This is very awesome, #Kiwix let you download the whole of #Wikipedia for when you don’t have internet!
Discover Kiwix’s hardware and software solutions for offline knowledge access across all major platforms. Learn about our mission to bring education worldwide without internet.WikiWanderer (Kiwix)
Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
wikiworkersunited.org/announce…
#Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia FoundationWiki Workers United
Today's featured picture on the English #Wikipedia is Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil-rights activist, and federal appointee.
Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
➡️ More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Be…
The monthly Aotearoa New Zealand online meetup is on this Saturday 18 July, 10–11:30am.
These meetups are your chance to connect with editors from around the country, find out about the different projects they're involved in, and get help with anything you're stuck on.
New attendees are always welcome! Follow this link for more info and the URL to join: w.wiki/SXjo
Some weeks ago, I wrote about my experiments with Abstract Wikipedia. Things are advancing.
This year during Pride Month, much of my Wikimedia focus is on Abstract Wikipedia, Wikifunctions, multilinguality, and how we can make knowledge accessible across languages.
More in my latest article. medium.com/@jsamwrites/this-pr…
#lgbt #lgbtq #pridemonth #wikipedia #wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia
I just discovered the Fediverse (English) Wikipedia page has a huge section on AT Protocol and I question why. It seems like excessive promotion of Bluesky and its protocol that is not compatible with ActivityPub, both technically and in spirit. Illustrating bridging isn't the same as compatibility. Might as well add sections for other random network protocols like XMPP (Jabber).
“Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s cofounders, was banned from editing the site indefinitely after other editors determined he was canvassing, or in other words, calling on his followers off platform in order to influence Wikipedia’s content.
Sanger has spent more than a decade criticizing #Wikipedia for what he claims is an ideological, left-wing bias.”
404media.co/wikipedia-cofounde…
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Happy Brooke Vibber day!
Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.
blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/in…
Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!
A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Brooke Vibber back in January 2021 for my story in the Wikipedia Signpost, The people who built Wikipedia, technically, which looked back at the technical history of Wikipedia to celebrate the 20th birthday.blog.legoktm.com
I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡
medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikip…
If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊
RE: chaos.social/@catileptic/11664…
'Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber...the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken. The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system. She was also a union organizer'
#internet #www #wikipedia #union
"TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers.Alex / catileptic (chaos.social)
If you can't trust the Wikimedia Foundation to respect labor organizing..
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaediaJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
The #WikimediaFoundation is signing a disturbing agreement with #Indonesia in order to allow Indonesian access to #Wikipedia.
france24.com/en/live-news/2026…
A provision in the agreement lets the govt "take down content deemed as 'causing public unrest and disturbing public order'."
Indonesia assured WF that the agreement was merely "administrative" and that "there would be no unlawful content takedown orders." But of course the agreement makes harmful takedowns lawful.
"Last October, Indonesia briefly suspended #TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform refused to share information sought by Jakarta about violent anti-government protests earlier in the year."
The Wikimedia Foundation said Saturday it has found a compromise with the Indonesian government, which had threatened to block Wikipedia over domestic registration rules the foundation feared were overly…France 24
New post: Career articles on Wikipedia: some scary numbers
lu.is/2026/04/wikipedia-career…
I took a look at English Wikipedia pageviews for ~4,000 articles about careers. The numbers are grim: the median is down 28% from pre-COVID, with a huge drop in the last year.lu.is
Important update for our Wellington Wikimedians—you have a new meetup venue!
This Saturday the Wellington meetup is taking place at the recently reopened Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Central Library. It's the perfect opportunity to check out the new space while catching up with other Wikimedia fans!
🗓️ Saturday 11 April
⏰ 10am to midday
📍 Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Central Library
🔗 w.wiki/Kxxx
📷 Tom Ackroyd, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
#Wikipedia #NewZealand land
Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy editsOliver Milman (the Guardian)
