The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

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On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

Since its founding more than a decade ago, Wikipedia has always prided itself on openness. Anyone who wants to edit the world's largest encyclopedia can do so, despite occasionally embarrassing ...

This interview is part of a series highlighting the personal journeys of language activists who are also Wikimedians, exploring how they preserve, promote, and revitalize their languages through ...