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Wikiesfera Grupo de Usuarixs (ESP-WE) was officially recognized by the Affiliations Committee on 9 May 2018. Since it began in 2015, Wikiesfera has continued to build a feminist community of Wikipedians, a reference point in Spain, committed to closing the gender gap on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Edit-a-thon for Wikipedia's 25th anniversary | 2026-01-17

In Wikipedia's 25th anniversary year, this has also been a year of institutional consolidation for the group: we launched several projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Institute for Women, the Teatro de la Zarzuela, the Government of the Principality of Asturias and the Wikimedia Foundation; we carried out more than 200 activities (145 women-focused edit-a-thons and 26 other-topic edit-a-thons, 26 asynchronous campaigns, 7 training workshops and one Wikilearn course); our node WikiAragón turned five years old; and Wikiesfera's work was recognized by European initiatives such as Women in Digital Champion (WIDCON) and the European Digital Skills Awards, as well as by the Free University of Berlin and the University of Oviedo.

The report below sets out the most relevant achievements of Wikiesfera over the last year, from July 2025 to June 2026, although a detailed list of activities can also be found at this link.

Lines of work

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Wikiesfera continues working from the four strategic lines defined in 2024: Gender (reports), GLAM (reports), Memory (reports) and Equity (reports), all articulated from our feminist and intersectional vision of free knowledge and with the financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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  • STEM Women Edit-a-thon | 2026-02-11
    STEM Women Edit-a-thon | 2026-02-11
  • Las que faltaban. Women and museums, memory and the present | 2026-03-18 | Madrid
    Las que faltaban. Women and museums, memory and the present | 2026-03-18 | Madrid
  • Women in Science Fiction Edit-a-thon | 2026-05-09 | Madrid
    Women in Science Fiction Edit-a-thon | 2026-05-09 | Madrid

Projects

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In 2026 we launched, and continued, several projects thanks to the support of public and cultural institutions that have believed in Wikiesfera's work.

Mujeres de Zarzuela 2026

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Teatro de la Zarzuela

In February 2026, together with the Teatro de la Zarzuela, we launched the second edition of the course Mujeres de Zarzuela: Editing Wikipedia with a Gender Perspective, this time on Wikilearn, a Wikimedia education platform used for the first time in Spain, and in Spanish, for a course on learning to edit Wikipedia. The goal was to build on the impact of the training carried out in 2025 as part of the Mujeres de Zarzuela project, taking a further step to deepen knowledge and training on Wikipedia. We designed a three-month course with nine topics organised into three modules, combining asynchronous content on Wikilearn with synchronous Zoom sessions to resolve questions, and a closing virtual edit-a-thon.

The course involved teaching staff and students from ten Spanish universities and educational institutions: the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), the Universidad de Granada (UGR), the Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI), the Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), the Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (UAX) and the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (RCSMM), with the aim of involving researchers in writing biographies of historically invisibilised women from the world of lyric theatre, and training them in the use of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. In addition, as in the first edition of the course, the Spanish National Library (BNE) helped identify copyright-free images in its archive to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and used to complete published and improved articles.

The results in terms of participation and output exceeded the expectations of the first edition: 47 participants, 44 articles published (22 newly created and 22 translated), 8 articles improved, 26 images released and 22 Wikidata items created. The public presentation of results took place on 24 June at the Institute for Women (Madrid), and the Teatro de la Zarzuela announced in its programme for the 2026-2027 season that the project will continue. In addition, mujeresdezarzuela.org has been created, a project website inviting other institutions to take part in the initiative.

  • Course launch | 2026-02-03
    Course launch | 2026-02-03
  • Presentation of results | 2026-06-24 | Madrid
    Presentation of results | 2026-06-24 | Madrid

Making Women Comic Illustrators and Artists Visible

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This project, funded by the Institute for Women (Ministry of Equality), draws on Viñetaria: historia universal de las autoras de cómic, the book by Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado which traces more than 130 years of comic history through the women who have created, transformed and expanded it. It combines public talks with the book's own authors, covering the major stages of comic history from a feminist perspective, with in-person editing workshops on Wikipedia.

During the first half of 2026 two cycles were held, with 8 public talks available to listen to on our iVoox channel:

  • CYCLE I | They Were Always There. Pioneers of Illustration and Comics (reports 1, 2, 3 and 4);
  • CYCLE II | The (R)evolution of Women Comic Artists. From Classicism to Modernity (reports 5, 6, 7 and 8);

And 2 workshops held in March and April, in which 17 people took part and 27 articles were published. The project continues in the second half of the year until the cycle is completed in December 2026.

