Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation's next CEO, on the org's transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Tweets: @djparekh , @worklifereward ,...
The Wikimedia Foundation is financially healthy and nearing a $100M endowment target five years ahead of schedule, yet fundraising appeals imply it's struggling
The site is way richer than it wants you to know. — The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia … Tweets: @iansherr , @sub8u , @kaepora , @davidcovucci , @nixcraft , @marcan42...
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain
Translate this page; This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Liam Wyatt / Diff : Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Wikipedia Will Star...
Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000
Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian hacker groups for $4,000 a pop. — The fir...
Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there?
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been recei...
Two new WMF bugs found
Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week — Just days after Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in t...
Updated Advisory: WMF Vulnerability
Hi folks- Kevin Kean here again. We here in the MSRC have been hard at work on this WMF vulnerability and so I wanted to provide you all with an update on the situation. — When the MSRC learned of ...
It's not a bug, it's a feature
What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability? — Turns out this is not really a bug, it's just bad design. Design from another era. — When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, ...
Conscientious Risk Management and WMF
This past week there have been a lot of questions about the WMF vulnerability, what Microsoft is doing, and what the community should do to protect against it. For many reasons, Microsoft's response ...
Handler's Diary
WMF FAQ (NEW) — Last Updated: 2006-01-02 03:18:03 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2(click to highlight changes)) — [a few users offered translations of this FAQ into various languages. Obviousl...