Have you met the Wikipede? In another universe, maybe it has been Wikipedia’s logo for over two decades.
This is just one of many logo concepts submitted by volunteers during Wikipedia’s early development. Thousands of people weighed in. Ideas were proposed, challenged, revised, and sometimes abandoned entirely, all transparently in public.
That same collaborative process extends far beyond our visual identity. Wikipedia is built through open disagreement, documented decisions, and consensus reached in full view. Every edit is traceable. Every debate is preserved.
Today, Wikipedia is represented by the iconic puzzle globe. As Wikipedia celebrates its 25th birthday, a new time capsule shares its process, showing how collaboration has shaped everything from logos to articles, policies, and practices over time.
Crawl on over to more anniversary content at the link in our bio.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit powering one of the world’s most visited websites by providing the infrastructure, legal support, and resources that keep knowledge free and accessible to everyone.
Our staff work across technology, partnerships, policy, communications, and more to support a global movement of editors and contributors who help expand what the world knows.
The community sets the direction of each project. Our role is to amplify and sustain them.
Learn who we are at our link in bio.
On 14 May 2004, Wikipedia featured its first “Picture of the Day”.
The image showed the Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park (US).
At the time, Wikipedia was still largely text-focused. Adding a featured image to the main page was part of a broader shift toward making knowledge not just readable, but also visual.
Since then, “Picture of the Day” has become a regular feature, highlighting images from Wikimedia Commons that are freely licensed and widely reusable.
Check out the Picture of the Day archive at our link in bio.
The Wikimedia Foundation is celebrating a new milestone in its mission to champion open knowledge 🎉
The nonprofit organization joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), an initiative endorsed by the United Nations that promotes the discovery, development, and use of digital public goods (DPGs) such as open-source software, dataset, AI models, and content.
As Wikipedia celebrates its 25th birthday, the membership reaffirms the Wikimedia Foundation’s commitment to open knowledge as a public good, ensuring it remains accessible, rights-based, and governed in the public interest.
In 2025, Wikipedia and Wikidata, two Wikimedia projects, were officially recognized as digital public goods by the DPGA. The acknowledgment showcased the important role that volunteers play in building a better internet that serves the public interest.
Learn more about the DPGA and the Foundation’s commitment at the link in bio.
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world. That’s why it’s been designed for how people actually read today: on their phones and tablets. The Wikipedia app turns a familiar resource into a more intuitive, mobile-first experience.
Get the app and start exploring at our link in bio.
Over the past decade, University of California, Berkeley professor Juana María Rodríguez has led a project with her students to expand LGBTQ+ representation on Wikipedia through a partnership with Wiki Education, focusing on queer history.
Along the way, students have edited hundreds of articles, created dozens more, and contributed work that has reached tens of millions of readers.
Each article follows Wikipedia’s standards: neutral tone, verifiable sources, and clear citations. Students compile annotated bibliographies and rely on high-quality research to support their contributions.
See how the record is being rewritten at our link in bio.
When global attention focuses on a single topic, millions of people often turn to Wikipedia to understand it.
One year ago today, the Wikipedia article about newly-elected Pope Leo XIV received over 7.5 million views in a single day.
It became the most visited Wikipedia article in a single day that was not directly tied to the subject’s death.
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Wikipedia is made possible thanks to a global community of volunteers: editors, photographers, translators, developers, organizers, donors, and more.
They contribute in over 300 languages, across every time zone, on every subject humans have thought to write about.
The Wikimedia Foundation exists to support that community: to keep the infrastructure running, to protect the mission, and to make sure the knowledge those volunteers build stays free and accessible to every person on Earth.
Meet our community at our link in bio.
Transparency is a cornerstone of the Wikimedia movement.
While the volunteer editors handle the majority of content moderation requests, twice a year, the Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Transparency Report documenting the requests we receive to alter or remove content from our projects.
The report features charts and graphs showing where requests came from and which projects were targeted, along with selected case stories and an FAQ that adds helpful context. Together, these efforts aim to clarify the nature of these requests and how the Foundation handles them.
We hope this report deepens understanding of threats to free knowledge and the work being done to protect it.
Read the full report for July-December 2025 at the link in bio.
“Free” on the internet means more than you might think.
On Wikimedia projects, free content goes beyond price. It means content that anyone can use, share, and even modify, as long as they follow defined terms.
This usually involves licenses like Creative Commons, which allow reuse with conditions such as giving credit to the original creator or sharing new versions under the same terms.
Learn how “free” actually works at our link in bio.
What happens when access to information is restricted?
At different moments, the global Wikimedia community has responded when open access to knowledge was at risk.
This has included coordinated blackouts to raise awareness about legislation affecting how information can be shared online, as well as efforts connected to restoring access in places where Wikipedia had been blocked.
Explore how access to knowledge has been defended at our link in bio.
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The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments contest are in 🎉📸
For sixteen years, volunteers around the world pick up their cameras and document cultural heritage sites for Wikimedia Commons, freely licensing their photographs so that anyone, anywhere, can use them forever.
The winning images of the world’s largest photo contest capture sites that might otherwise go undocumented or whose documentation might otherwise sit behind a paywall, in a private archive, or nowhere at all.
Explore more @wikilovesmonuments images at the link in bio.
