Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let foundationbulletin@wikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!

Highlights

• Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
• Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making “Create Account” icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
• New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your “must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven’t signed up yet.
• Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called “Home”, has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
• Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
• Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
• Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
• Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
• Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
• Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata! Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
• Mentors’ management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
• Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It’ll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It’s focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
• Don’t Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
• Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness

See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news

See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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In a meaningful step towards promoting digital inclusion and amplifying underrepresented voices, the Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana, in collaboration with Art+Feminism hosted the Art and Feminism Training 2026. The online training sessions provided a dynamic platform to equip participants with essential skills to contribute to Wikidata, with a strong focus on documenting women in arts, culture and feminist movements.

Addressing digital gaps and gender bias

Despite the growth of digital knowledge platforms, significant gender gaps remain particularly in African contexts where the contributions of women artists, cultural practitioners and feminist movements are often underrepresented or undocumented. This imbalance limits visibility and recognition, reinforcing existing inequalities in access to knowledge.

The Art and Feminism Training 2026 directly responded to these challenges by empowering participants to contribute content that reflects the diverse realities and achievements of women in Botswana and across Africa.

Objectives

This initiative was designed with clear and impactful goals:

• To increase the quantity and quality of content about women artists, cultural practitioners and feminist movements
• To build skills and confidence among new and emerging contributors
• To promote gender equity and inclusive participation within the Wikimedia community
• To strengthen local capacity for sustainable contributions
• To expand and improve Wikidata items to enhance visibility of feminist knowledge

The training sessions

The Art and Feminism Training 2026 had multiple sessions designed to support participants throughout their learning and contribution journey.

The first session, held on 31 January 2026, introduced participants to the fundamentals of editing on Wikidata. Participants learned how to create and improve Wikidata items, alongside an introduction to the Art and Feminism competition, which ran from 31 January 2026 until the end of February 2026.

The second session was a collaborative effort between the Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana  and Art+Feminism, bringing together participants from around the world. This session focused on encouraging the creation and improvement of Wikidata items to increase the visibility of women and feminist knowledge across Wikimedia platforms.

The final session took the form of an “office hour,” where participants received hands-on support. During this session, the facilitator Ms Ludo Matombo assisted participants in addressing challenges they encountered while creating or improving Wikidata items, as well as refining and rephrasing content to meet Wikidata standards.

Outcomes

Following the training, participants actively contributed to Wikidata, translating their newly acquired skills into impactful outputs. Key outcomes included:

• Creation and improvement of Wikidata items focused on women in arts and feminism.
• Increased participation of women and underrepresented groups on Wikimedi platforms.
• Enhanced visibility of women and feminist knowledge across Wikimedia projects

The Art and Feminism Training 2026 successfully empowered participants to create and improve content about women artists, cultural practitioners and feminist movements on Wikimedia platforms. The numbers speak to the incredible impact of the initiative. The Art and Feminism training had two dashboard for the first session with local participants from Botswana and for the second session which was a collaboration between Art+Feminism and Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana. 

The combined outputs from the main training and the Wikidata Training demonstrate both the breadth and depth of contributions:

Art and Feminism Training 2026 Botswana Competition

• Articles Created: 688
• Articles Edited: 805
• Total Edits: 10,400
• Editors Engaged: 19
• Words Added: 1,020,000
• References Added: 4,130
• Article Views: 4,160

Wikidata Mobile Training – Art+Feminism

• Articles Created: 686
• Articles Edited: 5,090
• Total Edits: 10,700
• Editors Engaged: 14
• Words Added: 964,000
• References Added: 2,280
• Article Views: 53,700

These statistics reflect the dedication of participants in creating high quality content, improving structured data on Wikidata, and increasing visibility of underrepresented women in arts and feminist knowledge. Collectively, these efforts contribute to a more inclusive, accessible, and representative digital knowledge ecosystem.

Recognising top contributors

The initiative celebrated outstanding contributors whose efforts significantly advanced the visibility of women and feminist knowledge:

1. JudithShe – 217 items edited | 2,176,375 characters added
2. TshepieGee – 157 items edited | 896,647 characters added
3. Abza1 – 158 items edited | 782,875 characters added

Their contributions highlight the power of community driven efforts in addressing knowledge gaps and creating lasting impact.

A step towards a more inclusive digital future

The Art and Feminism Training 2026 stands as a strong example of how local initiatives can contribute to global movements for equity and representation. By equipping participants with the tools and confidence to contribute, the training not only enriched Wikimedia platforms but also fostered a growing community committed to inclusive knowledge sharing.

Organised by dedicated volunteers including Candy Khohliwe, Chandapiwa Malema, and Ludo Chaunoda Matombo, the initiative reflects the ongoing commitment to ensuring that the stories of women and marginalized communities are visible and valued.

As participants continue their journey as contributors, their work will play a vital role in shaping a more representative and accessible digital knowledge ecosystem, one where every story matters.

How the EditHer Africa Contest became a platform for me to empower new contributors through Wikidata training

Introducing the EditHer Africa Contest

The EditHer Africa Contest, organized by Africa Wiki Women, is designed to encourage women across the continent to contribute to Wikimedia projects. It provides a supportive space where new editors can learn, practice, and see their voices reflected in open knowledge.

This year, I had the privilege of joining not as a participant, but as a trainer — guiding newcomers through the world of Wikidata.

My Role as a Wikidata Trainer

During the April EditHer Africa Contest, I led a training session for Africa Wiki Women newbies. My goal was to demystify Wikidata:

• Showing how to identify notable subjects
• Showing how items are created and linked
• Walking participants through their very first edits.

The energy in the session was incredible. Each question reminded me of my own early struggles, and each successful edit was proof that mentorship can transform hesitation into confidence.

Why This Training Mattered

For many participants, this was their first time contributing to Wikidata. Seeing them move from curiosity to action was deeply rewarding. It reinforced the idea that knowledge grows stronger when shared — and that women’s perspectives are essential in shaping Wikimedia projects.

The contest was not just about edits; it was about building confidence, fostering community, and ensuring that women feel they belong in the Wikimedia movement.

Gratitude and Reflection

I am grateful to Africa Wiki Women for creating opportunities like EditHer Africa Contest. Their commitment to mentorship and inclusion gave me the platform to step into leadership and support others.

This experience reminded me that being a trainer is not only about teaching skills, but about opening doors for others to find their voice.

Looking Ahead

As I continue my journey, I look forward to expanding my contributions and mentoring more women. The contest showed me the power of collective learning — and how each new contributor strengthens the movement.

If you are a woman curious about contributing to Wikimedia, now is the time to join Africa Wiki Women. Your story, your knowledge, and your perspective matter — and together, we can make Wikimedia stronger and more inclusive.

Wikimedia Movement is now connected with Students For Liberty, an organization that supports hundreds of students worldwide by providing leadership training, conferences scholarship, and networking opportunities for youth to promote liberty.

As a fellow non-profit organization with the same value and like-minded perspective about freedom, this is the right momentum for both of organizations to establish a good connection for further potential cooperation. For me, as a member of Wikimedia Indonesia and also the local coordinator for SFL in Asia Pacific region, it is not that hard to find the crossed line between these two organizations’ field scope. Wikimedia Movement focus on how we developing its various Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and SFL focus with youth and promoting liberty values, why not we combine it? And BOOM, I come up with this idea, held a workshop that train youths the skill how to write and improve the quality of liberty-themed article on Indonesian Wikipedia.

The workshop focused on the theme ‘Opening the Information Access About Liberty Ideas in Digital Media’.

The main goals of this activity are to train more than 20 students on Indonesian Wikipedia, and to open a better information access for public about libertarianism topic (such as democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, etc). Libertarianism and liberalism ideology had been misunderstood with negative stigma by Indonesian public for many years. Writer believe that, with a better access of getting good quality information in digital world, it would be a good first step to prevent the misinformation and misunderstanding on grassroot level.

