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What connects a teenager in Bayombong, a

Have you ever imagined a tool that could make your everyday work as a Wikimedian easier or more effective, but eventually abandoned the idea after realizing how much work it would take to develop it?

This is more common than we might think. Building a tool ...

How Road to Wiki helped me move from a difficult start to contributing to Wikimedia’s Codex design system.

In December 2025, I was trying to complete the Road to Wiki selection task: install Ubuntu, set up MediaWiki, and record a walkthrough.

My laptop struggled to run Ubuntu in VirtualBox. Getting Media Wiki working was difficult, and when I trie...

In line with Wikipedia’s commitment to support all human languages willing to put in the work to have Wikipedia read in their languages, the

“Ambil benih campaklah sarap,” a seloko or poem in a local language from Jambi, reminds us to recognize what is valuable, preserve what is beneficial, and pass meaningful knowledge on to future generations. The saying means “Take what is good and beneficial, and discard what is not good.” In this seloko, benih (seeds) symbolizes the good and beneficial things in comm...