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Answering your questions about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation work with the facts behind the facts.
Wait, what? Tarrare, the man with an insatiable appetite
Meals for fifteen, a live cat, snakes, lizards, puppies, and an entire eel—none were off limits.
Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce Victoria Coleman as our new Chief Technology Officer. As the Foundation’s senior technology executive, Victoria will be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for technology and operations behind the Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with the global communities of volunteer contributors, users, and researchers. Her first day is 7….
Wikipedia community and Internet Archive partner to fix one million broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteers from the Wikipedia community, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia Foundation files petition against decision to extend the ‘right to be forgotten’ globally
The Wikimedia Foundation has filed a petition with the French Supreme Court in support of access to knowledge.
Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA update: appeal hearing scheduled
The next hearing in our case against the United States National Security Agency and others over the U.S. government’s Upstream surveillance practices will take place on December 8, 2016, at the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
A fascination with exploration: the polar pioneers of Wikipedia
Polar explorers were singular individuals who embarked on voyages of discovery—and as one Wikipedia editor put it, "Stories of endurance in the face of extreme hardship and danger will always fascinate people. This is apparent in the way that each new generation seems to rediscover and relish these stories."
New grants program will fund six community-led projects
Selected from a field of thirteen applications, the projects focus on software, offline outreach, and research.
When it comes to shipwrecks raised off the seafloor, Peter Isotalo may be Wikipedia’s resident aficionado
Isotalo has written several Wikipedia articles on centuries-old archaeologically significant shipwrecks, working with museums and spending hundreds of hours to make them accurate and comprehensive. We wanted to find out why.
Interaction principles for online collaboration
Working with others online can be complicated. In an effort to make communication on the Wikimedia projects more friendly and productive, we propose five principles for collaboration.
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