Expand the partnership networking

This event is expected to expand the partnership networking of Wikimedia Movement for further potential cooperation. Students For Liberty is full with talented and enthusiast youths that have willingness to contribute on useful volunteer activity like Wikimedia Movement, from a very diverse backgrounds and region around the globe. It is such an excellent opportunity that they are introduced with other organization platform, that can help them to develop themselves, along side with the effort they contribute in order to liberate the knowledge.

This workshop, writing training event is not only benefitted for both NGO, but also the local partner in region. The local partner I mentioned such as local Wikimedia community (Komunitas Wikimedia Medan) and local partner in the university, Garis Literasi FISIP USU. You guys can also see the detailed information about the event through this link and this one.

Wiki-Jardín Valparaíso’s participation in Chile’s 2025 Heritage Day marked an important milestone in the development of the initiative. More than a one-time event, it provided an opportunity to reflect on the role that open knowledge initiatives can play in promoting and preserving architectural, cultural, and environmental heritage.

The activity brought together students, academics, volunteers, and members of the public around a shared interest in understanding and sharing local heritage. Through conversations and exchanges with participants, the event revealed a strong interest in creating spaces where communities can actively contribute to documenting and disseminating knowledge about their history, places, and cultural expressions.

One of the main outcomes of this experience was the recognition that heritage becomes more meaningful when people are directly involved in its documentation and dissemination. In this regard, Wiki-Jardín Valparaíso seeks to provide tools and opportunities that transform interest in heritage into concrete actions aimed at recording, preserving, and openly sharing knowledge. The event also highlighted the value of collaborative platforms such as Wikipedia in making heritage-related information more accessible to wider audiences.

The activities carried out during Heritage Day helped strengthen connections among individuals and institutions that share similar goals, creating a foundation for collaboration that continues to shape future initiatives. The experience demonstrated the potential of projects that bring together heritage, education, community engagement, and digital participation.

Looking ahead, Wiki-Jardín Valparaíso aims to establish a more permanent line of work focused on the collaborative documentation of local heritage. This includes expanding training opportunities, promoting editing and content-creation activities, and encouraging greater participation from communities interested in preserving and sharing their collective memory. Additional efforts are expected to create opportunities for participants to develop practical skills related to open knowledge, digital documentation, and public history.

Another key objective is to deepen partnerships with cultural organizations, educational institutions, museums, archives, and local stakeholders. Through these collaborations, it will be possible to develop projects that broaden the reach and impact of heritage initiatives while creating new opportunities for public participation. Such partnerships may also contribute to improving the visibility of underrepresented histories, places, and cultural traditions.

The experience of 2025 demonstrated that open knowledge can be a powerful tool for connecting new audiences with heritage. Building on that foundation, Wiki-Jardín Valparaíso will continue fostering a community committed to the documentation, appreciation, and preservation of Valparaíso’s cultural heritage. In the long term, these efforts seek to contribute to a more inclusive and participatory approach to heritage, one in which communities are not only audiences, but active contributors to the preservation and sharing of their own histories.

A classroom ends, conversation fades, everyone goes home, and shared ideas slowly get buried in chats, notes, emails, hard drives, or forgotten links that may never be opened again.

That idea matters because education is not only about producing knowledge. It is also about making knowledge accessible, reusable, and alive in new contexts. When media is openly shared, it can move across classrooms, countries, and communities. A workshop photo can become part of a training resource. An audio file can support language learning. A diagram can clarify a science lesson. A heritage image can help preserve local memory.

But what makes Commons especially powerful in education, and how can educators and learners use it meaningfully?

Enriching teaching and learning materials

One of the clearest educational uses of Wikimedia Commons is in the production of teaching and learning materials. The platform gives educators access to freely licensed images, videos, audio recordings, maps, diagrams, presentations, and scanned documents that can support lessons across disciplines.

Images can illustrate historical events, scientific ideas, and cultural practices. Videos can demonstrate processes and experiments. Audio can support pronunciation and language learning. Maps and diagrams can provide context and make abstract ideas easier to understand.

Students also benefit when Commons materials are used in presentations, digital stories, portfolios, and research projects. Because the resources are openly licensed, they can be reused and adapted responsibly, helping learners develop creativity while learning how to cite and attribute materials properly under the Open licenses.

Commons also introduces educators and learners to the principles of accurate media descriptions, captions, and ethical reuse, which are essential skills in a digital world where content is constantly being copied, shared, and remixed.

One example is Sumber Pembelajaran Terbuka, an initiative by Creative Commons Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, and the BBGP of West Java. The platform curates openly licensed images, videos, and 3D models from Wikimedia Commons to support science education in mathematics, biology, physics, and chemistry. Educators can use these resources to develop teaching materials, lesson plans, booklets, and modules, demonstrating how Commons content can be transformed into practical learning resources that are freely accessible, adaptable, and reusable.

Documenting communities and cultural heritage

Commons is especially powerful when learning is connected to place, memory, and identity.

Photography projects and documentation initiatives allow learners to engage with their surroundings while contributing something useful to the wider world. Instead of only consuming educational content, they become producers of it.

Through the Wiki Loves Fish initiative at St. Aloysius University in India, students learned how to identify fish species, photograph them for educational use, and upload their images to Wikimedia Commons. By documenting coastal biodiversity, participants connected classroom learning with real-world contribution while creating openly licensed resources that can be used across Wikimedia projects.

At Rivers State University in Nigeria, postgraduate architecture students researched heritage buildings, photographed them, improved related Wikipedia articles, and contributed original images to Wikimedia Commons. Through this process, students helped preserve and increase the visibility of Nigeria’s architectural heritage while developing research, documentation, and digital literacy skills.

Another strong example comes from Wiki Loves Folklore in Education, where students of the Wiki Club SATI documented traditions, cultural practices, and heritage through photographs and media contributions. The project helped participants build photography, research, and organizational skills while preserving cultural knowledge for wider audiences.

These examples show that Commons is not only useful for preserving culture. It can also make documentation a meaningful educational experience.

Supporting science and environmental education

Commons also has an important role to play in science and environmental learning.

Environmental education offers similar opportunities. The Glaciers on Wikis: Images, Data, and Stories initiative, led by Wikimedia Colombia, the National University of Colombia, and IDEAM, brought together students, researchers, and experts to explore glaciers, climate change, and mountain ecosystems through Wikimedia projects. Participants documented environmental topics using open media and storytelling, creating resources that continue to support public understanding of climate-related issues.

These kinds of projects matter because they connect classroom learning to public knowledge. They show students that their work can have value beyond assessment or assignment deadlines.

Creating pathways into open knowledge

For many educators and learners, Wikimedia Commons can be a first step into the wider Wikimedia ecosystem.

Contributing media often feels more approachable than editing encyclopedia articles. That makes Commons a useful entry point for new contributors who may not yet be ready to work on text-based platforms.

Campaigns such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Africa, and Wiki Loves Folklore have already shown how structured activities can introduce people to open knowledge through photography, documentation, and community engagement. Photowalks, exhibitions, heritage projects, and media competitions can help participants build confidence while making meaningful contributions.

That is the larger promise of Commons: it helps people move from participation to contribution, and from contribution to a deeper understanding of open knowledge.

Preserving languages and local knowledge

Commons is often thought of as a visual platform, but its value also extends to preserving languages and local knowledge through a combination of images, audio, and video.

In Visviri, one of the most remote communities in northern Chile, educators and students are using Wikimedia platforms to document local flora, fauna, and traditional knowledge. Community members are contributing oral stories, proverbs, and cultural traditions in Aymara, helping preserve both language and cultural heritage for future generations.

In the Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs project, students recorded pronunciations of towns and cities in Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons. The recordings were then linked to relevant Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items, making geographical knowledge more accessible while supporting multilingual documentation.

