Rena Takiguchi, a native of Japan, says that she would have been consumed with worry for her friends in Togo, if it were not for the Wikipedia article about the Togolese presidential election in 2010.
She learned more about this event on Wikipedia than from other sources. (...)
Rena Takiguchi learned about local politics in Togo on Wikipedia. She's pictured here in the courtyard of the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka, Japan.
"Shitennoji Temple Photo" by Amivi1, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The new European Commission is working on a copyright reform proposal this year. Here's a report on what this could mean for the Wikimedia movement.
It could solve core issues for us, if we manage to keep them in the proposal. Action required! (...)
Wikimedia sites can only show this picture of Weimar's Nietzsche Archive because German's 'Freedom of Panorama' law authorizes it. If the building was located in Belgium or France, this would be a copyright infringement.
Photo by David Wen Riccardi-Zhuneed, CC-BY-SA 4.0.
The Ukrainian Wikipedia has grown significantly since it started 11 years ago.
In this interview, Wikimedia Ukraine founder Yuri Perohanych discusses how it has changed and the challenges it faces. (...)
Ukraine Wikipedia Logo 2.0 by Wikimedia Foundation, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
5 Comments BY Gianluca Demartini ON February 3rd, 2015
To learn more about who links to Wikipedia, University of Sheffield researchers analyzed the structure of links that point to Wikipedia pages from external websites. Here’s what they found. (…)
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1 Comment BY Tilman Bayer ON February 2nd, 2015
Bot writes about theatre plays; “Renaissance editors” create better content
With contributions by: Kim Osman, Federico Leva, Tilman Bayer and Maximilian Klein.
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1 Comment BY Fabrice Florin and Tilman Bayer ON January 31st, 2015
Here are some of the top stories published on this blog in December 2014. They cover a selection of activities of the Wikimedia Foundation,as well as important events from the Wikimedia movement — from making Wikipedia twice as fast with HHVM to the winners of the Wiki Loves Earth photo contest. (…)
READ MOREHighlights, WMF monthly reports
0 Comments BY Tilman Bayer ON January 31st, 2015
Highlights from the Wikimedia blog for November 2014, covering a selection of activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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Contents
1 Data and Trends
2 Financials
3 Highlights
3.1 Beta test of HHVM
3.2 Greek Wikipedia user wins key hearing in court case
3.3 Community consultation in Brazil
3.4 Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering
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Community, Grantmaking, Grants, Programs, Wikimedia Learning
0 Comments BY María Cruz ON January 29th, 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Learning and Evaluation team invites you to help collect data about Wikimedia programs, so we can evaluate their impact. Here’s an overview about this initiative and how you can contribute. (…)
READ MOREPlatform engineering, Technology
2 Comments BY Bryan Davis, Chad Horohoe and Kunal Mehta ON January 29th, 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation is breaking up the MediaWiki software into smaller, reusable libraries which can be developed more easily and integrated into any PHP application. (…)
READ MOREChapters, Community, Education, Global, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Education Program
1 Comment BY Sara Mörtsell ON January 29th, 2015
Open badges acknowledge the skills and contributions of students and teachers using Wikipedia, in a new education program led by Wikimedia Sverige. Editing Wikipedia counts as learning! (…)
READ MORECommunications, Community, Foundation, Wikipedia
55 Comments BY Philippe Beaudette ON January 27th, 2015
The debates on Wikipedia about the Gamergate controversy have been heated. The Wikimedia Foundation believes inclusion and diversity are essential to achieving the mission of free knowledge, and that civil discourse is key to making that happen. (…)
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