Category: General

• 01.07.2020
• Alexander Möller

Wiki Loves Pride! The vision of Wikimedia is a world where every single person can free share in the sum …

• 29.06.2020
• Elisabeth Giesemann

Wikibase is the free and customizable knowledge base that drives Wikidata. It’s perfect for setting up open archives that serve GLAM institutions*, libraries and databases for scientists as well as anyone else working with large datasets. To make installing and setting up Wikibase easier, we’ve added a lot of new information on our Wikibase website to help users with the process.

• 09.06.2020
• Abraham Taherivand

The murder of George Floyd has caused shock and protests worldwide. Racism, discrimination and institutionalized violence are also major problems in Germany. Wikimedia Germany supports the Wikimedia Foundation's initiative on Black Lives Matter and is committed to justice and free access to information for all.

• 11.05.2020
• Elisabeth Giesemann

Many technological initiatives are currently being developed to deal with the Corona crisis. By using open data, the programs and Apps will be transparent and accessible to everyone. This ensures that citizens benefit from the innovations. One such knowledge platform with open data is Wikidata.

• 04.05.2020
• Elisabeth Giesemann

Wikimedia Deutschland not only supports the community of volunteers who are active on Wikipedia and its sister projects. The team software development also works to improve the technology behind the projects. You can now help to make it better.

• 20.02.2020
• Elisabeth Giesemann

Languages are powerful instruments to create community, share knowledge and preserve heritage. Also in technology, language is important to store and share information, be it for education, on social platforms, or with voice assistants. Yet, some smaller languages are increasingly under threat of disappearing. That’s why Wikidata strives to promote linguistic diversity and multilingualism in the Wikimedia projects and beyond.

• 30.07.2018
• Martin Rulsch

Everyone knows Wikipedia, but have you ever heard about Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM)?

• 09.07.2018
• Bernd Fiedler

Today, the European Parliament voted against a controversial draft Copyright Directive. Thrilling to the end, finally 328 against 278 with 31 abstentions. The road so far and what's still at stake.

• 11.12.2017
• Anne Kierkegaard

Two international workshops took place at WMDE in November: The “Volunteer Supporters meeting” and the “Partnerships meeting”. Read about them here.

• 19.10.2017
• Anne Kierkegaard

Dieser Beitrag ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. The Central and Eastern European (CEE) meeting 2017, took place in Warsaw from …

• 28.02.2017
• Jens Ohlig

German summary: Ladies That FOSS war ein Hackathon gerichtet an Frauen, die Interesse an Freier und Open Source Software (FOSS) …

• 03.02.2017
• Jens Ohlig

Interview by Sandra Muellrick. This blog post is also available in German. As a volunteer, Greta has been active in …

• 27.01.2017
• Jens Ohlig

German summary: Glorian Yapinus aus Indonesien hat gerade sechs Monate Praktikum in der Software-Entwicklung bei Wikimedia Deutschland hinter sich. Hauptsächlich …

• 25.11.2016
• Jens Ohlig

German summary: Jeroen De Dauw, Software-Architekt bei Wikimedia Deutschland, hat in zwei Blogposts architektonischen Überlegungen hinter einer umfangreichen Refaktorisierung der …

• 30.10.2016
• Jens Ohlig

Dieser Blogpost ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Wikidata is an open knowledge base that collects facts (statements) on pieces of …