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Watch this short video, which explains the Wikipedia Zero program, in under two minutes. Learn how (…)
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Wikimedia at FOSDEM 2015
0 Comments BY Romaine ON February 11th, 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation hosted a booth at FOSDEM 2015, the annual Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting in Brussels. (…)
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Wikimedia in Google Code-in 2014
0 Comments BY Andre Klapper ON February 10th, 2015
What happens when you combine 48 students, 30 mentors, and an endless list of tasks? During December to January, 226 Wikimedia tasks where successfully (…)
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Modernizing MediaWiki with libraries
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. (…)
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The grand adventure of the Annual Report
2 Comments BY heather walls ON January 21st, 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to release its 7th annual report. This year’s theme: knowledge is a foundation.
People do amazing things with Wikipedia. Read the 2014 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report to learn more (…)
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Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages
7 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee, Pau Giner and Amir E. Aharoni ON January 20th, 2015
Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages. This new tool makes it easy to translate articles from one language to another. It is now available as a beta feature in 8 different languages. (…)
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A more immersive mobile experience on Android devices
3 Comments BY Dan Garry ON January 15th, 2015
The Wikipedia app makes it easier to access knowledge on the go — and provides a more immersive reading experience on mobile devices. This new Android release features a more image-centric design, improved search functionality, and suggestions for further reading. (…)
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Content Translation is coming soon as a beta feature
2 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON January 10th, 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Engineering team is happy to announce a new beta version of its Content Translation tool, which aims to make it easier to translate Wikipedia articles. (…)
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How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
6 Comments BY Ori LIvneh ON December 29th, 2014
The creator of the wiki, Ward Cunningham, wanted to make it fast and easy to edit web pages. Cunningham named his software after a Hawaiian word for “quick.” That’s why the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to report that editing Wikipedia is now twice as quick. Over the last six months we deployed a new technology that speeds up MediaWiki, Wikipedia’s underlying PHP-based code. HipHop Virtual Machine, or HHVM, reduces […]
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Wikimedia Technical Operations joins the Phabricator party
0 Comments BY Quim Gil ON December 19th, 2014
The Wikimedia Foundation Technical Operations team (“Ops”) are moving their processes to phabricator.wikimedia.org, thus joining the merge of multiple developer and project management tools into a single Wikimedia technical collaboration platform. This week, we migrated 5,986 tickets from RT to Phabricator, and now most requests to Ops can be initiated…
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