Community – [[WM:TECHBLOG]]

New discovery tool for technical documentation

The Wikimedia Developer Portal guides technical audiences to key documentation and community resources. By organizing links into thematic sections focused on developer tasks, it helps people more easily find information about Wikimedia technology.

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Propose sessions and projects for Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!

It’s time to start proposing sessions and projects for hacking at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022!

Wikimedia Hackathon 2022: save the date and apply for grants and scholarships now!

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on May 20-22, 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world.

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Roundup: Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22

This year’s outreach programs were some of the most successful ever. This post highlights projects from Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22.

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Summit on present & future Vue.js user-interface library and the design system at the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation Design Systems Team provides updates and outcomes from the recent Vue.js Designer Workshop and Developer Summit, which aimed to help us converge on a single design system and UI component library moving forward as we officially adopt Vue.js.

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Call for smaller language wikis to participate in the technical capacity-building program!

Learn more about how to participate in the small wiki toolkits initiative.

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Analyzing the Wikipedia clickstream just got easier with WikiNav

We have recently developed WikiNav, an interactive tool to analyze and visualize reader navigation, as part of an Outreachy-internship.

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The Wikipedia image/caption matching challenge and a huge release of image data for research!

Wikipedia articles are missing images, and Wikipedia images are missing captions. A scientific competition organized by the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation could help bridge this gap. The WMF is also releasing a large image dataset to help researchers and practitioners build systems for automatic image-text retrieval in the context of Wikipedia.

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Sending messages to Wiki users in their preferred language

With the improved MassMessage extension you can send wiki pages or select sections of wiki pages as messages, and these messages will be sent in their target language!

Wikimania 2021 Hackathon: 24 hours to experiment with other Wikimedians

The Wikimania 2021 hackathon will take place on the first day of the remote Wikimania 2021, starting August 13th at 5:00 UTC and lasting for 24 hours.