Wikimedia Resource Center/For contributors - Meta
Article Images
Learn how to address threats of physical harm to people or property on the Wikimedia projects.
Related pages: Mental Health Resources
News from across the Wikimedia movement, updated by the community.
Information about business matters related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Learn more about the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia.
For questions you may have about the content on Wikimedia sites.
Learn more about participating on the Wikimedia projects.
Learn more about how to conduct research on the Wikimedia projects, including surveys, interviews, and data analysis.
Follow changes, bugs and requests for this special feature.
Related pages: Subscribe
Skills Development
IdeaLab is an incubator for people to share ideas to improve Wikimedia projects and to collaboratively develop them into plans and grant proposals.
Contact: Chris Schilling
Community Capacity Development is an initiative that aims at identifying needs and ways to build capacity in different Wikimedia communities, and then initiating specific actions to build specific capacities in specific interested communities.
Contact: Asaf Bartov
Inspire Campaigns are month-long events to focus collaborative efforts on some of the most pressing challenges of the Wikimedia movement. Each campaign focuses on a unique theme and participation is open to everyone.
Contact: Chris Schilling
Develop better skills and learn best practices for dealing with behavioral problems, both online and at events.
Contact: Joe Sutherland
Related pages: Training modules (on Meta)
A simplified guide for reusing images from Wikimedia Commons
Contact: John Cummings
A vast collection of high-quality, freely licensed, user-generated informational material about Wikimedia projects. Here are cheatsheets, pamphlets, videos, brochures, and other things.
Grants Support
Programs Support
Education initiatives seek to bring educational institutions to the Wikimedia projects. In this portal, you will find shared learning from program leaders all over the world, resources to start a new program, and case studies of successful programs.
Contact: Nichole Saad
The Wikipedia Library helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. It also helps knowledge professionals share their collections with the public.
Contact: Jake Orlowitz
Guidance on maintaining a friendly and safe atmosphere at events.
A directory of useful Wikimedia-related tools, including tools for metrics and working more efficiently.
Software Basics
Is something not working as it should? You can do something about it by submitting a bug report.
Software Development
Do you have questions about Notifications or "Echo"?
A survey for Wikimedia contributors to submit the fixes and improvements they would like to see in the Wikimedia platforms.
Contact: Johan Jönsson
The central resource for technical documentation for current and future developers
The Tech News weekly summaries help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.
Contact: Johan Jönsson
Related pages: Subscribe
The home of Wikimedia Research. Read up on the latest research, browse Wikimedia data sources, and browse archives of past work.
Technical Infrastructure
Do you want to help translate our software or documentation? Can you help improve incorrect or untranslated items on buttons or in other parts of the user interface on a wiki? Do you want to translate announcements and help pages?
Legal
Summary of situations when you are and are not allowed to use the Wikimedia trademarks.
Points of contact for various legal matters relating to the Wikimedia projects
Learn about the particulars of using copyrighted, non-free ("fair use") content on Wikimedia projects
Biannual disclosure of requests and orders the Wikimedia Foundation receives from courts and law enforcement agencies
Learn about how public policy affects the Wikimedia projects and how you can get involved
The Legal Fees Assistance Program is a Wikimedia Foundation program established to help secure funds for legal assistance in appropriate cases for Wikimedia users who serve in a project governance role.
A portal for legal issues affecting the Wikimedia community
Communications
Find resources to create a digital communications strategy, that integrates blog and social media networks.
Contact: Ed Erhart, Aubrie Johnson
Learn how to do audience research, what you can learn from it, and find templates that you can use for your own research.
Learn the basics on how to create a communications strategy to achieve your goals.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Learn about the communications committee, and how it supports communications efforts across the Wikimedia movement.
Contact: Greg Varnum
Related pages: Communications portal