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| March 17 2025 | Supreme Court of India's two-judge bench reviewed WMF's plea against the Delhi High Court's article takedown order, questioning the court's decision and emphasizing press freedom. |
| January 15 2025 | Wikimedia Foundation filed a Special Leave Petition in India's Supreme Court against Asian News International and three Wikipedia editors (Mr. Daniel Quinlan, Mr. Vanamonde93, and Wikiholic), seeking to quash a Delhi High Court ruling. |
| 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation initiated a legal challenge in the United Kingdom regarding Wikipedia's categorisation under the Online Safety Act 2023. |
| 2024 | Wikimedia opened its first caching data center in São Paulo, South America. |
| 2024 | Wikimania was held in Katowice, Poland. |
| December 11 2024 | Brazil's Wikimedia chapter was established, joining the national Wikimedia chapters network. |
| November 11 2024 | An arrangement was reached in the High Court for Wikimedia Foundation to serve summons papers to involved users while protecting their privacy by disclosing email identities under sealed cover to the judge. |
| October 28 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation agreed to disclose the identifying information of online users involved in editing the ANI page. |
| October 21 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation blanked the article page about the ongoing court case and blocked editing access due to the lawsuit. |
| September 2024 | Tsai Eng-meng's lawsuit was dismissed after the court found Wikimedia Taiwan had no control over Chinese Wikipedia and did not prevent him from editing. |
| September 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation was cited for contempt of court and ordered back to court in October. |
| August 2024 | Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation case opened in Delhi High Court. |
| July 2024 | Asian News International sued Wikimedia Foundation for allegedly defamatory allegations in their English Wikipedia article, claiming they were described as a 'propaganda tool' for the Indian government. |
| January 2024 | The Supreme Court of Portugal reaffirmed its previous ruling in favor of Caesar DePaço against the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| January 2024 | Wikimedia Endowment reported to have a value of $140 million. |
| 2023 | French businessman Laurent de Gourcuff initiated litigation against the Wikimedia Foundation to force the revelation of an IP address of a French Wikipedia editor who added content he found defamatory. The WMF refused to disclose user information, resulting in repeated court fines. |
| 2023 | Wikimedia Russia chapter dissolved |
| 2023 | Wikimania returned to an in-person conference, held in Singapore, with UNESCO joining as a partner organization. |
| September 2023 | The Supreme Court of Portugal found in favor of Caesar DePaço in his lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| February 2023 | U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, effectively ending the legal challenge. |
| January 9 2023 | Wikimedia Foundation issues a statement denying all blocked users were from Saudi Arabia, while refusing to disclose specific details of their investigation findings. |
| 2022 | Wikimedia Deutschland employed over 150 people. |
| 2022 | Wikimedia Foundation announced new recipients for its 'knowledge equity grants', with plans to grow the endowment to $130.4 million in the next fiscal year and allocate funds to the knowledge equity fund for providing grants. |
| 2022 | Wikimania conference continued to be held online as a series of virtual, interactive presentations. |
| 2022 | DPLA uploaded more than two million files to Wikimedia Commons. |
| December 6 2022 | Wikimedia Foundation took action against 16 users from Arabic and Persian Wikipedia, including seven Arabic Wikipedia administrators, alleging conflict-of-interest propaganda. |
| September 2022 | Specialized Criminal Court increased Osama Khalid's sentence to 32 years on the original charges of 'dominating public opinion' and 'violating public morals' |
| July 2022 | China blocked an application by seven Wikimedia chapters to be accredited as permanent observers to WIPO, with support from Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Algeria, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela. |
| June 2022 | Google and Internet Archive were announced as the first customers of Wikimedia Enterprise, with Google being the paying customer. |
| May 2022 | At the 27th general assembly, Wikimedia Deutschland decided on a new framework of values emphasizing participation, diversity, free and open access, justice, sustainability, and respectful cooperation. |
| May 2022 | Membership of Wikimedia Deutschland exceeded 100,000 members. |
| May 2022 | Six Wikimedia movement affiliate chapters were blocked from being accredited to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights by China. |
| May 14 2022 | At the 27th general meeting, Alice Wiegand was elected as the new chairman of the honorary executive committee, succeeding Lukas Mezger. |
| May 1 2022 | Wikimedia Foundation stopped accepting cryptocurrency donations following a community vote. |
| February 2022 | ByteDance's subsidiary Baike.com denied any partnership with WMC to provide technical and financial support for Qiuwen baike. |
| January 2022 | Wikimedia Foundation begins an internal investigation into suspected 'conflict of interest editing' by users in the MENA region. |
| January 2022 | Maryana Iskander officially took over as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| 2021 | WMC threatened to report Wikipedia editors to Hong Kong's national security police hotline over the disputed article about the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. |
| 2021 | The Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC) group engaged in conflicts with Wikipedia editors from Taiwan and Hong Kong, including making death threats against their Wikimedia communities. |
| 2021 | Wikimedia Foundation faced challenges related to state-sponsored infiltration of Chinese Wikipedia, with mainland Chinese users being permitted IP block exemptions to edit content in support of the Chinese government's narrative. |
| 2021 | The legal case brought by Sorin Cerin against Romanian Wikipedia administrators concluded, with the plaintiff losing the lawsuit. |
| 2021 | Portuguese businessman Caesar DePaço sued the Wikimedia Foundation over his Wikipedia article, demanding removal of information he found defamatory, including mentions of his donation to the far-right CHEGA party. |
| 2021 | Wikimedia Foundation faced criticism for running fundraising campaigns in countries severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Argentina and Brazil, despite having substantial financial reserves. |
| 2021 | Wikimania conference was held online as a series of virtual, interactive presentations due to ongoing pandemic restrictions. |
| December 2021 | WMC member Techyan told Fast Company that a 'tech giant' was negotiating a partnership with their group, and over 40 Chinese Wikipedia editors had joined Qiuwen, which then had 200 active editors. |
| October 2021 | In a late October BBC interview, globally-banned WMC member Yan 'Techyan' Enming and 6 other users revealed plans to create a 'Chinese version of Wikipedia' representing Beijing's views, designed for mainland Chinese users to access without a VPN and under government oversight. |
| October 2021 | Wikimedia Foundation's second application to WIPO was again blocked by China for the same reason as the previous year. |
| October 26 2021 | Wikimedia Enterprise was officially launched, with Google and the Internet Archive becoming its first customers. |
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