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Background

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WikiPortraits is a project working on capturing high-quality photographs of people for Wikimedia Commons through outreach and event coverage. It formally launched in the United States in 2024 and has since grown into a global initiative supported by a network of volunteer photographers around the world.

Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, rely on freely licensed images. This creates a persistent challenge for photographing notable people, since only a small number of photographers and outlets both have event access and publish their images under free licenses. As a result, a large number of Wikipedia biographies still have low-quality images or no photo at all. This gap has been recognized for years and even covered by major media, including the New York Times article "Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It's a Desert for Photos" (2009).

One of the most effective ways to gather freely licensed photos of notable individuals at scale is to go where they already are: festivals, awards ceremonies, conferences, and other events. However, attending these events as a photographer typically requires press credentials and, depending on the event, travel and lodging. While professional photo agencies and media organizations have established pathways to obtain access, individual independent photographers — including Wikimedia volunteers — often face barriers.

Over the years, a number of Wikimedians and Wikimedia affiliates have attended events as press. Independent photographers such as David Shankbone and Gage Skidmore have have a long history of event coverage and freely licensing their photos. A number of Wikimedia affiliates have led initiatives, including Wikimedia Deutschland's annual coverage of the Berlin Film Festival and Festivalsommer; the Wikimedia Ghana User Group's 500 Notable Ghanaians Campaign; Wikimedia Sverige's coverage of events including Eurovision; and Wikimedia España's coverage of the Goya Awards and other festivals.

A broader overview of these efforts is documented at Wiki Covers Events on Meta-Wiki.

WikiPortraits was created in early 2024 to build on this foundation by providing a more coordinated, international effort to support Wikimedia photographers in covering events and photographing notable people, particularly in regions who do not have an existing affiliate to support their efforts. WikiPortraits also serves as a recruitment engine to bring new photographers into the Wikimedia Commons community.

Introduction

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This report covers WikiPortraits activities throughout 2025. The next few sections cover top-level information and projects, followed by a summary of just a portion of our event coverage.

Top-level stats

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2025 events covered180+
2025 event photos42,000
Total photo views2,000,000,000+
New contributors100+

Throughout 2025, WikiPortraits photographers have covered over 180 events. These range from significant international events (Eurovision, Nobel Prizes, Cannes Film Festival), to indigenous festivals (Riddu Riđđu, Márkomeannu, Santa Fe Indian Market), to journalism events (Knight Media Forum, National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention), to sporting events (World Figure Skating Championships, Ryder Cup, EuroBasket Women), and much much more. Our coverage by event type can be explored at Category:WikiPortraits by event type.

WikiPortraits has over 42,000 images from 2025 events (with some repitition through crops). In 2025, these images have already received over 1,000,000,000 views through their use across Wikimedia projects (with our most viewed subject being Lionel Messi). If we also count the <7,000 photos from our 2024 event coverage, our media has been viewed over 2,000,000,000 times across Wikimedia projects. Through external use of our freely licensed media, the total viewership can be expected to be much higher.

Geography

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Photographer countries35+
Photographer U.S. states24
Map

Through the end of 2025, WikiPortraits's network of photographers spans countries across all continents except Antarctica. In South America, we have photographers from Argentina, Peru, and Brazil; in North America, the United States, Canada, and Mexico; in Europe, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom; in Africa, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Tunisia; in Asia, Armenia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Philippines, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Tunisia; and in Oceania, Australia and New Zealand. Our reach demonstrates our dedication to being a global effort, and to help Wikimedians in countries and regions where they may not have an existing affiliate that can help them obtain press credentials.

In the United States, WikiPortraits has photographers from just under half (24) of the states. We have a soft goal of growing our network to include at least one photographer in every state, enabling us to cover events on a truly nationwide and economical scale, no matter how local.

Newcomers

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Through 2025, WikiPortraits onboarded over 130 individuals to the Wikimedia Commons. Combined with the 19 individuals we onboarded in 2024, we have collectively onboarded 150 new contributors to Wikimedia. We've tracked these editors through our 2025 dashboard.

