Our new app guidelines, based on our Trademark Policy, make it easier than ever to use Wikimedia Foundation trademarks and content in apps. The guidelines are accessible and clearly lay out practical examples for app developers to encourage innovation using Wikimedia material
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Wikimedia’s new developer-friendly trademark guidelines for apps
1 Comment BY Victoria Baranetsky ON August 28th, 2015
Wikimedia strategy consultation shows potential in mobile, rich content, and translations
0 Comments BY Terence Gilbey ON August 27th, 2015
The consultation, conducted in February and March of this year, asked users to answer two questions to help define the Foundation’s strategy and how it should respond to future trends.
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Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
2 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON August 13th, 2015
Many participants were introduced to Content Translation at Wikimania, Mexico and they created their first articles using the tool at the translation sessions.
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My life as an autistic Wikipedian
9 Comments BY Guillaume Paumier ON July 31st, 2015
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum. As I learned more about myself and the way my brain worked, I started to look at past experiences through the lens of this newly-found aspect. In this essay, I share some of what I’ve learned along the way about my successes, my failures, and many things that confused me in the past, notably in my experiences in the Wikimedia movement.
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Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
4 Comments BY John Andersson ON July 21st, 2015
Wikidata hosted a menu challenge for restaurants, around the world, to expand their menus with key information. Participants used wikidata to provided wikidata labels, translations, images and more.
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Content Translation, used in over 10,000 articles, now available on Wikipedias in all languages
1 Comment BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON July 16th, 2015
Content Translation – the new article creation tool has been enabled as a beta-feature on all Wikipedias. Logged-in users can use Content Translation to create a new article by translating from any language. A roundup of the recent developments can be seen on this blog post.
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Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT
1 Comment BY Stephen LaPorte ON July 14th, 2015
Wikipedia’s new Channel on IFTTT makes it easier than ever to share free knowledge.
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Get email updates from the Wikimedia blog
5 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON June 30th, 2015
Keep up with the latest Wikimedia news! Find out when new stories are posted on the Wikimedia blog: subscribe to our new email updates.
Here’s a quick overview on this new feature, how to sign up, and why we created it based on community feedback.
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Developers gather in France for the 2015 Wikimedia Hackathon
1 Comment BY Jean-Philippe Kmiec ON June 27th, 2015
Developers from around the world gathered last month in Lyon, France for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015. Here are some of the highlights of this edition of the annual event, which invited coders to develop new features, software and tools to make editing and reading wiki projects more enjoyable and effective.
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Annual Wikimania conference comes to Mexico City
0 Comments BY Juliet Barbara, Samantha Lien and Joe Sutherland ON June 22nd, 2015
The annual Wikimedia conference, Wikimania, will be coming to Mexico City this July 15-19, co-organized by Wikimedia Mexico and the Wikimedia Foundation. This event will gather Wikimedia volunteers and digital thought leaders to discuss access to knowledge, participation in the Wikimedia projects, and the role of Wikipedia in education.
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