2024 Wikimedia Commons picture of the year awards are announced!

🥇 First Place: https://w.wiki/Fee9
🥈 Second Place: https://w.wiki/FeeD
🥉 Third Place: https://w.wiki/FeeE

Some recent work from our MediaWiki teams: sunsetting our Mobile domains improves performance (with data!) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405429#11231816

Working on a top 10 website requires specialized skills for serving content at scale, particularly concerning performance, and it’s so fun to be able to highlight the excellent results of that hard work.

In Thessaloniki, Greece for the Central and Eastern European (CEE) Wikimedia Meeting. Excellent conversations today about challenges that our communities face in AI, knowledge gaps and encouraging tool adoption among editors!

Last night I had dinner looking out over the water as this ship cruised by!

The new Community Wishlist launched today https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/15/share-your-product-needs-with-the-community-wishlist/

It's always on, and we're integrating it with planning across our technical teams and contributors, rather than having it be a once-a-year process. It's also multi-lingual by default and will have review by our staff to understand the problems being solved and how it relates to past, existing or future work. So happy to see this next step today, and looking forward to it's future!

A colleague mentioned Tsundoku to me today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku

One time I "marie kondo'd" my book collection, but almost 10 years later, we have re-acquired a lot of books. :)