Through the end of 2025, these newcomers have collectively contributed the following:

  • 55,000+ edits across all projects
  • 21,900+ Commons uploads
  • 385 articles created on the English Wikipedia
  • 6,200+ edits across Wikipedia projects
  • 580,000+ words added across Wikipedia projects
  • 5,800+ references added to articles
  • 123 Wikidata items created

Our pipeline shows that we not only onboard photographers for Commons, but that a portion of our newcomers continue on to contribute to other projects, including Wikipedia and Wikidata. Our photographers not only edit these projects to add WikiPortraits photos, but also help improve and even create articles.

With the community's concern for declining active editors, we believe that leaning into Commons and recruiting external photographers to contribute can be an effective way to bring new contributors to the movement.

Collaborations

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WikiPortraits had the fortune of being able to collaborate with a number of Wikimedia affiliates to cover events around the world.

Software

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Through 2025, WikiPortraits has leaned into developing new software tools to help both WikiPortraits photographers and the broader Commons community. Much of our work has been to help solve challenges we've discovered through onboarding dozens of photographers to Commons.

Tools we've developed in 2025 include:

A sample screenshot of the Commons Gallery website, showing photos from one of our photographers at TIFF
  • commons.gallery, a new web platform that allows Wikimedia Commons users to set up beautiful, sleek portfolios that more closely resemble dedicated portfolio sites like Flickr. While Wikimedia Commons users can set up galleries on-wiki, the experience lives within the text-first MediaWiki interface and the galleries aren't easily discoverable. Our mission with commons.gallery is to provide a dedicated, modern, media-first interface to showcase and share work. So far we've had over 90 users create over 400 albums of photos. This is not just WikiPortraits photographers, but other Wikimedia Commons photographers, Wikimedia affiliates, and Wikimedians in residence setting up albums for their institutions. This project was funded by Wikimedia CH.
  • A WikiPortraits onboarding portal that guides users through the registration process, including having them select an unproblematic username; setting up their userpage; and setting their desired attribution name.
  • A WikiPortraits template generator to help our photographers create WikiPortraits templates and categories to mark their photos with.

A software developer in our community has also started building a custom upload portal that would not only allow users to batch-upload photos with consistent naming and descriptions per event, but will also take care of automatically creating Wikidata items when needed, to better utilize Structured Data on Commons. We expect that upload tool to be available to our photographers later this year.

Third-party usage

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Free licensing enables anyone to use WikiPortraits photos, and as a result, WikiPortraits photos have reach far beyond the Wikimedia projects. WikiPortraits photos have been used by dozens of publications all around the world.

A number of publications through 2025 utilized WikiPortraits media. A small sample follows:

We've also seen WikiPortraits photos get relatively frequent use in student newspapers:

Media coverage

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In early 2025, 404 Media, an independent reporter-owned news publication that focuses on tech and the internet, interviewed WikiPortraits organizers and photographers. On March 10, they published an article, "Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits". This article made the rounds between 404's readers and social media, and we had an influx of interested photographers writing in to join.

Screenshot of WikiPortraits coverage in BBC

Following 404's coverage, the BBC reached out to us, and on March 28, they published an article, "Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures", as well as being discussed on the radio (link, starting at 14:55). This caused an even greater flurry of interested photographers, with over 100 volunteers from all over the world reaching out. We worked arduously to onboard them by getting them to set up Wikimedia accounts, helping them upload their first photos onto Commons, and working with them to get credentialed for local events.

Around this time, we received additional coverage from PetaPixel, Radio France, Phoblographer, Fast Company, Engadget, and PC Mag, among others.

In June 2025, Die Zeit published an article, "Der Text ist top, das Bild ein Blob" (The text is great, the image is a blob). Harald Krichel, a WikiPortraits photographer from Germany, was interviewed.

Communication

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The WikiPortraits poster at Wikimania 2025

In late 2025, WikiPortraits was able to place more resources towards increasing our social media and communications. We increased our Instagram following and have gained several hundred followers through 2025. We also launched the WikiPortraits Blog, to give our community and fans updates on our coverage, as well as provide helpful information and tips regarding press photography.

