Over the last two years, we have developed a unique framework for equitable and inclusive open source product development – which puts diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center of the technology behind Wikimedia projects, like @Wikipedia. 🧵⬇️ (1/12)
medium.com/freely-sharing… Our Lead Product Manager @ItsJazTanner shares her journey to develop the framework and the ten things she and the framework working group learned along the way. (2/12)

NEW: See two exciting updates from Wikimedia Enterprise, a product that makes it easier for other websites to package & share Wikimedia content at scale:
1. @Google & @internetarchive are its first customers
2. Free trial accounts are now available (1/4)

wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/2… We have worked together with @Google on a number of projects and initiatives to enhance knowledge distribution to the world – some of Google's features are powered by content from Wikimedia projects. (2/4)

On @Facebook's announcement that it is adding descriptions of publishers, taken from Wikipedia entries, to shared articles.

Their announcement: newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/n…
Our statement, and a thread below: wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_rel… 1/8 We've long advised people to use Wikipedia as a first stop in their research, as we're usually good at giving you a broad-level overview of a topic. That behavior is exactly what Facebook will be facilitating. 2/8

You may have heard that @YouTube is going to start linking videos about conspiracies to @Wikipedia articles. Here's our statement about this, and a few words about how Wikipedia works.

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Wikipedia is run by living, breathing humans who volunteer their time every day to add, curate, and maintain the world's largest encyclopedia. blog.wikimedia.org/c/communicatio…