How we designed page previews for Wikipedia — and what could be done with them in the future

Yesterday, we released a new feature for Wikipedia’s readers on desktop—page previews. Here's a few design nuances behind this feature.

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Victory in Greece: Legal case ended against Wikipedia editor

A long-running case in Greece has come to a close with all claims dropped.

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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.

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What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let’s ask the data.

A new dataset of fifteen million records documents source usage in Wikipedia by identifier and across languages.

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Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Open Web Fellow

The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to host an Open Web Fellow, a nine-month position to develop data-driven responses to questions around public policy for free knowledge.

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The Initiative for Open Citations celebrates its first birthday

In celebration, and to mark the progress made, we've designated this month as Open Citations Month.

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Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!

To celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Wikimedians around the world make a concerted effort each March to add and edit articles about women in Wikipedia. You can also have an impact (and fun!) by adding information about women to Wikidata, Wikimedia's multilingual knowledge base. And there are quite a few interesting and fun, volunteer-developed tools to help you with that.

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PM’ing in public

Josh Minor on the pros and cons of—and what's unique about—being a product manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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It’s now easier to craft content for mobile devices: Responsive web design at the Wikipedia scale

A technology for editors to format content for mobile presentation.

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Pre-university students contribute to Wikimedia in Google Code-in 2017

From November 2017 to January 2018, 300 students worked on 760 Wikimedia tasks with the help of 51 Wikimedia community mentors.

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