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.
Community digest: Conversations with Wikimedia women; Arabic Wikinews and Global Voices collaboration; news in brief
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Engagement department is hosting a series of conversations about women in the Wikimedia movement, a collaboration between the Arabic Wikinews community and Global Voices Lingua to support Arabic digital content, in addition to other updates in brief from around the globe.
On Wikipedia, Black Panther won the Olympic gold
Black Panther was far and away the most-viewed article on Wikipedia last month.
Oscars predictions made easy with Wikipedia
On how to use Wikipedia's pageview data to inform your Oscars predictions.
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Tony Sebro as Deputy General Counsel
Seasoned attorney joins the Wikimedia Foundation after six years serving as General Counsel at the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Wikimedia Research Newsletter, February 2018
Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don’t give back
With contributions by: Barbara Page, FULBERT, Steve Jankowski and Tilman Bayer
The Erdős paradox: When a mathematical number and Wikipedia collide
An interview with the author of a recent Medium piece on mathematician Paul Erdős, the mathematical degree of separation that his collaborations inspired, and Wikipedia's gender gap.
Improving MediaWiki’s documentation and localization practices
We constantly talk about the importance of projects like Wikipedia, but have you ever thought about the hidden things that make it all possible?
You can now translate Wikipedia articles from Spanish into Basque, thanks to an open source machine learning tool
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language team worked with a team from the University of the Basque Country and the Elhuyar Foundation to make it easier to translate Wikipedia articles from Spanish into Basque.
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