We went to India, Nigeria, and Mexico to reach the young, mobile, and search-dependent, and found that Wikipedia brand recognition and awareness were less than 50% of surveyed participants in all three countries. In India and Nigeria, over 75% of participants said they had never heard of Wikipedia.... Read more

Kiwix, an open source software which allows users to download a copy of Wikipedia in its entirety for offline reading, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month.... Read more

The value of Wikipedia in the news was proved in Estonia last month during the country’s presidential election.... Read more

Gareth Owen has been on Wikipedia since its inception. He tells us about his contributions and how Wikipedia has changed over the years.... Read more

Selected from a field of thirteen applications, the projects focus on software, offline outreach, and research.... Read more

Rori, an artist in St. Louis, received a Facebook message from someone she doesn’t know a few weeks ago. The note urged her to draw a portrait of someone named Azucena Villaflor.... Read more

This Friday, Wikipedians around the world will gather for #Wikinobel 2016—a collaborative effort to ensure that as many Wikipedias as possible have an article on this year’s Peace Prize laureate.... Read more

The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development.... Read more

“Electricity was generated in these enormous, beautifully designed cathedrals … modern temples to worship a new sort of power.”... Read more