  • Public talk | 2026-02-18
    Public talk | 2026-02-18
  • Public talk | 2026-02-25
    Public talk | 2026-02-25
  • Editing workshop | 2026-03-16
    Editing workshop | 2026-03-16

Feminist Free Knowledge Communities

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One of the most significant advances of this year has been the boost to the sustainability of our territorial nodes, thanks to this project funded by the Ministry of Culture. Its aim is for WikiAragón, WikiMorada and WikiAsturianes, as well as emerging groups such as WikiAlboroque in Murcia, to be able to sustain active feminist Wikipedia editing spaces over time, with a methodology shared with Wikiesfera and their own organisational capacity, rather than relying exclusively on ad hoc support from Madrid.

This support has translated into several edit-a-thons in the nodes' own territories and two jointly coordinated asynchronous campaigns (reports). Above all, it has allowed us to take a step we had long wanted to take: funding travel between nodes so that editors can take part in each other's edit-a-thons, so that they get to know one another beyond a screen. This experience has strengthened personal ties, mutual learning and a sense of belonging to a shared community, and is a line we want to keep pursuing in future.

  • Murcia Women Edit-a-thon | 2026-03-14
    Murcia Women Edit-a-thon | 2026-03-14
  • Asturian Women Artists Edit-a-thon | 2026-03-25 | Gijón
    Asturian Women Artists Edit-a-thon | 2026-03-25 | Gijón
  • Galician Women Writers Edit-a-thon | 2026-05-16 | Vigo
    Galician Women Writers Edit-a-thon | 2026-05-16 | Vigo
1st Virtual Meeting of Wikiesfera Nodes | 2026-05-28

In May, we also organised the first joint coordination space among all the nodes with the 1st Virtual Meeting of Wikiesfera Nodes, in which WikiAragón, WikiMorada, WikiAsturianes and Wikiesfera Madrid (together with the still-emerging community in Murcia, WikiAlboroque) shared their realities, their main challenges and the good practices developed in each territory. This space confirmed that coordination among nodes, rather than the isolated replication of a single model, is the true pillar for building a shared methodology for local community development.

WikiAsturianes meeting (Gijón)

Each node has continued, in addition, to consolidate on its own terms, starting with the Wikiesfera Madrid community itself, which kept up its weekly in-person meetings at the La Fabulosa bookshop (30 sessions with 191 participants) and its fortnightly virtual meetings (16 sessions with 118 attendees) throughout the year. WikiAragón turned five in June, with almost 900 articles published since it was founded, and closed the year by launching its own project to photograph and document the street plaques of Zaragoza dedicated to women. WikiMorada has taken Wikiesfera's voice to various Galician forums, such as the Feira da Economía Social and the Falemos de Ciencia en Igualdade conference, while WikiAsturianes has consolidated a decentralised model of monthly meetings, rotating among different towns in Asturias to encourage participation across the whole territory and strengthen the editing community beyond the main urban centres.

Documenta Asturies

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We are developing this project jointly with LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón), funded by the Department for Regional Planning and Citizens' Rights of the Government of the Principality of Asturias, through its Directorate-General for Citizen Participation, Transparency, Sexual Diversity and LGTBI Affairs. Its aim is to identify, document and make visible content about Asturias on Wikimedia projects, strengthening the presence of its cultural, social and historical heritage from a gender and intersectional perspective.

Documenta Asturies officially got under way in June 2026, with the first participatory sessions held in Gijón, Infiesto and Tapia de Casariego, in which members of the public took part in a process of collective mapping to identify people, places, initiatives and heritage elements from Asturias that are insufficiently represented on Wikimedia projects, as well as reliable documentation needs. The project will continue in the second half of the year with new participatory sessions, training activities, an edit-a-thon on 28 November at LABoral's Archive of Asturian Artists, and a public presentation of results on 22 December at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.

  • Participatory session in Infiesto
    Participatory session in Infiesto
  • Participatory session in Infiesto
    Participatory session in Infiesto
  • Session at the Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (Gijón)
    Session at the Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (Gijón)

Generating free knowledge in the wikiesfera [edit]

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Over more than a decade, Medialab has become the institution with which we have held the most edit-a-thons and joint activities. It is where Wikiesfera was born in 2015, and our first stable working space. It is not only significant for how long the relationship has lasted: from the very first moment, it believed in our project and in the need to open up spaces for feminist learning and action around free knowledge. This alliance has driven citizen participation in building free knowledge and in closing the gender gap on Wikipedia, and through it we have also woven ties with other institutions and organisations, with which we have made women from different fields visible and created articles on diverse subjects.

