Category: Technology

Three years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation's Parsing Team decided to replace Tidy, a tool to fix HTML errors, with a HTML5-based tool. Here's what we did in that time period, and what kind of complexities we faced in changing pieces of the technical infrastructure powering Wikimedia wikis.

Newly available on all Wikimedia wikis: embeddable maps that make the world a little easier to understand.

As part of our 2030 vision, the Wikimedia Foundation is working to expand partnerships with organisations like the GSMA to empower communities through digital skills training and participation in knowledge creation and sharing.

Enter Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader.

A new geocoder extension released by the Wikimedia Foundation for CiviCRM—and more.

Users on both apps can now bookmark articles, organize them into lists of articles, and share those lists across devices.

We're updating our privacy policy, and are inviting you to comment on the changes over the next thirty days.

We wanted to learn more.

As an open and transparent organization, most of our documentation is placed online, able to be viewed and emulated by anyone. Here's a list of the documentation for one of our recently released features.

Names can be surprisingly complicated. What you think of as “your name” is probably a constellation of variations on a theme—possibly with a few random bits and bobs mixed in for good measure. Names that travel across cultures, languages, or writing systems cause all sorts of additional complications.