Tag: Wikipedia

Names can be surprisingly complicated. What you think of as “your name” is probably a constellation of variations on a theme—possibly with a few random bits and bobs mixed in for good measure. Names that travel across cultures, languages, or writing systems cause all sorts of additional complications.

Wikipedia volunteer editor "SusunW" delves into the reasons why she has written hundreds of article about women.

The Wikimedia Foundation's Nichole Saad conducted a site visit to Nepal, India, and Taiwan to pilot a new way to help program leaders: in-context support. Why is this approach important? What did we learn in this trip? How is this shaping the way we offer program support in our efforts to support education?

April 2018 marks one year that Wikipedia has been blocked across all languages in Turkey.

Canada’s Wikimedia chapter is collaborating with local organizations to coordinate photography sessions with public figures. The results go up on Wikipedia.

To better serve the needs of users in the Asia-Pacific region, the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new data center site deployment in Singapore.

Volunteer community members have used our content translation tool to create over 300,000 articles, thereby spreading knowledge across language barriers. The tool has had already a positive impact in many Wikipedia communities, and now the Wikimedia Foundation's Language team is working on a new and improved version.

The history of page previews.

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

Page previews, deployed today, is one of the largest changes to desktop Wikipedia made in recent years.