উইকিমিডিয়া হাইলাইটস, ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫

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"Wikidata Birthday Talk Magnus Manske.jpg" by Jason Krüger, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; "Solomon_Northup_by_Nebro,_edit.jpg" from Twelve Years a Slave (1853), public domain.; "(2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report) -Government primary school in Amman, Jordan - Young girls reading.jpg" by Tanya Habjouqa, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Collage by Andrew Sherman.

উইকিমিডিয়া ব্লগ হতে ডিসেম্বর ২০১৫ এর হাইলাইটস সমূহ।

 
অন্যান্য উৎসবের মত উইকিপেডিয়া ১৫০ টি কর্মকাণ্ডের মাধ্যমে ১৫ তম বার্ষিকী উৎযাপন করেছে । উইকিপেডিয়ার ভবিষ্যৎ কর্মকাণ্ড সম্পর্কে অনেকে তাঁদের মতামত প্রদান করেছে । Photo by Tanya Habjouqa, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

জানুয়ারি ১৫ তে আমরা সুধুমাত্র উৎসব উৎযাপন করিনি সাথে কীভাবে সবাই আরও মুক্তভাবে জ্ঞান বিতরন করা যায় তার ধারণা নিয়েছি । As part of this milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the Wikimedia Endowment, a permanent source of funding to ensure Wikipedia thrives for generations to come. The Foundation's goal is to raise $100 million over the next 10 years. You can follow along with the anniversary by tagging @Wikipedia, using the hashtag #wikipedia15, and visiting 15.wikipedia.org.

 
ম্যাগনাস মান্সকে, যিনি ২০১১ সাল থেকে উইকিপেডিয়াতে অবদান রাখছেন, জার্মানির কোলন শহরে জন্মগ্রহণ করেছিলেন এবং সেখানকার বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে পড়াশোনা করেছেন। কোলনের বিখ্যাত ক্যাথিড্রাল এর ছবি এখানে দেখা যাচ্ছে। Photo by Jason Krüger, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Manske vividly remembers the early days of Wikipedia: “Back in 2001, Wikipedia was the new kid on the block. We were the underdogs, starting from a blank slate, taking on entities like Brockhaus and Britannica, seemingly eternal giants in the encyclopedia world. I remember the Main Page saying ‘We currently have 15 not-so-bad articles. We want to make 100,000, so let’s get to work.’ ‘Not-so-bad’ referred to stubs with at least one comma.” In those days, even MediaWiki—the software that underpins Wikipedia and other wiki sites around the word—didn’t exist. However, the site’s growth posed problems for the original UseModWiki code, as it could not scale up to meet the demand. Manske coded a replacement for UseMod, which he called Phase II. It introduced a number of innovations that Wikipedia editors still use today, such as namespaces, watchlists, and user contribution lists.

 
Solomon Northup was the most-visited Wikipedia article on December 12, according to HatNote’s Top 100—a new app that takes advantage of the new pageview API. Illustration from Twelve Years a Slave (1853), public domain.

Wikipedia and its sister projects receive more than 16 billion pageviews each month—more than double the earth’s population. The popularity of different Wikipedia articles can reflect trends in society if we ask simple questions: what’s more popular on Spanish Wikipedia, fideuà or paella? How many views did Punjabi Wikipedia get after the last editathon? What are the top destinations people look up on German Wikivoyage?

You can now use the Wikimedia Foundation’s new pageview API to get these answers quickly and easily. The API is built on a RESTful architecture making it easy to retrieve data with a URI. To make it easier to use, there is a R client and a recently released python client.

In brief

Andrew Sherman, Digital Communications Intern, Wikimedia Foundation

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