Together, these projects show how photographs, videos, oral histories, and pronunciation recordings can complement one another in documenting and preserving local knowledge. By combining different forms of media, Commons helps communities share not only what they know, but also how they speak, remember, and experience it.

Building digital and media literacy

Working with Wikimedia Commons also helps participants develop practical digital skills.

Contributors learn about copyright, open licensing, attribution, metadata, file organization, and responsible sharing. They also gain experience in documentation, communication, and collaborative knowledge production.

In Argentina, the Cultura Libre en las Aulas initiative introduced primary-school students to Creative Commons licenses and free culture through books, visual activities, and discussions about Wikimedia projects. By learning how to identify different licenses and understand the principles behind open knowledge, students gained an early introduction to the skills and concepts that underpin responsible participation in digital spaces.

These are not small skills. They are the foundation of digital literacy in an environment where people increasingly create, remix, and distribute media across platforms.

By contributing to Commons, educators and learners do more than upload files. They learn how to participate responsibly in the knowledge ecosystem. They become active contributors rather than passive consumers.

Learning through sharing

What makes Wikimedia Commons especially valuable is not only the size of the collection, but the kind of learning it encourages.

• It teaches that knowledge should be shareable.
• It teaches that the media can travel.
• It teaches that local stories can have global value.
• And it teaches that education becomes stronger when the resources we create are available for others to use, adapt, and build upon.

From documenting cultural heritage and biodiversity to preserving languages, supporting scientific learning, and developing digital literacy skills, the examples in this article show how Wikimedia Commons enables educators and learners to contribute knowledge that extends far beyond a single classroom, project, or institution.

That is what makes Commons more than a repository. It is a platform for documentation, creativity, collaboration, and open learning.

Helpful resources

For educators looking for additional support, the EduWiki Hub’s OER Documentation Page brings together resources, examples, and guidance on using Wikimedia projects, including Wikimedia Commons, in educational settings.

Those who would like to explore the educational use of Commons further can also read the EduWiki Hub’s Making the Most of Wikimedia Commons in Education Diff post and watch the workshop recording, which feature practical examples, case studies, and insights from educators and Wikimedia practitioners working across different educational and community contexts.

Wikimedia Commons is not only a source of free media. It is a space where teaching, learning, documentation, and open knowledge meet. For educators and learners, that makes it one of the most practical and powerful tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem.

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Community

• Alex Spritze has realised that Wikimedia Commons is probably a good source of geographical objects that are still missing from OpenStreetMap and has developed a workflow to find geospatial data on Commons using the PetScan tool.
• Rtnf has developed a prototype interactive map that allows users to explore angkot (shared taxi) routes in Indonesia, combining routing data generated by BRouter with geographic data from OpenStreetMap.
• The fire department in Talling, Germany is explicitly asking for an AED defibrillator logo, so they can be represented on OpenStreetMap. In the comments, people point to the defibrillator map created by the Polish OpenStreetMap community and mention that OsmAnd and CoMaps already display defibrillators. GeoMH also gave the newcomer a reference to the community wiki.
• Grant Slater is raising funds to purchase the missing sheets from the complete historical 1:50,000 topographic map series of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), produced by the Department of the Surveyor-General and the Zimbabwean Air Force. Once purchased, he will process the maps and make them freely available online so that researchers, historians, genealogists, mappers, local communities, and anyone interested in Zimbabwe’s history can access them.
• Internet Archive Europe reported (also shared on Mastodon) on a workshop held in Amsterdam titled ‘Maps are Infrastructure too’. The post emphasised the importance of OpenStreetMap as a knowledge commons and highlighted MapLibre as a key tool for digital sovereignty, arguing that open map infrastructure is essential for long-term public access and memory.

Imports

• Kentoseth has published a detailed tutorial (also shared on Mastodon) on how to mass import address data into OpenStreetMap using JOSM. The guide covers data preparation using OpenAddresses.io, essential JOSM plugins such as conflation, and emphasises the importance of manual validation against local GIS sources.

Local chapter news

• [1] In his diary entry, Emmanuel Arrechea reported on the wide-ranging activities of the French OSM group Mapadour (Basque Country and southern Landes). The group has been very active, having taken over 228,000 Panoramax images; it has supported European tourism and mobility projects such as Systour and Pyrénées4Clima, maintained local health data, and is mapping urban trees in Bayonne using open data.
• Wikimedia Italia, the Italian local chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, has recently published ► a new tile service with two layers in the hope that it will help both the mappers and the end users. You can check ► the terms of use on their wiki.
• The OSM Training Working Group of FOSSGIS e.V. met ► in Berlin on 13 and 14 June to refine their concept for modular OpenStreetMap training. The group focused on target-group specific requirements and the best ways to teach community workflows and practical mapping skills.

Events

• The State of the Map Colombia 2026 will take place as an in-person event on 3 and 4 July 2026 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, National University of Colombia. The conference will include a scientific programme.Incidentally, the logo for SotM was designed ► by Mauricio Martínez and features the white-headed tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), a primate native to Colombia, whose face is incorporated into a map pin.

OSM research

• Muki Haklay, Professor of Geographical Information Science in the UCL Department of Geography, and UCL alumnus Patrick Weber, have won the IEEE’s Pervasive Computing’s Test of Time Award for their 2008 paper on OpenStreetMap. The award honours the most influential papers that have had a lasting impact on pervasive computing over the past 25 years. Over the eighteen years since Muki’s paper was published the OpenStreetMap project, which was launched at UCL in 2004, has evolved into critical digital infrastructure that supports research, humanitarian response, navigation systems, smart cities, and countless location-based services.

Maps

• mgeograficas has created a uMap showing the distribution of sedimentary deposits from the Quaternary period (most recent) and the Neoproterozoic era (oldest), in Campos dos Goytacazes, in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
• Julien Minet explained ► the cartographic generalisation techniques he used to create a high-quality printed forest map using QGIS and OpenStreetMap data. The project, which he also shared on Mastodon, covers advanced topics such as dynamic orientation of symbols and automated feature displacement using PostGIS.

OSM in action

• El País published ► a detailed interactive map showing real estate prices in Spain at a street-by-street level. As noted by Alan Grant on Mastodon, the project uses OpenStreetMap data for geographical names (neighbourhoods and districts), although the required attribution is missing from the interactive map itself and only mentioned in the methodology section.
• Longtrails.de is a new interactive planning tool for long-distance hiking in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As noted on Mastodon, the platform uses OpenStreetMap data for its maps and points of interest, allowing hikers to plan stages with distance and elevation calculations while encouraging community contributions to improve the data.
• Tom Scott’s video ‘Why trains don’t usually crash into each other’ features a printed OpenStreetMap map (at the 17:19 mark) used to illustrate the UK’s rail network. As noted on Mastodon, the video serves as a positive example of proper attribution by a high-profile creator, including a link to the OSM copyright page in the description.

Open Data

• The Museum of the History of Dnipro (Ukraine) has launched an interactive map of the city’s streets based on OpenStreetMap data. The resource, created as part of the ZMINA 2.0 project with European Union financial support, provides the history and explanations for over 500 of the streets renamed since 2014.

Software

• Kai Johnson is investigating how much of the Overpass query language could be implemented using the QLever database.
• OpenMapEditor has been relaunched as MapDraw, a free, open-source, local-first web editor for personal geographic data. The tool now supports contributing to OpenStreetMap directly from the map, adding nodes (benches, drinking water, bike parking, and more), and leaving notes. The source code is available under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
• OSM MultiToolz (available for Chrome and Firefox) is a browser extension, built by dp7, designed to assist OpenStreetMap contributors. It provides advanced changeset analysis, integration with various QA tools (including OSMCha and Achavi), a smart watchlist for monitoring edits, and built-in translation for changeset comments.
• VK Maps’ Overpass instance is once again available for use, after being shut down for several months.
• Ian Wagner noted, on Stadia Maps’ blog, that the long-term viability of any motor vehicle routing project hinges on two ‘invisible’ variables: data privacy architecture and billing predictability.

