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• 22.03.2019
• Martin Rulsch
• • Community

People from over 40 countries are taking part in this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition with tens of thousands of pictures. More and more cultural institutions see the added value in opening up to free digital knowledge projects such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Deutschland supports this opening process with a wide variety of projects.

• Christine Domgörgen
• • Community

For the first time, Wikimedia communities and organisations from Germany, Austria and Switzerland jointly invited to a local Wikipedia day. We knew that people would like to look behind the scenes of the online encyclopedia. But the actual rush surprised us all.

• 14.12.2018
• Jens Ohlig
• • Community
  • Technical

Languages and multilinguality have always been an important part of the Wikimedia projects. A project called “Lingua Libre” now aims to make languages and their sound freely available as structured metadata. WMDE’s Jens Ohlig spoke to Antoine Lamielle, Lead developer of Lingua Libre, about the project and its use of the Wikibase software.

• 13.09.2018
• Ebba Aniansson
• • Technical
  • Wikimedia

Young software developer Ebba Aniansson spent six months as an intern at WMDE. Now she shares what she learned and experienced.

• 30.08.2018
• Johanna Strodt
• • Community
  • Technical

High quality and reliability of content are at the heart of Wikipedia, but this requires a massive collaborative effort. Recent technical improvements have made the process easier.

• 30.07.2018
• Martin Rulsch
• • General

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

• 09.07.2018
• Bernd Fiedler
• • General

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.

• 01.06.2018
• Jens Ohlig
• • Technical

Wikipedians see editing articles as their craft. As anyone who takes pride in their craft knows, a well-equipped tool belt can make a difference. Time to look at some tools related to Wikidata that may help you in your everyday life on Wikipedia.

• 31.05.2018
• Christian Friedrich
• • Wikimedia

Until June 1st 2018, UNESCO invites you to comment on its first draft recommendation to its member states on Open Educational Resources online. Why we are involved and why it matters.

• 07.05.2018
• Denis Schroeder
• • International
  • Wikimedia

For many people, Free Knowlege is mostly synonymous with Wikipedia. Worldwide, tens of thousands of people, from volunteer communities to staff, work tirelessly to give even more people more access to more knowlege. At this year’s Wikimedia Conference, the annual meeting of the Wikimedia Movement, we interviewed some of them about their commitment to Free Knowlege.

• 23.03.2018
• Anne Kierkegaard
• • International
  • Wikimedia

The Wikimedia Conference is the annual meeting of all Wikimedia organizations to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement. Now we’re ready to share the first edition of a program full of varied and participative sessions: The preliminary program has been published on Meta.

• 11.12.2017
• Anne Kierkegaard
• • General

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

• 13.11.2017
• Jens Ohlig
• • Community
  • Technical
  • Wikidata

WikidataCon, the first conference dedicated to the Wikidata community took place in Berlin on October 28th and 29th. How to summarize this event? It was a huge success, both from the point of view of the community and the organizing team, and we hope that you enjoyed the event as much as we did.

• 19.10.2017
• Anne Kierkegaard
• • General

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

• 21.08.2017
• Jens Ohlig
• • Technical

English version