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Announcing English Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2024

Politics, sports, and movies: The 25 most-read English Wikipedia articles in 2024.

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Love Wikipedia? Get to know the nonprofit behind it

Most people don't know that Wikipedia is hosted by a nonprofit. Accurate information online is needed now more than ever, as is the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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O valor da Wikipédia na era da IA generativa

Se houvesse um sistema de inteligência artificial generativa que pudesse escrever, por conta própria, todas as informações contidas na Wikipédia, seria igual à Wikipédia que temos hoje?

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Wikimedia Foundation statement on volunteer processes on reliable sources

There has been recent media coverage regarding a decision by Wikipedia's volunteer community on the reliability of the Anti-Defamation League as an encyclopedic source in specific subject areas. In an effort to promote better understanding of how Wikipedia works, the Wikimedia Foundation has issued a statement.

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Wikipedia Needs More Women

New campaign from the nonprofit behind Wikipedia invites everyone to contribute to women’s history.

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Wikipedia is here to stay

People are why Wikipedia continues to persist.

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Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the launch of Wikifunctions, its first new project in over a decade. The project will enable volunteer editors to collaboratively create and maintain a library of functions.

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Announcing Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2023

From ChatGPT and Cricket to Barbie and Bollywood, these are the 25 most read articles on English Wikipedia this year.

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Wikipedia’s value in the age of generative AI

If there was a generative artificial intelligence system that could, on its own, write all the information contained in Wikipedia, would it be the same as Wikipedia today?

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A teacher trying Kiwix

First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects

The Wikimedia Endowment, the long-term fund established in 2016 to support the future of Wikimedia sites, has announced its first recipients of grant funding. The initiatives that will receive grant funding include Abstract Wikipedia, Kiwix, Machine Learning, and Wikidata.

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