Programming

• Paco Albacete Chicano blogged that his Google Summer of Code project will focus on area routing in Valhalla. This is expected to allow routes to cross areas, such as public squares, directly instead of circling around them and producing inefficient or awkward paths.
• Windows Central reported that rampant AI‑driven GitHub outages have forced Microsoft into an unlikely alliance with Amazon. GitHub processed 1 billion commits in 2025, compared to 14 billion expected in 2026.

Releases

• Heise reported that Murena has released version 4.0 of its Google-free Android fork, /e/OS. The update includes Murena Maps v1.0.0-beta, powered by data from OpenStreetMap.
• Sergey (enzet) released version 0.16.0 of Röntgen, a specialised icon set for OpenStreetMap. The update, announced on Mastodon, added 16 new community-requested icons (including various vending machines and railway features) and is now also available as an npm package.
• osm2pgsql has released version 2.3.0, introducing major changes to tile expiry, a new style tester script, and numerous additional improvements.
• iD version 2.41.0 has been released. Key updates include automatic data downloading when splitting ways in relations, a new marker-based rendering for embankments and cuttings, and improved Wikidata searches that now display item descriptions.

Did you know that …

• … OpenCage has an extensive archive of their OpenStreetMap community interviews? The series started in 2014 and recent entries include conversations with Omran Najjar on OSM in Syria, Volker Krause about the open-source routing engine Transitous, and Christian Quest on the Panoramax Foundation.
• … uMap now has ‘draw along route’ functionality? It’s great for creating OSM-routable routes.
• … scy has shared some tips on how to customise OsmAnd’s map appearance to improve readability and accessibility. The settings, located in the main menu under ‘Customise Map’, allow users to adjust the contrast and line thickness, as well as switch between different map styles.

Other “geo” things

• Christina Queiroz has explored how participatory and social cartography are being used as tools for rights advocacy and territorial claims. Their article highlighted projects such as the self-demarcation of the Borari people and the use of OpenStreetMap to map services in favelas, challenging official state narratives.
• The YouTube channel Veritasium has published a video titled ‘Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain’, which explores the complex algorithms behind modern routing and navigation. As noted by Eugene Alvin Villar, on Mastodon, the video features impressive visualisations and makes extensive use of OpenStreetMap data, which is explicitly credited in the video’s description.

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“What goes around comes around.” While the saying is often used in different contexts, I have come to appreciate its meaning through my Wikimedia journey.

In 2022, while I was still a student, two Wikimedians, User:Olugold and User:Kingsley Nkem, visited my department to introduce students to Wikimedia projects. At the time, I knew Wikipedia as a website where people searched for information, but I had no idea that ordinary people could contribute to it or that there was a growing community dedicated to preserving knowledge in indigenous languages. That single classroom visit opened the door to opportunities, skills, communities, and experiences that I could never have imagined.

Over the years, Wikimedia has shaped my personal and professional growth. Through the movement, I have learned digital skills, connected with people across different communities, contributed to preserving knowledge in my language, and discovered the power of open knowledge. As my journey within Wikimedia continued, I often reflected on that first introduction and how a simple awareness session had changed my path.

That reflection inspired me to give back.

Bringing Igbo Wikipedia to UNEC

On 9 April 2026, I organized the Igbo Wikipedia Awareness & Training at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC), with support from the Igbo Wikimedians User Group. The goal was simple: to introduce students to the same opportunities that Wikimedia introduced to me years earlier and to encourage them to become contributors to free knowledge in the Igbo language.

The training brought together 20 new participants who were introduced to Wikimedia Projects, Igbo Wikipedia, and the role indigenous language projects play in ensuring that local knowledge has a place online. Participants created their Wikipedia accounts, learned the fundamentals of editing, and took part in practical article translation exercises. To ensure that everyone gained confidence in contributing, the session included hands-on training and one-on-one guidance throughout the event.

From training to contribution

Learning did not stop when the training ended. To help participants apply the skills they had acquired, a 3 days edit-a-thon followed the training. Participants translated articles from English to Igbo, putting their knowledge into practice while making meaningful contributions to Igbo-language content online.

The outcome was encouraging. By the end of the edit-a-thon, participants had successfully translated 80 new articles from English to Igbo. Beyond the numbers, the project introduced new editors to the Wikimedia movement and demonstrated the enthusiasm of students to contribute when given the right support and opportunity.

Final Reflection

For me, the most rewarding part of the project was not the article count. It was seeing students experience the same curiosity and excitement that I felt when User:Olugold and User:Kingsley Nkem first introduced Wikimedia to my class. In many ways, the event felt like a full-circle moment, transforming me from someone who once attended a classroom awareness session into someone creating that opportunity for others.

As Wikimedia communities continue to work toward preserving indigenous languages and expanding access to knowledge, initiatives like this remind us that a single introduction can have a lasting impact. Sometimes, all it takes is one classroom, one conversation, and one opportunity to inspire the next generation of contributors.

Discovering Wikimedia

After seeing the announcement on Facebook, I registered immediately. A few weeks later, I volunteered to welcome guests during a panel discussion on “The Impact of Climate Change in Botswana,” held in commemoration of Wangari Maathai Day at Big Five Lodge in Mogoditshane.Curious to learn more, I attended in-person training sessions and participated in online workshops that introduced me to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Accessing the internet was not always easy. Driven by a desire to learn, I would sometimes walk to a nearby primary school and use the available Wi-Fi to attend online training sessions despite connectivity challenges.My first contribution was a modest few translated words in a Setswana article. Yet that small edit opened the door to a world of collaboration, learning and impact. Through training sessions and edit-a-thons, I met fellow contributors who shared the same passion for free knowledge and encouraged me to continue contributing.

Growing Through Contributions

As my confidence grew, I began translating articles on sports, particularly football. During my first competition, I finished third, an achievement that inspired me to continue contributing. I later participated in a Wikidata challenge and emerged as the top contributor. These achievements encouraged me to continue contributing and participating in other campaigns and training opportunities.

Over time, my involvement expanded beyond editing. I co-facilitated the Art+Feminism campaign under the “Closing the Gender Gap in Wikiquote” initiative and became increasingly interested in strengthening Setswana representation across Wikimedia projects. Inspired by this vision, I helped initiate the Setswana Wikiquote project, which is currently being developed in the Wikimedia Incubator.

As I gained experience, I also became more comfortable supporting other contributors and sharing the skills I had acquired with newcomers to the movement.

Contributing as a Focus Group Member

Serving as a Focus Group Member has allowed me to contribute to both content development and community growth. I have restructured and improved more than 90 Setswana Wikipedia articles, ensuring that topics relevant to Botswana and Setswana speakers are represented accurately and respectfully.Beyond content creation, I have facilitated training sessions and supported the organization of several community workshops. These activities have given me opportunities to mentor new editors, share technical skills, and strengthen the Wikimedia community in Botswana.Through these efforts, I have sought not only to increase Setswana representation on Wikipedia but also to help build a sustainable and engaged community of contributors dedicated to preserving and sharing our language and culture.

Learning and Personal

My Wikimedia journey has helped me develop valuable skills in digital literacy, data management, public speaking, and community organizing. It has strengthened my ability to conduct research, verify information, and communicate knowledge responsibly and effectively.Beyond technical skills, Wikimedia has transformed me personally. It has helped me become a more confident leader and mentor, empowering others to discover their voices and contribute meaningfully to the open knowledge movement.Seeking to strengthen my leadership skills, I enrolled in leadership and mentorship programs offered by Africa Wiki Women. These experiences enriched my understanding of collaborative leadership, inclusive facilitation, and sustainable community building. They also reinforced my commitment to lifelong learning and to empowering others in the pursuit of knowledge equity.

