Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of September 2024. Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let askcac@wikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!

Upcoming and current events and conversations

Talking: 2024 continues

“Wikimania Katowice coverage travels around the world” – a curated list of community and media coverage of Wikimania 2024. Over 100 pieces so far have been published about the event.
WikiForHumanRights will lead a conversation about the future of the campaign with the Africa region on September 25 at 15:00 UTC.
Let’s Connect: “Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia” will take place on September 26 at 15:00 UTC.
Wikisource Conference 2025, the deadline for scholarship applications has been extended to September 29.
Big Fat Brussels Meeting 9 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from September 29–30.
WikiConference North America will be held in Indianapolis, USA from October 3–6.
WikiIndaba Conference 2024 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 4–6.
Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024): will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 4–5.
ESEAP Community Call will be held on October 6 at 07:00 UTC.
Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 is accepting submissions until October 6.
The Language and Product Localisation team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year’s plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

MediaWiki Product Insights: The latest edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
Tech News: Find out about the new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page, the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and more recent tech updates.
Wikidata Query Service: A new change to Wikidata Query Service will impact certain uses. The project will enter a transition period until the end of February 2025. For more details, visit the announcement page.
Wikimedia Enterprise: Enhanced Free API Accounts: Recurring Credits and More Frequent Updates, early beta release of Structured Contents in Snapshot API, and early beta dataset release to Hugging Face.
Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 20.
Wikipedia Mobile Apps: Over 20,000 images have been added via the “Add an Image” feature on both iOS and Android (T372954)!
Knowledge is Human: Read about ongoing work on the 2024 iteration of the “Knowledge is Human” public awareness campaign
Server Switch: A server switch was completed successfully on September 25 with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 45 seconds.