This past September 27 is World Tourism Day, established by United Nations World Tourism Organization (formerly the World Tourism Organization). This day marks the handover between the high tourism seasons of the northern and southern hemispheres, and it is also the day on which the statutes of the World Tourism Organization were adopted. A Wikinews reporter interviewed the Russian traveller Viktor Pinchuk; in the following Q&A we talk about insights and experiences from the road.

Andriy Parubiy, who served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 14 April 2016 to 29 August 2019, was assassinated in Lviv on August, 30.

On September 18, 2024, at 13:29 UTC the Russian Wikipedia for the first time in history recorded two million articles. A contributor Pessimist2006 wrote about this in a new thread on the Russian Wikipedia users' forum, which is part of the wiki alongside the main, encyclopedic content. Contributor and administrator Insider created a new version of the website logo to celebrate the achievement. The logo is the Wikipedia unfinished puzzle globe in golden color and with a banner containing the number "2 000 000" in front of it. As of September 24, the Russian Wikipedia's home page reports 2000853 articles.

On 14 August, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), due to its potential for wider transmission of mpox (monkeypox). Since mpox – an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus – can be particularly severe in children and pregnant women, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) agreed with WHO: on 31 August UNICEF issued emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries.

Annual conference of Wikipedians (Wikimedians) of Central and Eastern Europe — Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 — was held in Tbilisi. The organizer was the Georgian user group. The conference venue was Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the oldest in the country. At the conference, Wikimedia Foudation's “Universal Code of Conduct”, “Youth Safety Policy” and “Data privacy policy” were in force.