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With an estimated 190 million residents, Nigeria is the largest country in Africa. A remarkable 60% of Nigerians are school-aged, creating one of the largest student bodies in the world. With internet access in Nigeria quickly growing, local Wikimedians are working together to raise awareness for the platform and how Nigeria’s many students can both use….

A Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the New York Botanical Garden focused on writing women botanists into history.

The English Wikipedia's list is led by the United States president-elect, who topped all other articles with nearly three times more views than last year's #1. But the second-screen effect powered Britain's queen, Pablo Escobar, and O. J. Simpson to surprisingly high places.

Community-focused pieces fill our list of most-read and best posts from the last year.

Which English Wikipedia articles were edited most in 2016? Find out what captured editors' interests.

Meals for fifteen, a live cat, snakes, lizards, puppies, and an entire eel—none were off limits.

Years ago, the English Wikipedia was being overrun by a deluge of articles on Pokémon characters and creatures.

2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.

Death, pop culture, current events ... and one person writing about the Juneau Icefield.

After John Oliver called on the Internet to vandalize the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, Wikipedia's volunteer editors cleaned up the vandalism.