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Lydia Pintscher wins European Open Source Award 2025

Lydia Pintscher has received the inaugural European Open Source Award in Brussels for her pivotal role as Wikidata Portfolio Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Fri, 31st Jan 2025

Unified Communications

DataStax partners with Wikimedia for AI knowledge project

DataStax and Wikimedia Deutschland are collaborating on an AI initiative to enhance open data accessibility, processing over 10 million entries in just three days.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 4th Dec 2024

Global Stories

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Generative AI

Wikimedia project boosts software for endangered languages worldwide

Wikimedia Deutschland's project supports software development to preserve endangered languages across Indonesia, Africa, and Brazil, boosting access to knowledge.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Thu, 31st Jul 2025

Open source

Check Point discovers critical vulnerability for Wikipedia.org and other 'Wiki' sites

Check Point has revealed a critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution on Wikipedia and other 'Wiki' sites, prompting an urgent software patch.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 31st Jan 2014

Google

US$500k donation kicks off Wikipedia funding drive

Wikipedia's fundraising drive starts strong with a US$500k donation from Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, targeting US$28.3m in spending.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Mon, 21st Nov 2011

FBI

FBI and Wikipedia stand-off over logo

The FBI has demanded that Wikipedia remove its seal from their website and has threatened legal action if it is not taken down.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Wed, 4th Aug 2010

Cloud Services

Your data, as you want

It seems everyone is 'on' Facebook, whether you are a government department, telecommunications business or simply someone with funny cat photos to share.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Sun, 1st Aug 2010