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📢 Latest Updates May 2026 🚀 The Arewa Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 was successfully organized in Abuja, Nigeria 📰 Arewa TechCom was featured on Diff: Building Wikimedia Tools in Northern Nigeria 🛠 Continued improvements and demonstrations of the Wikidata Reference Validator 🧩 Early development and deployment of Scout, a Wikidata task discovery and contribution support tool 📋 Wikimedia technical collaboration tasks organized through Phabricator workboards March 2026 🚀 Launch of Arewa TechCom community on Meta 👨‍💻 Onboarding of new developers into Wikimedia technical spaces 🌍 Community discussions around Wikimedia tool development and open-source collaboration Upcoming 🧠 Expansion of the Scout platform for Wikidata task discovery 🛠 Additional Wikimedia tool development and contributor onboarding activities 🌍 Growth of Wikimedia technical participation across Northern Nigeria 🤝 More collaborative technical workshops and hackathon activities