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

Recently released documents detailed the terms of a grant received by the Wikimedia Foundation to work on a search projected called “Knowledge Engine.” The terms of the grant suggested plans for the ...

Today the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, is filing suit against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice of the ...

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, has reported a dramatic 50% increase in bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads since January 2024.

Wikimedia, the foundation that hosts Wikipedia and other sites, is considering supporting the MP4 video file format on its projects, because it finds that the current open formats it supports limit ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, whose mission is to 'enable everyone, everywhere to freely and openly access and share trusted information,' and which believes that 'access to knowledge is a human right,' ...