opportunity to work with an internationally oriented institution on issues that matter to the future of knowledge and information.

We look forward to seeing how this partnership develops and to exploring opportunities for Wikimedia communities in Nigeria, across Africa and beyond.

Early in the first Language Diversity Conference, Rossouw van Rooyen thought about a quote he had first heard eight years earlier.

At Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, Daniel Bögre Udell of Wikitongues quoted Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a notorious US boarding school for Native American children, and summed up its mission as “kill the Indian in him, and save the man”. Seeing Daniel again in Accra set the tone for Rossouw’s weekend.

“There are languages being eradicated, there are languages being suppressed all over the world which we need to save,” he says. He adds that the work is “going to be a never-ending quest.”

The conference ran in Accra, Ghana, from 2 to 4 October 2026. It was hosted by the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub, Wikitongues and Wikimedia UK, with the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. 82 languages were represented in the room.

Born in Windhoek, Namibia, he has edited Wikipedia since 2010, coming to it through Linux and the free software movement. He edits the Afrikaans and English Wikipedias, Wikidata and contributes to Wikimedia Commons. Yet only at Wikimania 2018 did he join his own language community. “There was this eight-year gap where I edited Wikipedia, but I wasn’t involved in my own language community,” he says.

Small wikis, big gaps

Rossouw patrols recent edits on the Wikipedias of South Africa’s smaller languages and on the Wikimedia Incubator, often in languages he doesn’t speak. Some rules hold in any language, he says: “A capital is a capital and a full stop is a full stop. And it needs a reference.”

He has watched the Afrikaans Wikipedia grow since 2018 and wants the same for other African languages. Namibia worries him most. Apart from Afrikaans, none of its recognised languages has an active Wikipedia. Otjiherero, Khoekhoegowab and others sit in the Incubator with a handful of articles each. He says it’s something “we need to fix.”

Tools for the gaps

Two sessions stood out. At WikiMed Africa, he discovered the MDWiki Translation Dashboard, which makes translating medical articles into African languages far easier. He soon found a gap: the Afrikaans Wikipedia has no article on antidotes. He now has his eye on the tool’s leaderboard, about 100 translations away.

“Breaking the Metadata Barrier” tackled translating Wikidata property labels so that smaller languages can use structured data on equal terms. He also learned about UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework, a scale of what a language needs to survive. “Something I knew in theory, but I never knew in practice,” he says.

Languages without borders

The Dagbani Wikimedians User Group is organised around a language, not a country. South Africa has a national chapter, Wikimedia South Africa, but no Zulu, Xhosa or Afrikaans user group. “It’s always been a bit of a thorn in my side,” he says.

Some fear language groups could divide people. Rossouw sees it differently. “Most languages are transnational,” he says. “I would hope that language Wikipedias are not divisive, but that they’re inclusive of the same language group speakers across countries.”

The people not yet in the room

He valued the meeting with Moshe Maghundu most, from Kimberley, the participant who lives closest to him. Moshe speaks a San language with no Wikipedia. It has an ISO code, a keyboard layout and a community of speakers, Rossouw notes. “The only thing that’s missing is activating those people to become editors on Wikipedia.”

Editor shortages came up often in Accra, but Rossouw is upbeat. A veteran European Wikimedian once saw African Wikimedia events as dependent on outside support. This year the same man told him he no longer attends WikiIndaba, because African communities have shown they can do it themselves. “My jaw hit the floor,” Rossouw says.

He argues that low editor numbers reflect the internet as a whole, and that more than a billion people are still waiting to be reached. He also expects a backlash against AI. “Wikipedia will be more important than ever.”

His advice to newcomers is simple: check that your language has an ISO code and a dictionary, and find fellow enthusiasts. “Then you’ve got everything you need.”

Leaving something behind

After Wikimania in Paris this year, a colleague told Rossouw that conferences give little back to their host cities. So in Accra he joined tours, paid entrance fees at memorials and bought from street vendors. He says it’s about supporting the community he’s in, not the money.

Rather than take a conference scholarship, Wikimedia South Africa funded him, freeing a place for someone else. During the weekend, the chapter agreed to set newcomer criteria for its next local scholarship.

Education is a right, Rossouw says, but the people who become Wikimedians treat it as a thirst. “Give it to everyone, sure. But that one that comes back and wants more, give him everything.”

He sees the same at home, on a farm 56 kilometres from town, where young people no longer want to farm. He saw a schoolchild, a bright-eyed six-year-old, asks whether he’s heading to the farm.

“I see a farmer,” he says. As he puts it, “It’s our duty as a society, as a village, to recognise the enthusiasm of young people, of newcomers, and give them in excess.”

The Language Diversity Conference took place from October 2nd to 4th under the inspiring theme “Strengthening Language Communities in the Open Knowledge Movement.” The event brought together language activists, Wikimedians, and open knowledge advocates from across the globe, creating a space to share strategies, celebrate linguistic diversity, and tackle the ongoing content divide facing indigenous languages.

Unlocking the Voice: Advocacy for Indigenous Language Digitization

I was honored to present a session titled “Unlocking the Voice: Advocacy for Indigenous Language Digitization.” My presentation focused on moving beyond theoretical language preservation to provide a practical, low-barrier roadmap for local communities.

I introduced a simple framework designed for language advocates:

1. Record: Utilizing accessible, everyday technology such as smartphones and open tools like Lingua Libre to capture oral histories, proverbs, and vocabulary directly from native speakers.

2. Respect: Ensuring full community consent, respecting cultural protocols, and treating community elders as co-creators rather than data sources.

3. Release: Uploading content to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata with structured metadata to ensure indigenous languages are visible, searchable, and permanent on the web.

The session highlighted our ongoing work with the Mampruli language in North-East Ghana, demonstrating how open knowledge projects can empower youth to become active digital guardians of their heritage.

Inspiring Sessions and Movement Connections

Beyond presenting, participating in the conference offered an invaluable opportunity to learn from fellow Wikimedians and language pioneers. Two sessions particularly resonated with my work:

“Breaking the Metadata Barrier: Localizing Wikidata Properties for Language Equity” by @dnshitobu, which explored how structural metadata localization is essential for making underrepresented languages readable and functional for future technology and AI.

“Imaginaries of an Indigenous Wikipedia” by @mali-brodreskift-wmno, which challenged us with the profound question: “What would Wikipedia look like if it grew from your language, your knowledge system, and your traditions?”

Moving Forward for Mampruli

Attending this conference was a major catalyst for growth. The conversations, technical insights, and collaborative spirit reinforced that our local efforts in digitizing Mampruli are directly aligned with a worldwide movement toward digital language equity.

I return home with renewed energy, fresh technical strategies, and new connections to help push the Mampruli incubator project into its next phase.

I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the Dagbani Wikimedia User Group, Wikitongues, the Language Diversity Hub,Wikimedia UK, and the Wikimedia Foundation for providing the support and opportunity to participate in this vital conference.

Together, let’s keep building bridges for open knowledge and linguistic diversity!

Mpuusia pam!

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Registration for WikiScholar 2027 opened on 18 October 2026. WikiScholar is a free, annual knowledge competition for students in Grades 6–10 across Bangladesh, and its entire syllabus is a reading list of Bangla Wikipedia articles.

The competition is organised by Wikimedia Bangladesh, with support from a leading corporation in Bangladesh and the Wikimedia Foundation. Students can register at registration.wikischolar.bd until 12 December 2026.

From a pilot to all 64 districts

In 2026 we ran WikiScholar as a pilot in 18 schools across Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, reaching more than 10,000 students. This year it goes nationwide.

The country’s 64 districts are grouped into six regions, each named after a river: Padma, Teesta, Karnaphuli, Surma, Rupsha and Jamuna. Every student competes in the regional round for their own region.

