Annual Report 2023-2024
The internet we were promised
Explore the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023/24 Annual Report. This year, Wikipedia grew in depth, reach, and relevance — becoming more trusted, more representative, and more essential than ever. In a changing world, your support helped ensure that Wikipedia remained a beacon of free, reliable knowledge. A living example of the internet we were promised.
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Message from the CEO
“This report invites you to see the many ways your support has made a difference for the billions of people who rely on Wikipedia.”
Maryana Iskander
CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
As the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, I regularly reflect on what Wikipedia has accomplished, and I imagine new ways that Wikipedia can achieve even more now and in the future. It’s a deeply collaborative role, and every day, I have the privilege of working alongside the talented staff at the Foundation and the committed volunteers around the world who enrich Wikipedia and its sister projects with knowledge. Their dedication, combined with the generosity of our donors, makes Wikipedia’s success possible. This Annual Report covers another remarkable year for Wikipedia, a testament to the millions of people like you who came together to make a meaningful impact.
The stories in this year’s report highlight diverse aspects of our collective work. Whether it was a new data center that gave millions of users faster access, or innovative tools that gave Wikipedia’s editors crucial new ways to expand and enrich its knowledge base, our report details the many ways that Wikipedia and its sister projects embody the highest ideals of the internet — or as we like to think of it, “The Internet We Were Promised.”
“The Internet We Were Promised” is this year’s theme, and reflects the vision that we’re realizing with your generosity. Throughout each year, I providekey progress updates, and the Wikimedia Foundation’s staffregularly reports on progress aligned to our Annual Plan. Each Annual Report brings these accomplishments together, allowing you to seamlessly explore one story after another. Much like the links between Wikipedia articles that lead to deeper discovery, this report invites you to see the many ways your support has made a difference for the billions of people who rely on Wikipedia.
With more than 60 million articles on every conceivable topic, Wikipedia’s human-led knowledge — rigorously sourced and written from a neutral point of view — is more important than ever. By being an active supporter of the Wikimedia projects, you ensured that the year we document here was as effective and impactful as it could be. I know you’ll see a lot to be thrilled by and proud.
So, thank you so much for your support. A single year in the life of Wikipedia sets up the momentum for every year that follows. It’s a powerful process that’s always collaborative — just like Wikipedia itself.
With gratitude,
Maryana
Maryana Iskander
Wikimedia Foundation CEO
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By the Numbers
An internet for everyone
Stories
How Wikipedia got better than ever in 2023-2024
The Wikipedia that you read today is different from the Wikipedia that you’ve read in previous years. It has more knowledge than ever. It has more languages than ever. And it has something else that continues to make Wikipedia unique in the world: It’s the largest shared knowledge source in human history — a compendium of more than 60 million articles that more people rely on than ever. The more the world changes, the more the world turns to Wikipedia.
That’s why the 2023-2024 fiscal year was such a milestone year for the Wikimedia projects: As the world’s technologies advanced, along with the way people sought knowledge on the internet — including through “smarter” smart phones and AI-generated platforms like ChatGPT — Wikipedia advanced, too. During the year, the Wikimedia Foundation brought more technical innovation to Wikipedia, including a new data center that ensured millions of people could more quickly access Wikipedia’s knowledge from their phones and computers, and new editor tools that gave Wikipedia’s contributors crucial ways to add knowledge across Wikipedia.
You’ll read about these innovations in this Annual Report, which also details how Wikipedia continues to be an important bulwark against misinformation on the internet, and continues to produce neutral, verifiable knowledge that adheres to the highest ideals of the internet — or as we like to think of it, “The Internet We Were Promised.”
All the work we did helped lead to an important recognition after the year was over: Wikipedia was named a “digital public good” by an important United Nations-endorsed alliance. The recognition highlights Wikipedia’s unique role in advancing global access to a free and open source of trusted knowledge in the public interest.
As a nonprofit committed to Wikipedia’s operations and its future, the Wikimedia Foundation collaborates with contributors and donors around the world to ensure that the knowledge on Wikipedia and its sister projects is a trusted source in over 300 languages — not just English. In the 2023-2024 fiscal year, Wikipedia became more representative of the world, with contributors who hailed from virtually every country on Earth. Wikipedia is always adding new articles and reaching new people who realize just how important Wikipedia is to the modern internet. Everyone who engaged with Wikipedia in the 2023-2024 fiscal year had an impact on Wikipedia — whether you were an editor, a donor, or a reader.
