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Now on its 16th edition, Wiki Loves Monuments still retains its crown as the world’s largest photo contest. Each year since 2010, photographers from around the globe have come together to celebrate cultural heritage through their camera lens—and donate it all to benefit Wikimedia’s freely shared knowledge.  Despite Wiki Loves Monuments’ size and scope, it….

Small Request, Bigger Principle During this reporting cycle, we received a request asking us to take down a map of a country on Wikimedia Commons that compared its shape to an animal. While the Foundation and volunteer editors saw the image as simply illustrative of the nation’s geographic shape (and widely used in external sources),….

If you just had a quick glance at the above image, you might think it was a screenshot from the latest hit show or nature documentary. But no—it’s one of the winners of this year’s Wiki Loves Earth photo contest. For more than a decade, this volunteer-organized competition has been capturing the breathtaking essence of….

From February 2 to March 1, 2026 African journalists can self nominate stories that help expand knowledge about Africa on Wikipedia.

Meet some of the humans making it possible Wikipedia was first founded on January 15, 2001. Today, 25 years later, it has become the backbone of knowledge on the internet, informing everything from day-to-day life and AI chatbots to journalism and trivia wins. Nearly 250,000 volunteers write, edit, and fact check its 65 million articles….