Community digest: Urdu Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
On December 29, 2015, the Urdu Wikipedia community achieved a major milestone with a new article on the tiger shark.
Community, Outreach, Wikipedia Library
1 Comment BY Alex Stinson ON January 21st, 2016
The libraries community has a huge number of opportunities to help solve gaps on Wikipedia.
Read moreCommunications, Events, Global, Wikipedia
1 Comment BY Katherine Maher ON January 14th, 2016
The Wikimedia community celebrates Wikipedia and its sister projects with nearly 150 events on six continents as the Wikimedia Foundation announces an endowment to sustain Wikipedia for the future.
Read moreCommunications, Wikipedia, Year in Review
2 Comments BY Ed Erhart ON January 8th, 2016
2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.
Read more2 Comments BY Tilman Bayer ON January 7th, 2016
Teaching Wikipedia; Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
With contributions by: Piotr Konieczny, Tilman Bayer and Max Klein
Read moreCommunity, Editor engagement, Wikipedia
5 Comments BY Jeff Elder ON January 6th, 2016
Sports fans vandalize Wikipedia articles, and sports bloggers write about it—often. But what really happens behind those headlines? A vandal, an editor, and the surprisingly short lifetime of a highly publicized incident.
Read moreFoundation, Grants, Technology, The wikis
2 Comments BY Wikimedia Foundation Communications ON January 6th, 2016
Funds will support work to help people find the most relevant information on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
Read more1 Comment BY Katherine Maher ON January 5th, 2016
New Trustees bring deep financial, operational, and organizational development expertise to Wikimedia’s free knowledge mission.
Read moreChapters, Communications, Community, Education, Profiles, Wikipedia
2 Comments BY Joe Sutherland and Caitlin Cogdill ON January 4th, 2016
Sara Mörtsell, Education Manager for Wikimedia Sverige, is working to help educators and learners in Sweden understand how free and open education can work for them.
Read moreCommunity, Free Knowledge, Wikipedia, Year in Review
7 Comments BY Ed Erhart ON January 3rd, 2016
The Sydney Opera House lit in French tricolor after the November 2015 Paris attacks. In only a month and a half, this article received one of the highest edit totals of any article on the English Wikipedia in 2015. Photo by Ludopedia, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Each day,…
Read moreCommunications, Foundation, Year in Review
0 Comments BY Ed Erhart ON December 29th, 2015
Our story on John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes was one of the blog’s most popular posts of the year. Photo by TechCruch, freely licensed under CC BY 2.0. On December 15, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Victor Grigas, in collaboration with several Wikimedia community members, released #Edit2015, a look back at the wonder,…
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