Overcoming Challenges

Limited internet access and the lack of digital resources have been among the greatest challenges in my journey. Since 2023, I have relied primarily on my mobile phone to create, translate, and edit articles. Editing exclusively on a phone has been challenging, especially because I do not own a laptop.Although I contribute less frequently than before, I continue supporting others who need assistance with creating, translating, and improving articles. Balancing volunteer work with other responsibilities has also required discipline, but with effective time management and support from the Wikimedia community, I have found a sustainable rhythm.

Impact on My Community

Contributing content in my native language has deepened my appreciation for Setswana culture and heritage. It has also inspired others to recognize the importance of preserving local knowledge.The impact extends far beyond online contributions. When communities see their languages, traditions, and stories represented on Wikipedia, they experience a sense of pride and belonging. Contributing to English Wikipedia has also strengthened my English writing skills, while community engagement has improved my public speaking and presentation abilities.

Memorable Moments

One of my most memorable experiences occurred during a community training session when a participant successfully created their first article in Setswana. Seeing the joy and pride on their face reminded me that Wikimedia is about much more than editing, it is about empowerment, representation, and creating a lasting legacy for future generations.Another highlight of my journey was serving as an international jury member for Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 and receiving the International Wikidata Award in 2024. These experiences affirmed that local knowledge work has global significance and that contributions from our communities matter on the international stage.

Continuing the Journey

Today, my Wikimedia journey continues with the same curiosity and enthusiasm that first brought me into the movement. Every edit, translation, photograph, and data contribution forms part of a broader effort to advance knowledge equity and ensure that underrepresented voices are heard.I remain committed to training and mentoring others, expanding Setswana and English content, and ensuring that our stories, perspectives, and cultural heritage are represented within the global knowledge ecosystem.Wikimedia has become much more than a digital platform for me. It is a community, a classroom, and a movement that has shaped who I am. As I look to the future, I remain inspired by the possibilities that open knowledge creates and by the collective impact we can achieve when knowledge is accessible to everyone.If one Facebook post could change my life, perhaps one edit can change someone else’s. I hope my story encourages more people, especially young Africans and Setswana speakers, to join the Wikimedia movement and help preserve our knowledge for generations to come.

Before joining the Wiki Afrodemics Mentorship Programme, my understanding of the Wikimedia ecosystem was very limited. I had little exposure to how Wikipedia and its sister projects functioned, and I had not yet developed the skills needed to actively contribute to any Wikimedia-related initiatives.

I was one of the two people who were selected from Uganda, and participating in the mentorship programme marked a turning point in my learning journey. It provided me with structured guidance, practical experience, and the opportunity to build my capacity in contributing to Wikipedia projects. Through continuous learning and hands-on engagement, I have been able to strengthen my understanding of open knowledge practices and improve my technical editing skills.

More importantly, the programme has served as a bridge into a global community of Wikimedians. It has connected me with contributors from different parts of the world, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and exposure to diverse perspectives. This experience has not only enhanced my confidence but has also deepened my commitment to contributing meaningfully to the Wikimedia movement.

Editing skills

Throughout the three-month mentorship programme, I have gained valuable skills that have significantly improved my understanding of editing across Wikimedia platforms, including Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons. This experience has deepened my appreciation of open collaboration and highlighted the crucial role volunteers play in improving and expanding Wikipedia’s knowledge base.

Here are some of the items I have created and contributed to during the programme:

• Deogratius Jaganyi
• Joseph Ngere
• Ebtihal Yousif
• Elizabeth Nyibol

Growth

The programme had a significant impact on both my personal skills and academic growth. At the beginning of the mentorship, I found the experience quite challenging, as I was still adjusting to the learning process and the expectations of the programme. However, after the first week, I began to adapt, and everything gradually became clearer and easier to understand.

The experience taught me the importance of teamwork and the value of sharing knowledge within a collaborative environment. It also helped me build confidence in expressing my ideas, actively participating in discussions, and completing tasks and assignments within set deadlines. Overall, the mentorship programme has strengthened my discipline, communication skills, and commitment to continuous learning.

Challenges

There were challenges along the way, particularly in understanding Wikipedia policies, determining the notability of certain articles, and meeting sourcing requirements. However, these challenges helped me develop persistence, improve my attention to detail, and gain a deeper understanding of community standards and expectations within the Wikimedia ecosystem.

A recent article related to the quality of Wikipedia references indicates that when a paper is retracted, the median time for a correction is 3.68 years. There is a bot for that, the RetractionBot, updated in 2024, the problem is that people have to use it AND "expecting Wikipedia editors to continuously monitor every citation for new retractions is unrealistic"...

HOWEVER

Retracted papers are hardly our only problem. Information is often superseded in later publications. This does not mean that earlier works are retracted it means that the information our articles are based on is stale. There is no bot for that AND expecting Wikipedia editors to continuously monitoring for new information is unrealistic...

ALSOAs our existing content needs maintenance, our public is diminishing and all our communities of volunteer contributors have their own objectives we have a problem; what to do?

Avni is a senior majoring in biology at the University of Oklahoma. As part of her Wikipedia assignment this spring, Avni improved the Wikipedia article focused on Agnes Yewande Savage, the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. After graduating, Avni plans to pursue a career in healthcare.

Of all of the biographies on Wikipedia, why did you choose to work on the article for Agnes Yewande Savage?

I chose Agnes because when I looked her up on Wikipedia, I realized there was so little information about her, and I kept on finding the same sources that had already been cited in the article. My professor had said that women coming from the Southern and Eastern Hemisphere tend to have the least amount of information about them on Wikipedia, and since Agnes draws her roots from Nigeria, I wanted to narrow that information gap we have in the world.

Was the project meaningful to you? In what way?

This work was meaningful to me because I am also a woman in STEM, and there are so many women that have paved the way for me to get to the place that I am today. Adding on to Agnes’ story, and the stories of others like her, just seems like the right thing to do.  These women deserve to be remembered for their contributions, their sacrifices, and their willingness to fight to change the world so that we never underestimate the changes we can make today.

What parts of the Wikipedia assignment did you enjoy the most?

I loved publishing changes to Wikipedia articles and practicing making small edits on other articles, like linking articles, ensuring a neutral tone, and other similar exercises. I think this will help me write better informational essays, because I feel as though I can come off with a bias. Through this project, I learned how even small words can make things seem favored or disfavored, which will help me avoid those phrases in my future professional writing.

Did anything surprise you?

I have always known that anyone could edit Wikipedia articles, but didn’t know how to get into it, and doing this assignment just opened a whole new world of possibilities. I think I was surprised by the sandbox draft space, because I just assumed that everyone found articles and edited them, and didn’t consider that there would be a separate space to create rough copies or outlines, or just practice things.

Last question! Now that your Wikipedia assignment is complete, do you think you’ll keep editing Wikipedia?

I really liked this assignment and would definitely do something like this again. In fact, I already have started a document where I’m adding resources for another Wikipedia article I want to improve.

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Avni’s work on Wikipedia are part of a larger Wiki Education initiative sponsored by the Broadcom Foundation, which supports the improvement of existing biographies and the creation of new biographies of unsung figures in STEM on Wikipedia.

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.

 Ars Technica featured an article "Heart protection from COVID shots remains amid updates, study finds".  The article refers to multiple studies and mentions Ziyad Al-Aly, one of the authors of several of the studies. 

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that anyone can edit. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and serves as a central repository for structured data, so rather than paving pages with text, it stores data in a structured format that can be queried and reused across different platforms.

One of the key features of Wikidata is its ability to handle deletion requests, which are known as RFDs (Requests for Deletion), a similar process happens on Wikipedia. These requests allow users to propose the removal of items from the database that are deemed unnecessary, incorrect, or otherwise unsuitable for inclusion.

