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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.

Alone together: Wikimedia Hackathon 2021

Wikimedia’s 2021 Hackathon brought participants from all over the globe together online. This post explored the event and its outcomes.

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Discovering and fixing CVE-2021-33038 in Mailman3

During Wikimedia’s Mailman3 migration, we discovered and fixed a security issue that would have disclosed the contents of private list archives during the import process. This post explains the issue, how we discovered it and how it was fixed.

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Outreachy round 21: experiences and outcomes

Wikimedia’s participation in Outreachy Round 21 focused on projects related to data science and engineering. In this post, the interns share the outcomes and experiences of their projects.

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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.

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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.

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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.