Wikimedia and Google Season of Docs 2020
For the last two years, Wikimedia has participated in Google Season of the docs. In this post, Gbadebo Bello shares his experiences with the program.
Category: Community
Outreach programs, community initiatives and stories
2020 Coolest Tool Awards: Thank you for the tools!
For the past two years, the Coolest Tool Awards has celebrated tools created and used by the Wikimedia community. Read about 2020’s winners.
Make your technical work on Wikimedia projects more fabulous with these Phabricator video tutorials
What is Phabricator? How does it work? Learn about a set of new video tutorials that can help you learn how to use the collaboration tool used by folks working in Wikimedia’s technical spaces.
This bot is judging you: here’s how we made it better at it
After two years of planning and migration work, the 3rd generation WP 1.0 web tool has launched! Learn more about how it happened and what it means for Wikipedia’s editors.
The Query Service Tutorial for Wikidata: an interview with Dr. Keren Shatzman from Wikimedia Israel
With the Wikidata Query service tutorial, Wikimedia Israel aims to empower new users to query Wikidata, which currently holds almost 90 million items.
One year of Small Wiki Toolkits initiative–and more to come!
By Srishti Sethi, Senior Developer Advocate Overview Small Wiki Toolkits is an initiative that focuses on building technical capacity in…
Celebrating Free and Open Source Software with Google Summer of Code and Outreachy
Programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy can provide a platform to accelerate your FOSS journey. Learn about Wikimedia’s outreach programs.
Lalitha’s story: an Outreachy intern shares her experience
In this post, Lalitha, an Outreachy intern from 2020, shares her experience with the program.
Designing technical workshops for the Indic community
This blog post summarizes planning that went into designing a technical workshop series for the Indic community, key outcomes, success stories, lessons learned, and some next steps! It targets potential organizers who might be interested in conducting similar training in their wiki community.
Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia
A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.