How the competition works

There are three rounds: one online, then two held in person. All dates are provisional.

The online test has 60 multiple-choice questions in 35 minutes. Questions match the board exams in difficulty, mixing knowledge-based and analytical questions. A written question may be added, but it is marked only to break ties.

The syllabus covers 25 Bangla Wikipedia articles: 10 for the online round, 12 for the regional rounds and 16 for the final. Each round adds new articles and keeps some from earlier ones.

The national champion wins a MacBook, the first runner-up a laptop and the second runner-up an e-reader, each with BDT 10,000 via bKash. Fourth and fifth place win BDT 5,000 via bKash, and sixth to tenth a special recognition prize. The top three in every region also win a regional prize, and anyone scoring at least 40% online gets a digital certificate. All prizes are sponsored by a leading Bangladeshi corporation.

Why this matters in the age of AI

Fewer people are reading Wikipedia directly. In October 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that human pageviews had fallen by roughly 8% compared with a year earlier. It linked the drop to search engines answering questions with AI summaries, often built on Wikipedia content, and to young people turning to social video for information.

The knowledge still travels, but the visits do not. That matters, because readers are where Wikipedia’s new editors and donors come from. Fewer visits can mean fewer people growing the very content that AI tools rely on.

Students are at the heart of this shift. Many now meet Wikipedia’s knowledge only second-hand, in a chatbot answer with no source attached. They may never open an article, see its citations or learn that they can improve it.

WikiScholar sends them back to the source. The online round alone asks every participant to study 10 Bangla Wikipedia articles on Wikipedia itself, references and all. The syllabus also covers artificial intelligence, its ethical use, misinformation and information security, so students study the tools they use every day.

This matters doubly for Bangla. Bangla Wikipedia is still far smaller than English Wikipedia, and its future depends on new readers becoming new editors. A student who learns to read Wikipedia critically today can become the volunteer who improves it tomorrow.

Our aim is simple: a generation that uses AI, but still knows how to go back to the source, and to give back to it.

How you can help

• Improve the syllabus articles. Thousands of students will read these 25 Bangla Wikipedia articles closely before 19 December. Adding citations, updating facts and improving readability now pays off directly.
• Spread the word. Share the competition with teachers, schools and parents in Bangladesh.
• Help on the day. If you are in one of the six regions and want to volunteer at a regional round, email us.

Links

• Register: registration.wikischolar.bd
• Project page, with the full schedule, regions and syllabus: w.wiki/WRcs
• Facebook: facebook.com/wikischolar
• Email: info@wikischolar.bd

Brazil is widely recognized as having one of the populations that spends the most amount of time online, averaging over 115 hours of connectivity per week. Discussing the regulation of social media, online platforms, and artificial intelligence, technologies that increasingly shape the daily lives of Brazilians, is essential. This is particularly relevant within the context of Wikimedia Brasil’s Theory of Change (2024), which advocates for the organization to take a more active role in advocacy for broad, democratic digital rights, maintaining a stance of intentionality in defending free, collaborative projects that serve the public interest.

With this challenge in mind, Wikimedia Brasil organized the Internet Governance and Free Knowledge Training School. The initiative stemmed from the recognition of a need to create a space for training, dialogue, and coordination regarding strategic issues in internet governance, given that technological and regulatory shifts directly impact the production, circulation, access, and preservation of knowledge. In this context, developing individuals and organizations capable of understanding and participating in these debates is a crucial aspect of strengthening open and collaborative digital ecosystems.

The event took place at the Goethe-Institut São Paulo on August 13, bringing together 41 participants, including experts, Wikimedians, and representatives from various sectors, to discuss who defines the rules of the internet, how knowledge circulates within this environment, the future of digital infrastructure, and the challenges involved in ensuring a more open and democratic network. The initiative was supported by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), through the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), and was part of the Wiki and Democracy 2026 campaign.

A distinctive form of knowledge governance

Kicking off the program, Wikimedia Brasil President Érica Azzellini highlighted how the Wikimedia movement’s experience can contribute to debates on the creation and circulation of information on the internet: “We have communities that not only produce content but also discuss the conditions under which that content should be produced. This generates a very distinctive form of knowledge governance, based on participation, transparency, attribution, verifiability, and shared responsibility.”

Marília Rocha, WMB’s communications manager, presented a historical overview of Wikimedia Brasil’s advocacy initiatives regarding public policy debates on internet governance and regulation in the country.

Expanding on this perspective, Amalia Toledo, from the Wikimedia Foundation, outlined how platforms are being regulated around the world and how Wikimedia projects are affected by these new rules. She also highlighted the organization’s efforts to position itself within global discussions on the subject, emphasizing that Wikipedia and other projects operate differently from AI systems and social media networks and, therefore, should not be regulated in the same way.

Solange Ferraz de Lima (Museu Paulista/USP), Fabiana Dias (Wikimedia Brasil), and Éder Porto (Wikimedia Brasil) participated in the panel “Wikimedia, Free Knowledge, and AI.” Éder and Fabiana provided an overview of the use and impact of artificial intelligence, particularly on Wikipedia, from the perspectives of the users and the platform. The discussion highlighted the challenges that arise as AI systems increasingly mediate the access to, production of, and circulation of knowledge.

Meanwhile, Solange presented a concrete example of a partnership between Wikimedia and a cultural institution, demonstrating how the work carried out with the Paulista Museum (USP) has contributed to organizing, uploading, and sharing data and collections online. This example helped illustrate, in practical terms, what it means to build free knowledge in partnership with memory institutions. It is not merely about making content available, but creating new possibilities for collections, information, and stories to be discovered, connected, and reused by diverse audiences.

Next, Rafael Evangelista highlighted the role of the CGI, an entity in which he serves as an academic representative, in shaping public policy regarding the internet in Brazil and addressing the concentration of digital platforms. These platforms threaten principles of collaboration and free knowledge while creating a power imbalance.

“A few companies control the distribution of what people read, watch, and learn. They operate based on surveillance and engagement. It is a business model that organizes the circulation of content through profiling and boosting, rather than through public relevance”, Rafael noted.

The second panel, “Global Trends in Internet Governance,” featured Ana Clara Duran (UNICAMP), Pedro Lana (IODA and GEDAI/UFPR), and Leonardo Foletto (ECA/USP). An expert in nutrition and public health, Ana Clara drew a parallel between ultra-processed foods and ultra-processed knowledge, which is defined as content that is “easy to swallow, easy to consume, and whose actual ingredients we don’t quite know.”

In his presentation, Pedro showed how different countries (including Brazil) are addressing copyright regulation in the context of AI. Adding to this discussion, Leonardo illustrated how the copyright debate has shifted over the past two decades, with open knowledge and digital public goods facing more barriers, while AI systems have been appropriating human knowledge for the profit of large corporations.

To conclude the Internet Governance and Free Knowledge Training School, the panel “Regulation in Brazil and Information Integrity” brought together Paulo Rená (IRIS and AqualtuneLab), Paulo Lyra (a volunteer advocate for the free dissemination of knowledge), Karina Yamamoto (JDL/USP), Amalia Toledo, and Marília Rocha. Rená discussed the important role civil society plays in internet regulation, whether through diversity, exerting pressure, or monitoring public authorities.

Following up on her morning remarks, in which she presented a global overview of Wikimedia’s involvement in governance discussions, Amalia addressed the regulatory situation in Brazil. In her view, local political and regulatory stakeholders understand that Wikimedia’s operating model differs from that of other platforms, providing greater security for its operations in the country.

Lyra and Marília discussed the launch of a publication that analyzes the history of free licenses within the Brazilian federal government and offers concrete recommendations for expanding public access to knowledge generated by government agencies, highlighting how WMB has been working to reverse the current situation: “Content produced with public funds cannot be restricted; it must be freely accessible whenever possible and also be available for free reuse,” Lyra emphasized.

