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As Wikimedia celebrates their 10th anniversary, it is an ideal moment to reflect on their accomplishments and commit to a path forward. Wikimedia is and will remain a decentralized movement...
From Wikipedia's press release: The annual fundraiser is how the Wikimedia Foundation pays its bills. Funds raised in this campaign will be used to buy and install servers and other...
The purpose of this translation marathon was to make content available in Maya, which is still spoken in one of its variants by 6 million people across Latin America. As for the twenty-plus...
The EPUB export feature was developed by brainbot technologies, the same company that created PediaPress, which lets you order a printed version of your custom book. Wikimedia says PediaPress is...
Starting today, Wikipedia will publish the search queries for the previous day at dumps.wikimedia.org/other/search. Today’s logs are already there, and Wikimedia plans to eventually have at least...
Crowdsourcing, it would seem, has led to corruption of the bloodstream. This hand-wringing would be particularly easy in light of a second such Wikipedian in Residence (an editor held in high...
Wikimedia acknowledges that quality, open source visual editors already exist, but dubs them inefficient for its needs because Wikipedia has to support 290 languages, some of which receive very...
According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and its sister sites receive more than 483 million unique visitors each month, making it the fifth-most popular web property worldwide. It is currently...
“There’s a huge global demand for travel information, but very few sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That’s about to change,” said Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the...
Its visual editor has been available in alpha release for English language Wikipedia users since December, and now crowdsourcing site-Wikimedia is specifically looking for help testing “more...
The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced that it has reached a settlement with new media company Internet Brands to put a stop to all litigation between the two parties concerning the creation...
The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, started by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, awarded the half-million-dollar grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs...
The Wikimedia Foundation plans to take down the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18 to protest proposed legislation currently under review in Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.
As the provider of the 5th most visited web properties in the world, Wikimedia cares deeply about who handles their domain names. They had been deliberating a move from GoDaddy for some time —...
Wikimedia has already partnered with operators like Orange, Telenor, Digi and dtac to bring free access to countries like Uganda, Malaysia, Kenya and Thailand, although some of the partnerships...
When it comes to online knowledge, Wikipedia is undoubtedly the resource that many could not do without anymore. However, without the generosity of Internet users, the encyclopedia and all other...
More than 500 million unique visitors now access crowdsourcing site-Wikipedia and other websites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikibooks, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, on a...
There are a number of metrics Wikimedia will go by to determine success, such as the following: * Increase the total number of people served to 1 billion * Increase the amount...
Wiki Loves Monuments is not finished yet – it’s a continuous project, but the contest that ran through the month of September is now over. The national juries will deliberate in the coming month...
Wikipedia was born in a free and open web, and its future and success in all parts of the world is at stake. Let’s make sure our project is as strong and free for Wikipedia Day in 2013 as it is...
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