Wikimedia engineer contributes several fonts to the Malayalam language
Wikimedia Foundation Engineer Santhosh Thottingal maintains and/or has engineered about 12 high-quality fonts used for writing his native language, Malayalam. We reached out to Thottingal to learn more about creating fonts, and his other projects related to digital access.
How I make video ‘newsreels’ for social media—so you can too
As a video producer and storyteller for the Wikimedia Foundation, I've produced a few 'silent newsreels,' a video format enjoying a renaissance in the age of social media. Now I'm sharing what I know with the greater Wikimedia movement.
On the year where "a very fundamental human right—the right to access information" was challenged: Raju Narisetti, Wikimedia Foundation Board member
New Wikimedia Foundation board member Raju Narisetti says, “We will look back at 2017 as a year where there were systematic and sustained challenges worldwide to a very fundamental human right—the right to access information.” We talk with him about some of the challenges the Wikimedia projects may face.
"We keep the servers going … and much more": Recent highlights from our Technology department
Running the servers is only a fraction of the technical and community work that the Wikimedia Foundation's Technology department does every day. Here's who we are, along with a few snapshots of our work.
Inspire New Readers campaign: Raise awareness of Wikipedia where you live
Recent research shows that only 33 percent of Internet users in India, 19 percent of internet users in Iraq, and 39 percent of Internet users in Brazil have heard of Wikipedia. Those numbers differ dramatically from the United States and France, where 87 and 84 of internet users, respectively, have heard of Wikipedia. How would you raise awareness of Wikipedia where you live? A new campaign wants to hear your ideas.
Designing for offline on Android
We’ve introduced a number of improvements to the Wikipedia Android app to better serve these app users who have restricted or low-bandwidth access to the internet.
What’s your second screen? Film, television, and the British monarchy fill Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2017
Or: "The enduring power of Anglophilia."
A new platform to explore statistics about Wikimedia projects
Meet Wikistats 2, a new public dashboard and dataset for metrics related to how people read and contribute to Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Research Newsletter, September 2017
French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"; quality comparisons across languages; perceptions of credibility
With contributions by: Nicolas Jullien, Leila Zia, Tilman Bayer and FULBERT
Community digest: Wikipedia Asian Month wraps up; Remembering Wikipedian John Cameron Deas; news in brief
Wikipedia Asian Month has wrapped up after adding over 7,000 new articles on Wikipedia in 50 languages; The English Wikipedia community remembers veteran Wikipedian John Cameron Deas who passed away last year. In addition, this week's news in brief includes information about scholarships for Wikimania and WikiIndaba, Her Story editathons, and more.