The 3 building blocks of trustworthy information: Lessons from Wikipedia – Wikimedia Foundation
A new series explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.| Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, continues to welcome opportunities to explain more about Wikipedia’s oversight and mechanisms to keep information safe, whether these questions come from governments, organizations, the press, or users. The post Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works appeared first on Wikimedia Foundation.| Wikimedia Foundation
A new series explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.| Wikimedia Foundation
Cruz launched an inquiry into Wikipedia’s editorial neutrality| Broadband Breakfast
Il Museo Veneto del Giocattolo, in collaborazione con Wikimedia Italia, organizza a partire da venerdì 31 ottobre 2025 un corso gratuito in quattro lezioni per imparare a scrivere voci su Wikipedia e diventare […]| Wikimedia Italia
Per la prima volta le comunità di Wikipedia in lingua italiana e persiana collaborano in un progetto comune. L’iniziativa si traduce in un concorso di scrittura aperto a tutti i contributori, […]| Wikimedia Italia
Sabato 20 settembre 2025 si terrà a Parma il Wikiraduno con editathon e mapping party presso Casa nel Parco - Officine On/Off.| Wikimedia Italia
Congress is now investigating Wikipedia. More precisely, according to a letter dated August 27, 2025 and sent by Rep James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to the CEO of the Wikimedia […]| LarrySanger.org
Bar codes have been common in retail stores since the 1970s. These give a one-dimensional read of digital data. The hardware and software to decode a bar code are relatively simple. The QR code enc…| Economist Writing Every Day
Russia's ongoing campaign against Wikipedia threatens volunteer editors| Rest of World
Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.| 404 Media
Wikimedia’s new neutrality guidelines risk stifling independent research, consolidating control over funding, access, and interpretations.| Digital Information World
I use a browser extension which always redirect wikipedia articles to their mobile equivalent (chrome, firefox). I find this much less cluttered and much more legible but it hides the settings screen behind a burger menu, so I hadn't thought to look for a dark mode until I finally cracked late at night after being blinded one too many times.| philwilson.org
Tout au long du mois de juin, une trentaine de personnes ont améliorer 152 articles lors du Mois des fiertés. L'occasion de revenir sur l'histoire de cet évènement et plus largement des contenus LGBTQIA+ sur la Wikipédia francophone| les sans pagEs
Understand different Wikipedia deletion processes and how to navigate them effectively.| The Online Reputation and Wikipedia Blog
L’article Un chiffre ou deux – N°71 Automne 2024 est apparu en premier sur La revue européenne des médias et du numérique.| La revue européenne des médias et du numérique
Monitor Wikipedia page history to track changes and maintain content quality.| The Online Reputation and Wikipedia Blog
Understand Wikipedia deletion policies and learn how to protect your pages from removal.| The Online Reputation and Wikipedia Blog
En este espacio de reflexión, mujeres y disidencias nos reunimos para pensar cómo construimos memoria colectiva, especialmente en los territorios digitales, donde se preservan nuestros registros, archivos y luchas.| wikimedia.org.ar
Le mois de mars et les traditionnels évènements dédiés à la journée internationale des droits des femmes pour le 8 mars sont arrivé ! Découvrez les évènements prévus par les sans pagEs à cette occa…| les sans pagEs
Durante los últimos 10 años, el Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos de Wikimedia Argentina ha acompañado a la comunidad educativa en el desafío de integrar las herramientas Wikimedia en las aulas.| wikimedia.org.ar
Durante marzo, en el marco de la efeméride del Día de la mujer trabajadora, diversas organizaciones del ecosistema digital de Wikipedia, lanzan la campaña Tiempo feminista: tiempo para editar Wikipedia, una iniciativa que busca visibilizar la relación entre género y tiempo en los proyectos que nutren a Wikipedia, con el objetivo de promover la participación activa de mujeres y personas de la diversidad sexual en la creación de conocimiento libre.| wikimedia.org.ar
Le 16 février la communauté de Wikipédia a publié une lettre ouverte intitulée « Wikipédia:Lettre ouverte : non à l’intimidation des contributeurs bénévoles » qui en 24 heures a été signée pa…| les sans pagEs
Se abre la convocatoria para que universidades e instituciones de nivel superior del país participen de Wikipedia en la Universidad. Este programa busca integrar el uso y la edición de Wikipedia en los entornos académicos, promoviendo la colaboración entre docentes y estudiantes en la construcción del conocimiento libre. Inscripciones desde el 21 de febrero al 21 de marzo. Se brindará una charla informativa el lunes 10 de marzo a las 17 hs. | wikimedia.org.ar
Our Wikipedia Reliable Source Guide breaks down the sources you should use, the ones you shouldn’t, and how to recover from past mistakes.| The Mather Group
Our guide will help you understand why Wikipedia matters, and how your agency can navigate its unique world to support your clients.| The Mather Group
Le 7 février 2025 l'association les sans pagEs ont animé un atelier de formation à Wikipédia sur le thème des Pasteuriennes.| les sans pagEs
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.| Slate Magazine
Josh Greene's newest book, Wikipedia for Business 2025, breaks down the rules and trends shaping strategies in the Wikipedia, AI and ORM era.| The Mather Group
I do work on Wikipedia sometimes. Since I’ve been working for the Flickr Foundation, my life overlaps more with free...| librarian.net
Entity linking connects entities in your content to authoritative external knowledge bases. Discover its benefits for your organization.| Schema App Solutions
Our industry report explores how Fortune 1000 companies appear on Wikipedia and the impact this has on their wider digital presence.| The Mather Group
Listen in to this AI-hosted podcast episode talking about Wikipedia and your online presence.| The Mather Group
Find out how to effectively use the talk page to communicate with other editors, address inaccuracies, and promote changes to articles.| The Mather Group
Need help with Wikipedia? Get a breakdown of how to do the work yourself, and a look at the pros and cons of hiring a team to help you.| The Mather Group
Thinking of making a Wikipedia page for a person? Our step-by-step guide walks you through the process from start to finish.| The Mather Group
Technology is a feminist issue and an issue for all feminists. It is implicitly and explicitly embedded in gender-based violence, state surveillance, war and genocide, and many more issues affecting womxn, LGBTQIAP+ persons, and communities The post Blossoming gardens of feminist tech at AWID appeared first on Whose Knowledge?.| Whose Knowledge?
