- LikesSee All
- Wikipédia em portuguêsCommunity Organization
- The Wikipedia LibraryEducation
- Wiki Loves Monuments - SerbiaNon-Profit Organization
- The SignpostMedia/News/Publishing
- Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium/LuxembourgNon-Profit Organization
- Participants in the inaugural Wiki Loves Public Art photo contest have submitted approximately 5,000 uploads of 1,400 different public works of art to Wikimedia Commons. The contest runs throughout May in five countries, including Austria, Finland, Israel, Spain (Barcelona) and Sweden.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is starting to design "Flow," a new interface improving discussion and collaboration on Wikimedia sites like Wikipedia. You can try out the prototype, and influence its development with your feedback:
- The Spanish Wikipedia is the most recent Wikipedia to surpass the 1 million article milestone. Read more about it here:
- Aliona Bogdanova, a Russian Wikipedia editor from Moscow, helped shape her world by contributing to the free encyclopedia. She takes great pride in collaborating and sharing knowledge through Wikipedia.
- Students at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México have had a busy term adding content to Wikipedia.
- A group of WikiWomen editors recently met with a group of Italian librarians to expand articles on notable Italian women in history. Read the recap in this blog post.
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales sat down recently with the BBC's Adam Shaw on Business Horizons to discuss Wikipedia and the way the collaborative encyclopedia has changed our world. Listen to the program here:
- Wikimedia Sweden provides an update on their educational activities to encourage the use of Wikipedia in schools.
- The winner of the Wikimedia France Research Award for the most relevant academic publication about Wikimedia projects and free knowledge:
A 2006 paper by the late historian Roy Rosenzweig,comparing Wikipedia's coverage of historical topics with other resources, and encouraging academic experts to contribute to Wikipedia. - Enrollment is now open for a free online course on how to edit Wikipedia. Classes start on Tuesday.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is building capacity among program leaders in the Wikimedia movement to increase impact and improve program evaluation. See this call for participants for the Budapest conference to learn more.
- The "Universal Language Selector" can now infer the user’s location and suggest language preferences, and other news from the members of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language engineering team.
- “A Wikipédia torna explicito como o conhecimento é construído: um processo infinito e dinâmico, com opiniões confrontantes, em uma discussão vívida,” diz o professor Rafael Pezzi, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, sobre os motivos porque ele dá exercícios para seus estudantes melhorarem a Wikipédia como parte de seu curso de física.
- "Wikipedia makes it explicit how knowledge is built: a never-ending dynamic process with conflicting opinions in a lively discussion," says Professor Rafael Pezzi of Brazil about why he assigns his students to write Wikipedia articles as part of their physics coursework.
- Students minoring in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities at Rice University learn to edit Wikipedia in core classes required for graduation. Read one student's story.
- The first Wikimedia Foundation Iconathon, co-organized by The Noun Project, led to the creation of a number of icons that attempt to represent complex Wikipedia concepts like "encyclopedia worthy" and "no original research."
- University students in Egypt are sparking change in the Arabic Wikipedia.
- English Wikipedia's new Notifications system launched today to help improve interactions among contributors to the world's largest encyclopedia.
- Engaging new participants and building a diverse community isn't just a concern for Wikipedia's editing community. Wikimedia's technical community is also making efforts to be more inclusive and welcoming. Can you help us do even better?
- Wikimedia editors: We need your help testing the opt-in release of new designs for login and account creation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, before we enable them for everyone.
- Do you know about software internationalization and localization? Join the "Language Mavens" team and advise Wikimedia engineers to help them develop better language-related features.
- A dream that began in 2004 has now come true: Wikidata is a central repository of structured data that anyone can edit, for use on Wikipedia and beyond.
- Highlights der Wikimedia Foundation
Lua beschleunigt Seiten und gibt technisch orientierten Wikimedia-Mitwirkenden mehr Möglichkeiten
Mobile uploads starten für Apps im mobilen Internet
Erste Stipendien für individuelles Engagement für i...nnovative Community-Projekte vergeben
Wikipedia Zero gewinnt einen Preis und erreicht neue Nutzer
Ombudsmanntreffen - Mandatserweiterung möglich
Daten und Trends
Finanzen
Andere Highlights aus der Bewegung
Phase 2 von Wikidata wird auf Wikipedia verfügbar
Bewertung des Erfolg des "Mediagrant"-Projekts, um Naturreservate zu dokumentieren
WikiAfrika stellt physischen Platz für Wikimedia-Beiträge in Kamerun zur VerfügungSee More - This week in Language engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation: A redesigned translation home page, and an outreach program to better communicate with users around language features. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/a-new-translation-home-page-the-maven-program-and-other-updates-from-language-engineering/
- The websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, etc, now reach over 500 million people every month, according to comScore Media Metrix. In March, 517 million people visited the sites, with over 21 billion page views:
- The Kiwix app for Android lets you download the whole Wikipedia site to your device, and access its millions of articles even when you’re offline (or when you don’t want to use your data plan).
- Catch up on last month's "Wikimedia Highlights", and help non-English speakers to do so by providing a translation:
Wikimedia Foundation highlights
Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors
Mobile uploads launch... for apps and the mobile web
First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects
Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users
Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate
Data and Trends
Financials
Other movement highlights
Phase 2 of Wikidata is becoming available on Wikipedia
Evaluating the success of the "Mediagrant" project to document nature reserves
WikiAfrica offers physical space for Wikimedia contributions in CameroonSee More