During 2026, this collaboration took the shape of a cycle of six edit-a-thons focused on different knowledge gaps on Wikipedia. Four of the six have already taken place within this period: Guardians of Truth Edit-a-thon #11A (in April), Women in Science Fiction Edit-a-thon #9M (in May), "Sicalípticas" Edit-a-thon #6J and Baroque, Mystic and Sapphic Women Edit-a-thon #20J (in June), with a total of 66 attendees and 83 articles. The remaining two will take place in the second half of 2026.

  • Guardians of Truth Edit-a-thon | 2026-04-11
    Guardians of Truth Edit-a-thon | 2026-04-11
  • "Sicalípticas" Edit-a-thon | 2026-06-05
    "Sicalípticas" Edit-a-thon | 2026-06-05
  • LBT Edit-a-thon | 2026-06-20
    LBT Edit-a-thon | 2026-06-20

Activities

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Edit-a-thons

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Since 2015, Wikiesfera has been combating the gender gap on Wikipedia by holding edit-a-thons on different subjects, with the aim of raising awareness of the problem and getting more women to join the project as editors. These gatherings (more than 170 edit-a-thons and other-topic edit-a-thons since Wikiesfera started) have a playful character, and participants are supported throughout so that they enjoy the experience, since the aim is not for it to be a training activity but an experiential one: successfully publishing an article as an incentive to keep learning to edit and to keep publishing.

Between July 2025 and June 2026, 15 edit-a-thons were held, 12 in person across 6 Spanish cities (Madrid, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia, Gijón and Vigo) and 3 online.

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2026

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Campaigns

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Since early 2024, Wikiesfera has been running themed, asynchronous online campaigns to keep generating content that reduces the gender gap and encourages the active participation of our community, beyond in-person activities. Each campaign, which runs for about two weeks, is built around a theme aligned with our strategic lines, for which we prepare a list of articles to translate or improve (biographies, key concepts, organisations, etc.). This curation is an essential part of every campaign. In it, we prioritise proposals about underrepresented people, groups and regions, paying particular attention to the Global South, in order to encourage greater geographic, cultural and racial diversity and help reduce Wikipedia's systemic biases. Campaigns are publicised through our newsletter, social media, our Telegram channel, and our pages on Wikipedia and Meta. Metrics are gathered through the Programs & Events Dashboard and Event Metrics.

Between July 2025 and June 2026, we ran 9 campaigns:

2025

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2026

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Talks and workshops

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During the 2025-2026 season, Wikiesfera was invited by 15 institutions in the educational, cultural and technology fields to give talks, run workshops and take part in panel discussions. Beyond the activities organised by our own group, we also took part in various national and international forums, sharing our experience and approach to free knowledge from a feminist perspective.

Workshop on Wikipedia and critical thinking | 2026-02-19 | Madrid

Education

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  • University of Seville | Editing Wikipedia with a gender perspective as part of the course "Digital tools for gender equality" | Patricia Horrillo | Online
  • Institute for Women | Wikipedia and critical thinking (secondary school) | Encina Villanueva and Liliana Alviárez | Madrid
  • Digital Trend Summit (EUDE) | Wikipedia, 25 years building the digital narrative | Isabel Zapico | Madrid
  • Centre for Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Training workshop on Wikipedia and gender | Encina Villanueva | Madrid
  • University of Vigo | Falemos de Ciencia en Igualdade 2025 | Isabel Zapico, Sabela Cebro and Maite Sobrino (Wiki Editoras Lx) | Vigo
  • Institute for Women | Wikipedia for young people at the AULA Education Fair | Encina Villanueva | Madrid
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Introductory workshop on Wikipedia with a gender perspective (Master's in Cultural Management) | Patricia Horrillo | Madrid
    Talk by Patricia Horrillo at LABoral Centro de Arte | 2025-11-26 | Gijón
Talk by Patricia Horrillo at T3chFest | 2026-03-12 | Madrid

