Wikimedia Foundation partners with the GSMA to expand digital literacy in emerging countries

As part of our 2030 vision, the Wikimedia Foundation is working to expand partnerships with organisations like the GSMA to empower communities through digital skills training and participation in knowledge creation and sharing.

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Don’t panic! Build your own Hitchhiker’s Guide with Wikipedia

Enter Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader.

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Improved geocoding in CiviCRM

A new geocoder extension released by the Wikimedia Foundation for CiviCRM—and more.

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You asked, so we built it: Synced reading lists for Wikipedia’s Android and iOS apps

Users on both apps can now bookmark articles, organize them into lists of articles, and share those lists across devices.

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A note on our approach to privacy

We're updating our privacy policy, and are inviting you to comment on the changes over the next thirty days.

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Twitter bots powered by Wikipedia: An interview with Darius Kazemi, internet artist

We wanted to learn more.

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A mockup of the new page previews feature, using the English Wikipedia's article on the Andromedia Galaxy.

Here’s everything we published from the design, development, and data process for the page previews feature

As an open and transparent organization, most of our documentation is placed online, able to be viewed and emulated by anyone. Here's a list of the documentation for one of our recently released features.

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Hello, my name is ________: Searching for names is not always straightforward

Names can be surprisingly complicated. What you think of as “your name” is probably a constellation of variations on a theme—possibly with a few random bits and bobs mixed in for good measure. Names that travel across cultures, languages, or writing systems cause all sorts of additional complications.

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How a new data center in Singapore is helping people access Wikipedia around the globe

To better serve the needs of users in the Asia-Pacific region, the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new data center site deployment in Singapore.

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After hitting 300,000 translations, what’s next for our content translation tool?

Volunteer community members have used our content translation tool to create over 300,000 articles, thereby spreading knowledge across language barriers. The tool has had already a positive impact in many Wikipedia communities, and now the Wikimedia Foundation's Language team is working on a new and improved version.

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