To conclude the event, Karina presented the concept of information integrity, which refers to a “healthy ecosystem” for the circulation of information without it being distorted (intentionally or otherwise) along the way; in other words, a communication process that must be accurate, consistent, reliable, and transparent.

This gathering of individuals affiliated with various institutions – including representatives from universities, cultural institutions, and civil society organizations – facilitated an exchange of diverse perspectives and experiences regarding the potential future directions of internet governance in the country.

Connections between the Training School and the Wikimedia Brasil strategy

The day after the Training School, the Wikimedia Brasil team met at the Goethe-Institut to discuss how the topics presented at the event connect to the organization’s strategy and can be incorporated into WMB’s planning and activities over the coming years.

Discussions included, for example, ways to foster programs and initiatives that strengthen the resilience of free knowledge communities (promoting autonomy, longevity, and recognition) and how to provide the tools, resources, training, and spaces to facilitate this and ensure the projects become sustainable.

Furthermore, it is necessary to identify and map institutions, organizations, social movements, open platforms, and cultural diversity agents, fostering collective engagement around digital public goods, while also supporting the leadership of communities in the Global South within internet governance bodies and in campaigns on the subject.

The discussions also reinforced the need to establish collaborative alliances among entities, as well as to create federated governance mechanisms (by advocating with public and private bodies and stakeholders) to adopt protocols and policies regarding transparency and open access.

Through initiatives like this, WMB will help to foster methodologies for democratization, collaboration, and transparency in fields such as research, open science, open data, digital infrastructure, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Faced with the challenges and opportunities presented in the national and international landscape, we can strengthen experiences, develop infrastructure, and integrate the network with other sociotechnical solutions under the same paradigm of collaborative and open knowledge production. One based on an architecture of participation where people can create, edit, and share knowledge and content in a decentralized, transparent, flexible, and democratic manner.

Links to Training School resources

All materials from the Training School are available online. The full panels and debates have been published on the Wikimedia Brasil YouTube channel, while the official visual collection produced by photographer Willian T. Shiratori is located in the category dedicated to the event on Wikimedia Commons.

The Train the Trainers (TTT) programme is an initiative of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) aimed at equipping Wikimedians with the skills and knowledge needed to train others to contribute effectively to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Previous editions have been organised across different regions of Nigeria, including North-Central, South-East, and North-East, helping to expand participation in the Wikimedia movement, develop new generations of editors, and improve content coverage across Wikimedia platforms. Building on these efforts, the Train the Trainers North West Nigeria 2025 was organised to strengthen community leadership, promote knowledge sharing, and support the sustainable growth of Wikimedia communities across the region.

Building on these efforts, the Train the Trainers North West Nigeria 2025 was organised from 8 to 12 October 2025 at Zaytun Hotel in Kano State to strengthen community leadership, encourage knowledge sharing, and support the sustainable growth of Wikimedia communities across the region. I had the privilege of serving as the Project Lead for this edition, which brought together 30 active Wikimedians representing all seven states of North West Nigeria. The training focused on developing participants’ skills in Wikimedia policies, leadership, community engagement, project planning, and training facilitation. Beyond strengthening individual skills, the programme aimed to empower participants to organise Wikimedia activities, mentor new contributors, and share their knowledge within their communities. For me, leading the project was an opportunity to contribute to building stronger, more collaborative, and inclusive Wikimedia communities across North West Nigeria.

Building Skills Beyond Editing

The training went beyond editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Participants explored leadership, community engagement, Wikimedia content policies, project planning, and effective training techniques.

The sessions were facilitated by Kayode Yusuf, Ayokanmi Oyeyemi, Barakat Adegboye, and Rhoda James, who shared their knowledge and experience in different aspects of Wikimedia contribution, leadership, and community development. Sessions covered essential Wikimedia policies and guidelines, including Neutral Point of View, verifiability, notability, and copyright. Participants also strengthened their skills in community branding, social media engagement, and impact measurement. These skills are important for organising effective edit-a-thons, training new contributors, conducting outreach activities, and evaluating the impact of Wikimedia programmes.

As Project Lead, I considered it important that participants gained practical knowledge they could apply in their respective communities. The goal was not simply to train editors but to prepare Wikimedians who could share their knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to sustainable community development. Connecting Communities Across North West NigeriaOne of the most valuable aspects of the programme was bringing delegates from all seven North West states together. The gathering provided opportunities for participants to exchange experiences, discuss community challenges, and explore ways to collaborate.

The programme also promoted gender inclusion, with a commitment to at least 25% women’s participation. This reflected the importance of creating opportunities for women to develop their skills, assume leadership responsibilities, and contribute to the Wikimedia movement. Participants also visited historical and cultural sites in Kano, including Kofar Mata Dyeing Pit, the Emir’s Palace, and Gidan Makama Museum. These visits highlighted the importance of documenting Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage and making reliable information about local history and traditions accessible through Wikimedia projects.

Key Outcomes

The Train the Trainers North West Nigeria 2025 achieved several important outcome

• Capacity building: Trained 30 active Wikimedians as community trainers and leaders.
• Leadership development: Strengthened participants ability to organise edit-a-thons, training sessions, and outreach activities.
• Policy awareness: Improved understanding of Wikimedia content policies, including neutrality, verifiability, notability, and copyright.
• Digital engagement: Enhanced skills in community branding, social media, and impact measurement.
• Regional collaboration: Strengthened connections among Wikimedia communities across the seven North West states.
• Gender inclusion: Promoted women’s participation, with a target of at least 25%.
• Community development: Launched the WUGN Kano Network and developed actionable community plans to sustain Wikimedia activities in the region.

Among these outcomes, the launch of the WUGN Kano Network was particularly significant. It provided a platform for stronger local coordination and future Wikimedia activities in Kano State. The development of community plans was equally important because the impact of a training programme depends on how participants apply and share their knowledge after the event.

Documenting the Experience

Documenting Wikimedia activities allows communities to share their experiences, celebrate achievements, and provide resources for future organisers:

Photographs from the programme are available in the Train the Trainer North West 2025 Wikimedia Commons category.

⁠The programme agenda and additional event details can be found on the Train the Trainers Nigeria Programme: Kano Metapage⁠

Conclusion

Leading the Train the Trainers North West Nigeria 2025 was a valuable opportunity to contribute to the development of Wikimedia communities across the region. The programme strengthened participants skills, encouraged collaboration, promoted inclusion, and supported the development of local community leadership.

I am grateful to the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, the facilitators, participants, and everyone who contributed to the programme’s success.

I hope the knowledge and relationships developed in Kano will translate into more training opportunities, stronger collaboration, and increased participation in Wikimedia projects. I also look forward to seeing future editions expand these opportunities to more communities across Northern Nigeria.

Building skills is the beginning; empowering others to share knowledge is the lasting impact.

Ask an AI assistant a factual question and the answer may well draw on Wikipedia, yet you don’t always see it. This is the case with many sources on the internet. Publishers, libraries and broadcasters face similar questions. As the EU debates how AI, transparency, author’s rights and sustainability fit together, a basic question deserves its share of attention: When AI systems, search engines and apps reuse content, can people see where it came from? Is it clear which part of the answer is a citation and which is edited or added? Can we guarantee that the source is not misrepresented?
This post explains the Wikimedia Attribution Framework, a practical, voluntary answer from the Wikimedia Foundation, and what Wikimedia would like AI companies to do with it.

