How we’re building awareness of Wikipedia in India
An interview with some of the people involved with Wikipedia in India, wondering what the future holds for the Hindi Wikipedia.
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.
Building a better #1Lib1Ref
The campaign's third year was better than ever—here's how you can get involved.
Have you ever read Wikipedia’s article on Lady Gaga?
Meet Wikipedia user "FrB.TG," also known as Frankie.
Why the world reads Wikipedia: What we learned about reader motivation from a recent research study
Wikimedia’s mission is to provide educational content and to effectively disseminate it. Doing so requires understanding the needs and motivations of the people who read Wikipedia. In this blog post, we discuss what we learned about Wikipedia reader motivations and needs across 14 languages from a recent research study.
James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information
A conversation with emergency room physician James Heilman, who is working to get medical information into Internet-in-a-Box—a physical device that provides Wikipedia and other content in areas without internet access.
Confound it!—Supporting languages with multiple writing systems
Many of the languages of the world use two or more writing systems, like the familiar Arabic, Cyrillic, or Latin scripts. Supporting those languages and those scripts—for reading, editing, and searching—can be a real challenge.
Ten months later: People of Turkey still denied access to Wikipedia
All language versions of Wikipedia have been blocked in Turkey since late April 2017.
New Wikipedia feature gives you the power to choose whatever language you want
A new feature makes it easier for English-speaking Wikipedia readers to find versions of the article they’re reading in other languages. To mark the occasion, Amir Aharoni of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team details the history of interlanguage links on Wikipedia and details what went into the new feature.
Wikimedia releases eighth transparency report
Our newly-released transparency report highlights the requests we received in the second half of 2017.