A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation's CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats
Wikipedia is in peril. — In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front.LinkedIn:Cameran Ashraf, Ph.D..Forums:r/anim...
Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO
Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer, tapping an administrator with deep policy expertise …
Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS? I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without a referral. More w...
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training
Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more
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Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more
We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.
Web Summit names Katherine Maher, the former Wikimedia Foundation head, as its new CEO, replacing co-founder Paddy Cosgrave, ahead of the event on November 13
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Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid service for reusing and sourcing Wikimedia content in high volume, announces Google and the Internet Archive as its first clients
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