The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing. Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and […]

Wikimedia Board of Trustees approve closure of all #wikinews projects by May 4. You may have never heard of Wikinews or haven’t visited the site in a long time which is part of the reason for the closure […]

New #wikishootme layer options: - OpenStreetMap/Overpass - Mapillary (in progress) - OpenPlaques - INaturalist Observations - Panoramax https://wikishootme.toolforge.org

I was expecting this to happen on Wikipedia. I wonder how many AI agents are out there that haven't been discovered yet. https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/tomwikiassist-the-ai-agent-who-complained

I just found out that you can connect your Mastodon account with Discord.

📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ #wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It is Hacktoberfest and we already have inspiring patches on Wikimedia Gerrit!

Fun @wikidata query of the day: ~350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse. https://w.wiki/FN5J

The Security team and the Trust and Safety Product team of the Wikimedia Foundation have merged to form the new Product Safety and Integrity team. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Safety_and_Integrity

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now verify whether a user has activated two-factor authentication (2FA). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726

Wikidata Query GUI now supports GeoJSON as \o/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216601

Images on Wikipedia will soon have a skeleton loading state https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397109

20 new wikis will receive new ORES (Objective Revision Evaluation Service) recent changes filters. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964