- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 29th, 2013
Wikipedia Nearby Lists Interesting Places Around You, Asks for Photos in Return
The new page is designed to both be informative and improve Wikipedia
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 23rd, 2013
Wikimedia Is Looking for New Exec
Sue Gardner is stepping down so the Foundation is looking for her replacement
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 13th, 2013
The Real-Time Map of Wikipedia Contributions Is Mesmerizing
There are plenty of people contributing to Wikipedia
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 3rd, 2013
Wikipedia Gets Notifications to Help Users Keep Track of Their Pages
Notifications are displayed for page edits, thanks, or mentions
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 30th, 2013
Upload Photos to Wikipedia Straight from Your Phone, via the New Wikimedia Commons Apps
You can also use the mobile Wikipedia site or any other Wikimedia site
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 26th, 2013
Wikipedia Already Relies on Wikidata, a Central, Open Repository of the World's Data
The crowdsourced project aims to provide structured data on any topic
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 23rd, 2013
Wikipedia Chooses the Truly Open Source MariaDB 5.5 over Facebook's MySQL 5.5
MariaDB offers performance improvements but it is a community driven project as well
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 19th, 2013
Wikipedia and Related Sites Reach 500 Million Unique Visitors Each Month
Websites under the Wikimedia Foundation reach a new milestone
- Mobile Apps
- By Ionut Arghire
- April 10th, 2013
Microsoft Announces the Windows Phone Next App Star Challenge Winner
The grand prize goes to Wikipedia, developed by Rudy Huyn
- Apple & Mac Blog
- By Filip Truta
- April 8th, 2013
Wikipedia Rolls Out Updated iPhone App
Updated languages / translations, updated user-agent string
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 8th, 2013
French Spy Agency Bullies Wikipedia Editor into Deleting Article
The article then became one of the most read on the French Wikipedia
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 28th, 2013
Wikipedia Is Losing Its Leader as Sue Gardner Plans to Step Down
She led the site through its biggest growth period but now plans to fight for the open web
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 25th, 2013
"I Am on Wikipedia" Creates Your Very Own Wikipedia Page
The site relies on Facebook data to generate your very own personal page
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 9th, 2013
To Help Computers Understand Meaning, Google's Wikilinks Corpus Has 40M Mentions on 10M Pages
The data is the biggest collection of its kind available in the world
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 4th, 2013
Wikipedia Wants to Drop the Wiki Markup in Favor of Pure HTML, It's Harder than It Seems
The eventual goal is to store articles in pure HTML, but it's going to take a while
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 14th, 2013
Wikipedia Crowdsources Vandalism Protection to Mobile Users, Mobile Editing on Its Way
Wikipedia is building up its mobile tools as more and more people make the switch
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 6th, 2013
Asteroid Gets Named Wikipedia to Honor the Website
The asteroid is in a stable orbit in the main asteroid belt