In and around the WMF and its projects from the WMF's web site

A report from the second WikiIndaba conference, with summaries of several presentations.

Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.

Using hashtags to track the results of Wikimedia outreach.

A Deutschland anniversary.

By night, she smites trolls on the Internet with positive punishment: for each harassing email she receives, one Wikipedia article on a woman in science is created.

The WMF reports on incoming requests.

Wiki Loves Africa photo competition focuses on continent’s varied fashion traditions from north, south, east, and west.

The American Supreme Court justice's impact on the life of a Wikipedia editor

An unfortunate overreach.

Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: A talk with MediaWiki developer : Magnus Manske.

Jeff Elder talks sports vandalism on the Wikimedia blog

The suit concerns copyright claims related to 17 images of the museum’s public domain works of art.

Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.

Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.

The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.

This section was published in error and has been removed from circulation.

Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.

A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.

The community has arranged a number of commemorative initiatives focused on the gender gap, under the banner "WikiWomen's History Month".

Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.

Editor's note: the Blog will be a recurring Signpost section that will highlight a recent post from the Wikimedia blog, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. This week's installment is written by Philippe Beaudette, the Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy, and focuses on planning for the future of the Wikimedia movement.

"Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia and around the Wikimedia movement include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more: Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."

A new post in the WMF blog describes Assistant Professor Amy E. Hughes' experience in the Wikimedia Education Program with a two term graduate class on Western theater history.

Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more: Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...