Culture

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  • Nociones Comunes · Ateneo La Maliciosa | Data and AI governance: gender, transparency and the common good | Patricia Horrillo | Madrid
  • LABoral Centro de Arte | Designing the digital future: seven challenges for a more human technology | Patricia Horrillo | Gijón
  • Fundamar | Feira da Economía Social #ESDOMAR | Sabela Cebro | Pontevedra
  • La Térmica Cultural | Panel ¿Dónde estamos?, part of Incandescentes. E_Ya | Liliana Alviárez | Ponferrada
  • EnredaDelas · Cidade da Cultura de Galicia | Masterclass Ferramentas para combater a brecha de xénero | Sabela Cebro | Santiago de Compostela
  • Centro Social A Pedreira | Editar Wikipedia: primeiros pasos desde unha mirada feminista | Sabela Cebro | Pontevedra
  • BPM San Fermín and BPM José Saramago | First steps on Wikipedia workshops, coordinated by Encina Villanueva | Madrid
  • Teatro de la Zarzuela | Launch of the Wikilearn course Mujeres de Zarzuela II | María Sefidari | Online
  • Institute for Women | Discussion at the launch of the journal In_Mujeres Nº 7 | Patricia Horrillo | Madrid

Technology

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Conferences and publications

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Conferences

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At the end of July 2025, we took part in an academic conference for the first time, presenting Wikiesfera as a case study after a decade of existence. This experience (and the subsequent publication of a chapter in a book alongside other papers from the conference, listed below under Publications) opened the door to seeking out further spaces to share our work, which led us to a second conference this year, this time to present Wikilearn, the training platform on which we developed our Wikipedia editing course for the Mujeres de Zarzuela project.

Publications

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As part of our commitment to outreach, Wikiesfera continues to promote the publication of articles on the different knowledge gaps on Wikipedia, both on our own website and in other specialist outlets that invite us to write for them.

Wikimedia Movement

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Alliances

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  1. Wikimedia Europe
  2. Wikieditoras LX
  3. Art+Feminism
  4. Wikimedia LGBT+
  5. LGBT WikiProject
  6. Wikimedia Portugal
  7. Wikimedia Foundation
  8. Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality

Presence at events

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10 years of Wikiesfera

In August 2025, we took part in Wikimania 2025, held in Nairobi, though this time remotely. Isabel Zapico shared our positive experience with the virtual, asynchronous campaigns we had launched a few months earlier, in a Lightning Talk titled Collaboration Over Competition: 1,000 Articles in One Year Through Asynchronous Gender-Focused Campaigns (video). We were also able to present the poster 10 years of Wikiesfera, tracing the most important milestones of Wikiesfera's first decade.

In October 2025, our colleagues María Sefidari and Liliana Alviárez took part in the Spanish-speaking Community Meeting 2025 held in Buenos Aires. At the same time, Patricia Horrillo and Isabel Zapico brought the Women Researchers in the State Archives project both to the GLAM Wiki Conference held in Lisbon, and to WikidataCon, in virtual format (video). Encina Villanueva and Celia Hernández, for their part, brought our perspective on the (in)visibility of lesbians on Wikipedia to the Queering Wikipedia Conference (video).

Our relationship with Wikimedia Europe deepened considerably this year. As full members of WMEU since 2025, we attended its General Assembly for the second year running (24-25 April, in Prague), with Liliana Alviárez as our representative, and we took part continuously in its capacity-building programme: the three sessions of the Masters of Grants Bootcamp, the two sessions of Is this real or AI?, and the EuroMixer: Comms meeting. This ongoing presence reflects not only our institutional commitment to WMEU, but also our drive to professionalise our capacity for project and funding management going forward.

We also took part in the Global Call: Annual Planning Around the Puzzle Globe, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Collaborations

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Beyond the major gatherings, Wikiesfera has kept up a steady presence in the Wikimedia ecosystem's working and governance spaces. In October 2025 we joined the Wikimedia Europe Strategy Working Group, and throughout the year we contributed our perspective to several movement consultations: our feedback on the Affiliations Committee/Recommendations November 2025 and on the Updating the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations consultation (both in December 2025), and our response to the Global Resource Distribution Committee's (GRDC) Funding Principles, published in February this year.

We also co-organised and took part in international movement campaigns: in January, Encina Villanueva joined the Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality project, expanding our network of contacts around GLAM work from a gender perspective, and from which an interview about our experience in this area was published on Diff, in English (Wikiesfera + GLAMs: Care and Joy) and in Spanish (Wikiesfera + GLAM: Cuidados y Diversión); in March, together with María Sefidari, we co-organised WikiFuturo 2026 (report), and we joined the global Celebrate Women 2026 campaign.