Thank you. Year after year, donors and other contributors are what make Wikipedia so vital to the world. You gave Wikipedia what it needed the most this past year: The gift of your time. Taking a minute to donate — just like taking a minute to add knowledge — helped Wikipedia continue to grow and reach more people. Thanks again for what you did to make Wikipedia even better for everyone.
Technical breakthroughs benefited millions and millions of users. One of the year’s highlights: dark mode!
At the end of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation made dark mode available on a wide number of Wikimedia projects, which prompted celebrations among users.
Technical breakthroughs benefited millions and millions of users. One of the year’s highlights: dark mode!
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Its name evokes images of outer space at night, but “dark mode” is a down-to-earth software feature that lets users — including those with visual impairments — read website pages with less eye strain. At the end of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundationmade dark mode available on a wide number of Wikimedia projects, which prompted celebrations among users, including from one user whosaid our announcement was “the biggest news on the day for me.”
Dark mode, which is also called “night mode,” is a breakthrough on Wikipedia, enhancing the reading experience and establishing a feature widely requested by editors. Dark-mode users say it improves screen readability in low-light environments — which goes beyond the importance of simply reading Wikipedia. The American Academy of Ophthalmology, for example,recommends dark mode for those using a computer screen at night since the blue light from screens,it says, can interrupt a body’s circadian rhythm and disrupt sleep.
Until recently, dark mode wasn’t possible on Wikipedia due to technical challenges, especially the amount of manual work required to update the colors of templates and other content to ensure dark mode’s accessibility. However staff members on the Wikimedia Foundation’sweb team were able to collaborate with technical volunteers to address those challenges — a partnership that ultimately led to dark mode’s debut. So important were the volunteers’ contributions thatJon Robson, who headed the work’s engineering part,created a dedicated web page to thank the volunteers for their intricate technical help.Robson’s post announcing the debut of dark mode ended with a simple hope: that readers enjoy the new experience. But behind that wish is something bigger. Dark mode represents the culmination of countless hours of effort — not just by one person, but by a global community of volunteers and staff working together in service of millions of Wikipedia readers. It’s a reminder that Wikipedia is built not for profit or praise, but for people. This is what collaboration looks like. This is what the internet we were promised can still be.
What is the bigger context of Wikipedia’s dark mode? Throughout the year, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product and Technology departments work diligently to improve the resilience, security, and scalability of our projects’ technology infrastructure — all to ensure that Wikipedia remains fast, reliable, and accessible to users worldwide, even during periods of extraordinary demand.
Further Breakthroughs during 2023-2024 included:
- “Expanding Machine in Translation (MinT),” aproject by the Language Team that makes it easier than ever to translate articles and information on the Wikimedia projects. MinT is used by volunteers to translate information in more than 150 languages — many of them languages that are underrepresented on the internet, 44 for which MinT is the first and only tool available for translation.
- “Community Configuration 2.0,” an initiative that is helping volunteer administrators on the Wikimedia projects configure editing tools more easily — which is leading to better edits across Wikipedia. It was built on a software extension that helps communities customize features to meet their unique needs.
- The Wikimedia Foundation’sfirst data center in South America, which is giving millions of people better access to Wikipedia’s knowledge base — lowering pageload times, and improving user experience.
Bolstering women’s biographies means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia
Behind the scenes of every article that appears on Wikipedia is alineup of people who cared deeply about that article’s subject.
Bolstering women’s biographies means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia
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Behind the scenes of every article that appears on Wikipedia is alineup of people who cared deeply about that article’s subject. Articles take time to be created and curated, and the volunteer writers and editors who spend time on Wikipedia benefit from any uptick in the behind-the-scenes support that helps them expand Wikipedia’s knowledge base. That’s why the 2023-2024 fiscal year was so important for helping to close what has been one of Wikipedia’s most persistent knowledge gaps: articles about women.
When women’s stories, achievements, and contributions are missing, the public’s understanding of history, science, culture, and countless other fields is incomplete. A more balanced Wikipedia means a more accurate and comprehensive record of human knowledge, benefiting everyone who turns to the site for learning and discovery.
This is especially important in today’s world of generative AI tools, as almost every large language model out there has been trained on Wikipedia data. Because of how much people use and rely on Wikipedia, it is critical that it represents all the world’s people and knowledge.
