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Wikipedia is getting a new look
This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…
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OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
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Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge to NSA mass surveillance
On February 21st 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation circulated the below joint statement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.…
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Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation my intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 15th will be my last day, marking my seven-year anniversary with th…
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Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API
Over the last 20 years the Wikimedia projects have grown into essential knowledge resources that are not just used by billions of people, but also by many commercial organizations that incorporate …
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Wikipedia switches to CC BY-SA 4.0 license
The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the update to our license to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, one of the main changes of our recent Terms of Use update, which brings the…
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Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons
Flickr Badges (poolie from Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) We are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Flickr Foundation to extend the great work already done via the Flickr2Co…
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Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human
Today we’re sharing a human rights impact assessment on AI/ML to help Wikimedia understand effects on human rights.
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Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…