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Language Engineering Events – Language Summit, Fall 2013

The Wikimedia Language Engineering team, along with Red Hat, organised the Fall edition of the Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India on November 18 and 19, 2013. Members from the Language...

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The Winner of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 Is…

  1st prize winner: Picture of a locomotive with a push-pull train crossing the monumental Wiesener Viaduct over the Landwasser river in Graubünden, Switzerland. Guest post by Lodewijk Gelauff. You can...

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Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2013

You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations of the “Highlights” excerpts.   Video of the monthly...

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Wikimedia Highlights, November 2013

For versions in other languages, please check the wiki version of this report, or add your own translation there! Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report...

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Sue Gardner to receive first Knight Innovation Award

Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to share the news that Sue Gardner will receive the first Knight Innovation Award from the Knight Foundation,...

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New Individual Engagement Grantees to engage community with tools and outreach

Today we’re announcing the second round of Individual Engagement Grantees! These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas...

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OpenDyslexic font now available on Polish Wikipedia

This post is available in 2 languages: Polski  • English English Screenshot of selecting the OpenDyslexic font For those who suffer from dyslexia, the simple task of reading can become a monumental...

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November notes from Brussels

Assen Gert Sennema – Sisyphus 2 Fundamentally shifting the copyright narrative is not a weekend job. Since July 2013 Dimitar Dimitrov is Wikimedian in Brussels. In assorted blogposts he talks about...

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New draft feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles

For most of Wikipedia’s history, we encouraged editors to create new encyclopedia articles by publishing immediately. Just find a page that doesn’t exist, type in content, and after you hit save, it’s...

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Handling our user data – an appeal and a response

(Today we are posting an English translation of a blog post from German Wikipedians outlining concerns about the handling of Wikipedia user data, or metadata. Above that post you will find the...

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