Wikipedia is a brilliant invention. Granting power to the hive mind of the world to collect all of human knowledge is one of the greatest feats of the past couple decades. Unfortunately, that means that today we’re living in a world where every piece of human knowledge flows through a single filter. A world where […]| Jack Reichert
Well over 200 languages are spoken in the African country of Cameroon. Two of them are French and English, which are official because colonialism. Many people in Cameroon know them, but definitely not everyone. Two other big languages are spoken in Cameroon and in many other countries: Fula and Arabic. All the other languages spoken … Continue reading Duala Becomes the First Language From Cameroon to be Supported by MediaWiki, the Software That Runs Wikipedia→| Aharoni in Unicode
Our podcast Whose Voices? brings together conversations with incredible activists and change-makers to re-imagine and re-design the internet together. This year’s season is focused on decolonizing structured data, diving deeper into these systems. The post Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices? appeared first on Whose Knowledge?.| Whose Knowledge?
A look at one year's worth of edits of the English Wikipedia.| stefanbohacek.com
The #VisibleWikiWomen campaign is an embodiment of our aspirations to organize in collaboration and in solidarity with our feminist partners, movements and friends looks like; from gathering African feminists at our first photobooth in Lusaka, in 2022, to speaking up in solidarity with African feminists and queer activists who were arrested in Zambia last year. Partnering with the incredible people at the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) to document Soweto Pride last September, was a ...| Whose Knowledge?
Removing negative information or deletion your entire Wikipedia biography is doable if you follow the correct procedures.| Legalmorning
It’s fun. It gives value to my knowledge. When it’s in my head, it’s just for me. When it’s in Wikipedia, it’s there for the whole humanity. That is value, intrinsic value, which shows its worth only when shared. It can be translated. I am repeatedly amazed at the languages to which things that I … Continue reading What Is it Like to Be a Wikipedia Editor→| Aharoni in Unicode
I sometimes see a bad mistake in a Hebrew translation of a message in MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia. I check who made it, and see that it’s myself, a few years ago. I post somet…| Aharoni in Unicode
How does an open philosophy jive with best practices in performance and security? At Wikimedia, we’re selective in our dependencies and audit our own upstream sources. Progressive enhancement not only makes for a fast and accessible site, I argue it’s also the cheaper choice in the long run! Background The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit…| Timo Tijhof
For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. They looked a little something like this: As the data includes the browser’s major version, I wondered whether I could use this to follow the adoption rate through each browser’s release cycle. The short answer is… Yes! Here…| Timo Tijhof
Deploying HTTP/2 support to the Wikimedia CDN significantly changed how browsers negotiate and transfer data during the page load process. We found regressions in performance during the transition and are sharing the lessons we learned. Hello, HTTP/2! In 2016, the Wikimedia Foundation deployed HTTP/2 (or “H2”) support to our CDN. At the time, we used…| Timo Tijhof
The Internet Archive discovers in real-time when WordPress blogs publish a new post, and when Wikipedia articles reference new sources. How does that work? Wikipedia Wikipedia, and its sister projects such as Wiktionary and Wikidata, run on the MediaWiki open-source software. One of its core features is “Recent changes”. This enables the Wikipedia community to…| Timo Tijhof
At Wikipedia, we built an efficient sampling profiler for PHP, and use it to instrument live requests. The trace logs and flame graphs are powered by a simple setup that involves only free open-source software, and runs at low infrastructure cost. I’d like to demonstrate that profiling doesn’t have to be expensive, and can even…| Timo Tijhof
How a long sequence of dots allowed a regex to reach its internal stack limit. Premise Wikipedia’s production error logs were reporting an increase in app crashes from the search results page. The internal Logstash error report looked as follows: [RuntimeException] Cannot consume query at offset 0 (need to go to 7296) at mediawiki/…/CirrusSearch: QueryStringRegexParser->nextToken…| Timo Tijhof
Why does software accept invalid data? And, at what software layer should we reject it? Also, what are “namespaces” and “special pages” on Wikipedia? Premise One day, our server monitoring was reporting a high frequency of fatal errors from web servers. Over 10,000 an hour. The majority shared a single root cause – The program…| Timo Tijhof
