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Improving dispute resolution processes on Wikipedia
In any large volunteer community, dispute resolution is a vital service that helps alleviate contentious issues and problematic behavior. On Wikipedia, where volunteer editors have made the online...
View ArticleWikimedia Foundation seeks declaratory relief in response to legal threats...
(Sept 13, 2012 Update: Today we filed an amended complaint in our San Francisco lawsuit to correct the inadvertent misstatement about Heilman being an administrator. We initially thought we could do...
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Internationalisation team introduces translation memory and plan for language...
The Internationalisation/Localisation (i18n/l10n) team at the Wikimedia Foundation works on a set of tasks every two weeks. This post is about the team’s accomplishment over the past two weeks. You can...
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Recovery of broken Gerrit repositories
As some of you may have noticed, yesterday our engineering team noticed that 16 of our Gerrit repositories were very badly broken. Their branches and tags all seemed to have vanished, along with their...
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Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel log
The Wiki Loves Monuments Android App is a great way to take photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during the world’s largest photo contest throughout September. But what if you are shooting with...
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New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia
We’re happy to announce that a new EPUB export feature has been enabled on English Wikipedia. You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks. These...
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Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2012
You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations of the “Highlights” excerpts. Video of the monthly...
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Donating decommissioned servers
We have been upgrading and adding new servers for capacity increases as we always do. Unfortunately, due to the more updated technology and expanded storage space, some of our older systems are no...
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Wikimedia Highlights, August 2012
You are more than welcome to edit the wiki version of this report for the purposes of usefulness, presentation, etc., and to add translations. Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the...
View ArticleWhat are readers looking for? Wikipedia search data now available
I am very happy to announce the availability of anonymous search log files for Wikipedia and its sister projects, as of today. Collecting data about search queries is important for at least three...
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