New Wikipedia feature gives you the power to choose whatever language you want
A new feature makes it easier for English-speaking Wikipedia readers to find versions of the article they’re reading in other languages. To mark the occasion, Amir Aharoni of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team details the history of interlanguage links on Wikipedia and details what went into the new feature.
Wikimedia releases eighth transparency report
Our newly-released transparency report highlights the requests we received in the second half of 2017.
On Wikipedia, Black Panther won the Olympic gold
Black Panther was far and away the most-viewed article on Wikipedia last month.
Oscars predictions made easy with Wikipedia
On how to use Wikipedia's pageview data to inform your Oscars predictions.
The Erdős paradox: When a mathematical number and Wikipedia collide
An interview with the author of a recent Medium piece on mathematician Paul Erdős, the mathematical degree of separation that his collaborations inspired, and Wikipedia's gender gap.
You can now translate Wikipedia articles from Spanish into Basque, thanks to an open source machine learning tool
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language team worked with a team from the University of the Basque Country and the Elhuyar Foundation to make it easier to translate Wikipedia articles from Spanish into Basque.
You can now upload 3D models to Wikimedia Commons
We've enabled a new feature that allows you to upload three dimensional (3D) models.
“Visual diffs” make it easier to see editing changes on Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation's Editing team announces the launch of visual diffs, which will let users visually review the changes made to Wikimedia sites without requiring knowledge of the wikitext markup language.
Why the theme for Wikimania 2018 will be "Bridging knowledge gaps—the ubuntu way forward"
The annual conference will be built around ubuntu, the southern African philosophy, to focus on Wikimedia's gaps in content and contributors. Here's why we are doing it, what it means, and why we think it is crucial to the success of this year's Wikimania.
Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
An interview with wiki-librarian and Wikimedia LGBTQ+ organizer Rachel Wexelbaum, discussing the role of librarians for bringing greater diversity to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.