After many years of work, I’m delighted that all Wikimedia wikis now have their media player provided by Video.js. The work to replace the older Kaltura media player started during the W… | Continue reading
Since 2019, the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to create a better desktop experience for Wikipedia readers and community members, regardless of their language or location. Ou… | Continue reading
The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team is pleased to announce that we’ve launched a new status page that we’ll update during major outages to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects… | Continue reading
📆 Sessions ➕ Propose a session 👥 Participants 🏅 Outcomes 💬 Wikidata Telegram group 🗒 Discussions Welcome! The Data Reuse Days are a series of online gatherings ta… | Continue reading
Photo of the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (CC BY-2.0). The Wikimedia Foundation believes knowledge is a human right. Wikimedia projects provide channels and platforms th… | Continue reading
The Wikimedia movement is based on the idea that knowledge should be free and reusable by anyone, for any reason. There is perhaps no better example of this than the work of Annie Rauwerda and her … | Continue reading
Leon County Courthouse. Photo by Urbantallahassee, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Wikimedia Foundation wins Florida defamation case; intermediary protections effectively protect Wikipedia article On September 15… | Continue reading
The Wikimedia Foundation and DuckDuckGo recently partnered on new research to better understand the relationship between the design of search results and readership on Wikipedia. Wikipedia depends … | Continue reading
Five years ago, we launched the Wikimedia Endowment as an independent, permanent fund to support a strong future for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. That launch was preceded by years of thoughtfu… | Continue reading
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Maryana Iskander as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. Since 2013, Maryana has served as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelera… | Continue reading
Wikipedia articles are missing images, and Wikipedia images are missing captions. A scientific competition organized by the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation could help bridge this gap. The… | Continue reading
Seven exceptional Wikimedia community volunteers were recognized today at the 2021 Wikimania, the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference. | Continue reading
Since the Page Previews feature was launched in 2018, Wikipedia readers have been able to access useful context on articles without ever having to leave a Wikipedia page. Page Previews helps reader… | Continue reading
Xosema, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The interconnection between Wikipedia and Wikidata is now larger than ever. The Wikipedia Citations dataset currently inc… | Continue reading
The history of page previews. | Continue reading
Six months ago, we announced a series of desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Here is what we have been up to since then: a new search widget, improved language switching capabilities, and ano… | Continue reading
Katherine Maher Dances with Punjabi Dancers – Opening Ceremony – Wiki Conference India Hi friends, fellow Wikimedians, It has been my life’s joy and pleasure to be a part of this moveme… | Continue reading
Over the last 20 years the Wikimedia projects have grown into essential knowledge resources that are not just used by billions of people, but also by many commercial organizations that incorporate … | Continue reading
Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation my intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 15th will be my last day, marking my seven-year anniversary with th… | Continue reading
It’s Public Domain Day! Every year on January 1st, Free Content advocates all over the world celebrate the works of art that have entered into the Public Domain. Why today? Because copyright … | Continue reading
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Transparency Report is a critical part of our commitment to maintaining Wikipedia as a trustworthy and reliable resource for free knowledge. This report discloses the req… | Continue reading
Today, Wikidata reached a very visible milestone: the Item with the identifier Q100000001 has been created. That is the first nine digit identifier. Congratulations to the community, congratulation… | Continue reading
This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades… | Continue reading