During the year the Wikimedia Foundation worked with volunteer editors and affiliate organizations to undertake myriad initiatives to help address the lack of articles including:
- We provided supportforWikiWomen Summit andWikiWomen Camp — two important gatherings for editors and organizers who are working to share more information about women on Wikipedia. The Foundation’s support helped alleviate the administrative and coordination burden that volunteers faced to organize these key in-person meetings and strategic events.
- We bolstered the way we supported organizerswho are bringing in newcomers and retaining contributors interested in addressing the issue. The Foundation’s support included improving theOrganizer Lab, a 12-week online training course that hones the skills that organizers need to run consistent, high-impact campaigns that invite new contributors to edit Wikipedia.
- We supported the work of contributors interested in addressing the content gapin women’s biographies and women’s health. The Foundationworked closely with our affiliate in Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, in their partnership with the United Nations Population Fund that focused on adding and improving Indonesian-language Wikipedia articles about women’s health.
Also in the year, the Foundationlaunched the“Wikipedia Needs More Women” campaign, which encouraged people around the world to help improve Wikipedia by adding and improving articles about notable women. The campaign featured two explanatory webpages, and reached millions of people around the world. It also amplified the work that Wikimedia volunteers do each year during Women’s History Month and directed audiences to join in on the global activities. Since then, the number of biographies on English Wikipedia about women hassurpassed the 20 percent threshold.
Fittingly, the news of the breakthrough broke on the website ofWomen in Red, an editing project that began in 2015 to address Wikipedia’s content disparity. No one group can close a knowledge gap on Wikipedia, and scores of volunteer groups like Women in Red and volunteer editors likeJess Wade are trying — one article at a time — to enhance Wikipedia’s knowledge about women. Bolstering that knowledge means bettering knowledge for everyone on Wikipedia. That’s why the Wikimedia Foundation celebrates the progress that was made across Wikipedia in 2023-2024. AsRosie Stephenson-Goodknight, a prominent Women in Red organizer (and former Wikimedia Foundation Trustee) said after the 20-percent breakthrough was announced: “This is huge news for anyone who uses the internet… How incredible that we did this together!”
“Doing this together” is a common occurrence on Wikipedia. In fact, it’s the collaborative effort that makes closing knowledge gaps that much more meaningful to announce. Strengthening women’s representation ensures that future generations encounter a fuller, richer, and more truthful reflection of the world — one where all contributors to society are recognized and documented.
Protecting access to Wikipedia — and the contributors who add knowledge — was a top priority throughout the year
Reliable information has always been the bedrock of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects, and it’s especially crucial now when misinformation is so common.
Protecting access to Wikipedia — and the contributors who add knowledge — was a top priority throughout the year
Reliable information has always been the bedrock of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects, and it’s especially crucial now when misinformation is so common. Wikipedia is an important bulwark against misinformation on the internet, and that’s one reason why protecting access to Wikipedia’s knowledge, and why protecting the people who add knowledge to Wikimedia’s projects, is more important than ever.
During the 2023-2024 fiscal year, teams across the Wikimedia Foundation were proactive in providing support and advocating for readers and for contributors. Two teams in particular drive this work forward: Human Rights, which supports the safety and security of volunteers who are at risk of persecution, reprisal, or harassment for their good-faith participation in the Wikimedia projects; andGlobal Advocacy, which advocates for public policies that promote and support access to the knowledge on Wikimedia’s projects.
Below are just two examples from these teams’ efforts of the past year, with names of people and specific countries withheld to protect the identities of the volunteers:
- A community member covering large-scale protests in their city was arrested and detained as a result of their contributions to Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia community rallied around the volunteer, and the Human Rights Team mobilized local and regional support immediately to help secure an attorney. The volunteer was subsequently released.
- A prominent community member was repeatedly threatened by authorities and members of their government, forcing them to flee and seek asylum. The Human Rights Team worked to support the volunteer’s security and asylum process. Throughout this challenging ordeal the volunteer has continued to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
The scope of the Wikimedia projects demands that the Wikimedia Foundation be proactive — as active as the projects’ hundreds of thousands of volunteers, some of whom find themselves in extraordinary situations, even as they continue to add knowledge that benefits the world.
