Technology

1. Community

   How we partnered with volunteers to clean up copy-paste plagiarism on Wikipedia

   

   Each year, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Tech team opens a community wishlist survey to determine what features and tools are needed most on Wikimedia sites. Last year’s survey brought a new plagiarism detection bot, among other things. What will this year’s bring? Cast your votes now.... Read more

2. Foundation

   Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer

   

   Victoria brings more than 20 years of experience leading development and strategy for complex technologies at scale. ... Read more

3. Wikipedia

   New dataset shows fifteen years of Wikipedia’s quality trends

   

   Looking to study how Wikipedia articles have improved over time? We’ve generated a dataset that tracks the quality of articles at monthly intervals over the entire 15-year history of Wikipedia across multiple languages—that’s 670 million assessments!... Read more

4. Technology

   Supporting the future of Wikidata

   

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

5. Technology

   How Wikimedia helped mobile web readers save on data

   

   Photos are a ubiquitous element of Wikipedia’s most popular and highest quality articles, and this change means that your phone will only load images as you scroll down a page, rather than on opening a page.... Read more

6. Technology

   The most popular browser

   

   Looking at the internet through the lens of Wikimedia.... Read more

7. Wikipedia

   Opening the door to a new look: improving Wikipedia.org

   

   We’ve improved the discoverability of information within the main wikipedia.org portal to make it more contemporary and easier to use. ... Read more

8. Technology

   Stripping question marks from Wikimedia searches

   

   Do you ask questions on Wikipedia? Would you like better results?... Read more

9. Foundation

   A better view of Wikipedia content on Google

   

   In collaboration with the Foundation’s Strategic Partnerships and Product teams, the Google Search team has improved how Wikipedia results look in Google’s mobile web searches.... Read more

10. Wikipedia

    Android app now offers new ways to browse Wikipedia and find trending, recommended articles

    

    The updated Wikipedia app for Android features a completely redesigned home screen, now including the explore feed, in addition to other new features and improvements.... Read more