Category: Wikimedia Foundation

Looking back on our largest annual fundraiser, we thank you for another great year.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Wikimedia Foundation are partners on a simple shared mission: connecting audiences to open knowledge, ideas, and creativity on a global scale.

"We are excited to continue to expand Wikipedia's free knowledge alongside one of the leading keepers of culture in my country," says Iván Martínez, President of Wikimedia Mexico.

A new dataset of fifteen million records documents source usage in Wikipedia by identifier and across languages.

Heather Walls, the current leader of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Communications department, and Kui Kinyanjui, an executive with over 18 years of experience in journalism and global communications, will be assuming permanent senior leadership roles as Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Communications respectively.

In celebration, and to mark the progress made, we've designated this month as Open Citations Month.

Holding workshops in person is challenging, but holding workshops for people in multiple locations is even more so. Design Researcher Abbey Ripstra and Grace Gellerman, the Manager of Program Management, explain how they approached holding a series of remote-accessible meetings.

Luc Héripret leads the Orange Foundation's work in Africa.

Our newly-released transparency report highlights the requests we received in the second half of 2017.

Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don’t give back
With contributions by: Barbara Page, FULBERT, Steve Jankowski and Tilman Bayer