A Yokohama-themed online Wikimedia Edit-a-thon will be held from October 1 to November 24, 2025. This event is in conjunction with Library Fair 2025, which...| Diff
At Wikimania Nairobi 2025, two important sessions highlighted the growing collaboration between Wikimedia hubs and the Wikimedia education movement. Both sessions focused on community empowerment, …| Diff
The “Federated Properties” feature allows / allowed a local Wikibase instance to access and utilise properties directly from a remote Wikibase, primarily Wikidata. Its primary purpose i…| addshore
Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which identifies items clearly visible in a file. Depicts statements are crucial for MediaSearch, enabling it to find relevant results in any language by using Wikidata labels, as well…| addshore
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
Entre el 30 de mayo y el 1 de junio se llevó a cabo en Bogotá, Colombia, la EduWiki Conference 2025, el evento wiki que reúne a docentes, educadores y educadoras populares, investigadores e investigadoras, líderes de los programas de educación y personas voluntarias del movimiento Wikimedia, que utilizan los proyectos Wikimedia como herramientas educativas […]| Wikimedia Argentina
I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven’t really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were …| addshore
Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, …| addshore
In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionall…| addshore
mcwli includes the third of so generation of “developer environments” that I have made for MediaWiki over the years. You can see the backstory in this earlier post. Since the early days…| addshore
Expanding on our Iffy.news/Veri.FYI session at WikiCredCon (February 15 2025). Please consider supporting the new Domain-Name Property Proposal in Wikidata, that emerged from this conference… Wikim…| Iffy.news
Social networks are expensive to run, so Mastodon and Free Our Feeds are right to be asking for millions of dollars.… Continue reading non-profit social networks: benchmarking responsibilities and costs→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I'm starting a podcast on the broad, cutting edges of open.… Continue reading Announcing the Upstream podcast→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I’ve been doing a lot of writing elsewhere of late. Some links: I don’t love (mostly) leaving Twitter; as I’ve said a few times, the exposure to different people there helped make me a better person. But one of my primary political concerns is the rise of fascism in the US, and that absolutely includes… Continue reading Writing elsewhere; the pain of moving platforms→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
L'équipe des sans pagEs s'est rendue à Wikimania au mois d'août, qui se tenait à Katowice en Pologne. Voici ce que nous avons vu dans notre dernier article de blog https://sanspages.org/2024/12/19/wikimania-2024-a-katowice-et-en-2025-au-nigeria/| les sans pagEs
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.