Why attribution & presentation matter

This includes the financial question, but it by far not limited to it:

• Accuracy and trust. A summary can lose a caveat or misquote a figure. A visible source and a working link let readers check, which is the kind of transparency we seem to want from AI.
• Traffic and brand. People who can see and easily open the place where information comes from can go and read more. A recognisable source also builds trust.
• Human editors. Wikipedia is written and kept up to date by volunteers, most of whom started as readers. Without visibility, the path from reader to contributor is lost. The communities of people people who keep a public-interest resource alive might disappear.
• Fundraising: The Wikimedia Movement’s main source of income are donation banners on the projects. If people don’t go to Wikipedia they wont’ see them. Publishers have a similar issue, but with advertising.

What the framework is

Version 1, published in beta in May 2026, is a set of voluntary guidelines for anyone reusing Wikimedia content: search engines, AI assistants, apps, social media and media outlets. It sits alongside existing legal duties, since the open licences already require credit, and it makes meeting them simple and consistent. It has three levels:

1. Essential attribution: the source, title and a link back, plus a clear indication when content has been summarised or changed rather than quoted.
2. Trust and relevance: how many people contributed, how many references the article has and when it was last updated.
3. Ecosystem growth: invitations to read further, edit or donate, where possible.

What we would like from AI companies

For AI assistants, the recommended set includes the source, a link, the reference count, the contributor count and the last update. A beta Attribution API delivers these signals in one request, and high-volume commercial reusers can expect the same information through Wikimedia Enterprise.

The approach starts from evidence. A November 2025 survey experiment with 1,186 participants found that attribution signals measurably shaped trust in chatbot answers, while the effect was harder to detect in search results. This is early research, but it suggests attribution matters most where it is currently weakest: in chatbot settings. So the baseline request for these is:

• Name the source and link to the specific page used, next to the answer rather than buried in a footnote.
• Say when text has been summarised or changed, so a paraphrase is not mistaken for a quotation.
• Show why the source is trustworthy and invite people in: contributors, references, freshness, and a way to read on or take part.

None of this is technically hard. Perhaps it can also offer EU policymakers a concrete reference for what is reasonable and practical.

The framework is in beta and the Foundation is asking for feedback. Read the framework, the announcement on Diff, the Attribution API documentation and the research.

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• To measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for Image Carousel will be pushed to logged-out readers. With the Image Carousel feature, readers browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. The test starts on November 20.
• An experimental notice will be pushed to 0.5% of logged-out mobile readers who come to English Wikipedia from Google, asking them to add Wikipedia as a Google Preferred Source. The test is to see if this notice increases reader retention and encourages people who use Google Search to visit Wikipedia more often. It will run from October 15–29 and will be assessed for its impact on retention and referrals.
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Quarry returned an “Access denied” error when users tried to run SQL queries, preventing queries from running normally, has now been fixed. [1]

Updates for technical contributors

• Due to a long-standing bug, applications that use the OAuth 2 client credentials flow to act on their owners’ behalf are treated as if they are logged out. This will be fixed for new applications registered on or after Monday, October 19. Some affected applications need to re-register. [2]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between, has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.

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Late on 15 October, an email was sent to all UK-based Wikimedia Foundation staff from Safeguard UK (SG), the employer of record, entitled “Update on trade union recognition discussions”. We are disappointed by this communication, which presents an incomplete and misleading account of the discussions and the reasons our recognition process has moved to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC). We want to clarify what has happened, why we have sought a formal determination, and what comes next. We have included a timeline of communications between Safeguard Global and UTAW-CWU at the end of this message.

Status of the recognition process

As SG accurately notes, the CAC has scheduled a hearing for 29 October, with a determination on the scope of the bargaining unit expected by 20 November. Importantly, this hearing is not about whether UK workers should have a union, but rather concerns who will be included in the bargaining unit. This hearing refers to the “establishing a bargaining unit” stage of the documentation on the gov.uk site.

From the outset, UTAW-CWU and the WWU-UK Branch have sought recognition covering all UK-based Wikimedia Foundation staff. Safeguard, however, is seeking to exclude certain categories of our colleagues, including management-level staff, legal counsel, and HR associates, on the grounds of possible conflicts of interest in collective bargaining. We disagree with this proposed exclusion and argue that the proposed bargaining unit is compatible with effective management, avoids fragmenting the workforce into small bargaining units, and accounts both for the shared employment characteristics of staff in the unit, and location, in the UK. The point-by-point reasoning has been described in our prior public report. The deadline for submission of written arguments and evidence for this hearing was 19 October.

As people who will benefit from and be subject to the same bargained workplace conditions and benefits, we believe managers have an equal right to participate in their creation. If you are one of the few UK-based WMF staff not already a member of UTAW, especially if you are one of the aforementioned categories that SG wishes to exclude from scope, please know that we are working to ensure your employment rights.

Misrepresentation

Safeguard’s email states that “CWU have indicated that they would prefer to discontinue the voluntary discussions process” and proceed before the CAC. This is an incomplete and misleading account.

In early July, SG chose to enter negotiations rather than voluntarily recognise our proposed bargaining unit. We accepted that decision in good faith and participated fully in the process. Since then, SG has requested only two negotiation meetings, both focused on narrowing the scope of the bargaining unit. Throughout these conversations, our organising committee and UTAW-CWU representatives have provided detailed explanations, relevant legal precedents, and information about the Wikimedia Foundation’s organisational structure to explain why we believe the proposed exclusions are unnecessary. Despite these efforts, SG maintains its position of excluding categories of staff from scope. To suggest that our union simply preferred to discontinue discussions misrepresents a decision made collectively by workers involved and our union representatives.

We have not withdrawn from constructive engagement. We have pursued the established statutory process because voluntary discussions have not resolved the central disagreement. The CAC provides an independent mechanism to determine the bargaining unit when the parties cannot agree. Seeking that determination is a legitimate and established part of the UK union recognition process.

The WWU UK Branch recognition process was launched in July—before the WWU-US Branch process which has now concluded with an overwhelmingly positive ballot—and yet the UK process remains in the same place. We remain committed to constructive engagement, but constructive engagement must lead to progress. Moving to the CAC is a necessary step towards resolving the outstanding disagreement and advancing recognition without further stalling and delay.

Join us

We are working hard to ensure the maximum scope of union recognition for our colleagues. Our priority remains ensuring that as many UK-based colleagues as possible can benefit from collective representation.

WMF HR leadership has confirmed that all UK-based staff, including managers, may join discussions about their potential union representation. We want every colleague to understand the process, have access to accurate information, and have an opportunity to participate.

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Timeline of UK voluntary recognition negotiations so far

• 24 June: UTAW-CWU submitted the request for voluntary recognition of the WWU-UK Branch with a proposed bargaining unit of “all staff in the UK employed by SafeGuard as Employer of Record for and on behalf of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.”.
• 7 July: SG responded, requesting to negotiate rather than to accept voluntary recognition, which was accepted on the same day. This started a 20 working day (minimum) clock.
• 31 July: The first negotiation meeting was held, attended by SG, UTAW-CWU, several UK Wikimedia Foundation staff, and mediated by a representative of Acas. No substantive points for negotiation were raised by SG during the meeting. It was noted that the request for statutory recognition (via the CAC) would be submitted after the 20 days, and that this process can, does, and should run parallel to voluntary recognition negotiations.
• 6 August: The statutory recognition paperwork was submitted for a potential ruling by CAC if needed.
• 18 August: A senior SG manager counter-proposed the bargaining unit scope: that we exclude all managers, legal counsel, and HR associates on the basis that these would create a conflict of interest in collective bargaining.
• Same day: We responded that this is factually incorrect, as this is not how the Wikimedia Foundation’s employment conditions are determined. We also consulted with WMF members, and they were against excluding the roles.
• 20 August: CAC confirms that the proposed bargaining unit has passed the membership density check, by cross-referencing employee and membership records provided by SG and UTAW respectively.
• 3 September: The second Acas-mediated negotiation was held, again including members from the UK WMF staff. SG reiterated its position to remove managers (etc.) from the bargaining unit scope. At length, UTAW representatives described the UK legal context, UK WMF staff described the practical context for the organisation, explaining why this would not represent a conflict of interest.
• 11 September: SG did not meet timelines and next steps agreed in a meeting for an updated bargaining unit counter-claim, so we emailed to ask if they’re withdrawing from voluntary negotiations. A senior SG manager replied to say they have not withdrawn, and argued that we are refusing to discuss their point about a conflict of interest.
• Same day: We replied that we had a lengthy discussion in the meeting about this issue, and gave further evidence as to why there would be no conflict of interest. We noted that we’re willing to come to a third negotiation meeting if they wish to have one, but that it should be about something different, as re-litigating the same conversation would not be good-faith negotiation but rather merely an attempt to delay.
• 16 September: The senior SG manager sends a longer email repeating the same, but asserting they want to continue in good faith.
• 17 September: We emailed SG to confirm that we would like CAC to rule on the bargaining unit scope.
• 15 October: SG sends email to all UK WMF staff claiming that “CWU have indicated that they would prefer to discontinue the voluntary discussions process”.
• 19 October: Submission of evidence and written arguments to CAC.

