Volunteers created 60 new Wikipedia articles and made nearly 700 updates to improve Wikipedia's coverage of UN and open source topics.

New York City (9 July 2026) — The Wikimedia Foundation , Wikimedia NYC , the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (UN-ODET), and the United Nations Office of Information and Communication Technology (UN-OICT) came together to host the second-ever UN “ edit-a-thon ” as part of UN Open Source Week 2026 inside the UN headquarters in New York City on 22 June 2026.

A Wikipedia edit-a-thon brings together volunteers to create and improve articles on specific topics on Wikipedia. At this event, dozens of volunteers from around the world gathered inside the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) chamber to edit Wikipedia pages about the UN and open source topics, including digital public goods , AI regulation , the Global Digital Compact , UN history, and more.…