Today, in a tragic example of the overreach of the United States’ current copyright law, the Wikimedia Foundation removed the Dutch-language text of The Diary of a Young Girl—more commonly known in English as the Diary of Anne Frank from Wikisource.

Super Bowl 50 ended on Sunday night with the Denver Broncos beating the Carolina Panthers. Our stats show that hundreds of thousands of viewers used Wikipedia as a ‘second screen’ to look up players and teams as the game unfolded.

Gerard Meijssen is a high-volume contributor to Wikidata and frequently comments on the state of the Wikimedia movement through his personal blog and posts to Wikimedia-l, the community’s mailing list.

These editors toil for hours each week to create and maintain the English Wikipedia’s NFL-related content.

Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers who combine and hone a crowdsourced view off the mainstream media path; there are many odd nuggets along the way. As we head into Super Bowl 50, take a peek at a quirky factoid for each of the games below.

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we believe that shorter copyright terms make it possible for more people to create and share free knowledge.

“Wikicamps” for Armenian students have expanded with Wiktionary.

Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

With contributions by: Brian Keegan, Piotr Konieczny, and Tilman Bayer

As part of the WikimediansSpeak interview series, Odia Wikisource’s most active contributor Pankajmala Sarangi shares her ideas about growing the community.

Last year around this time, we announced the arrival of a new tool that evolved out of an experiment aimed at making the editing process easier for our users. The tool in question—Content Translation—has been used by more than 11,000 editors across 289 Wikipedias to create more than 50,000 new articles.