I want to spend some more time developing a-wikimedia-cli (previosuly called mwcli), expanding what it can do, and adding integration tests for more of its functionality along the way. Having tests is useful, but having to wait for them every time you change something makes that slightly less appealing. Especially when your development system seems to be intense bursts of work and branches on the odd evening, or odd weekend, and not much development the rest of the time.

Some of the more involved tests create MediaWiki environments, start databases, install things, turn them off, turn them back on again and check that the CLI has done what it was supposed to. These have been running using Docker-in-Docker (or dind for short) on Wikimedia Cloud VPS machines for some time now, alongside the other checks and builds managed by Wikimedia GitLab. However the are only 2 small workers in the pool for the Docker-in-Docker tests, which are limited to 4 simultaneous jobs due to CPU and RAM constraints. not to mention it’s a waste leaving them on most of the time…

Meanwhile, the project also has a repository on GitHub which is mirrored to from GitLab, where GitHub Actions has machines quite capable of running these tests.

I have thought about moving entirely over to GitHub to solve this problem before, and have spun up forks there with CI before to make sure integration style tests pass before promoting them into branches in GitLab. However I never made a complete move. I have also dabbled with doing cross repo CI before for this setup, however it often ended in a disappointing mess.

However, maybe this time it will work *wink wink*…

A GitLab runner inside a GitHub Action

Looking back through the Git history, I had already started exploring this in October 2022, adding a GitHub workflow that could register a GitLab runner. By January 2023, I was trying to connect individual integration jobs to those runners using dynamically generated tags. GitLab would trigger GitHub, GitHub would start a runner, and the runner would pick up the appropriate GitLab job. I don’t remember much about getting this far, or exactly why I stopped. Looking at the configuration now, there were already quite a few moving parts. But it didn’t seem to make enough sense at the time.

The first working approach this weekend followed much the same idea. A GitHub workflow starts a temporary GitLab Runner on its hosted machine. That runner connects to Wikimedia GitLab, processes one job, and disconnects afterwards. The integration tests still run as GitLab jobs, with their output appearing in GitLab, but the machine doing the work belongs to GitHub. This also meant that Cloud VPS runners and GitHub-hosted runners could share the work. Whichever runner picked up a job would execute it.

There was a bit of plumbing around checking whether a worker was actually needed, avoiding duplicate dispatches, and cleaning up the temporary runner afterwards. But it worked, and the tests were considerably faster.

Ultimately after getting this mostly working, and almost being happy, I decided to throw it all away, as the approach likely makes the GitHub runners appear as doing some odd stuff, which might raise some flags. Essentially it would be hundreds of jobs that just sit there, running a gitlab runner and then exiting, with not very much output on the GitHub side. Not to mention the fact that this time around I was using a webhook from GitLab to trigger the GitHub action, but that would trigger for ALL JOBS, even if nothing needed to run on GitHub. So within an hour or so I had actually spawned thousands of CI jobs on GitHub for the project…

Going native

The next iteration moved the integration tests into native GitHub Actions jobs. GitLab still runs the checks (linting etc), builds the CLI binary, and prepares a MediaWiki snapshot. Once those prerequisites pass, a request job dispatches the GitHub workflow.

GitHub then downloads the inputs from that particular GitLab pipeline:

• The built mw binary.
• The prepared MediaWiki files.
• A Git bundle containing the source being tested.

Jobs then run in parallel, covering general Docker functionality, the supported databases, the MySQL lifecycle, and a Wikibase repository/client setup. These use the GitHub machine’s Docker daemon directly.

As each finishes, a separate reporting job posts its result back to GitLab, including a link to the GitHub logs. A small waiting job in GitLab keeps downstream jobs blocked until all four tests have passed.

There are still Cloud VPS machines involved, but their role in this flow is dispatching work and waiting for results. The heavy Docker tests happen on GitHub. And there might be room to entirely get rid of the 2 VMs in the future, instead moving those processes to toolforge.

How much faster?

I went back through some actual pipeline timings to compare the different arrangements, as one of my other memories of experimenting in this topic before, was that GitHub actions was significantly faster.

The September column uses median durations from four pipelines on 15 September. The other columns are individual example runs: Cloud VPS, GitHub-hosted GitLab Runner, and native GitHub Actions.

These are historical comparisons, with different code, caches and runner load. Preparation and caching also improved during the work, so we can’t attribute all of the difference to moving away from Docker-in-Docker. The variability on Cloud VPS is fairly visible though…

Queueing added another layer. Across the September examples, the original batches of Docker jobs took around 15–46 minutes from becoming runnable to finishing, including queue time and an initial failure in one batch, primarily down to the limitation of 4 simultaneous dind executions at once, as a single merge request or branch, or merge into main will instantly take those 4 slots, and based o the above times, they won’t be back for another 5-10 mins.

With the native setup, one complete request took around 4 minutes 21 seconds, from starting the dispatch job to GitLab receiving a successful result. That makes adding more integration coverage feel considerably more practical.

Is this allowed?

Running a GitLab runner inside a GitHub Action felt like something worth checking against GitHub’s terms, and my first check is what lead to me not actually running the GitLab runner application itself. It is an unusual-looking arrangement, even when the work being done is ordinary CI, there are no PRs on GitHub? but lots of actions?

The Actions terms restrict hosted-runner activity unrelated to the:

production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository

They also address activity where the:

burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users

My reading is that testing, through the GitHub repository for this project fits the stated purpose. The terms don’t specifically prohibit other runner or require changes to arrive through GitHub pull requests. Using native jobs does make the purpose clearer though. Open the workflow and you can see the individual integration tests, their results, and their logs.

Windows and macOS too

Not something I was thinking about at the start of the day, but as I was trying to tackle a backlog of tasks and bugs, many of them relate to mac, windows and arm (not somewhere the integration tests currently run). We now also have access to Windows and macOS machines, which opens up testing that the Linux Cloud VPS runners weren’t covering, and this is already in place with some first tests for initial setup and updating on windows and mac.

The integration plan lives in the GitLab configuration, listing which tests should run on which platforms. GitHub turns that into parallel jobs, checks out the exact source being tested, and runs the appropriate scripts. Adding another test can happen in the same GitLab merge request as the functionality it checks.

This is much closer to what I wanted when starting: being able to expand mwcli’s functionality alongside integration coverage for the environments people actually use.

How to?

The CI documentation covers the setup, and the workflows and helper scripts live alongside the rest of the project, and im writing this as 7a5692187b4b6d05b65d668fb6007144c25d188a is currently the HEAD of main, so your best bet will start looking there.

