Voters took to the polls in Canada on Monday. Photo by Raysonho, in the public domain. On Monday, Canada held its 42nd general election to determine the 338 Members of Parliament for 2015 to 2019. The election was won by the Liberal Party of Canada, led by Justin Trudeau—son of former Prime ...

Free Graphic Workshop. Photo by Pedro J. Pacheco, freely licensed under CC BY SA 4.0. On September 25, 26 and 27, Wikimedia Spain celebrated its third Wikimedia Conference at the Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de España in Madrid. The conference began on the afternoon of Friday, September 25 ...

I am fortunate to have met Ahmed Nisar Syed on three important events over the last year—the WMF-India Community Consultation in Bangalore in October 2014, the Hindi Wiki Sammelan Meet at Delhi in February 2015, and most recently during Wikimania 2015 in Mexico this July.

Above is #Edit2014, the first Wikipedia Year-in-Review video. You can collaborate to make #Edit2015 here. Video by Victor Grigas, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation published our first ever video year-in-review which covered some of the major news events of ...

Here are some of the global news stories covered on Wikipedia this week: In Catalonia, parties in favour of independence win a majority in regional elections. German car maker Volkswagen is found to have rigged their diesel test results. Pope Francis visits eastern United States following an ...

Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez first started as a Wikipedia volunteer in 2006. Today, he combines this passion with his love of teaching, and works with university students on improving Wikipedia's coverage of medicine. Photograph by Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Foundation, freely licensed under CC BY-SA ...

The State Library of New South Wales in Sydney was the first library in Australia and prides itself on a fantastic collection of manuscripts, paintings and photographs, oral histories, and printed works. This library has had a Wikipedia project since 2012, when three members of Wikimedia ...

Out of nine programs, three were held in Dhaka, four in Chittagong, one in Patgram Upazila, and one in Rajshahi. Local Wikipedians, school teachers, cultural clubs helped to organize the events, which were each attended by an average of seventy students from ninth to twelfth grade.

Sepp Blatter has found himself under renewed calls to step down from his position. Photo by the International Students' Committee, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. FIFA, the world's organising body overseeing association football all over the world, has spent much of this year battling with ...

Antoine Bello is a well-known French author; his donation is the first time an author has donated an entire year's royalties to the Wikimedia Foundation. Photo from Antoine Bello, freely licensed under CC-by-SA 3.0. In Antoine Bello's 2009 French-language novel Les Éclaireurs, a secret agent ...

The Alamo became a symbol for all Texans after most or all of its defenders were killed by the Mexican army. Photo by Nan Palmero, freely licensed under CC-by-SA 2.0. Students in the United States and Mexico are often required to learn about the history of the Texas Revolution, the outcome of ...