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Keep Calm and Click [edit]
Keep Calm and Click [edit]
This is what you should do when you see errors on Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Commons gets user galleries
Wikimedia Commons gets user galleries
A long-awaited feature added by volunteer developer Bryan Tong Minh.
Wikimania 2010 notes
Wikimania 2010 notes
It’s been a few months since Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk. I had a few notes I wanted to share, but I was waiting for the Wikimania videos, which were never delivered. I’ll just go ahead and publish my notes now.
Wikimedia Commons licensing tutorial: the making-of
Wikimedia Commons licensing tutorial: the making-of
A behind-the-scenes tour of the project.
Illustrated licensing tutorial for Wikimedia Commons
Illustrated licensing tutorial for Wikimedia Commons
Free knowledge is the foundation of all Wikimedia projects: anyone is free to use, modify and redistribute the content for any purpose. But copyright and free licenses are very confusing for new users, especially when they want to contribute pictures and other media files. A new illustrated licensing tutorial will now guide new users through the basics of copyright and free licenses to make their first steps easier.
Meetingitis
Meetingitis
More often than not, meetings are abused. Let me tell you a short story to help you understand why you should prepare your next meeting if you expect me to attend.
One-click reuse buttons on Wikimedia Commons
One-click reuse buttons on Wikimedia Commons
Our volunteers are awesome. More specifically, Magnus Manske is awesome. He just made reusing pictures from Wikimedia Commons a hundred times easier.
The Universal Language Picker
The Universal Language Picker
Have you ever had a hard time finding your language in a web interface? The Universal language picker aims to solve this problem by accepting any valid input from the user and associating it with the language value stored in the software.
Prototype upload wizard unveiled for Wikimedia Commons
Prototype upload wizard unveiled for Wikimedia Commons
If you’ve ever tried to upload a file to Wikimedia Commons, you may have grown frustrated. Our new upload wizard aims to make it easier to contribute multimedia works to Wikimedia projects, and the first test results look promising.