Next step, making GitHub a first class citizen to the project and being able to open PRs there, having GitLab CI trigger? Which in turn triggers GitHub?

CI inception! only time will tell…

For now, hopefully less waiting, more tests, and more stability…

How university life in Changsha became an opportunity to bring language, culture, and free knowledge together.

When I moved to Changsha, China to study Electrical Engineering and Automation at Changsha University of Science and Technology (CSUST), I was also thinking of a different kind of infrastructure: the infrastructure of knowledge, language and cultural representation on the internet.

As a polyglot Bengali and Sylheti-speaking student, far away from Bangladesh, the Wikimedia projects were a way to stay connected to my language and be part of a global movement for free knowledge. In 2019, that interest began to take shape beyond individual edits, through in-person gatherings that brought Bangla Wikipedia contributors and Chinese Wikimedians together. In 2020, I was featured by Changsha Evening News for my involvement in promoting cultural exchange between Bangladesh and China as a cultural ambassador.

Celebrating International Mother Language Day in Changsha

On 21 February 2019, International Mother Language Day, a Wikimedia gathering took place in front of the Library Complex at CSUST. The event commemorated the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement and created a space to discuss Wikipedia with two communities in mind: the mainland China Wikipedia community and the Bangla Wikipedia community.

The event is documented on Meta-Wiki, where I was privileged to organise and lead such an initiative. For the first time in its history, the event expanded beyond Bangladesh, demonstrating how the Wikimedia movement can connect language communities across borders. The gathering was also connected to the developing Hunan Wikimedians community, which was created by me in October 2018.

For me, the significance of the gathering went beyond marking a date on the calendar. International Mother Language Day carries a particular meaning for Bengali speakers: it reminds us that language is bound up with identity, dignity, and the right to be heard. Connecting that history with Wikimedia created an opportunity to talk about how people can preserve and expand their language’s presence in the digital world.

Wikipedia is built through individual contributions, but a contributor community grows when people meet, exchange ideas, and encourage one another to participate.

Bringing the conversation back on Victory Day

On 16 December 2019, Bangladesh’s Victory Day, another Bangla Wikipedia gathering took place at CSUST, near the international student dormitory on the Yuntang campus. Bangladeshi students met Chinese Wikimedia contributors to discuss the use of Bangla online, ways to contribute to Wikimedia projects, and opportunities for cultural exchange.

I documented the gathering in a report for Prothom Alo. It was the second such gathering organised by me at the university in 2019, following the February event.

The December meeting even more highlighted the importance of local context in Wikimedia outreach. However, in practice, Participation was difficult because Wikipedia was blocked in mainland China at the time. In the meantime, I could manage the Global IP block exemptions to ensure that I can continue my contributions smoothly across all Wikimedia projects. When talking about these realities with people from different language communities, the conversation about contribution brought the conversation back down to the ground in the realities people actually faced.

It was about more than editing an encyclopedia. It was also about helping people learn about each other’s histories and cultures. On Bangladesh’s Victory Day, the participants welcomed each other and talked about Bangladesh’s Liberation War and how cultural exchange can continue.

What I learned about community and free knowledge

Thinking back on my experience at CSUST I realised that, contributing to Wikimedia can be more than just writing or editing articles. It can also mean helping people find a project, creating opportunities for contributors to connect, documenting community activities, and building bridges between language communities.

Although these activities were insufficient in terms of size, they were set in a meaningful context: a university in China where students from different countries lived and studied together. That environment facilitated a combination between the local experience and the global movement.

Since then my work with Bangla Wikimedia projects and work supporting Sylheti language representation has continued to deepen my interest in linguistic diversity. At its heart, the question remains the same: how can communities make their knowledge, histories and languages more visible and accessible to the online world?

From that time, I also began translating and reshaping Wikipedia articles into news reports aimed at a broader audience beyond Wikipedia. These reports were started to be published in various Bangladeshi newspapers, including Prothom Alo, Jugantor, The Financial Express, and others. In 2021, I was awarded the BCYSA Outstanding Journalist Award for my work that showed a dedicated effort to document communities, preserve cultural knowledge, and translate information across languages.

My experience in Changsha showed me that this work needs both digital inputs and human connections. An edit might add a fact to an article, a gathering can introduce someone to the community that keeps knowledge growing.

My role as the Campus Director for the Hult Prize at Changsha University of Science and Technology was a constant combination of multilingual communication, education, and community building within the Wikimedia movement and in global academic settings. In June 2022, I was officially appointed as a 2022 Alumni Liaison (校友联络员) for the International College of Changsha University of Science and Technology, and ended up with my Changsha chapter.

One simple lesson from my experience for Wikimedia contributors working in smaller and under-represented language communities: start with the people around you. A university campus, a cultural event, or a conversation between speakers of different languages can be an entry point to free knowledge. The first step might be a small get-together, but the relationships formed can endure long after the event has ended.

When you hear Wikipedia, do you ever stop to think about the other Wikimedia projects?

That was the idea behind Beyond Wikipedia: Exploring the Wikimedia Projects, a training series organised by Wikimedia Nigeria,Rivers Network, where different trainers took participants through different Wikimedia projects, including Diff, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wikipedia. I was one of the trainers, and I handled the Wikipedia session.

Nubel Bariloe, the Vice President of the Network, reached out to invite me to be one of the trainers. I was like, why not? I appreciated how he handled the invitation. He sent a formal invitation and followed up with me about the date. I would tell him I remembered. One thing I particularly appreciated was his communication. He was consistent throughout the process, and I give him kudos for that.

On the day of the training, I joined the meeting about 10 minutes before the scheduled time. For a training I was facilitating, I was not about to test the African time cruise. The President of the Network, Ejike Onyeke, introduced me to the participants. As he started reading out some information about me, I was listening and wondering how he knew all those things. Then I remembered my user page. I had written some of those details there. It might seem not a big deal but I appreciated that he had taken the time to check my user page before introducing me. It also showed me how useful our user pages can be. If we take the time to write about our work there, people can actually find that information when they want to know more about us. I acknowledged the president for creating opportunities like this for members of the Rivers Network. I like that different trainers handled different sessions, because participants got to hear from people who work with different Wikimedia projects.

Then it was time for the training. I took the participants through what Wikipedia is, how the project works, and how they can contribute to it. We looked at basic editing, how to make changes to an article, adding references, creating links, using the visual editor and some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines new editors need to know. I also explained some of the things to look out for when editing, especially making sure information is properly sourced, understanding that not everything can simply be copied and added to Wikipedia, walked them through my talkpage, and how to reply when tagged. Then my network started misbehaving. I switched from one network to another and even moved from one location to another just to get a better connection. I stood throughout the almost two-hour session because I really wanted to make sure the network issues didn’t affect the training.What made it easier was the participants. They were attentive. They answered questions. They waited on the call even when my network was becoming frustrating, they kept following the session. And honestly, that meant a lot to me.You can tell when people are just waiting for a session to end, and you can also tell when they are actually following what is being taught. That evening, I knew they were following.

By the end of the session, I was tired, but I was happy I had done it. I guess when you are passionate about sharing what you know with other people, little setbacks like network issues won’t stop you. You find alternatives, adjust where you need to, and make sure you are still able to deliver something good. For me, that is one of the things I enjoy about being a Wikimedian. I get to keep learning, keep sharing what I know, and keep doing what I love doing.

Finally, it is worth appreciating the thought behind organising a whole week of training around Wikimedia projects. Onyeke and his team organised a full week of sessions, bringing different trainers in to take members through different projects. This gave them the opportunity to learn about the different Wikimedia projects and discover where their interests might fit.I think that was a really good way to introduce members to the different parts of the Wikimedia movement. I was glad to be part of that week, and even happier that my part was Wikipedia.

