Atrium of the Newseum. Photo by Fletcher6, freely licensed under CC-by-3.0. Number of stories mentioning Alexa top ten websites in the New York Times, January to September 2015. Slide by Robert Fernandez, freely licensed under CC-by-SA 4.0. This introduction was accidentally left off this blog post when it was published:…

Today, a federal district court granted the government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, our lawsuit challenging the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) use of “Upstream” mass surveillance.

On Friday, October 23, Wikipedia was formally presented with the highly esteemed Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, honoring the Wikimedia movement vision of allowing everyone, everywhere to freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

For Wiki Loves Monuments 2015, an international photo competition, an incredible amount of pictures were uploaded—including about 39,000 images of protected monuments in Germany alone. They included shots of high documentary and some of outstanding aesthetic value.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s report for last quarter gives an overview of how we fared on 133 goals by 36 different teams, alongside some key overall metrics.

Canada’s 42nd general election resulted in victory for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. Find out how Wikipedia editors responded to every twist and turn along the way.

Wikipedia has become one of the most influential portals for internet-based research — providing readers with an initial overview of almost any topic and acting as a first stop for expert researchers. Moreover, the platform increasingly favours both scholarship and openness: a recent study showed that journals published as open…

The Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 contest in Pakistan was only the second edition of the photography competition to take place in the country. Of the 2,200 submissions, Pakistan’s jury selected their final ten winners this month, all of which are stunning and, of course, released by their authors under free licenses.

A testimony from an Argentine journalist who participated in an editathon in the Teatro Colón organized by Wikimedia Argentina.

Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez first started as a Wikipedia volunteer in 2006. Today, he combines this passion with his love of teaching, and works with university students on improving Wikipedia’s coverage of medicine.