2 months till my book comes out! THE SEVEN RULES OF TRUST is not just the story of Wikipedia but the story of trust, and how it leads to success in our societies, businesses and lives. sites.prh.com/the-seven-rule… Pre-orders matter a lot, they tell me, so please consider ordering!

I am nailing Nine Theses to the door of Wikipedia. This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal—this is the first. If it doesn't work, we need to organize an alternative. 🧵

A new database will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/new…

A new Signpost is out! * Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia" * Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client * Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: 1,339 recent noticeboard threads analyzed and more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Exciting new tool for querying Wikidata: Nemo for Wikidata, which provides a programming interface to replace complex SPARQL queries. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mark…

The latest episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets features Wikimedia Foundation developer (and musician) Cormac Parle: betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-193-co…

The Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) has started! You can follow along at youtube.com/live/FbvtIjIU_…

Keynote talk by Dr. Maria-Esther Vidal of the Leibniz University TIB. #MUDCon

Sorry, *this* is the MUDCon keynote! Dr. Sahar Vahdati of Leibniz University.

Robert Vogel presents the BlueSpice chat bot, which answers wiki-related questions posed in Slack, MS Teams etc. #MUDCon

Shots fired. (MUDCon talk by cookmeplox)

Link for second day of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon): youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzEL…

Cool use of Page Forms by Thomas Gruber of HZDR. #MUDCon

The digital journey of knowledge about Ireland's Ogham Stones. Florian Thiery #MUDcon

Dr. Sören Auer on (successfully) using ChatGPT to populate the wiki OpenResearch.org via web search results. #MUDCon

Livestream link for day 3 of MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference: youtube.com/watch?v=jCjaMn…

The Wikimania Steering committee is excited to announce that Santiago, Chile will be the location for Wikimania 2027! The conference returns to South America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires and Mexico City diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/04/wik…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Vera de Kok, 2025 Wikimedia Media Contributor of the Year. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-194-ve…

Save the date for the next #wmhack! We’ll be meeting in Milan, Italy for the Wikimedia Hackathon from May 1 - 3, 2026: mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia….  Registration will open in Jan 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, apply before Nov 28, 2025: pretix.eu/wikimedia/Hack…

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