Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 21 March. Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let askcac@wikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!
Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let’s Talk continues
Progress on the Annual Plan: Six-Month Snapshot.
Global Trends: A message from Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees on global trends and strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view.
Wikimedia Hackathon: The registration to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon is still open until midnight April 13.
Central Asia Wikicon: The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 will take place on April 19–20 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
Infrastructure: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects.
Tech News: The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025; The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check’s goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage. More updates from tech news week 13 and 14.
Wikifunctions: Read the latest status updates.
Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki
Wikipedia Library: What’s new from January to March 2025.
Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Missed the last Learning Clinic on “Safe Spaces, Strong Voices: Advancing Inclusion through the UCoC”? Recording is now available.
Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
Transparency report: The Wikimedia Foundation’s publishes its latest Transparency Report covering the period from July to December 2024. View highlights from the report.
Global Advocacy: Read the latest developments on public policy advocacy from Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports
Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise Partners with ProRata.ai to Champion Sustainable Search Engine Practices.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
Elections Committee: Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee has appointed a new Elections Committee.
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 · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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