Today, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and our eight co-plaintiffs, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a notice of appeal in Wikimedia v. NSA.

The latest release of MediaWiki, the popular open source wiki platform that powers Wikipedia, hundreds of other Wikimedia wikis, and thousands of public and private sites.

A small church in Quebec, now available for free on Wikimedia Commons thanks to an innovative collaboration between Wikipedia, museums, and education. Photo by Champlain Marcil, public domain. Wikimedia Canada, the Gatineau Center at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ Gatineau), and the Université du Québec en Outaouais…

Here are highlights from across the Wikimedia movement, as reported on this blog in November 2015: Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits; Wikimedia’s Funds Dissemination Committee—how to fairly distribute money in a global movement; Check out these new features and extensions kicked off at Google Summer of Code 2015; and more.

Happy first birthday, Maithili Wikipedia. Image from Bijay chaurasia, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Maithili Wikipedia completed its first year on 6 November 2015. To celebrate, Wikimedians of Nepal and Rajbiraj Wikimedia Community team members have organized an event to facilitate the winners of first Maithili editathon and the…

This month’s milestones include the Kongo Wikipedia, the Polish Wikisource, and Meta-Wiki.

The MedinaPedia concept aims to host workshops to improve all aspects of Wikimedia’s coverage on Tunis’ medina, including Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, or Wikidata entries.

Phragile is a tool that generates burn down charts, burn up charts and sprint oberviews for the Phabricator boards of agile software projects. Why was it developed?

The golden ceiling of a mosque in Iran, an orange and white lighthouse in Germany, the red roof of a Buddhist temple in Thailand. This year’s Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest winners glow with the colorful cultural heritage of the world. And the over 230,000 entries poured into Wikimedia projects with the help of Creative Commons licenses.

Today, Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 revealed the winners for this years photo contest including Westerheversand Lighthouse, Sacra di San Michele, Hanover’s New Town Hall, and more. The international jury’s final report will be issued in the coming weeks.