Wikipedia crowdsources site performance: Speeding up 488,731 templates with a little Lua to go

March 18, 2013 9:10 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"We’re letting people program Wikipedia unsupervised," Harihareswara wrote. " Anyone can write a chunk of code to be included in an article that will be seen by millions of people, often without much review."

Free knowledge, freely delivered: Wikipedia Zero expands to 212M mobile users in developing nations

January 25, 2013 9:05 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Information may want to be free, but the organization behind Wikipedia wants knowledge to be free too. So Wikimedia has formed a partnership with the world's sixth-largest telecom, VimpelCom, to deliver Wikipedia mobile sites for free to developing countries.

What interests the world? Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles in 2012 by language

December 28, 2012 10:02 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

A look at the most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2012, broken down by language.

Wikipedia launches ‘world’s largest photo contest’

August 29, 2012 11:27 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Wikipedia is launching another massive photo contest to boost the number of free photos visible in WikiMedia Commons and available for illustrating Wikipedia stories.

The contest is Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, and is focused on photos of historic sites around the world.