Olá Wikimedians! Meeting donors and editors in Brazil this March
This March, the Community Department will be heading to Brazil to talk with supporters of Wikimedia’s mission. Our aim is to better understand how Portuguese-speaking editors and donors, many of whom...
View ArticleWho are Wikipedia’s donors? Answers from the readers study
We recently concluded our annual fundraiser, and it was a great success. With over one million individuals pitching in from almost every country, our donors are a diverse and interesting group in...
View ArticleFree software community shares lessons learned in “Open Advice” book
The "Open Advice" book is available for free download, or purchase as print from lulu.com. The Open Advice book, a collection of essays, stories and lessons learned by members of the Free Software...
View ArticleWikimedia Board, staff, and volunteers attend the first San Francisco meetup...
Last Saturday, Maryana Pinchuk and I had the pleasure of hosting the first San Francisco meetup of Wikimedians in 2012. The Wikimedia community hosts meetups for Wikipedians and editors of our other...
View ArticleTechies learn, make, win at Foundation’s first San Francisco hackathon
Participants at the San Francisco hackathon in January 2012 In January, 92 participants gathered in San Francisco to learn about Wikimedia technology and to build things in our first Bay Area...
View ArticleWikimedia engineering January 2012 report
Major news in January include: Tech support for the black-out protesting SOPA & PIPA; The successful San Francisco hackathon; The release of the official Wikipedia Android app; A new beta cluster...
View ArticleScaling media storage at Wikimedia with Swift
Wikipedia is huge. Almost four million articles in English alone — but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words (actually, it’s usually closer to several million). In terms of raw bits on disk,...
View ArticleInsights from mobile user experience research
Mobile Wikipedia readers in Brazil As part of our commitment to provide free knowledge to everyone, the foundation has been redesigning our mobile platform (m.wikipedia.org and mobile.wikipedia.org) to...
View ArticleWikimedia Foundation Report, January 2012
You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations of the “Highlights” excerpts. Video of the monthly...
View ArticleWikimedia Highlights, January 2012
You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations. Wikimedia Foundation Highlights WMF staff preparing for...
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