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- Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/ 243 comments
- The Wikipedia Zero program will end in 2018 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/ 54 comments
- Wikimedia in Iraq has nearly 12M subscribers free of mobile data charges https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/28/wikipedia-zero-iraq/ 84 comments
- 2016's most-edited Wikipedia articles https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/21/death-politics-most-edited-articles/ 56 comments
- New dataset shows fifteen years of Wikipedia’s quality trends https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/27/wikipedia-quality-trends-dataset/ 2 comments
- The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/prince-death-wikipedia/ 101 comments
- German court rules in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/24/victory-germany-court-ruling/ 31 comments
- Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/24/welcome-to-phabricator-wikimedias-new-collaboration-platform/ 76 comments
- Wikimedia Foundation now accepts Bitcoin https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/wikimedia-foundation-now-accepts-bitcoin/ 25 comments
- Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video-player/ 21 comments
- Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/11/26/wikipedias-volunteer-story/ 5 comments
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- How a new data center in Singapore is helping people access Wikipedia around the globe https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/24/new-data-center-singapore/ 2 comments privacy
- Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/ 3 comments web
- How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/29/eu-copyright-proposal-will-hurt-web-wikipedia/ 26 comments europe
- How we designed page previews for Wikipedia — and what could be done with them in the future https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/how-we-designed-page-previews-for-wikipedia/ 10 comments web_design
- Wikipedia lascia il pianeta Terra https://blog.wikimedia.org/it/2017/11/29/wikipedia-lascia-il-pianeta-terra/ 5 comments italy
- Pranayraj Vangari has written a new Wikipedia article every day for the last year https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/07/pranayraj-wikiyear-challenge/ 49 comments india
- Investigating a mysterious performance improvement https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/15/mysterious-performance-improvement/ 3 comments programming
- Keyholder: a ssh-agent proxy that allows a group of trusted users to share an SSH identity without exposing the contents of that identity’s private key https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/22/keyholder/ 23 comments netsec
- No internet? No problem! Free software Kiwix celebrates ten years of offline Wikipedia reading https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/kiwix-ten-years/ 15 comments opensource
- The Super Bowl XXII halftime show featured 88 grand pianos. A construction worker was signed to a one-game contract for Super Bowl XXXIX. Wikipedia's Super Bowl weirdness. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/04/super-bowl-wikipedia-facts/ 3 comments nfl
- Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ 5 comments artificial
- Wikipedia is starting to encrypt all traffic with HTTPS by default https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/ 10 comments privacy
- Coalition of Wikimedia Foundation, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers file long-awaited suit against NSA to challenge mass surveillance https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/ 9 comments worldnews
- Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/ 391 comments technology
- Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/ 13 comments privacy
- Wikimedia switches from Bugzilla to Phabricator https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/24/welcome-to-phabricator-wikimedias-new-collaboration-platform/ 15 comments programming
- Wikipedian donates his estate to the Wikipedia foundation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/12/the-story-of-jim-pacha/ 18 comments technology
- Wikipedia started using a new font called Autonym that supports the multiple alphabets present in the language section https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/28/the-autonym-font-for-language-names/ 3 comments web_design
- Wikimedia/Wikipedia: "Recent leaks of the NSA’s XKeyscore program have prompted our community members to push for the use of HTTPS by default for the Wikimedia projects... Since we appear to be specifically targeted by XKeyscore, we’ll be speeding up these efforts." https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/ 148 comments technology
- Wikipedia rolls out the new WYSIWYG editor! This will make editing the free encyclopedia far more accessible to non-technical users https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/visualeditor-beta-rollout/ 8 comments freeculture
- Request for proposals: MediaWiki release management http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-release-management/ 4 comments programming
- Wikipedia has switched from MySQL to MariaDB 5.5! http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ 13 comments opensource
- Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ 6 comments programming
- Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video-player/ 32 comments technology
- Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete — Wikimedia blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/09/transfer-of-wikipedia-sites-from-godaddy-complete/ 307 comments technology
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that all domains have been successfully transfered from GoDaddy http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/09/transfer-of-wikipedia-sites-from-godaddy-complete/ 3 comments technology
- Wikipedia Participation Challenge: develop an algorithm that predicts future editing activity on Wikipedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/28/data-competition-announcing-the-wikipedia-participation-challenge/ 9 comments programming
- Fox News smears Wikipedia with "child porn" and "pedophilia" accusations; the foundation's reponse http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/04/28/wikimedia-foundation-responds-to-fox-news/ 56 comments reddit.com
- Firefox 3.1 to support open video and audio http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/31/firefox-31-to-support-open-video-and-audio/ 3 comments firefox