Wikimedia stories

Wikimedia Deutschland’s project supports software development to preserve endangered languages across Indonesia, Africa, and Brazil, boosting access to knowledge.

Lydia Pintscher has received the inaugural European Open Source Award in Brussels for her pivotal role as Wikidata Portfolio Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland.

DataStax and Wikimedia Deutschland are collaborating on an AI initiative to enhance open data accessibility, processing over 10 million entries in just three days.

Following HPE’s Sydney office refurbishment, the company donated workstations and furniture to organisations in Tonga through non-profit Heliala.

Blue Microphones is working on branching out into the headphone market. A reviewer checks out two of the companies offerings.

Check Point has revealed a critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution on Wikipedia and other ‘Wiki’ sites, prompting an urgent software patch.

Wikipedia's fundraising drive starts strong with a US$500k donation from Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, targeting US$28.3m in spending.

The FBI has demanded that Wikipedia remove its seal from their website and has threatened legal action if it is not taken down.

It seems everyone is ‘on’ Facebook, whether you are a government department, telecommunications business or simply someone with funny cat photos to share.

A power outage at Wikimedia Foundation’s Florida data centre caused Wikipedia to go offline for several hours but it has since been restored.

Wikipedia is experimenting with tighter controls on its pages, to stop the posting of inaccurate, untrue or    defamatory material.