Technology – Wikimedia Foundation (original) (raw)

From hosting Wikipedia to creating edit-checking artificial intelligence (AI), we design and build the open-source technology that powers Wikimedia projects. Community volunteers and Foundation technologists collaborate on MediaWiki, the platform that makes sharing free knowledge possible.

Hosting the world’s knowledge

Wikipedia is one of the top most-visited websites in the world, accessed by 1.5 billion unique devices every month. Our infrastructure keeps it online.

Making Wikipedia easier to use

Through technical and design improvements to Wikipedia’s desktop and more, we make the site easier to use and more welcoming for readers and contributors alike.

Assisting human collaboration with machine learning

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and it can be challenging to maintain quality control. That is why we made ORES, an artificial intelligence service that automatically identifies potentially problematic content as soon as it appears, advising editors if changes are needed.

Helping NASA

NASA’s internal wiki for collaboration and documentation is built on MediaWiki, just like Wikipedia. We create MediaWiki—open-source wiki software that is free and available for anyone.

Growing a volunteer developer community

Over half of the commits made to our codebase are pushed by volunteers. We actively support a thriving volunteer technology community, with grants, events, and an open collaboration tool.

Help us unlock the world’s knowledge.

As a nonprofit, Wikipedia and our related free knowledge projects are powered primarily through donations.

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Dive deeper into Wikimedia projects

MediaWiki

Originally created for use on Wikipedia, MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software written in PHP.

ORES

The web service and API that provides machine learning as a service to flag bad edits and vandalism on Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia for Android

Wikipedia at your fingertips on Android. Set your app to night reading mode or save articles to read offline.

Wikipedia for iOS

Wikipedia at your fingertips on iOS. Set your app to night reading mode or save articles to read offline.

APIs

Our API provides straightforward access to Wikimedia content and data, in machine-readable formats.

Wikistats

Wikistats is a public dashboard featuring data about the reach and impact of Wikimedia projects.

Wikimedia Enterprise

For organizations that reuse Wikimedia content: Wikimedia Enterprise is a commercial product that meets a range of high volume content reuse needs, providing streamlined, on-demand access to Wikimedia APIs with standard Service Level Agreements.