I was recently asked if there was currently any “tracking of the amount of deletion requests on WD over time”, with a specific focus on promotional editing, number of requests, and administrator burden. I was not aware of any such tracking, so I decided to investigate the data and see what insights could be gleaned from it, and possibly help out with whatever then end up happening as part of T429036 [Analytics] [Request] Baseline data for Item deletions which looks like it will happen soon.

Approach

All of the requests for deletion go via the RFD page on Wikidata. This page is treated as a talk page, with each section being a request for deletion. Each section has a title, which is the item, or items being requested for deletion, and a body, which contains the reason and any discussion around the request. The page is often maintained by bots in terms of marking when deletions occur, and when requests are closed, so the page is a good source of data for analysis. And like many other talk pages, it is also archived, with older requests being moved to archive pages. The main RFD page has been around for a while, and the archive pages go back to 2012.

Data Gathering

I’m trying out marimo for my data gathering things time, when I would normally use a standard IPython notebook. It’s self described as “a next generation Python notebook”.

So first off, I started by iterating through the archive pages, and downloading them all into local .wiki files, to speed up further processing.

You can find the notebook in this gist, and this resulted in a bunch of files that look something like this…

{{Archive|category=Archived requests for deletion}}

=== [[Q259]] ===
This item is a duplicate of [[Q35]]. --[[User:Hydriz|Hydriz]] ([[User talk:Hydriz|talk]]) 11:45, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:{{done}} (as staff) --[[User:Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)|Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)|talk]]) 12:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

=== [[Q292]] ===
Duplicate of [[Q2]] (Earth). [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] ([[User talk:Emijrp|talk]]) 12:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:Oh I did it as a steward, does someone know if am I allowed to use my tools here? --[[User:Vituzzu|Vituzzu]] ([[User talk:Vituzzu|talk]]) 12:25, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:: Yes, you are. The project has no admins of its own (only some staff who help out right now). If the stewards take over, staff would be happy to step down from that task.
:: And ideally, the users will soon have their own admins and bureaucrats to deal with it :)  --[[User:Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)|Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)|talk]]) 12:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:::Yep, it's quite common for new wiki but this is a special one ;)
:::Anyway I'm quite interested in helping so if needed do not hesitate to poke me.
:::--[[User:Vituzzu|Vituzzu]] ([[User talk:Vituzzu|talk]]) 12:29, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

=== [[Q304]] ===
And [[Q254]]. Mozart. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] ([[User talk:Emijrp|talk]]) 12:35, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:{{done}} by Vituzzu. --[[User:Hydriz|Hydriz]] ([[User talk:Hydriz|talk]]) 13:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

In total this is around 185MB of text.

Analysis

Next, some actual analysis of the data. I used a combination of regexes and the mwparserfromhell library to parse the wiki text when iterating through the files.

Signals

The script analyzes the initial_reason and section heading using regular expressions to detect specific themes. It categorizes discussions by searching for keywords related to:

• Promotional content: (e.g., spam, marketing, self-promotion).
• Notability: (e.g., lack of references/sources).
• Duplicate/Vandalism: Identifying specific policy-based reasons for deletion.

Specifically using these patterns:

SHARED_SIGNAL_PATTERNS = {
    "is_promotional_signal": r"\b(?:promo|promotion|promotional|advert|advertisement|advertising|marketing|brand|company|business|self[- ]?promo|coi|spam|hoax)\b",
    "is_notability_signal": r"\b(?:notable|notability|reference|references|source|sources)\b",
    "is_duplicate_signal": r"\b(?:duplicate)\b",
    "is_vandalism_signal": r"\b(?:vandal|vandalism)\b",
}

These were extracted using some more code, which looked at the most common words that appeared in the RFDs. (notebook code)

Outcomes

Since administrative outcomes are often recorded in varying ways, the script uses a tiered approach to determine the result:

• Template Detection: Primarily looks for specific Wiki-templates (e.g., {{deleted}}, {{kept}}).
• Heuristic Fallback: If templates are missing, it searches for text strings in the comment history to “guess” the outcome (e.g., “not deleted,” “on hold”).
• Timeline Mapping: It uses the last identified outcome in a discussion to set the final state for that RfD.

Things get a little messy here, as the outcome is not always clear, sometimes there are duplicate outcomes, and sometimes the outcome is not recorded at all. The script tries to handle this as best as possible, but there are some cases where it is not clear what the outcome was, but for the most part, it is possible to get a good idea of what happened in a generalized way through the years.

Overall, the raw data summarized looks something like this, but the graphs below are far more interesting!

Aggregation & Visualization

So, what can we see? (You can run the notebook yourself too, and see the code)

Looking at RFDs over time, there are a high number from the early years, which skew the perspective of the last 10 slightly, and also it should be noted that we are only half way through 2026 right now…

I really don’t know what happened back in 2013 and 2014 for sure, but these spikes were spread out throughout the months of those years, and there were up to 40k RFDs in June 2014 for example. One of the peak days was June 18th, where I see lots of listings that show Merged with [[Q12345]], via The Game which seems to imply there was a tool aiding these deletion requests, and that this was prior to merging being a functionality of Wikibase on Wikidata.

So if we zoom in on the more stable data, and also project the second half of this year, we get a clearer picture showing and upward trend since 2019, with around 14k RFDs predicated this year, which is around 38 a day, and double the number back in 2018 and 2019.

In general this is between 7k and 15k per year, and if I had to guess, we would see merge edits from 2015 onward to replace

And if we have a quick look at the outcomes, we can see that most are deleted or done, generally around 85-90%, with a small slither of other outcomes.

On to the signals! The chart below tracks the percentage of deletion requests flagged with promotional or notability-related keywords over time.

Several clear patterns emerge from the data:

• Long-term Upward Trend: There has been a steady, significant increase in signal-bearing deletion requests since 2012. What was once a relatively quiet process potentially using other words, has become increasingly dominated by these specific types of issues.
• The 2020 Shift: A notable “step change” occurs around 2020. Before this, the rates were lower and more erratic. Since 2020, both promotional and notability signals have stabilized at a much higher baseline, rarely dipping back to pre-2020 levels. 2020 also aligns with the larger increase in baseline RFDs being recorded, but remember, this graphs is a % rate anyway…
• Promotional vs. Notability: While both signals have trended upward, they often move in tandem. This suggests that the issues driving deletions on Wikidata are frequently overlapping—many items flagged for notability concerns are often simultaneously flagged for promotional content, indicating a clear intersection between these two types of problematic editing.
• Recent Volatility: In the most recent months (2025–2026), we see higher volatility, and higher overall rates.

Now, what does this actually mean in terms of admiistrative load on the project? The below graph is interactive, and starts of with the total closed RFDs hidden.

We can see that the 2013/2014 period again stands out, and that large number of RFDs being created and closed during that period lead to the number of RFDs that an admin on average would close skyrocketing. This also highlight another interesting month, May 2017, which also has a spike in RFDs closed per closing admin. One of the largest days was May 22nd and it looks like many items that were empty were found, and reported for deletion.

If we again zoom into the time period after 2015, we can see a fairly consistent set of data in terms of unique closing admins per month, and also average RFDs closed by an admin per month. Note this is only an average, not an exact calculation on a per admin basis.

Taking a quick look at the users and bots that have interacted with the most distinct RFDs, the top 10 are:

User	RFDs
BeneBot*	245716
DeltaBot	98131
Succu	15156
Marcol-it	14230
Calak	8442
Ary29	8423
Lymantria	6676
AttoRenato	4875
GZWDer	4482
Dorades	4445

I’m down at number 202, with only 454 RFDs myself.

