Technology

1. Technology

   Introducing Montage, the web platform used to help judge the world’s largest photo competition

   

   Imagine, for a moment, organizing and judging a competition with a quarter of a million contestants. How do you prescribe a standard process without recommending standard tools, and how do you build standard tools without a standard process? This year, the international team of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) organizers set out to quash this chicken-and-egg problem.... Read more

2. Community

   Wikipedia will talk to you: Wikispeech

   

   The development of Wikispeech, a new MediaWiki extension, has started, and by 2017 Wikipedia should be able to talk to you. The project will bring together existing language resources and develop a functioning text-to-speech solution for Swedish, English and Arabic.... Read more

3. Foundation

   Brand-new template support for the content translation tool

   

   Content Translation is getting a major new feature: completely re-written support for templates, making it easier to translate templates across languages.... Read more

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Technology

   Supporting the future of Wikidata

   

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

8. 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

9. Technology

   The most popular browser

   

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

10. 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