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Mapping

• Two tagging proposals, related to graffiti, are open for voting until 26 October 2026. Evyy is proposing a dedicated tag, shop=graffiti, for shops specialising in spray cans, markers, stickers, and other street art supplies, which have often been tagged as shop=craft or shop=paint in the past. Flappiegrrr is proposing to use leisure=graffiti_wall to record places where graffiti may be sprayed legally, and to describe individual walls using the key graffiti_wall=*.

Community

• [1] Altilunium has developed ‘Know Your Mapper’, a web app that explores an OSM mapper’s editing sessions and approximate areas of activity.

• The small team behind OpenClimbing: Jan Václavík, Pavel Zbytovský, and Fabian Weisshaar, have created their second bot proposal to clean up climbing-related tags in OpenStreetMap. Running with assistance from Mateusz Konieczny, the bot aims to improve the consistency and quality of OSM climbing data. OpenClimbing uses this information to power its specialised map with integrated topos for the climbing community.

• Keagan van Rooyen described how he decided to contribute code to the CoMaps project and is currently working on several additional features for the Android Auto platform.

Events

• Sozialheld*innen has developed the a11y-Score, a score that makes the accessibility of public services in any chosen region comparable, based on open data from OpenStreetMap (we reported earlier). They will be presenting it at an online event on Monday 26 October 2026, from 14:00 to 15:00 CEST.

• Open Energy Transition will host a one-hour webinar introducing EarthPV, a tool that combines free Sentinel-2 imagery, the TerraMind geospatial foundation model, OpenStreetMap, open building datasets and human mapping to identify rooftop and ground-mounted solar installations above 10 kWp. The webinar will present the methodology and prototype results using Pakistan as a case study, and explain how the globally applicable workflow can support other contexts and research.

• Stefan Keller announced ► that there will be a PostGIS and PostgreSQL course on 5 and 6 November 2026 at OST’s Rapperswil campus in Switzerland. The two-day practical course covers PostGIS database administration, data import and conversion, spatial SQL, modern SQL features, performance tuning, and extensions such as pgRouting and pgVector.

• The eighth State of the Map Latin America will take place in person in Mexico City, Mexico, from 27 to 29 October 2026. You can find the full session schedule here .

OSM research

• HeiGIT presented a new paper introducing ACTION, a framework for making remote sensing and volunteered geographic information, including OpenStreetMap data, more useful for decision-making. The paper explored how combining satellite observations with local knowledge can support more transparent, reliable, and actionable geospatial workflows.

Maps

• Eugene Muravjev has built an interactive 3D map of Yas Island. The map uses OpenStreetMap data for roads, buildings, parks, and shorelines, supplemented by building footprints from Overture and Microsoft, and vegetation data from Copernicus Sentinel and ESA WorldCover. Major landmarks, including Ferrari World, Yas Waterworld, Etihad Arena, and the F1 circuit plus its tunnels, are modelled by hand using photographs.

• Goldilocks Map shows how many days a year the weather matches your own idea of comfortable (temperature range, humidity limit, and sunshine) for every place on Earth. The interactive map is built with MapLibre GL JS on OpenFreeMap tiles (OpenStreetMap data) and its climate numbers are checked against NOAA station records.

• Historic.place has been migrated from OpenLayers 2 to Leaflet (via Forum ).

• The Milan City Council’s Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Active Mobility and Accessibility has created a uMap showing all the cycle racks in the municipality of Milan.

• Sven Geggus added support for shelters, except those with sleeping=no, to OpenCampingMap (via Mastodon).

• The Birding Discovery team has developed birding.live, a free website that helps users discover common bird species and nearby birding locations worldwide using OpenStreetMap data.

• TectonicPlateMap.org launched an global interactive web map built with MapLibre GL JS and OpenStreetMap vector tiles. The web app visualises all 52 tectonic plates from the PB2002 dataset, active fault lines, real-time USGS earthquakes, and Smithsonian GVP volcanoes.

• Vienna Living Map is a free housing map of Vienna built on OpenStreetMap: Protomaps vector tiles, OSM points of interest, and cycleways. For every address it calculates the hours of direct sun per floor from OSM building outlines and the City of Vienna’s measured roof model.

OSM in action

• Rasmus Jaakonmäki released Fontavio, an app that maps drinking water, refill taps, toilets, showers, self-service laundries, dump stations, and marina pump-outs across Europe, USA, and Canada. The data come from various sources, including OpenStreetMap, national open datasets, and places added directly by Fontavio users. Each place records its source while the OpenStreetMap data are credited under the ODbL licence.

• The ALIS Project is developing ALIS, an open-source survival game set in real cities. In its latest prototype, the team has built a virtual Manhattan using Unreal Engine 5 and OpenStreetMap data, featuring 109,486 buildings, 84,096 road segments, and 28,265 trees.

Open Data

• Wikimedia Enterprise has released an open geospatial dataset that contains 17 million OpenStreetMap elements linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikivoyage, as Parquet and GeoParquet files on Hugging Face and Kaggle.

Software

• Jake Low reported several MapRoulette security vulnerabilities that exposed OpenStreetMap access tokens, API keys and users’ email addresses. He took the application offline for around 15 hours, revoked all credentials and released version 4.11.0 with fixes on 7 October. Users must sign in again and re-authorise MapRoulette with OSM, but do not need to change their passwords.

• OpenHistoricalMap’s vector tiles have had many improvements over the past few months, including Simple 3D Buildings, goodies for golf mappers, and non-administrative boundaries (such as time zones, dioceses, and self-governing indigenous territories). Some of these are breaking changes for existing third-party stylesheets.

• Chris has been developing an AI-assisted OpenStreetMap mapping tool for Windows using Rust, Python, and WGPU for 3D features, with SAM 3 and YOLO models to detect features in satellite imagery from multiple sources, and is seeking community feedback.

• Felis Pimeja has been working on the OSM Simple 3D Editor, a browser-based editor for OpenStreetMap buildings and indoor objects.

• Martin Lange has developed TRAMP (Track and Route Analysis, Mapping and Planning), a free and open-source desktop application for Windows, Linux, and macOS that allows users to explore GNSS tracks and plan routes on OpenStreetMap-based maps using Valhalla or OSRM for routing and Photon or Nominatim for search.

• HeiGIT introduced the Sketch Map Tool on LinkedIn, a low-tech solution to support community mapping through offline data collection, digitisation, and georeferencing of local information. The tool enables users to create and analyse paper-based maps using OpenStreetMap data and satellite or drone imagery from OpenAerialMap.

Releases

• Over the past months Johan Morganti has been building a tool to explore every OpenStreetMap changeset since 2005, see trends over time, and drill down to who did what. This tool ingests OSM’s minutely changeset and diff replication from planet.osm.org, plus the full changeset history: 190 million changesets and 19 billion object changes, from 2005 to a few minutes ago.

• HeiGIT announced the release of ohsome 2.0, introducing major improvements to the ohsome API, ohsome quality API, and dashboard for faster analysis and extraction of historical OpenStreetMap data. The article highlighted the new features and provided guidance for migrating from v1 to v2.0 before the legacy services are discontinued on 30 November 2026.

Other “geo” things

• Safwat Halaby developed maplibre-gl-three, a library that enables developers to add 3D models and 3D tiles at geographic locations in MapLibre GL JS.

• Working with voluntary and community organisations for some is a very important way to do geography. In a guide published by the Royal Geographical Society, there are case studies done in collaboration with community and voluntary organisations. The PDF is available.

• Open Geospatial Solutions has developed RustGIS, a free and open-source GIS in pure Rust for mapping, analysing, and sharing geospatial data.