The WikiPortraits community also presented at several conferences, including:

We also showcased commons.gallery, the portfolio platform built by WikiPortraits with funding from Wikimedia CH:

  • WikiPortraits at WCNA 2025
    WikiPortraits at WCNA 2025
  • WikiPortraits poster at Wikimania 2025
    WikiPortraits poster at Wikimania 2025
  • Some of the WikiPortraits team at Wikimania 2025
    Some of the WikiPortraits team at Wikimania 2025

Film events

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Sundance Film Festival

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DatesJan 23 - Feb 2
Photographers?
Photos1,105
2025 media views77,000,000
Most viewed photoJennifer Lopez
Files used on Wikipedia232
Wikipedia articles illustrated1,034
Articles newly illustrated306
Wikidata items illustrated259
Languages using files84

Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United States, starting in January and "kicking off" the annual major film festival circuit. Sundance is special to us as it is the first event we got wiki-photographers credentialed to in 2024, before WikiPortraits was even called WikiPortraits!

At Sundance, our photographers were able to cover dozens of photocalls for film premieres, predominately featuring independent filmmakers from around the world.

WikiPortraits Studio

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Photographers?
Photos850

WikiPortraits hosted a public portrait studio, inviting festival attendees to get a free portrait taken and learn more about Wikimedia and free licensing. Several attendees had Wikipedia articles that have been illustrated.


Berlinale

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DatesFeb 13 - Feb 23
Photographers?
Photos173
2025 media views100,000,000
Most viewed photoTimothée Chalamet
Files used on Wikipedia89
Wikipedia articles illustrated611
Articles newly illustrated?
Wikidata items illustrated40
Languages using files85
  • Anna Thalbach
    Anna Thalbach
  • Fan Bingbing
    Fan Bingbing
  • Coralie Fargeat
    Coralie Fargeat
  • Gizem Emre
    Gizem Emre
  • Robert Pattinson
    Robert Pattinson
  • Jacob Elordi
    Jacob Elordi

Málaga Film Festival

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DatesMarch 14 - 23
Photographers1
Photos1,032
2025 media views13,300,000
Most viewed photoNicole Wallace
Files used on Wikipedia294
Wikipedia articles illustrated1,211
Articles newly illustrated240
Wikidata items illustrated825
Languages using files65

The Málaga Film Festival is an annual Spanish film festival focused on Spanish and Ibero-American cinema.

New Directors/New Films

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DatesApril 2 - 13
Photographers?
Photos20

New Directors/New Films Festival is a film festival co-hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, showcasing films from first time and rising filmmakers.

New York African Film Festival

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DatesMay 7 - 31
Photographers?
Photos59

The New York African Film Festival is an annual film festival showcasing contemporary cinema from Africa and the diaspora.

Cannes Film Festival

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DatesMay 13 - 24
Photographers9
Photos1,466
Files used on Wikipedia499
Wikipedia articles illustrated3,045
Articles newly illustrated579
Wikidata items illustrated479
Languages using files130
Several of our WikiPortraits photographers in black tie, per the carpet dress code

The Cannes Film Festival is a large international film festival in southern France, labelled as the "most prestigious" film festival in the world. WikiPortraits received red carpet access for the first time (with black tie required, as pictured!).

Seattle International Film Festival

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DatesMay 15 - 25
Photographers?
Photos115

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) focuses on independent and foreign films, as well as documentaries.

Tribeca Festival

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DatesJune 4 - 15
Photographers2
Photos427

The Tribeca Festival is a major film festival held in New York City, founded in 2002 to revitalize lower Manhattan after September 11. This was the first year WikiPortraits covered the festival, and we captured red carpets and photo calls at 27 events.

Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival

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DatesAug 1 - 9
Photographers4
Photos122

The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival celebrates films by and about people of African descent. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, AfroCROWD provided support and funding for WikiPortraits to cover this festival.