Transparency and accountability continued to be hallmarks of our operations — and our planning for the future
The Wikimedia Foundation makes all our numbers transparent. All our audits, all our Forms 990 (the tax form that U.S. nonprofits file with the government), and all our Annual Plans are available on our website.
Transparency and accountability continued to be hallmarks of our operations — and our planning for the future
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One of the most respected benchmarks in the nonprofit world is a 75% program-expense ratio — the portion of a nonprofit’s budget ideally spent directly on programs.Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofit operations, uses this ratio to measure effectiveness. They typically consider a ratio of 65% or higher to be acceptable, with anything above 75% seen as exceptional. In the two years leading up to the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation’s program-expense ratio was 76.6% and 76.0%. For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, we aimed even higher and achieved 77.5%.
The Wikimedia Foundation makes all our numbers transparent. All our audits, all our Forms 990 (the tax form that U.S. nonprofits file with the government), and all our Annual Plans are available onour website. We believe that transparency goes beyond sharing numbers — every year, we work to make ourfinances accessible and understandable, contextualizing and explaining the numbers so that donors and community members can have clear insight into how we use funds to further Wikimedia’s mission. It’s this commitment to transparency, along with things like our program-expense ratio, funding-efficiency ratio, and liabilities-to-assets ratio thatsecured the Wikimedia Foundation a 99%, four-out-of-four-star rating from Charity Navigator, its highest star rating for nonprofits.
Transparency and accountability have always been hallmarks for the Wikimedia Foundation, as has been our commitment to plan for the future. All these things continued in the 2023-2024 year, exemplified by theWikimedia Endowment, which is protecting Wikipedia for future generations while also strengthening Wikipedia day by day, as well as byWikimedia Enterprise, which is a service focused on high-volume commercial reusers of Wikimedia content. Both the Wikimedia Endowment and Wikimedia Enterprise reached new milestones in the year, with the Endowmentnow at $144 million — an increase of $25 million. The Endowment also became its own 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which means it can better support the Wikimedia projects for the long term. Meanwhile, Wikimedia Enterprisebrought in $3.4 million of revenue — an increase from the previous year. Enterprise and the Endowment are diversifying the Wikimedia Foundation’s revenue streams while supporting the future sustainability of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation’s other free knowledge projects.
All these numbers speak to the successful outcome of akey Annual Plan goal: Strengthen the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall performance for the greater good of the Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to fostering the projects through rigorous accountability, sustainable funding, and widespread community support that advances the projects for everyone who uses them.
Conclusion
Wikipedia’s story is your story, too
Every year in the life of Wikipedia and its sister projects is a year of close collaboration across continents. By working with volunteers who number in the hundreds of thousands, and by using funding that comes from millions of generous donors, the Wikimedia Foundation aims to shepherd those projects toward new achievements that can make everyone proud.
This year’s stories reflect the many dimensions of our shared work, all contributing to a common goal: advancing knowledge equity across the Wikimedia projects. Knowledge equity refers to making it possible for more people to share reliable knowledge on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia is built on the premise that it becomes better when more people of different backgrounds—including political persuasions—source, edit, curate, and research content.
We delivered onkey commitments — from supporting editors with the tools they need, to expanding access to trusted, high-quality knowledge. The Annual Report is both a reflection of that progress and a recognition of the people who made it possible. From all of us at the Wikimedia Foundation: thank you.
The 2023-2024 Annual Report is both a look back and an invitation to continue looking ahead to the work that we can achieve with your support. Each year is a chapter in the greater story of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Year by year, the story adds new chapters and new highlights that reconfirm how important Wikipedia is. The knowledge we all count on is needed more than ever. Everything about Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, which makes the year’s successes that much more special to share with you and the world at large.
By the Numbers
A free and open internet
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By the Numbers
A community of collaboration and sharing
wikimedia COMMUNITY
A global tapestry of stories
Explore a dynamic map highlighting the experiences and contributions of Wikimedians worldwide.
Infrastructure
Our first data center in South America is a gamechanger
São Paulo, Brazil
The center in Brazil is giving millions of people better access to Wikipedia’s knowledge base — lowering pageload times, and making users’ connections much more secure and private.
Infrastructure
Dark mode is transforming Wikipedia’s accessibility
Worldwide
The important feature lets users — including those with visual impairments — read Wikipedia pages with less eye strain.
