2010

1. Technology

   Open Web Analytics 1.4

   Open Web Analytics 1.4.0rc3 is out!  You probably don’t care, do you?  You should!  At least we do! Anyway, let’s start in the beginning: As we strategized about future development of Wikimedia properties, it became abundantly clear that the measurement tools that we have are insufficient to make the decisions we need to make.  This was a key recommendation from the Strategy tas... Read more

2. Wikipedia

   Ukrainian Wikipedia Reaches 250,000 Article Milestone

   Congratulations to Ukrainian Wikipedia on reaching 250,000 articles! The milestone article was officially created on Tuesday, December 21 at 8:45pm, Kyiv Time by user Anatoliy-024.  Anatoily-024, a Wikipedian since 2008, has created 206 articles and made 6,000 edits to the Ukranian Wikipedia making this user the 110th most active contributor to this language Wikipedia. Since it started in 2004, U... Read more

3. Community

   Celebrating Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary on six continents

   In one month, Wikipedia will observe its 10th anniversary. On and around January 15th 2011, we will celebrate with volunteers, donors, and other supporters on six continents. From the launch of a new outreach project in Kenya to a film screening in Tel Aviv, there are currently 65 events of all kinds you can attend. The complete list of anniversary activities can be found at ten.wikipedia.org, the... Read more

4. Wikipedia

   What’s in a name? In the case of ‘wiki’, lots of things.

   Anyone who’s been watching the news will have heard about Wikileaks by now. Wikipedia shares the generic “wiki-” prefix in its name, but there’s no relation. Occasionally even major news sources like the BBC get this wrong, which can lead to serious confusion, even when it’s quickly fixed. If anyone has a claim to the word “wiki”, it would be the Hawaiian people. In the Hawaiian lang... Read more

5. Wikipedia

   Encyclopedia of Life curates Wikipedia’s species articles

   There are more than 1.9 million animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. In May 2007, some of the world’s leading scientists announced the development of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) to document them all. Inspired by biologist E. O. Wilson’s TED Wish and supported by more than $25 million in funding, the project aggregates and makes accessible information about species ranging from... Read more

6. Technology

   December 2010 WMF Engineering Update

   Welcome to the December monthly report from WMF Engineering! As always, we’re reporting on what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up. In November, our more visible work involved launching the Fundraiser and the Upload Wizard on commons. Behind the scenes, we worked on the next iteration of Article Feedback, continued to improve our infrastructure (e.g. monitoring, media sto... Read more

7. Chapters

   Indonesian volunteer Siska Doviana recounts her wiki beginnings

   Wikimedia Indonesia co-founder, Wikipedia editor, and all-around high energy volunteer Siska Doviana recently paid a visit to the San Francisco headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation.  She was able to reach out to many staff members and discuss collaborations and initiatives, including the chapter’s recent writing competition, Free Your Knowledge 2010. While she was in California, Siska a... Read more

8. Wikimedia Commons

   New Upload Wizard launches in beta on Wikimedia Commons

   

   Today, we’re launching a new upload wizard in beta phase to make it easier to contribute multimedia works to Wikimedia Commons. “Commons” is the free, collaborative media repository associated with all Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. Although Commons contains over 7 million images, videos and sounds, uploading a file has long been an arduous path reserved to the most adv... Read more

9. Technology

   Pending Changes/Flagged Revisions update

   We are currently planning to roll out a new version of the FlaggedRevs extension to all wikis on Tuesday, November 23 starting roughly 3:15pm PST (23:15 UTC). This is used for Pending Changes on en.wikipedia.org and Flagged Revisions on many other wikis (such as de.wikipedia.org and pl.wikipedia.org). The update sports a new reject button, some diff page load optimizations to help complicated di... Read more

10. Community

    Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense

    This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous. Wikimedia’s contribution campaign for 2010 is a serious endeavor. As Philippe told you yesterday, in a relatively short time period we need to raise the funds that keep Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects available for free to everyone. Millions of people use Wikipedia every day. It’s clear that more tha... Read more