Meet Baby Globe, Wikipediaโs 25th birthday mascot
Get to know the most curious globe on planet Earth
Baby Globe is finally here to celebrate 25 years of knowledge at its best. Press play for a few hints on where this fun-loving character will be showing up.
Welcome Baby Globe to your Wikipedia
Follow the instructional snapshots below to activate Baby Globe on your phone or computer. For now, you will only see Baby Globe on these Wikipedias.
Want to know all there is to know about Baby Globe?
We have been getting a lot of questions about the new mascot and Birthday mode. Here are some answers.
It is a limited-time feature on a few Wikipedias that makes celebrating 25 years of knowledge at its best even more fun. Switch on the toggle and the birthday mascot will start showing up on your Wikipedia.
For now, this feature will only be available on a few language Wikipedias: Betawi, ไธญๆ, ฤeลกtina, English, Espaรฑol, Franรงais, Bahasa Hulontalo, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Lรซtzebuergesch, Madhurรข, Nederlands, Sicilianu, เธ เธฒเธฉเธฒเนเธเธข, Tiแบฟng Viแปt and Wayuunaiki. Sign up to be notified as it rolls out to other Wikipedias.
Simply slide the Birthday mode toggle on the bottom of the page to the off position and the mascot will disappear.
Yes, we can make that happen. There is still time for different language communities to decide that they want to add this celebratory feature to their Wikipedia. Leave us a message on the project talk page and we will be in touch.
Baby Globe is a big fan of hyperlink blue, as in the blue that links together articles across Wikipedia. Bonus fact: it cannot stand missing-link red.
The backstory of Baby Globe
It all goes back to Jonathan (aka BaduFerreira) who casually doodled what would eventually become Baby Globe while he was commuting home on the train. Hear what it is like to inspire a mascot, be a Wikimedian, and more.
Celebrate Wikipediaโs 25th birthday
As of 15 January 2026, Wikipedia is officially 25. With over 65 million articles across 300+ languages, Wikipedia informs everything from day-to-day life and AI chatbots to journalism and trivia wins.
Want Baby Globe on your Wikipedia?
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Photo credits
Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards
ICFJ
Bobby Shabangu and Michaล Buczynฬski
JPC Photography and Jason Krรผger for Wikimedia
Dancing Baby Globe with Wikilove hearts
Original by BaduFerreira, adaptation by Sharon Park, Axel Kinnear and Bex McNally for the Wikimedia Foundation
Active Birthday mode on a Wikipedia page - Instructions for desktop
Wikimedia Foundation
Active Birthday mode on the Wikipedia App - Instructions for Minerva 2
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Active Birthday mode on the Wikipedia App - Instructions for Minerva 1
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Active Birthday mode on the Wikipedia App - Instructions for Minerva 3
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Baby Globe - Reading
Original by BaduFerreira, adaptation by Sharon Park, Axel Kinnear and Bex McNally for the Wikimedia Foundation
Baby Globe - Celebration confetti
Original by BaduFerreira, adaptation by Sharon Park, Axel Kinnear and Bex McNally for the Wikimedia Foundation
Baby Globe - Laptop
Original by BaduFerreira, adaptation by Sharon Park, Axel Kinnear and Bex McNally for the Wikimedia Foundation
