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A traditional Filipino bangka outrigger canoe anchored near limestone cliffs in El Nido, Palawan at golden hour.
From the entry "Bangka (Outrigger Canoe)" — photographed off El Nido, Palawan.

Today's Picks

From the Editors' Desk — four entries worth your evening.

Hand-selected this morning by our Manila desk. No algorithm — these are the pieces our editors think every Filipino reader, researcher, or curious diaspora family member should see today.

History · People

Gabriela Silang and the Revolt of Abra, 1763

A long-overdue reassessment of the woman who led the longest sustained revolt in Spanish Philippines, drawing on newly translated primary sources from the National Historical Commission.

Edited by Dr. Rosario M. Cruz · Updated 4 days ago

Islands · Geography

The 7,641 Islands: How NAMRIA Counts the Philippine Archipelago

Our most-cited piece this year. A plain-language guide to the islands-counting methodology, the difference between "named" and "habited," and why the figure has shifted four times since 1947.

Edited by Alvin B. Reyes, MSc · Updated 2 weeks ago

Cuisine · Culture

Kare-Kare: The Slow History of a Peanut-Stewed Sunday

Tracing oxtail stew from its probable Kapampangan court origins to its present place as the de facto Sunday family dish — and why the atsuete matters more than most recipes admit.

Edited by chef-restaurateur Liza Antonio · Updated yesterday

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3,420 entries

History & Revolutionary Periods

From the Laguna Copperplate to EDSA II — chronological coverage audited against NHCP, PSA, and the National Archives of the Philippines.

Lead editor: Dr. Rosario M. Cruz (PhD, UP Diliman)

1,940 entries

Cuisine & Regional Dishes

From kare-kare to kinilaw — every dish cross-referenced to at least two printed Filipino cookbooks pre-1980.

1,610 entries

People & Biography

National heroes, regional figures, contemporary artists, scientists, and the diaspora's quiet contributors.

1,420 entries

Languages & Ethnology

175 ethnolinguistic groups, six flagship languages with parallel-entry support, and 24 with sub-articles.

7,830 entries

Culture, Arts & Society

Festivals, literature, music, faith traditions, cinema, and the everyday practices that hold them together.

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Recently Updated

Every entry on this list was reviewed within the last eighteen months.

That is the fastest refresh cycle of any Philippine reference platform — and the proof is in the bylines. Each entry below carries the editor's name and the exact date of its most recent fact-check pass.

  1. 01

    People · 20th Century

    Nick Joaquín: The Quiet National Artist

    A revised critical biography drawing on the Cultural Center of the Philippines archive and three previously unpublished interviews.

    Edited by Ana P. LimUpdated 2 days ago

  2. 02

    Geography · Islands

    Siquijor: Beyond the Mystique

    A respectful, evidence-led rewrite replacing the old folkloric frame with ethnobotanical, linguistic, and tourism-economics research.

    Edited by Alvin B. ReyesUpdated 5 days ago

  3. 03

    Cuisine · Bicol Region

    Bicol Express: From Naga Lunch Table to National Icon

    Traces the dish from the Celyrosa Kitchen in 1960s Naga to its present status, with new oral histories from the original cooks' families.

    Edited by chef Liza AntonioUpdated 11 days ago

  4. 04

    Languages · Northern Luzon

    Ilocano: A Living Language, Not a Dialect

    Sets out the linguistic and demographic case with PSA census data, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino records, and a typology of mutual intelligibility.

    Edited by Prof. Niño MancitaUpdated 18 days ago

How an Entry Earns Its Place

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Every article at WikiPhilippines passes a documented twelve-point verification workflow before publication — the only ISO 9001:2015-certified editorial process of its kind in Philippine reference publishing. No entry is published until at least two Filipino editors have signed off and at least one primary source from a recognised institution is on file.

  1. Two-Filipino rule. Authored or reviewed by at least two members of our 142-person editorial team.
  2. Primary source on file. At least one citation from NHCP, PSA, NAMRIA, or an equivalent institutional archive.
  3. Datestamp. A visible "last reviewed" date and a named editor attached to every entry.
  4. Eighteen-month ceiling. Every entry re-enters the review queue within 18 months — average is 14.
  5. No silent edits. Revision history is public; corrections are signed.
  6. Six-language parity. Flagship entries mirrored in Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Bikol, Hiligaynon, and Waray.
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General-purpose wikis collapse the Philippines into English footnotes. We don't. Every flagship entry is mirrored across six major Philippine languages, each version reviewed by a mother-tongue editor — so that a student in Cebu, a researcher in Vigan, or a diaspora family in Toronto can read about their own country on equal terms.

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The Lagman family of Project 4, Quezon City — readers of the Tagalog mirror of "Rizal."

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Academic papers citing WikiPhilippines entries since 2019

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