Further thoughts

This really only scratches the surface in terms of what could be determined from this treasure trove of archived discussions around deletions, a few things that would be well worth trying to determine in my opinion:

• There are many things deleted on Wikidata that do not end up having an RFD entry, as admins just go and deleted them, so that data should really be pulled in to get a full deletion rate picture.
• In terms of “overload” of the system, the time that a bad item exists for before it is deleted might be a very good indicator, this would likely require non public data sets however to determine the dates of deleted revisions of these deleted items.
• I decided to leave the signal analysis to the initial comment and or reason, and I imagine if the entire conversation around deletion was checked you’d end up with slightly inflated rates when it comes to the signals.

So, to whoever gets to look at T429036 [Analytics] [Request] Baseline data for Item deletions, good luck, and have fun!

And a note on marimo, its not terrible, I quite like it, the automatic sandboxing and vscode integration is rather neat.

04/06/2026-10/06/2026

Community

• Anne-Karoline Distel announced that a new video on mapping historic lifting stones is now available on YouTube. Historically, lifting stones were used to test the physical strength of men.
• The MapLibre May 2026 newsletter has been published, authored by Bart Louwers, Frank Elsinga, Harel Mazor, Ramya Ragupathy, and Stephanie May.
• HOT has published an open course on seagrass mapping to support coastal conservation efforts. The initiative outlines how seagrass imagery will be collected using drones and later mapped through an OpenStreetMap-based technology stack, including iD.
• Rtnf tried the newly released OSRM Trip demo page to solve a simple Travelling Salesman Problem that he encountered daily while living in Bandung.
• Raquel Dezidério Souto described in her user diary what it was like to sponsor the CityMapper externship project and how she got to know the OSM Africa community whilst attending SotM Africa 2024.

Local chapter news

• Katja Hafernkorn reported ► that FOSSGIS participated in the exhibitors’ forum at KonGeoS Dessau 2026, providing information about Open Source GIS, OpenStreetMap, and the FOSSGIS association.
• FOSSGIS e.V. advertised ► a vacancy for a position focused on OpenStreetMap training and community work. The application deadline is 8 July 2026.

Events

• An additional uMap has been published for the State of the Map 2026 (Paris), providing detailed information on the locations of various facilities at the event venue.The interactive map also includes public transportation guidance to the Musée des Arts et Métiers, which will host the conference’s Saturday evening social event. In addition, attendees can use the map to navigate between the SotM venue and Disneyland Paris, including access to the TGV station at Marne-la-Vallée.
• You can find information about the State of the Map 2026 on the uMap provided by the event’s organisers.There is also a call for sponsorship on LinkedIn and on the event’s promotional document.
• Andres Gomez Casanova reported that the State of the Map Colombia 2026 will take place at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá from 3 and 4 July 2026.

OSM research

• HeiGIT presented new research on training deep learning for land-use and land-cover mapping, with landscape metrics derived from OpenStreetMap, supporting more spatially consistent and interpretable GeoAI models.

Maps

• ^[1] With Spieli, m_fuhrmann has launched a new, user-friendly web map for playgrounds. The project is based on a fork of the ‘Berlin Playground Map’ and is firmly committed to an open ecosystem. While the playground data comes directly from OpenStreetMap, images are integrated via Panoramax and reviews via Mangrove Reviews.Particularly noteworthy is the technical architecture: Spieli is designed as a federated network of independent data nodes, enabling decentralized hosting and high scalability.For parents, the site offers helpful filters (e.g., by flooring type or accessibility) as well as suggestions for nearby points of interest (such as ice cream shops ).Mappers benefit from integrated data quality assessment and direct links to MapComplete, making it easy to improve the data.

  The project is currently seeking active support: Anyone with resources to spare is invited to host their own data nodes (https://mfuhrmann.github.io/spieli/) (e.g., for additional federal states or abroad). Discussion is possible via Matrix (https://matrix.to/#/#spieli:matrix.org), and the source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/mfuhrmann/spieli).

• Christoph Hormann continued an in-depth discussion on non-locality in tiled rule-based map rendering, building on an earlier article that helped renew interest in OSM-Carto development.

OSM in action

• Bayreuther Tagblatt used ► an OpenStreetMap-based map to visualise road closure areas related to the 10th ‘Mainauenlauf’ running event, scheduled to take place on Sunday 14 June 2026.
• Niederrhein Nachrichten used ► an OpenStreetMap-based map to highlight parking areas available for visitors attending the Kleve Children’s Festival, scheduled to be held at the Kleve Zoo on Sunday 14 June.
• FerryGoGo helps travellers explore ferry routes worldwide through interactive maps, local route guides and practical advice built around real journeys by sea. It uses OpenStreetMap and shows ferry routes, ports and connections across each country.
• Phystech Mission have used an OpenStreetMap-based map to visualise the locations of technology companies and research institutes where graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology are employed.
• Mediazona, BBC Russian Service, and a team of volunteers have created an interactive map showing the geographic distribution of confirmed Russian military casualties in their war against Ukraine. The dataset is compiled from open sources, including obituaries, media reports, local government publications, and other publicly available records, while the basemap uses OpenFreeMap tiles generated from OpenStreetMap data. Click the map icon at the bottom of the page to open the map.

Licenses

• Editora IVIDES ► has published a Swahili translation [sw] of Tout savoir sur la licence ODbL: la licence d’OpenStreetMap pour cartographier en commun, originally written in French by the Fédération des pros d’OSM, Kila Kitu Unachohitaji Kujua Kuhusu Leseni ya ODbL. The translation from English into Swahili was carried out by Hemed Lungo and Tatu Sultan Lungo (Tanzania) and edited by Raquel Deziderio Souto, who wrote about this on LinkedIn.

Software

• OsmAnd is celebrating its 16th birthday, and to mark the occasion they will be giving away a 1- or 3-month Pro subscription to anyone who answers the quiz correctly by Monday 15 June.
• Marina Petkova and François Lacombe have authored ► an article ‘Tracking and Promoting Contributions to OSM with Podoma’. Podoma is a programme for monitoring contributions to OSM, allowing users to measure and visualise activity related to a specific topic or area (we reported earlier).

Programming

• Timo Roest posted, on LinkedIn, about a custom PySpark data source to read .PBF files, seamlessly integrating osmium-powered OSM data ingestion into the Spark ecosystem. He explained how it works, and worked through a refresher on OSM data structures and why parsing them is a challenge.

Releases

• A new release of OSRM, version 26.6.1, is now available. Users can try out the updated demo ahead of its integration into the official front end.
• Alexis Lecanu has released Baba version 1.22.0, for contributing to Panoramax on Android, featuring several feature additions and bug fixes.

OSM in the media

• Danmarks Radio, Denmark’s national broadcaster, used an OpenStreetMap-based map to illustrate a major railway disruption caused by a damaged overhead power line near Sorø. The disruption was believed to have occurred after a train’s pantograph became entangled ► in an overhead wire, forcing rail services between Ringsted and Slagelse to stop.

Other “geo” things

• Patty Heyda outlined the concept of ‘counter maps’, describing them as cartographic reinterpretations that challenge established assumptions and broaden dominant narratives to include previously excluded perspectives. As mapping becomes increasingly shaped by political interests, remapping practices are presented as a way to expose underlying systems of power to public view. The concept has also influenced activists, who use counter mapping to re-integrate previously omitted information into mainstream representations.
• YellowMap ►, a company based in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is sponsoring ► MapLibre. According to the company, the decision to migrate to MapLibre was driven by a desire to modernise and add functionality. At the core of YellowMap’s product offering is SmartMaps, built to address the strict data privacy demands of the European B2B market.
• Jeremy Hsu, of Ars Technica, highlighted a preprint paper by Todd Humphreys and colleagues investigating ‘continental-scale’ GPS interference across Europe.

