Technical volunteers directly contribute to mission scale and trust by creating automated monitoring and moderation tools, facilitating bulk changes to keep articles organized, surfacing missing links and citations to raise the bar on quality, and creating unique stand alone applications that inspire readers to consume and interact with knowledge in new ways. Delivering the same level of delight back to our technical volunteer and developer community requires investment, attention, and collab...| MediaWiki
Both Wikimedia and the Internet have changed a lot over the last 25 years. Patterns that are now ubiquitous standards either didn’t exist or were still in their infancy as the first APIs allowing developers to extend features and automate tasks on Wikimedia projects emerged. In fact, the term “representational state transfer”, better known today as the REST framework, was first coined in 2000, just months before the very first Wikipedia post was published, and only 6 years before the Ac...| techblog.wikimedia.org
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…| Diff