Locarno Film Festival

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DatesAug 6 - 16
Photographers5
Photos959

The Locarno Film Festival was a major film festival founded in 1946, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

Venice Film Festival

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DatesAug 27 - Sept 6
Photographers3
Photos657
WikiPortraits Photographers for the 82nd Venice Film Festival in 2025

The Venice Film Festival is the world's oldest film festival, held annually on the island of Lido in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most prestigious film festivals alongside Cannes and Berlin. WikiPortraits sent three photographers (Harald Krichel, Colleen Sturtevant, and LucaFazPhoto).

Telluride Film Festival

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DatesAug 29 - Sept 1
Photographers4
Photos109

Telluride Film Festival is a significant but more relaxed film festival in the San Juan Mountains. There are no red carpets and limited press presence. However, it is still a great opportunity to photograph talent, particularly through public panels and Q&As.

Toronto International Film Festival

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In collaboration withWikimedia Canada
DatesSept 4 - 14
Photographers?
Photos936

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the largest public film festivals in the world. This is a key event in WikiPortraits' calendar due to the scale and international slate of films, and provides an opportunity for us to onboard and include new WikiPortraits photographers (particularly those based in Toronto). Given TIFF has over 100 red carpets and photocalls each year, it provides a unique opportunity to efficiently photograph film creatives from all around the world.

For TIFF 2025, we had a total of 13 photographers. Five of our photographers were first-time WikiPortraits contributors and five of which are local to Toronto (3 were both local and new to WikiPortraits!). Another two photographers have done an event or two for WikiPortraits earlier in the year, but were still overall new to contributing.

Together, our photographers covered the photocalls for over 100 films (only missing a tiny handful!). Other than the official festival in-house photography partner, we are likely the outlet who covered the most films. We also had photographers schedule private photo sessions with some talent, providing another avenue for even higher quality portraiture of notable individuals. Our work at TIFF displays our dedication to covering the full slate of talent, from local to international, from famous celebrities to new creatives.

Busan International Film Festival

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WikiPortraits photographer Dillon Sachs at the closing ceremony
DatesSept 17 - 26
Photographers5
Photos149

The Busan International Film Festival is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia, held annually in Busan, South Korea.

Zurich Film Festival

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DatesSept 25 - Oct 5
Photographers1
Photos614

The Zurich Film Festival is an annual international film festival held in Zurich, Switzerland.

New York Film Festival

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DatesSept 26 - Oct 13
Photographers4
Photos559

The New York Film Festival is an annual film festival presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, known for showcasing some of the year's most acclaimed international films. This was our 2nd year covering the festival, and WikiPortraits was able cover over 80% of the red carpet premieres.

Valladolid International Film Festival

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DatesOct 24 - Nov 1
Photographers1
Photos386

The Valladolid International Film Festival (SEMINCI) is one of the oldest film festivals in Spain, held annually in Valladolid.

Red Sea Film Festival

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DatesDec 4 - 13
Photographers4
Photos1,210

The Red Sea Film Festival is an international film festival launched in 2019 and held annually in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This is one of WikiPortraits's first major events covered in the Middle East.

Spanish Film Academy Awards (Goya Awards)

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DateFeb 8
Photographers1
Photos406

The Goya Awards are the Awards given by the Spanish Film Academy each year.

Journalism events

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Knight Media Forum

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Dates???
Photographers1
Photos75

The Knight Media Forum is an event focused on journalism and media innovation.

National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention

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Dates???
Photographers2
Photos726
2025 media views155,000

We set up a portrait studio at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention, the largest gathering of Latino journalists and media professionals in the United States.

New York Climate Week

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos59

New York Climate Week is an annual event bringing together climate leaders, activists, and innovators to discuss climate action.

New White House Correspondents Reception

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Dates1
Photographers?
Photos26

The New White House Correspondents Reception is an event for journalists and media professionals.

Literature events

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Jaipur Literature Festival

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DatesJan 30 - Feb 3
Photographers4
Photos110

The Jaipur Literature Festival is an annual literary festival held in Jaipur, India.