Lastly, we continued attending learning and exchange spaces both within and outside the movement: the citizen lab Del dato al acceso: sostenibilidad y gestión del conocimiento, run by the Instituto Cervantes (Madrid, 24-26 November 2025), and David Ramírez's (@Hiperterminal) presentation on The Gender Gap in Wikipedia Content Reviews, organised by EntreWikis and Wikimedia Colombia (20 September 2025).

Recognitions

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Wikiesfera, finalist of the European Digital Skills Awards 2025

European Digital Skills Awards 2025

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In October 2025, Wikiesfera was selected as a finalist in the Women in ICT Careers category of the European Digital Skills Awards, organised by the European Commission and the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform to recognise initiatives that build digital skills across Europe. This edition received 195 entries, from which 25 finalists were chosen across five categories; the prize in our category ultimately went to the Portuguese project Women Engineers for a Day.

Our category seeks to recognise efforts to increase women's participation in the technology field, and we were especially delighted to share it with other very interesting initiatives from Portugal, Italy, Cyprus and Greece. Being a finalist is, in itself, a recognition of our community's collective work to make women visible and to promote equity in digital knowledge through Wikipedia.

Wikiesfera, recognised as a "Women in Digital Champion" by WIDCON

Connecting Women in Digital (WIDCON): "Women in Digital Champion"

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In early March 2026, Wikiesfera was selected and published as a good practice under the European WIDCON (Connecting Women in Digital) project, a European Commission initiative working to close the gender gap in the digital sector. This recognition positions Wikiesfera as an example of work developing digital skills from a gender perspective, and highlights a model we have been building collectively since 2015.

The published profile describes our approach as a collaborative learning space around Wikipedia aimed at closing the gender gap in digital environments, highlighting both our lines of work (training, edit-a-thons, content generation and community-building) and the impact achieved over the years, with thousands of participants and articles created, and a growing network of collaborations with public, cultural and academic institutions.

The recognition also comes with a "Women in Digital Champion" distinction, which strengthens the European dimension of our work and opens up new opportunities for exchange with other initiatives: among them, the chance to take part in meetings, forums and future collaboration spaces with projects that, from different contexts, share the goal of moving towards a fairer, more inclusive and more diverse digital ecosystem.

Mention in RICCAP's annual report

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In March 2026, Wikiesfera was mentioned in the annual report of the Community, Alternative and Participatory Communication Research Network (RICCAP), Acciones locales de comunicación en la construcción global de la paz (Local communication actions in building global peace). RICCAP is Spain's first academic network dedicated to critical research on the Third Communication Sector (community, free, citizen and cooperative media) and the right to communication, and it gathers examples of alternative communication committed to social justice each year.

Double recognition for the Editatona de asturianas relevantes #8N

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The Notable Asturian Women Edit-a-thon, held on 8 November 2024 by Wikiesfera in coordination with the University Institute of Gender and Diversity at the University of Oviedo, received two recognitions during this period.

Under the title "Transferencia social de una investigación: Editatona Wikipedia para visibilizar el papel social de las mujeres en Asturias" (Social transfer of research: a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to make visible the social role of women in Asturias), the experience was selected by the Free University of Berlin to be included in a collection of good teaching practices with a gender and diversity perspective at higher education institutions in Spain and Latin America. The practice is now included, alongside the others selected, in the Toolbox Gender and Diversity in Teaching digital portal, an open educational resource (OER) hub of teaching materials aimed at educational transformation: the practice is explained here, within the section on interdisciplinary experiences, and in this video we describe the experience ourselves.

In addition, the same proposal was among the finalists of the Teaching Innovation Recognitions in Asturias (RID-2026), in the Inclusive School and Co-education category, which we shared with 7 other proposals. The awards were presented at a ceremony held on 5 June at the University of Oviedo.

Communication

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Newsletter

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2025 2026
Special SUMMER 2025 newsletter JANUARY 2026 newsletter
SEPTEMBER 2025 newsletter FEBRUARY 2026 newsletter
OCTOBER 2025 newsletter MARCH 2026 newsletter
NOVEMBER 2025 newsletter APRIL 2026 newsletter
DECEMBER 2025 newsletter MAY 2026 newsletter
Special END OF YEAR 2025 newsletter JUNE 2026 newsletter

Since 2023, we have sent out the Wikiesfera Newsletter in the last week of every month, to keep our community informed about the events we are organising in the weeks ahead and about news from the Wikimedia movement. We also include reports on recent activities and information about our in-person meetings, both in Madrid and in our existing nodes: Zaragoza, Vigo and Asturias (itinerant), so that anyone interested can join whenever suits them best.