• GMX reported how a couple got lost in Lost Dutchman State Park in the US state of Arizona after using Google Maps. The pair later called for rescue and were airlifted out by helicopter. In a similar incident, one person died in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, after a car carrying 16 people veered off the road while attempting to navigate a steep incline, following directions from Google Maps.

• The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has developed the STOP DISASTERS game. Through play, users explore how decisions about where people live, how buildings are constructed, how ecosystems are protected, and how communities prepare affect what happens when a hazard strikes. The game was originally made as part of the 2006–2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign, ‘Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School’.

• The Tiroler Tageszeitung reported (paywalled) on a rival’s map, which has assigned names to places, mountains, and paths in Tyrol and Bavaria that nobody in the local area recognises, such as the ‘Schmusbichl’ in Kaunerberg. Local historians and the Tyrolean Nomenclature Commission are having to use old maps to fight against renaming at the click of a mouse. Donald Trump would probably welcome this as a model to follow; after all, he too has shown that a golf course can quickly be given a new name if you just have the right map in hand. In OpenStreetMap, by contrast, names continue to be assigned based on local knowledge.

Upcoming Events

Country	Where	Venue	What	When
🇧🇪	Gent	TomTom Belgium	Maptime Ghent	2026-10-19
			Missing Maps London Mid-Month for Advanced Mappers (no training provided) (Online) [eng]	2026-10-20
🇫🇷	Lyon	Tubà	Réunion du groupe local de Lyon	2026-10-20
🇩🇪	Bonn	Dotty’s	205. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn	2026-10-20
🇩🇪	Chemnitz	Kaffeesatz, Chemnitz	OSM-Stammtisch Chemnitz	2026-10-20
🇬🇧	City of Edinburgh	Guildford Arms	Edinburgh Social	2026-10-20
🇩🇪		Online	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)	2026-10-20
🇫🇷		MJC de vienne	Réunion du groupe local de Vienne	2026-10-21
🇮🇹	Milano		Formazione Wikimedia Italia - OpenStreetMap: modifica tramite sito e tramite app	2026-10-21
🇩🇪	Karlsruhe	Schwarzer Kater	Stammtisch Karlsruhe	2026-10-21
			OSM US Mappy Hour: Mapping Accessible Trails	2026-10-21
🇬🇷			[Online] OSM Greece - Διαδικτυακή συνάντηση της ελληνικής κοινότητας	2026-10-21
pk		CUI Islamabad	Training on OpenStreetMap (OSM Pakistan)	2026-10-22
🇩🇪	Berlin	Online	EarthPV: Mapping Photovoltaics	2026-10-22
🇸🇰	Bratislava	Prírodovedecká fakulta UK Bratislava	Missing Maps mapathon Bratislava #14	2026-10-22
🇮🇳	Ernakulam	Edapally, Kochi	Kochi Mapping Party 2026	2026-10-24 - 2026-10-25
🇮🇹	Bologna	Liceo Copernico di Bologna	Linux Day 2026 a Bologna	2026-10-24
🇮🇹	Parma	Officine On/Off Parma	Linux Day 2026 Parma	2026-10-24
🇫🇷		Inclu K’fé	Cartopartie à Orx	2026-10-24
🇩🇪	Berlin	Wikimedia e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24,10963 Berlin	OSM Hackweekend Berlin-Brandenburg 10/2026	2026-10-24 - 2026-10-25
🇸🇪	Uppsala	Datorföreningen Update	Mapping meetup in Uppsala	2026-10-25
🇮🇳	Noida	Noida	OSM Delhi NCR Mapping Party No.33 (Noida)	2026-10-25
			a11y-Score: ein OSM-Barrierefreiheitswerkzeug	2026-10-26
			CartONG : Mapathons en ligne 2026-2027	2026-10-26
🇮🇹	Milano		Formazione Wikimedia Italia - OpenStreetMap: tasking manager	2026-10-26
🇩🇪	Stadtgebiet Bremen	Online und im Hackerspace Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2026-10-26
🇩🇪	Heidelberg	DEZERNAT#16	Rhein-Neckar OSM Treffen	2026-10-26
🇲🇽	Ciudad de México	Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso	State of the Map Latam 2026	2026-10-27 - 2026-10-29
			Pravidelný Missing Maps CZ-SK online Mapathon	2026-10-27
🇦🇹	Wien	Schlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Wien)	80. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch	2026-10-27
🇬🇧	Derby	The Brunswick, Railway Terrace, Derby	East Midlands pub meet-up	2026-10-27
🇩🇪	Düsseldorf	Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2026	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online)	2026-10-28
🇩🇪	Würzburg	FabLab Würzburg	Würzburger OSM-Treffen	2026-10-28
🇨🇭	Rapperswil-Jona	OST RJ Gebäude 6, Rapperswil	20. Mapathon & Mapping Party Rapperswil 2026	2026-10-30
🇮🇹	Pesaro	Biblioteca-Archivio “Vittorio Bobbato”	Linux Day 2026 in Pesaro	2026-10-31
🇮🇹	Pesaro	Biblioteca-Archivio “Vittorio Bobbato”	Linux Day Pesaro	2026-10-31
🇮🇳	नई दिल्ली	Jitsi Meet (online)	OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon	2026-11-01
🇩🇪	Hannover	Kuriosum	Stammtisch	2026-11-02

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When you think of Mayan languages, hip-hop music may not be the first thing that comes to mind. The modern music genre wasn’t on Eve d’Evegnee’s radar either, until she and her classmate found it when searching for scholarly articles on Guatemalan art and music. 

Nearly 5,000 words and a new article later, they’re the editors who brought it to Wikipedia.

“Through this article, I hope that readers will gain a new appreciation for Mayan languages,” explained d’Evegnee, a junior majoring in History and Spanish.

Mayan languages, which have survived centuries of colonization and genocide, are spoken by over 6 million people throughout Mexico and Central America.

Across the Yucatán Peninsula, the highlands of Guatemala, and the state of Chiapas, artists have been recording hip-hop in Mayan languages, rapping about Indigenous identity, land, migration, and cultural survival. Some have drawn on ancient sacred texts like the Popol Vuh. Others have used their music to process the legacy of the Guatemalan genocide, or created hip-hop schools to offer young people an alternative to gang activity and violence.

The article was produced as part of d’Evegnee and her classmate’s Wikipedia assignment with history professor David-James Gonzales, who asked his students to use what they learned in the classroom to identify an understudied research area, gather credible source material, and publish a new Wikipedia article on the subject.

“I enjoy using the Wikipedia assignment as an alternative to research papers because it mimics some of the same pedagogical practices and learning outcomes while teaching students how to write in a neutral (un-biased tone), which I believe is more engaging and useful outside of academia,” said Gonzales. “Both my students and I appreciate that Wikipedia is a public educational resource they both benefit from and contribute to.”

Gonzales can anticipate what his students will learn from the project, but he’s always pleasantly surprised by the topics they choose to explore.

“My goal is for students to gain a deeper appreciation for people, places, and experiences that they had little to no knowledge of previously and this article on Mayan hip-hop music is an excellent example,” said Gonzales. “Neither [student] had any knowledge or exposure to the genre previously. They were drawn to the topic because it illustrated course themes, like the process of migration and acculturation.”

Supported by twenty-six references, the article is now part of public knowledge, available to other students, researchers, and curious readers. Readers will learn about the context for the regional variations of the genre, and discover the stories behind artists like Pat Boy, who has spent years running hip-hop workshops to keep Yucatec Maya alive among young people, or Balam Ajpu, who consult a Mayan priest before writing lyrics.

Now Wikipedia is one more place where people can discover them.

Interested in incorporating a Wikipedia Assignment into your course? Visit teach.wikiedu.org to learn more about the free resources, digital tools, and staff support that Wiki Education offers to postsecondary instructors in the United States and Canada.