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.
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.
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.
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.
Add your photos of spring to the sum of all knowledge
The photo repository behind Wikipedia is running a photo contest themed around spring. Here's how you can join.
Building a better #1Lib1Ref
The campaign's third year was better than ever—here's how you can get involved.
How to hold workshops that are fully remote accessible
Holding workshops in person is challenging, but holding workshops for people in multiple locations is even more so. Design Researcher Abbey Ripstra and Grace Gellerman, the Manager of Program Management, explain how they approached holding a series of remote-accessible meetings.
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.
Victory in Italy: Wikimedia wins lawsuit against former Minister of Defense
The Rome Court of Appeals has ruled strongly in Wikimedia’s favor in Previti v. Wikimedia Foundation. It protected accurate, well-sourced articles, and held that when someone has a concern, they should work through community processes, not try to bypass them with legal demands.
Luc Héripret on the Orange Foundation’s Digital Schools project
Luc Héripret leads the Orange Foundation's work in Africa.
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