KnowledgeEquity
New translation service brings more of the world’s languages to Wikipedia
Worldwide
MinT, which stands for “Machine in Translation,” is a groundbreaking language translation tool that helps Wikipedia editors more seamlessly translate content
KnowledgeEquity
WikiWomen Camp bridged the gender gap in South Asia
Gurgaon (New Delhi), India
Held for the first time in six years, the camp created a supportive space for women contributors to connect, learn, and collaborate on initiatives that amplify their impact on the Wikimedia projects.
KnowledgeEquity
Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon is first of its kind
Abuja, Nigeria
Innovative mentorship program connected experienced contributors with newcomers from across the continent interested in contributing to Wikimedia’s technical spaces.
Effectiveness
Wikimedia Foundation receives a clean audit for 18th straight year
San Francisco, United States of America
Report details the strong financial position that the Foundation is in — and that the vast majority of our revenue came from the generosity of donors.
Effectiveness
Fundraising report shows that a wide swath of the world supports the Foundation’s projects
San Francisco, United States of America
Eight million donors gave in the fiscal year — with donations from more than 200 countries. The Wikimedia Foundation also worked closely with Wikimedia volunteers during the year’s fundraising campaigns.
Safety and Inclusion
Wikimedia Foundation CEO calls on governments to protect Wikipedia’s volunteer editors
New York City, United States
At a high-level side event during the United Nations General Assembly, Maryana Iskander urged governments to support the global community of volunteers who share knowledge across Wikimedia projects.
Safety and Inclusion
Foundation announces a new repository of anti-disinformation initiatives and tools
Worldwide
Developed at the local level across the Wikimedia projects, the repository captures efforts to curb false and misleading information on Wikipedia and on other sites that millions of people use every day.
Knowledge Equity
Wikimedian of the Year is youngest-ever awardee
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
Even at 21, Hannah Clover has made more than 24,000 edits. She also has administrator rights — which is one of the highest ranks an editor can have.
Safety and Inclusion
At a notable African conference sponsored by the Foundation, attendees did important work around digital rights
Accra, Ghana
At the Digital Rights and Inclusion Conference — a major regional forum in which digital policies and internet governance in Africa are debated and shaped — participants focused on such key issues as protecting Wikipedia from disinformation.
Infrastructure
Selena Deckelmann gives her inside view of how the Foundation’s technology has changed for the better
Portland, United States of America
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Product and Technology Officer explains how Wikipedia and its sister projects can be a multigenerational success as it continues to stay relevant for decades to come
Infrastructure
How searching for images got much better on Wikimedia Commons
Worldwide
The free repository of more than 100 million media files is now easier to use when you look for photos that matter the most.
Knowledge Equity
A new night school for seniors inspired scores of people to contribute to Wikipedia
Prague, Czech Republic
Six-week courses in the Czech Republic are prompting seniors there to add knowledge to articles. “It’s been fun so far,” said one.
Infrastructure
To get Flickr images on Wikimedia Commons, there’s now “Flickypedia”
Worldwide
The Wikimedia Foundation collaborated with the non-profit Flickr Foundation to make it easier to illustrate Wikipedia with high-quality, relevant photography from Flickr.
Infrastructure
AI is helping the Foundation engage better with users while maintaining the integrity of human-generated content.
Worldwide
Our “Future Audiences” work is exploring strategies for expanding our projects’ reach beyond existing audiences of readers, content reusers, and contributors — which is a crucial initiative as we accelerate innovations that engage diverse audiences as editors and contributors.
Knowledge Equity
A campaign designed to increase Wikipedia articles about women did just that
Worldwide
As part of a community-wide effort, the Foundation highlighted the need to add more knowledge about women — whether it was adding articles to Wikipedia or doing other crucial behind-the-scenes work.
Infrastructure
An updated tool helped organizers create and manage their events even better on the Wikimedia projects
Worldwide
Hundreds of events are benefiting from the tool, which allows participants to sign up and receive timely updates — and to do so much, much more as they add knowledge across the Wikimedia projects.
Effectiveness
The Foundation streamlined our ability to provide translations of core documentation and communications
Worldwide
We’re now able to support more than 30 languages in our communications with the projects’ worldwide community — an increase from just six languages in the recent past.
Knowledge Equity
At a nunnery in Bhutan, nuns are adding knowledge to the burgeoning Wikipedia edition of the Dzongkha language
Paro District, Bhutan
The language is a Tibeto-Burman language that’s the official and national language of Bhutan. Written using the Tibetan script, it has fewer than 500 articles for now.