Upcoming Events

Country	Where	Venue	What	When
	Oakland	Beauty Supply Arts	A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic (& other) Improvisations	2026-06-13
	Chennai Corporation	Koyambedu Market	Come map Koyambedu Market, Chennai with us on June 14th, 2026!	2026-06-14
	København	Cafe Bevar’s	OSMmapperCPH	2026-06-14
			Missing Maps London Mid-Month (Without Training) Advanced Mappers (Online) [eng]	2026-06-16
	Budapest	Cartographia Kft.	OSM térképest – 2026 június 16	2026-06-16
	Madrid	Online	Mappy Hour OSM España	2026-06-16
	Lyon	Tubà	Réunion du groupe local de Lyon	2026-06-16
	Bonn	Dotty’s	201. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn	2026-06-16
	Chemnitz	Kaffeesatz, Chemnitz	OSM-Stammtisch Chemnitz	2026-06-16
	City of Edinburgh	Summerhall/The Royal Dick	OSM Edinburgh Social	2026-06-16
	Strasbourg	Bar La Perestroïka	1er Apéro du groupe local de Strasbourg	2026-06-16
		Online	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)	2026-06-16
		MJC de Vienne	Rencontre des contributeurs de Vienne (38)	2026-06-17
	Stainach-Pürgg	Online	21. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online)	2026-06-17
			Mapping missing buildings in La Paz, Bolivia	2026-06-18
	Essen	Verkehrs- und Umweltzentrum	Essen OSM-Treffen	2026-06-18
			UN 2.0 Week 2026: UN Mappers Mappy Hour	2026-06-19
	بلدية دمشق القديمة	Online	ReMapping Syria 2025: Humanitarian Mapping & Community Collaboration Webinar	2026-06-19
			UN Mappers Mappy Hour: Progress and Highlights of the UN Maps Community Ambassador Pilot Initiative	2026-06-19
	Torino		OpenStreetMap Mapping Party: Torino at a walking pace!	2026-06-19
	Stuttgart	Technische Hochschule Stuttgart	Missing Maps Mapathon in Stuttgart	2026-06-19
	Potsdam	Waschbar	Potsdamer Mappertreffen	2026-06-19
	Catania	@Localhost	Modifichiamo Wiki e OSM insieme!	2026-06-19
	Metz	l’Arob@se	Atelier du groupe local de Metz – Partez en voyage avec OpenStreetMap	2026-06-20
		Mitarbeiterparkplatz antonius, Fulda	Sommermapping 2026	2026-06-21
			Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr]	2026-06-22
	Stadtgebiet Bremen	Online und im Hackerspace Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2026-06-22
			Missing Maps Validathon	2026-06-23
	Magdeburg	Netz39 e.V. , Leibnizstraße 32, 39104 Magdeburg	2. OSM Stammtisch Magdeburg	2026-06-23
	Berlin	Online	OSM-Verkehrswende #76	2026-06-23
	Würzburg	FabLab Würzburg	Würzburger OSM-Treffen	2026-06-24
	Freiburg im Breisgau	CCCFR, Adlerstr. 12a, Freiburg/Brsg.	OSM-Treffen Freiburg im Breisgau	2026-06-25
	Dar es-Salaam		State of the Map Africa 2026	2026-06-26 – 2026-06-28
		[online]	Capacitação OSM 2026 – IVIDES DATA ® – Formulários Web com KoboToolbox	2026-06-26
			OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting	2026-06-26
	Düsseldorf	Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2026	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online)	2026-06-26
		Biblioteca Alda Merini in via Edmondo De Amicis	Mapathon @ Casorate Sempione	2026-06-27
			OSM Mumbai Mapping Party No.11 (Trans-Harbour Line – South)	2026-06-27
	Hannover	Kuriosum	OSM-Stammtisch Hannover	2026-06-29
	Heidelberg	DEZERNAT#16	Rhein-Neckar OSM Treffen	2026-06-29

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• From the team: May Global GLAM Call Recording and June Call Announcement
• Australia report: Celebrating #1Lib1Ref Australasia
• Brazil report: GLAM Connection: Fashion, History, and Biodiversity in May
• France report: New Wikimedian in Residence
• Italy report: Connecting the Arctic and Sicily through Wikimedia Projects
• Mexico report: How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors contributed in unison to Wikimedia projects
• Netherlands report: Setting up your own platform (part 1): from wish to the creation of a wiki
• New Zealand report: ESEAP Conference 2026 and the NZBSI WiR update
• North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD Shares GLAM Experience at International Conferences
• Poland report: Partnerships, Participation, and Open Knowledge
• Serbia report: May in Wikimedia Serbia
• Spain report: El Prado en femenino III
• Switzerland report: Museum for Communication, Panel IMD, Wikipedia Day
• UK report: Early Qurans on the front page of Wikipedia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members
• Special story: New tools for multilingual audio, video and metadata
• Memory of the World report: New articles in Urdu
• Calendar: June’s GLAM events

Screw worms and the plague are indigenous to the USA. When left untreated they are deadly. They appear regularly as key in the Youtubes the algorithm presents me. Consequently I often add data on Wikidata.

Recently I did some work on Kenneth L. Gage. He is/was with the CDC. Given the amount of papers to his name, he has/had a distinguished career. Mr Cage has/had many co-authors. Many of them work/worked at the CDC. They are the ones who protect/protected the USA against the plague.

At Wikidata we know about Mr Gage, his papers, his expertise. We could know about his career at the CDC and the careers of his co-authors. Given that these are facts that you do not easily find anywhere else it easily gives the WMF a platform with established facts, not necessarily neutral from a political point of view but verifiably true. 

With a platform where Youtubes get connected to Wikimedia sources we could provide information that the USA press no longer offers. They are bought and verifiably no longer bring the news, all the news.

Thanks,

      GerardM

Wiki Education is pleased to welcome a new staff member to our team, Derek Bigelow! 

As our new Programs Operations Specialist, Derek will manage the systems, data, and communications infrastructure at the heart of our programs. From guiding participants through their first engagement with Wiki Education to maintaining the data integrity that informs our decision-making, this role shapes the experience of our participants at every turn.

Derek brings a wide array of email, marketing, and operations experience to Wiki Education, including work across the tech, travel, and nonprofit sectors. Most recently he led merchandising strategy and operational efficiency as a program manager at Chewy and previously served as the Email and Digital Marketing Specialist at Cascade PBS.

Derek earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Marketing from Daemen University and is looking to further his education with a degree in Nonprofit Leadership in the coming years.

Derek has called Seattle home since 2005 where he enjoys exploring the city and natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, playing sports with friends, attending concerts, and tinkering with his list of ever-growing hobbies.

The Release-Engineering-Team of the Wikimedia Foundation just deployed an upgrade of Wikimedia Phabricator.

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Some of the bug fixes and improvements:

• Projects UX:
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• Project workboards:
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• Files:
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  • Disable numerous interactions for temporary files
  • Fix wrong image file dimensions in "Default Alt Text"
• Diffusion repository browsing: Display associated project tags on repository main page
• UX:
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• Global Feed: Show Additional Details link in Feed (by avivey)
• Phame blogs: Add text/html self link in Phame atom feed
• Passphrase: Allow filtering credentials by author (by Valerio)
• Search:
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• Account Registration UX: Provide specific details why a username is invalid (by Pppery)
• Pholio Mocks:
  • Fix altered breadcrumb and header on validation error (by Valerio)
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• For Admins only:
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  • Require Multi-Factor Auth to Disable/Enable apps (by Valerio)
  • Allow user account creators to send Email Invitations (by Valerio)
  • All Settings page: Grey out settings of disabled applications
• For folks who enjoy code interaction: "Personal Settings > Developer Settings" offers a "Developer Tools" mode
• Translations: Numerous internationalization support improvements (by Pppery)
• many other small fixes and future PHP compatibility improvements
• numerous small accessibility, performance, CSS fixes/improvements

Downstream deployment task: T410849: Update to Phorge/Arcanist upstream 2026-06-01

Upstream changelogs:

• https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/history/master/
• https://we.phorge.it/source/arcanist/history/master/

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