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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!

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June 2021 Datacenter Switchover

In June 2021, most user traffic was switched from our primary Virginia datacenter to our secondary one in Texas. This post covers how the swtichover went and the issues that came up.

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The rollout of single-sign-on (SSO) at the Wikimedia Foundation

This is the second part of a three part series on the rollout of single-sign-on (SSO) at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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.