Wikimedia Foundation News

While the Wikimedia Foundation runs Wikipedia from its headquarters in San Francisco, it supports various regional branch chapters across the globe.

Readers who are seeing ads on Wikipedia articles are likely to be using a web browser that is infected with malware, the Wikimedia Foundation has warned.

A small Welsh town where English King Henry V was born is about to make history again by becoming the world's first "Wikipedia town." Wikimedia UK -which works to support, develop and promote Wikimedia Foundation projects such as Wikipedia - says that when it launches its experiment in Monmouth on Saturday, hundreds of articles about the life and ... (more)

Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based malware infection, Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on Monday.

The creator of the Wiki dishes on the Wiki, Wikipedia's policies, OO design, technical debt, CoffeeScript and Perl, how to survive as a veteran programmer, and doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.

RSAA Conference, the world's leading information security conference group, today announced that Jimmy Wales, best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, is confirmed as the Closing Keynote Speaker at the 13th annual RSA Conference Europe .

Jean-Leon Gerome, The Tulip Folly, 1882, oil on canvas, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

DigiCert, Inc., an online security provider for many of the most recognized brands and web sites in the world, today announced a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation to secure its web and mobile properties using the company's Enterprise SSL Managed PKI .

One interesting aspect of these TOS is that they have a very American flavor. There seems to have been no attempt to cherry pick law; the Wikimedia Foundation is in the US and it relies on US law, both helpful and perhaps less helpful .

On Jan. 18, many websites went dark as part of a mass protest against two proposed bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act , and the Protect IP Act .

A major player makes freely licensed fonts available for general use. They allow people to be more expressive because the right font adds to the message.

Record producer Erez Safer , 33, and film maker Aaron Wertheimer , 34, spend their spare time creating citation-heavy Wikipedia entries for clients who pay $300 a pop.

For #MediaWiki , the CLDR information is important. Sadly for many of the languages supported in a Wikimedia Foundation project the information is not available.

Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most visited sites of the world. We all use it. Kids use it to do their homework, many doctors use it for medical research , I use it for trivia and as an aid for my swiss cheese memory of most of what I have learned over my lifetime.

Are you passionate about this one idea, this one project that will make a difference in your opinion? Do you know how to run such a project and it is the lack of money that prevents you from executing this plan? When this description fits you, you should know that the board of the Wikimedia Foundation passed a resolution to create a " Funds ... (more)

The blog post about #FarmAfripedia got quite a lot of attention. It was republished at the Kabissa blog giving it more exposure in Africa.