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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Awards Exceptional Volunteers At Wikimania 2025

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is proud to announce the 2025 Wikimedian of the Year awards. The awards, presented by Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales at this year’s Wikimania 2025 event, honor the extraordinary volunteers around the world (known as “Wikimedians”) who contribute to Wikimedia projects and help make […]

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Wikimedia Foundation Announces Award Recipients Of The Open The Knowledge Journalism Awards

Journalist Carlos Mureithi receives first-place award The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is today announcing the award recipients of the first Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards. Journalist Carlos Mureithi from Kenya is announced as the first place award recipient for the article “How a ‘headstrong historian’ is rewriting Kenya’s colonial history“, published in the Christian Science […]

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Wikimedia Foundation Launches Open The Knowledge Journalism Awards On World Press Freedom Day

Award nominations for stories that help to expand knowledge about Africa by African journalists open from May 3 – June 30, 2023 The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is today launching the inaugural Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, this […]

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African artist's artwork celebrating Black and diverse histories in collaboration with Wikimedia Fou.

Amplifying Black and Diverse Histories the Focus of New Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration with African Artist

Ghanaian artist, Enam Bosokah, will create the first cohort of art works representing historical figures from Ghana and Senegal The Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced the launch of Wiki Unseen, a collaboration with artists aimed at expanding the visual representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Wikimedia projects […]

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Wikimedia Foundation Launches Campaign With South African Creative Community

To Promote Access To And Sharing Of Free Knowledge Campaign launches on International Day for Universal Access to Information aligned with the universal message that access to knowledge is a human right Today, on the International Day for Universal Access to Information, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, is launching a campaign in […]

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