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.
Victory in Greece: Legal case ended against Wikipedia editor
A long-running case in Greece has come to a close with all claims dropped.
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.
Introducing a resource kit to help organizers handle event safety incidents
The Support and Safety team, in collaboration with several other Community Engagement teams at the Wikimedia Foundation, has developed a short kit providing event organizers with key actions, scripts, and steps to help them handle event safety issues as they arise at Wikimedia events.
Mexican Ministry of Culture and Wikimedia Mexico partner to preserve Mexican culture and heritage
"We are excited to continue to expand Wikipedia's free knowledge alongside one of the leading keepers of culture in my country," says Iván Martínez, President of Wikimedia Mexico.
Community digest: On Wikipedia, bridges across cultures are connecting Latin America with North Africa and the Middle East; news in brief
Bridges across Cultures is a recent and new writing competition on Wikipedia that gathered Wikipedians from Latin America with the Middle East and North Africa regions. In addition, this week's news in brief includes updates about the Foundation's community engagement insights, Wikimania, Wikimedia conference, and more.
Stephen Hawking leads Wikipedia’s most popular articles of March
A list of the ten most popular articles on the English Wikipedia in March 2018, with some notes on why they were popular.
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Communications
Heather Walls, the current leader of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Communications department, and Kui Kinyanjui, an executive with over 18 years of experience in journalism and global communications, will be assuming permanent senior leadership roles as Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Communications respectively.
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