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You might find it interesting to read some of the 2026-2027 infrastructure OKRs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...

If it were that easy to recruit new dedicated volunteers who would contribute a non-trivial amount of constructive work and stick with it over time, I'd be delighted and relieved, …

The solidarity petition is public ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_... ), and it includes a section with statistics summarizing the contributions of ed…

There are a bunch of research papers that compare Wikipedia and Grokipedia in some depth, and they've found and interpreted a lot of interesting differences. A couple of recaps fro…

I appreciate that this article actually cites some of the relevant discussions. Wikipedia community processes are unusual in that they are largely public, including that foundation…

https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-def... : "A decade ago, Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, received 304 requests to alter or remo…

FYI, I took Plucker out of the lead in November, after a PG volunteer recommended that update on the article talk page. Plucker is currently only mentioned in a sentence about form…

My late family member was a technical editor at Bell Labs, and I inherited a few of his papers, and his internal resume is truly boring in many places: “From October 1970 through D…

Aw yeah! I’d love to see somebody from the DevTeam talk about this, or literally anything else they might want to talk about, at the Roguelike Celebration in October ( https://www.…

Come help! When you come across a math article on Wikipedia that you find difficult to understand, consider writing a talk page comment with specific, polite, constructive feedback…

Wikipedia has a range of protective mechanisms that admins can apply to high-traffic or frequently vandalized articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy "P…

I want the equivalent of Mythos for Wikipedia - I want world-class tooling that helps human editors efficiently find, prioritize, and mitigate attempts to add deceptive and low-qua…

For anyone at GitHub looking at this thread: please update your documentation page about how to report abuse ( https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe... ). I …

The team is a mix of employees and contractors. They also offer customers (government agencies who use their service) the option to use Bing results or their in-house Elasticsearch…

It's not too late! Grab a ticket and come on in: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roguelike-celebration-2021-tick...

The Forest Service worked with 18F on this Open Forest project to enable people to buy Christmas tree permits online, which uses United States Web Design System components: https:/…

You need to move to DC to work for USDS ( https://www.usds.gov/join#relocation ), but you can work for 18F from anywhere in the US ( https://18f.gsa.gov/join/ ). The login.gov team…

I work at 18F but am speaking about my experience here and experiences heard from coworkers, not officially on behalf of 18F. Applying to 18F didn't require a drug test for me. The…

Yes, if a company receiving this letter isn't quite sure what level of detail the NHSTA needs, they could make a polite call to the explicitly-listed "call us if you have questions…

Aw, thanks for posting this and being excited about it! This is a labor of love organized by my friend Noah with help from a few other friends and me, just for fun since we love pl…

That's just the schedule page - sorry this is confusing! The intro page ( https://roguelike.club/ ) has the date - tomorrow (Saturday), September 17.

You might find this chart interesting for thinking about the uses of discussion outside of courts: https://twitter.com/scriptjunkie1/status/739545814150746113

I'd encourage you all to read the draft source code policy ( https://sourcecode.cio.gov/ ) and consider commenting on it or responding to existing comments yourself (due by Monday …