These are short stories from bug hunts and incident investigations at Wikipedia. Impact After developers submit code to Gerrit, they eagerly await the result from Jenkins, an automated test runner. Every day during the 15 minute window before 5 PM in San Francisco, code changes submitted for code review would have mysteriously failing tests. Jenkins…| Timo Tijhof
These are short stories from bug hunts and incident investigations at Wikipedia. New database partition A user reported a timeout error for certain queries from the Public log viewer on commons.wikimedia.org. Database administrator Manuel Aróstegui investigated the underlying query and found that it was slow (and timing out) due to one of the database replicas…| Timo Tijhof
This week saw the conclusion of a project that I’ve been shepherding on and off since September of last year. The goal was for the initialisation of our asynchronous JavaScript pipeline (at the time, 36 kilobytes in size) to fit within a budget of 28 KB. The above graph shows the transfer size over time.…| Timo Tijhof
What’s the worst that could happen after npm install? When you open an app or execute a program from the terminal, that program can do anything that you can do. In a nutshell: Imagine if your computer were to disappear in front of your eyes and re-appear in front of mine. Still open. Still unlocked. What…| Timo Tijhof
This post shows how we measure and interpret load times on Wikipedia. It also explains what real-user metrics are, and how percentiles work. Navigation Timing When a browser loads a page, the page can include program code (JavaScript). This program will run inside the browser, alongside the page. This makes it possible for a page…| Timo Tijhof
On 20th March, I delivered my inaugural lecture at the University of Lincoln. I can’t say that I was massively looking forward to it, but in the end I really enjoyed it. The Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies organises, records and shares the lectures on their website (see here for the full list). You canContinue reading Inaugural action: Reading Lessons – From Papyrus to ChatGPT| Making Digital History
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Since November 2017, I have been an editor of the WikiJournal of Science, a Wikipedia-integrated, broad scope, libre open access journal. For me this is one way of encouraging academics to write in Wikipedia, by making it possible to publish Wikipedia articles in a recognized academic journal. The WikiJournals as they now exist may not yet be ideal for that, but they are already providing valuable insights into the difference between Wikipedia standards and academic standards, academics' atti...| Research Practices and Tools
This is the text of my habilitation defense, which took place on December 21st 2018. The members of the jury were Denis Bernard, Matthias Gaberdiel, Jesper Jacobsen, Vyacheslav | Research Practices and Tools
Learn how to create a Wikipedia page in this step by step guide. Find out whether you meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines.| Reputation911
Inspired from another project called “Anonymous Wikipedia edits from the Norwegian parliament and government offices” I decided to create something similar for the Hellenic Parliament. I downloaded the XML dumps (elwiki-20140702-pages-meta-history.xml.7z) for the elwiki from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/elwiki/20140702/. The compressed file is less than 600Mb but uncompressing it leads to a 73Gb XML which contains the full […] The post Anonymous edits in Hellenic Wikipedia from Hellenic P...| Into.the.Void.
Wikipedia is a 22 year-old, wonky, online encyclopedia that we’ve all used at some point. Currently (2023), Wikipedia has a dizzying amount of information in numerous languages. The English languag…| GroupLens
Rediscovery of Indexable Skiplists in the solution of the Running Median problem.| Deep Thoughts by Raymond Hettinger
A choropleth map with R - This is a quick post on how to create a map as per the...| One world | Projects, maps and coding
Wikipedia administrators received this letter (“Midom” is my username on Wikipedias): Hi, I’ve nothing to do with any of this but passing through oc.wikipedia.org I have noticed s…| domas mituzas
Michael Mandiburg’s From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!, an attempt at a 7600 volume print edition of Wikipedia’s entire contents, is a data visualization of Wikipedia’s huge, even imposs…| Word Object
Artist Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta – the Wikipedia entry on the Magna Carta collectively embroidered by prisoners, judges, art world luminaries, and members of the embroi…| Word Object
Hosting your own Wikipedia instance has never been this easy!| ./techtipsy
From the reliable source list for Wikipedia to searching noticeboards, how to determine a reliable source for Wikipedia.| Legalmorning
Its not a secret how to get a Wikipedia page approved through the articles for creation process. Here are the steps.| Legalmorning
