Help choose the best image of the year, Vote for your favourites in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2024 image competition which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on #Wikimedia Commons.
📸 Pictured is the 2023 Winner, Showing incense sticks being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution and was taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam.
🔗 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024
A campaign against #NPR's new CEO, ex-#Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher, is trying to portray her as "anti-truth" and "anti-First Amendment" by taking quotes out of context from her past talks about Wikimedia. As a longtime Wikipedian, I think I can give a little more context about these statements — but I recognize that the people behind this campaign are, ironically, not looking for the facts.
The #DCG201 #HackerSummerCamp 2024 Guide for the #freeculture festival #Wikimania in #katowice #Poland is now live:
https://defcon201.medium.com/hacker-summer-camp-2024-guides-part-eleven-wikimania-katowice-b4b6c19b7038
#wikipedia #wikimedia #wikidata #wikifunctions #wiki #academia @wikimediafoundation #wmhack #wmhack2024 #katowice #poland @internetarchive @defcon #fediverse #mastodon #freeculture
A blog post about #Wikimedia's Content Translation tool, which since its 2015 launch has been used to create over 2 million articles, helping bridge the gap for underrepresented languages. Several improvements have been made in recent years, including integrating Wikimedia's own machine translation service, MinT, which combines external models to support missing or low-resourced languages. Indian languages alone saw nearly 60,000 articles created.
🌈 #WikiLovesPride 2025 is live! 🏳️🌈
Wiki Loves Pride 2025 is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBTQ-related content across all #Wikimedia projects, organized by Wikimedia LGBTQ+.
It takes place throughout the entire month of #June in celebration of the International #LGBTQ #Pride Day.
More Information?
ℹ️ On English #Wikipedia: https://w.wiki/EMF3
ℹ️ On Meta-Wiki: https://w.wiki/ENfB
