On Saturday, April 29, Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey. If it remains, this block will result in millions of people in Turkey losing access to free knowledge about their country and the world around them. We believe knowledge is a fundamental human right and urge the Turkish government to remove this block.... Read more
Technology
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Wikimedia Foundation urges Turkish authorities to restore access to Wikipedia
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Editing will temporarily pause for a failover test
We are planning a test to find out how quickly and reliably we can transfer all application server traffic and tightly coupled service dependencies to the secondary data center. During this, Wikimedia sites will be placed in read-only mode for two short periods.... Read more
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Share your photography with the world with the newly improved Wikimedia Commons Android app
The second version of the Wikimedia Commons Android app has been released; the app now has several new features alongside improvements and multiple bug fixes.... Read more
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Search: all of the new bright and shiny objects
We’re starting to test out some really cool features that will enable some fun and fascinating clicking—down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia.... Read more
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Wikimedia REST API hits 1.0
Wikimedia’s content and metadata in machine-readable formats, at scale.... Read more
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How we know what we know: The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research
The Wikimedia Foundation and more than 60 other organizations and scholarly publishers announce the I4OC initiative, making scholarly citation data freely available for anyone to access and reuse.... Read more
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Alangi Derick: Wikimedia’s first African contributor to Google Summer of Code
Alangi Derick is Wikimedia’s first African participant in Google Summer of Code. He joined the movement to develop his skills in coding, and he was quickly hooked by the movement’s values and its community culture, becoming a staunch advocate for it in his university.... Read more
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Looking back on the 2017 Wikimedia Developer Summit
Taking place on January 9–11 at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco, California, the summit featured 179 participants from 30 countries.... Read more
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Announcing Keyholder: Secure, shared shell access
The new software is a ssh-agent proxy that allows a group of trusted users to share an SSH identity without exposing the contents of that identity’s private key.... Read more
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Get live updates to Wikimedia projects with EventStreams
Our new public service that exposes live streams of Wikimedia projects is already powering several visualizations, like DataWaltz.... Read more
