Little over a year back, three Wikipedians from Nepal resolved to start a Doteli Wikipedia for a language of about 800,000 speakers in the Far Western and Mid-western regions of Nepal.

Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top “Wikipedia social network”; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

With contributions by: Jonathan Morgan, Morten Warncke-Wang, Piotr Konieczny, and Tilman Bayer

Read about Wikimedia project milestones hit during the month of October.

Тhis September and October, the Academic Board and the Education Program Manager of Wikimedia Serbia have been extraordinarily busy. In addition to regular Education Program activities — which include supporting student editors at 11 secondary schools and 5 universities in 14 faculties on 2 Wikimedia projects — they have organized and facilitated 4 trainings for over 100 teachers in 3 different cities in Serbia.

With the creation of “Persoonia terminalis”, the English Wikipedia has today surpassed five million articles—and now covers more topics, more perspectives, and more voices than any other knowledge compendium on the planet.

A newly introduced “article suggestion” feature in Content Translation makes it easier for users to find Wikipedia articles that can be translated into other languages.

A Sudanese woman demonstrates how to make kisra, a traditional bread or porridge in Sudan and South Sudan. Photo by Mohamed Elfatih Hamadien, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. For many reasons, coverage of African topics on many Wikimedia sites, including the various Wikipedias, lags behind other continents. One project…

Longtime Wikipedia editor, Sydney Poore, shares her perspective of Wikipedia’s gender imbalance, harassment, and the steps she and other Wikimedians are taking to address this.

Student working on experiments. Photo by Milos Aleksandric, under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. One of the things that Neda Subakov likes about attending Petnica Science Center (PSC) is the access to professional equipment and people who are engaged in photography, and the relaxed atmosphere during the work. “The photo lab…

As this year’s Rugby World Cup draws to a close this weekend, Wikipedia editors help document every try, drop goal, and penalty.