Movement Leadership
Honoring 17 Years of Service: DerHexer, Wikimedia Laureate
Berlin, Germany
Martin, known as DerHexer, is Wikimedia’s longest-serving Steward, with nearly two decades of contributions across Wikipedia, Commons, and Meta. He is known for behind-the-scenes technical and administrative support, and has been instrumental in keeping Wikimedia projects safe and efficient for global users.
Visual Culture and Design
Designing the Spirit of the Movement: Kurmanbek, Media Contributor of the Year
Istanbul, Turkey
Caner Özyayıkçı (Kurmanbek) brings Wikimedia communities to life through graphic design, crafting visual identities for campaigns, conferences, and mascots. His work helps connect cultures and tell Wikimedia’s story through design rooted in tradition and creativity.
Language Preservation
A Wikipedia in Wayuunaiki: The Wayuu Community, Newcomers of the Year
Guajira Peninsula, Colombia and Venezuela
The Wayuu community launched the Wayuunaiki Wikipedia in 2023, enabling Indigenous knowledge to be shared in their own language. The work of Leonardi Fernández and the Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group was essential in overcoming digital and geographic barriers.
Behind-the-Scenes Impact
Quiet Dedication: Ата, Functionary of the Year
Ukraine
Vira Motorko (Ата) is known for tackling overlooked but essential work on Ukrainian Wikipedia—improving templates, interfaces, translations, and documentation. Her edits contribute to language equity, accuracy, and accessibility for Ukrainian speakers.
Affiliate Leadership
Championing Diversity: Gu Eun-ae, Honorable Mention
Seoul, South Korea
As Director of Wikimedia Korea, Gu Eun-ae (Motoko C. K.) has advanced knowledge equity by leading initiatives on youth engagement and knowledge gaps—including improving content on HIV/AIDS in Korean Wikipedia.
Open Technology
From Scripts to Systems: Siddharth VP, Tech Contributor of the Year
India
Siddharth VP is the 2024 Tech Contributor of the Year for his work on the MediaWiki platform and tools like Twinkle and the Draft Submission Interface. His contributions have improved the user experience for thousands of newcomers.
Advocacy and Copyright Reform
Advocating for Freedom of Panorama in South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Since 2012, Wikimedia South Africa has been advocating for a Freedom of Panorama exception in copyright law to allow photographs of public monuments, including those commemorating post-apartheid history, to be freely shared. The chapter has played a key role in the decade-long legislative process, building coalitions, shaping public discourse, and testifying in Parliament.
Community Building and Language Preservation
Rampak Mekar: Growth and Celebration at WikiNusantara 2024
Bogor, Indonesia
Held under the theme “Rampak Mekar” (“blooming together” in Sundanese), WikiNusantara 2024 brought together over 100 volunteers across Indonesia for four days of collaboration, learning, and celebration. Highlights included the launch of several new Wikimedia projects in local languages, workshops on social media and grant writing, partnerships with Google, UNFPA, and UNESCO, and awards recognizing outstanding contributors.
Heritage Preservation and Global Collaboration
Told Cities: Documenting the Living Legacy of UNESCO World Heritage Cities
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Through the Told Cities project, Wiki World Heritage is documenting the cultural and historical richness of World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. In Guatemala, the Centro Regional De Patrimonio is leading efforts to preserve and share the heritage of Antigua Guatemala. Similar collaborations are also underway in Ethiopia (Harar Jugol) and Senegal (Saint-Louis and Île de Gorée).
Offline Access and Educational Equity
Bringing Offline Knowledge to Classrooms: Kiwix in Tanzania
Dodoma, Tanzania
After discovering Kiwix at WikiIndaba 2022 and deepening their knowledge through a mentorship program in 2023, Pellagia Njau and Hussein Issa launched the Kiwix4Schools initiative in Tanzania. The program has already reached over 150 students and 25 teachers by installing Kiwix and training participants in offline access to Wikipedia and educational content.
Cultural Representation and Indigenous Knowledge
Elevating First Nations Music on Wikipedia
Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia
As part of The Record: Australian Music on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Australia named Bianca Valentino its first-ever First Nations Wikipedian in Residence. Hosted at the State Library of Queensland, Bianca is enriching Wikipedia with stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, using archives, oral histories, and her experience as a writer and music zine editor.
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