The newsletter now has more than 1,100 subscribers, and everything we send out is also published on the Wikiesfera blog, in the newsletters category, so that it is accessible to people who are not subscribed and easier to share through other channels. To make it easier to follow our activities and for members of the editing community to get involved, we also include a link to our newsletters on Wikiesfera's page on Meta and on Wikipedia.

Social media

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Wikiesfera remains active on four social media platforms: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and Bluesky. As of June 2026, all active accounts have recorded steady growth in the number of followers.

Platform JUN'25 JUN'26
Instagram 1,271 1,588
LinkedIn 459 628
Bluesky 171 211
Facebook 654 659
TOTAL 2,555 3,086

Channels

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Beyond social media, we have two further distribution channels:

  • YouTube, where we gather Wikiesfera news, talks by experts, video tutorials...
  • Ivoox, where we have created one programme for the Viñetaria talks and another for guest experts, whom we record in audio whenever possible.

Press clipping

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Since it was founded in 2015, Wikiesfera has been mentioned in more than 450 items published in more than 240 media outlets, local, national and international, including print press, radio, podcasts, television and video. All of this coverage is gathered in our press clipping, which we update regularly.

Below is the detailed list of the 76 items published between July 2025 and June 2026, classified by format: print and digital press (59), radio and podcasts (9), and television and video (8).

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Radio and podcasts

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Television and video

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Governance and funding

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Governance

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Year-end assembly | 2025-12-15 | Wikiesfera office (Madrid)

We continue to answer to the Consejo de Sabias (Council of Wise Women), our advisory board, which met in two ordinary general assemblies during this period: on 15 December 2025 (year-end close) and on 29 June 2026 (first half of the year). At this latest meeting we agreed to update our internal regulations to govern the incorporation of new members to the Council, giving this process a clearer, more structured procedure.

One thing we would like to highlight from this past year is that, by having our own internally agreed codes of conduct, we were able to anticipate potential conflicts and resolve them before they escalated and had a negative impact on our community. In addition, applying our code of conduct in one particular case also strengthened confidence in Wikiesfera's internal conflict-management mechanisms, reaffirming a community that looks after the wellbeing of everyone who takes part in it.

Given the team's current situation, and anticipating a possible future transition from self-employed professionals to a more stable team of employed staff, we are developing an internal manual of roles, functions and responsibilities. In parallel, we have continued to hold strategy sessions and regular coordination spaces with everyone on the core team to review the project's progress, share needs, and strengthen team cohesion. In one of these sessions, we were also supported by an external mediator.

Wikiesfera has continued to take an active part in the governance spaces of the Wikimedia Movement, with our own feedback on the consultation on Updating the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations, on the Affiliations Committee/Recommendations from November 2025, and on the Global Resource Distribution Committee's (GRDC) Funding Principles.

Funding

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Wikiesfera office | Madrid

Our main source of financial support remains the grant we receive from the Wikimedia Foundation, which increased in 2026 compared to previous years. This increase has not been enough to make any new hires so far, but it has allowed us to increase the number of hours dedicated by the people who make up our core team. In addition, we received other grants from Spanish public bodies: from the Ministry of Culture, to launch the project on feminist free-knowledge communities in our territorial nodes; and from the Institute for Women, to strengthen our organisational structure and for a cultural project focused on making comic book authors and illustrators visible on Wikipedia.

This support has been an important boost for the development of the association and has allowed us to make structural improvements that had not previously been possible. Among them, having our own office for the first time, which has made day-to-day teamwork easier, along with holding institutional meetings and developing the WikiLearn course. Continuing this progress will depend on maintaining stable funding, in which support from the Wikimedia Foundation will keep playing a fundamental role. Separately, as part of our income-diversification strategy, we continue to work — still at an early stage — on developing donations as a further source of funding.

In conclusion, this has been a year of growth and consolidation for Wikiesfera. Alongside expanding our activities and strengthening our communities, we have devoted a significant part of our efforts to building a more sustainable organisation: strengthening our structure, professionalising processes, taking care of our team, and creating the conditions needed for the project to keep growing without losing the community-based, feminist focus that defines it. We are confident that this new stage will allow us to keep contributing to the Wikimedia Movement as an increasingly solid, sustainable organisation, ready for future challenges.

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