The Wikimedia Foundation has finally enabled its long-awaited VisualEditor for all logged-in users on the English-language version of Wikipedia. The classic Wikitext source editor will remain ...

Web Summit has named a new CEO: Katherine Maher — previously CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (between 2019 and 2021). Maher is also chair of the board of the foundation behind ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, has stopped using domain-registrar ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has sounded a stark warning against a copyright reform proposal in Europe that’s due to be voted on by the European Parliament next week. (With the mild irony that it’s done ...

Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to collate your personal collection of ...

Every year, nonprofit organization Wikimedia seeks funding from the crowd to support initiatives including their free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. This year’s effort has just launched, and ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way.

Recently released documents detailed the terms of a grant received by the Wikimedia Foundation to work on a search projected called “Knowledge Engine.” The terms of the grant suggested plans for the ...

A 'wiki' website that can be edited by anybody has been launched to encourage the fleet industry to collaborate on safety, the environment and finance. Martyn Moore, editor of Fleet News, said: "I ...

A simmering dispute about ownership of a copyright in photographs has now garnered international attention. As more fully reported in an article in the British newspaper The Telegraph, British ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NPR has selected a seasoned technology expert to serve as its next President/Chief Executive Officer. It’s an individual who since June 2022 has been a Member of the U.S. Department ...

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.