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.
Category: Community
Outreach programs, community initiatives and stories
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.
Using Zulip, an Open Source tool, for engaging participants in Wikimedia’s technical outreach programs
Zulip enables organizers and mentors to provide support and guidance to participants in each phase of technical outreach programs.
Google Code-In 2019: The next generation of technologists contribute to Wikimedia’s code
Each year the Google Code-in contest brings students and mentors from around the world together to improve their technical skills and to make contributions to the Wikimedia movement.
First-ever Coolest Tool Award: Thank you for the tools!
The Coolest Tool Award acknowledges projects and with that, all the people who have been contributing to those projects — primarily the developers and maintainers, and the people who help with documentation, translation, feedback, technical advice, design or communication.