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The Wikimedia Foundation announced Tuesday that Maryana Iskander, a decorated social entrepreneur who for years has led an initiative to lower youth unemployment in South Africa, in January will ...
A day later, after many, many editors continued to respond negatively to the idea, Wikimedia backed down and canceled its plans to add AI-generated summaries. Editors are the lifeblood of the platform ...
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that owns Wikipedia, one of the most heavily trafficked websites in the world, as well as other community-driven projects like Wikinews, ...
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this top 25 list was created using English Wikipedia data as of Nov. 28. Numbers for the full year are set to be updated by the nonprofit on Jan. 3, 2024.
WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...
The Wikimedia foundation touted its new table of contents feature to let users scroll to different parts of the page with ease. Gif: Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation on June 13 appealed a Moscow court ruling, fining it 5 million roubles ($91,000) for refusing to remove what it termed disinformation from Russian-language Wikipedia ...
The Wikimedia Foundation said the update to Wikipedia's desktop interface "modernizes" the website to make it more welcoming and accessible.
In interviews with Observer, senior leaders at the Wikimedia Foundation discuss how A.I. companies are scraping their content, ignoring attribution—and quietly depending on Wikipedia to stay afloat.
A Moscow court has fined the Wikimedia Foundation for refusing to remove an article on Russian-language Wikipedia called “The Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region,” according to state ...
A Russian court on Tuesday fined Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation 2 million roubles ($32,600) over articles relating to the Ukraine war, the head of the foundation's Russia chapter told Reuters.
In July 2023, as part of a project to explore how the Wikimedia Foundation could offer its knowledge base as a service to other platforms, Deckelmann’s team launched an AI experiment: a plug-in ...