AWP 2025

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DatesMar 26 - 29
Photographers5
Photos537

The AWP Conference & Bookfair brings together writers, teachers, and others in the industry. The 2025 event took place in Los Angeles. We sent photographers to panels, took portraits, and also set up a temporary photo booth with the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

LA Times Festival of Books

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DatesApr 26–27
Photographers2
Photos454

The LA Times Festival of Books is an annual event held at the University of Southern California, one of the largest book festivals in the United States.

Bay Area Book Festival

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DatesMay 31-June 1
Photographers1
Photos296

The Bay Area Book Festival is an annual literary event held in Berkeley, California.

Edinburgh International Book Festival

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DatesAug 9 - 24
Photographers?
Photos107

The Edinburgh International Book Festival takes place in August and has been described as "the largest festival of its kind in the world". It overlaps with the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We originally discovered the event in 2024 when covering the Festival Fringe, and their overlap makes Edinburgh an important and efficient place for us to photograph talent.

National Book Festival (U.S.)

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DatesSept 6
Photographers?
Photos48

The National Book Festival is an annual literary event sponsored by the Library of Congress and held in Washington, D.C.

Frankfurt Book Fair

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DatesOct 15–19
Photographers6
Photos360
2025 media views3,000,000
Most viewed photoNelio Biedermann
Files used on Wikipedia110
Wikipedia articles illustrated324
Articles newly illustrated?
Wikidata items illustrated103
Languages using files48


The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, held annually in Frankfurt, Germany.

  • Simone Barrientos
    Simone Barrientos
  • Abdullah Zeneli
    Abdullah Zeneli
  • Stephanie Marie Coo
    Stephanie Marie Coo
  • Hasan Özdemir
    Hasan Özdemir
  • Nelio Biedermann
    Nelio Biedermann
  • Mahtab Yaghma
    Mahtab Yaghma
  • Iris Radisch
    Iris Radisch

Historical Novel Society North America Conference

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DatesJun 26 - 28
Photographers?
Photos69

The Historical Novel Society is an international literary society with geographic conferences around the word.

National Book Awards (U.S.)

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DatesNov 19
Photographers?
Photos44

The National Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards presented by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding books in the United States.

Queenscliffe Literary Festival

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DatesOct 24 - 26
Photographers1
Photos73

The Queenscliffe Literary Festival is a yearly literary festival held in Queenscliff, a seaside town in southern Australia. This was WikiPortraits' first coverage in Australia, with one roaming photographer attending the festival to photograph events and talks.

San Diego Writers Festival

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DatesApr 1 - 30
Photographers1
Photos152

The San Diego Writers Festival is a one day, yearly event held in Coronado, California. This was WikiPortraits' first coverage at this festival.

Sierra Poetry Festival

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DatesApr 1 - 30
Photographers1
Photos104

The Sierra Poetry Festival is a yearly, month-long poetry festival held in multiple venues across Nevada County, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. This was WikiPortraits' first coverage at this festival, with one roaming photographer attending the festival to photograph events and talks.

True crime festival (Arendal, Norway)

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DatesAug 29–30
Photographers1
Photos96

The True Crime festival is a yearly literary festival held in Arendal, a seaside town in southern Norway. The local photographer attending, Birgit Fostervold, also updated Wikipedia articles, created Wikidata entries and Commons categories for several presenters, and wrote a paragraph about this type of event in the general True crime article.

Kraft Literary Festival

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DatesSep 12–13
Photographers1
Photos51

The Kraft Literary Festival is a yearly literary festival held in Arendal, a seaside town in southern Norway. The local photographer attending, Birgit Fostervold, also updated the Wikipedia articles for several presenters and the festival's article.

Music events

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Individual concerts

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WikiPortraits photographers throughout several countries covered a variety of concerts.

Inferno Metal Festival

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DatesApr 17–20
Photographers1
Photos24

The Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival held in Oslo, Norway. The attending photographer, Birgit Fostervold, is a house photographer with the festival and also uploads photos to Commons. Several musicians have gained new portraits for their Wikidata/Wikipedia pages, and the festival's article has been significantly expanded in both Norwegian and English.

