Category: Wikimedia News

WMF executive director Sue Gardner interviewed by The Telegraph in Sydney, Australia. Read it at http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/data-plans-unnerving-wikipedia-boss/story-e6freuz0-1226576326861 Highlights from January 2013, including individual grants, a data center migration, and the launch of Wikivoyage, was published at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/17/wikimedia-highlights-january-2013/ The Wikimedia Foundation has called their lawsuit against Internet Brands a ‘victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge” over the […]

Technical news [Wikidata] – the new sister-project Wikidata is growing fast. By year’s end the will get up to 2 million records. In the works is now the interwiki language information, later on infoboxes and lists will follow. At present the data of Wikidata is not yet used on any of the projects. The plans […]

The EN Wikipedia goes offline for 24 hours The community of the English language Wikipedia has decided to “blackout” the English Wikipedia for 24 hours. A sort of strike thus. The blackout goes in to effect from 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18. The blackout is a protest against the proposed law of the United […]

Foundation [Terms Of Use] – On websites the “Terms of Use” are what most of us frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a “Terms of Use”. A “Terms of use” for Wikipedia came only to existence years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In original Wikimedia style […]

Movement [30 September] – The last day of the project Wiki Loves Monuments for this year is September 30th. So if you still have pictures of monuments, it is not yet to late to share them on Commons and maybe win a prize. Currently there are already more then 125,000 new pictures added to commons […]

Hi again folks, We want to run another set of banners to recruit translators for the fundraiser this week, in some areas overlapping with the WLM banners. If it is alright with you we would like to do it the same way we did previously, namely with a rough 25-75 split with the WLM banners, […]

Wikizine needs YOU! Wikipedia has already changed the world. Wikimedia movement is at the beginning of that task. To push the movement into that direction, Wikizine needs your bold ideas and personal perspectives! Send your ideas to us or simply add them into the appropriate section. What YOU think can change the world! Send us […]

Wikizine [Editorial] – As Walter said in the previous edition, I took initiative and there are some changes in the Wikizine concept. But, more about them on Friday, in Talk Edition of Wikizine! Milos. [Your reports] – Post your news for the next edition of Wikizine on Meta or in our Google form. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine/EN2011-128 http://tinyurl.com/3w8wg5j […]

Foundation [Image filter referendum] – Voting has started and it will last up to August 30th. You can discuss it as well. It is about providing the reader the opt-in option to hide certain types of images that reader does not like to see. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/en http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en Chapters  [Wikimedia Hungary] – Wikimedia Hungary published reports for […]

Technical news [Wikimedia data sets] – Wikimedia XML data sets have been released on Amazon Public Data Sets.  This should help Wikimedians who do analysis on project data. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/wikimedia-xml-data-sets-released-on-amazon-public-data-sets/ [Media Features Gadget] – there is a “New Media Features” gadget on Commons.  When it is enabled, you can test out the new media developments from […]