Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look: First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts Usability at the Forefront
The interface update, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming, easier to use for everyone Update: On 4 May 2023, the desktop update was deployed to Spanish Wikipedia. The updated interface is now live on 95% of the 318 active language versions of Wikipedia for all desktop users. The….
Navigating through Wikipedia articles on desktop just got a lot easier
Page previews, deployed today, is one of the largest changes to desktop Wikipedia made in recent years.
You can now upload 3D models to Wikimedia Commons
We've enabled a new feature that allows you to upload three dimensional (3D) models.
“Visual diffs” make it easier to see editing changes on Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation's Editing team announces the launch of visual diffs, which will let users visually review the changes made to Wikimedia sites without requiring knowledge of the wikitext markup language.
How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
The creator of the wiki, Ward Cunningham, wanted to make it fast and easy to edit web pages. Cunningham named his software after a Hawaiian word for “quick.” That’s why the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to report that editing Wikipedia is now twice as quick. Over the last six months we deployed a new technology that speeds up MediaWiki, Wikipedia’s underlying PHP-based code. HipHop Virtual Machine, or HHVM, reduces [...]