Eurovision

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DatesMay 13 - 17
Photographers3
Photos1,064
2025 media views7,500,000
Most viewed photoTommy Cash

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international music competition held among member countries of the European Broadcasting Union. The 2025 contest was held in Basel, Switzerland. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, Wikimedia CH supported WikiPortraits coverage of this event.

Great Escape Festival

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DatesMay 13 - 17
Photographers?
Photos152
2025 media views75,000
Most viewed photoGordi

The Great Escape Festival is an annual music festival held in Brighton, England, showcasing new and emerging artists.

Tons of Rock

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In collaboration withWikimedia Norge
DatesJun 25-28
Photographers1
Photos434
2025 media views4,500,000
Most viewed photoRivers Cuomo

Tons of Rock is a 4-day annual rock and metal festival held in Oslo, the capital of Norway. The attending photographer, Birgit Fostervold, covered nearly all the concerts and made significant updates to the festival's Wikipedia articles in Norwegian and English. Wikimedia Norge contributed with a travel grant.

Istanbul Jazz Festival

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DatesJuly 1 – 17
Photographers?
Photos542

The Istanbul Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Moldejazz

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DatesJuly 14 - 19
Photographers?
Photos68

Moldejazz is an annual jazz festival held in Molde, Norway. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, Wikimedia Norge provided funding for WikiPortraits to cover this event.

Newport Jazz Festival

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DatesAugust 1 - 3
Photographers?
Photos17

The Newport Jazz Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious jazz festivals in the world, held annually in Newport, Rhode Island.

Kristiansand Jazzfestival

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DatesAugust 21-23
Photographers1
Photos107

The Kristiansand Jazzfestival is a new jazz festival in the coastal town of Kristiansand, Norway, held for the first time in 2025. The attending photographer, Birgit Fostervold, was also the festival's house photographer. Several musicians received new portraits for their Wikidata/Wikipedia pages, and an article about the festival was created. The article later received a "Good Article" badge.

Punkt Festival

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DatesSep 4-6
Photographers1
Photos102

Punkt Festival is an annual event for international experimental music, held in Kristiansand, Norway. The attending photographer, Birgit Fostervold, covered two of the three festival days. The attendance enabled significant updates to the festival's Wikipedia articles in Norwegian and English, and updated portraits for 11 participating musicians' Wikidata/Wikipedia articles across several language versions. Norway's most prominent jazz magazine, salt peanuts*, was provided with photos through direct arrangement with its writer.

Southern Discomfort Metal Festival

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DatesOct 10-11
Photographers1
Photos189

Southern Discomfort is an annual festival for heavy metal held in Kristiansand, Norway. Our attending photographer, Birgit Fostervold was there as a house photographer and also uploaded her photos to Commons. Several bands got new infobox images and the festival's Wikipedia article was updated with text and images.

Brisa Festival

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DatesJuly 23-25
Photographers1
Photos160

Brisa Festival It is a Spanish indie, pop and rock music festival held in Málaga

Sports events

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Major League Soccer

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WikiPortraits covered several Major League Soccer (MLS) matches throughout the 2025 season, photographing professional soccer players at venues across the northeastern United States.

  • New York Red Bulls v Atlanta United FC, 31 May 2025
  • New York City FC v Atlanta United FC, 12 June 2025
  • New England Revolution v Nashville SC, 25 June 2025
  • CF Montréal v New York City FC, 28 June 2025
  • New England Revolution v Inter Miami CF, 9 July 2025
  • New York City FC v DC United, 30 August 2025
  • New York City FC v Charlotte FC, 20 September 2025
  • New York City FC v Inter Miami CF, 24 September 2025
  • New York City FC v Seattle Sounders FC, 18 October 2025
  • Philadelphia Union v Chicago Fire FC, 26 October 2025
  • Philadelphia Union v New York City FC, 23 Novemberber 2025

National Women's Soccer League

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WikiPortraits covered several National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) matches throughout the 2025 season, with a focus on Gotham FC home games. WikiPortraits was also able to cover a United States Women's National Team game against Italy in November.

