The annual gathering of Wikimedians, institutions, and professionals from across North America.
Join us in New York City, 16-19 October 2025:
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2025/Main_Page
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#Wikipedia is 25 years young today! It's the only top-10 website that just provides information and is run on a non-profit basis. Unlike nearly every other website, it doesn't show adverts, nor does it track what you're reading.
If it's ever been useful to you, please give it a birthday present - edit an article, upload a #photos donate to keep the servers running, anything you can do to help the next person that accesses Wikipedia to learn a bit more!
For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, I'm sharing Wiki Arcade, a virtual directory of wiki-powered games made by amazing people.
There are too many games to highlight in one post, but some of my favorites:
🕵️ Wiki Mystery: A Wikipedia detective game where you figure out interesting causes of death (https://leviv.cool/wikigame/)
🎨 Gallery Wall: Drag and drop pictures from a collection of public domain art to decorate a gallery wall (https://alinaf.github.io/gallery-wall/)
🎣 Catfishing: Guess Wikipedia articles from their categories alone (https://catfishing.net/ @catfishing)
📅 WikiTrivia
Test your knowledge of historical events by placing them in correct order on a timeline (https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/)
🚀 WikiAsteroids
My very own, a classic arcade shooter where asteroids spawn from live #Wikipedia edits (https://asteroids.wiki/)
🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge built on a simple idea: show your sources.
In a web where pages disappear, Wikipedia endures by documenting, citing, and inviting the world to improve what we know. And when sources vanish, the #WaybackMachine helps keep them alive—preserving evidence so knowledge stays verifiable and free. 🌍📚
Had a great time presenting about how OHM & #Wikimedia can be used together at @WikiConferenceNA. The focus of our talk was on how OHM data's tagging can include to add source information not just for geometry, but also for attributes, and that all of this is easily downloadable for reuse.
Check out the presentation here and let us know what we have missed or gotten wrong!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wte2FPj_gh5GLmvBC5vuU1tfZG18bSGKOeeaTAgsFxA/edit
OpenHistoricalMap: A Linked, Attribution- & Integration-Friendly Map Complement to Wikimedia Jeffme, Jeff Meyer, OpenHistoricalMap, 18 Oct WikiConferenceNA 2025: "Wiki World's Fair" Model of 1964 World’s Fair, Jim Griffin, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America 2025!
This year's conference will take place in New York City from October 16–19, 2025, under the theme "Wiki’s World Fair" — reflecting the rich cultural diversity of New York.
Apply now: https://scholarships.wcna.wiki
WikiConference North America 2025 will take place on October 16–19 in New York City. We are pleased to offer scholarships to help offset travel and accommodation costs for selected attendees. Active contributors to Wikimedia projects or Wikimedia volunteers in any capacity who currently reside in North America are eligible to apply. Please refer to the WCNA Scholarship page for details on eligibility and coverage. Applications are due April 4, 2025 (Eastern Time). This is a firm deadline. For any questions, feel free to reach out at [email protected] or connect with organizers and attendees in our Telegram group: chat.wcna.wiki. Français Español All information you provide in this application will be kept confidential, and only viewed by the Scholarship Committee and organizing team for the purposes of awarding scholarships and planning travel logistics.
#WikiLovesMonuments 2024 has started for the United States! 📸 Through October, help document U.S. history and improve Wikipedia by uploading your photos of historic places to the Wikimedia Commons under a free license.
Ten photos will be selected to win a prize and go on to the international competition!
Learn more and participate:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2024_in_the_United_States
(Pictured: 2023's U.S. winner, Structure at Independence Mines, Alaska, by Will Koeppen, CC BY-SA 4.0)
#WikiConferenceNA 2024 is underway! If you're not with us in Indianapolis, you can watch our sessions remotely.
Visit our schedule (including the links to access the live streams):
https://schedule.wcna.wiki/
Mike Peel
Kevin Payravi
internetarchive
OpenHistoricalMap
Govdirectory
Wiki Loves Monuments in the US