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diff. wikimedia. org > 05/04/2026 > tech-news-2026-issue-19

Tech News 2026 " Issue 19

3+ hour ago  (471+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - The Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias'Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian,…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 04/29/2026 > wikidata-community-summit-2026-coscup-call-for-proposals

Wikidata Community Summit 2026 @ COSCUP Call for Proposals

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (264+ words) Wikimedia. org COSCUP is the biggest open source annual conference in Taiwan, hosted by and for all the open source community in Taiwan, which the Wikidata Taiwan community has also been participating in with Open Street Map Taiwan since 2019; co-hosting…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 04/06/2026 > tech-news-2026-week-15

Tech News 2026, week 15

4+ week, 7+ hour ago  (262+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - The Campaign Events extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/30/2026 > tech-news-2026-week-14

Tech News 2026, week 14

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (162+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - The Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/18/2026 > no-signal-no-problem-building-the-dagbanli-dictionary-for-offline-use

No Signal? No Problem: Building the Dagbanli Dictionary for Offline Use

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1586+ words) Screenshot of the "Optimize for Offline Use?" splash screen with "Download Language Pack" and "Continue Online" buttons. Many Dagbanli speakers live in areas with unreliable internet. We built the dictionary to work offline. Here is the architecture that makes that…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/17/2026 > building-the-dagbanli-dictionarys-audio-pipeline-ogg-ios-and-transcoding

Building the Dagbanli Dictionary's Audio Pipeline: OGG, i OS, and Transcoding

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1222+ words) A dictionary without pronunciation is incomplete, especially for a tonal language like Dagbanli. Here's how we built a pipeline from Wikimedia Commons recordings to in-browser playback, including a workaround for i OS Safari. Dagbanli is a tonal language where pronunciation…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/16/2026 > tech-news-2026-week-12

Tech News 2026, week 12

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (535+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - The Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature, also known as Code Mirror 6, has been used…...

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/09/2026 > tech-news-2026-week-11

Tech News 2026, week 11

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (416+ words) Wikimedia. org Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15: 00 UTC....

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/04/2026 > welx-belem-library-mirrored-learning

WELx + Bel'm Library: Mirrored Learning

2+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (502+ words) Filipa spoke at the 2025 GLAM Wiki Conference in Lisbon about the partnership between the library and Wiki Editoras LX (WELx), a feminist collective of editors active since 2019. The collaboration began after she participated in an editing workshop organized by WELx....

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diff. wikimedia. org > 03/02/2026 > tech-news-2026-week-10

Tech News 2026, week 10

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (88+ words) In order for this article to reach as many people as possible we would like your help. Can you translate this article to get the message out? Welcome to Diff, a community blog by " and for " the Wikimedia movement. Join…...