  • Gotham FC v San Diego Wave, 16 May 2025
  • Gotham FC v Bay FC, 21 June 2025
  • Gotham FC v Utah Royals, 23 August 2025
  • Gotham FC v Angel City FC, 7 September 2025
  • Gotham FC v Portland Thorns FC, 26 September 2025
  • Gotham FC v Racing Louisville FC, 19 October 2025

Ryder Cup

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos193

The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The 2025 edition took place at Bethpage Black Golf Course in New York.

Miami Open

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos40

The Miami Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Miami Gardens, Florida.

World Figure Skating Championships

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos55

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition organized by the International Skating Union.

World Women's Handball Championship

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DatesNov 26 - Dec 1
Photographers1
Photos150

The World Women's Handball Championship is an international handball competition organized by the International Handball Federation.

The 2025 IHF Women’s Handball World Championship was the 27th edition of the tournament, co-hosted by Germany and the Netherlands. During the preliminary round from November 26 to December 1, Stuttgart's Porsche Arena hosted the matches for Groups C and G, where photographers from WikiPortraits captured the players and coaches.

Indigenous events

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Márkomeannu

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos48

Márkomeannu is an annual indigenous peoples' festival held in Ájluokta, Norway. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, Wikimedia Norge provided funding for WikiPortraits to cover this event.

Riddu Riđđu

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos389

Riddu Riđđu is an annual indigenous music and cultural festival held in Kåfjord, Norway. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, Wikimedia Norge provided funding for WikiPortraits to cover this event.

Santa Fe Indian Market

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos582

The Santa Fe Indian Market is an annual art market held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, showcasing Native American art and artists.

Pride

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Durham Pride

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Durham Pride is an annual LGBTQ+ pride festival held in Durham, England.

Comedy

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La Dernière

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La Dernière is a French comedy show.

Conferences and tech events

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SXSW 2025

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DatesMar 7 - 15
Photographers?
Photos1,048

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conference and festival held in Austin, Texas, covering film, music, technology, and culture.

Essence Festival

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DatesJuly 3 – 6
Photographers?
Photos628

The Essence Festival is an annual music and culture festival celebrating African American culture and music, held in New Orleans. As mentioned in the Collaborations section, AfroCROWD provided support and funding for WikiPortraits to cover this festival.

TED2025

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos28

TED is an annual conference focusing on innovation and ideas worth spreading, covering topics in technology, entertainment, and design.

Consumer Electronics Show 2025

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Dates???
Photographers?
Photos27

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual trade show held in Las Vegas showcasing new consumer electronics and technology.

Civic events

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Oslo Freedom Forum

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DatesMay 26 - 28
Photographers?
Photos12

The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual conference focused on human rights and freedom, bringing together activists, dissidents, and freedom fighters from around the world.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference

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DatesSept 24 - 28
Photographers?
Photos67

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference is a major gathering of African American leaders, policymakers, and community members in Washington, D.C.

Art

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Art Basel

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In collaboration withWikimedia CH
DatesJune 19 - 22
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Photos553

Other performing arts

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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DatesAug 1 - 25
Photographers10
Photos259

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's largest performing arts festival running through the majority of August. It features a variety of performances from over 60 countries. Types of performances include theater, comedy, dance, circus, cabaret, musicals, opera, music, spoken word, and more.

Wikimedia events

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Wikimania

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DatesAug 6 - 9
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Photos259

Wikimania is the annual conference of the Wikimedia community, bringing together Wikimedians from around the world.

WikiConvention Francophone

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DatesOct 4 - 5
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Photos131

WikiConvention Francophone is an annual gathering of French-speaking Wikimedians and communities.

WECUDI

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DatesOct 29 - 31
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Photos121

The Second International Congress Wikimedia, Education and Digital Cultures (WECUDI) was organized by Wikimedia México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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