{"id":2714,"date":"2024-08-04T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T05:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=2714"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:20:27","slug":"how-the-wikimedia-foundation-uses-wordpress-to-run-an-open-community-blog-for-the-wikipedia-community-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/session\/how-the-wikimedia-foundation-uses-wordpress-to-run-an-open-community-blog-for-the-wikipedia-community-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Wikimedia Foundation Uses WordPress to Run an Open Community Blog for the Wikipedia Community and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that supports these contributors and projects. For the last four years the Foundation&#8217;s Communications department has built and supported an open \u2013 anyone can edit \u2013 style blog using WordPress. It&#8217;s called Diff (diff.wikimedia.org) and it&#8217;s a multilingual blog that anyone can edit\u2026or well, at least submit a post to be published. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the way we&#8217;ve learned some important and interesting lessons on how to allow anyone to submit a post, review and publish, while allowing for unique voices and perspectives. We&#8217;re using a mix of some off-the-shelf plugins, a bit of custom code, and bending WordPress and multilingualism to the extreme ends of how it&#8217;s &#8220;supposed&#8221; to work. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This session will introduce you to how we pulled this all off, some of the ways we&#8217;ve given back to the WordPress community, the challenges we&#8217;ve faced, and ideas on how you can run an open community blog.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers\"><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__byline\">Presented by<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/speaker\/chris-koerner\/\">Chris Koerner<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that supports these contributors and projects. For the last four years the Foundation&#8217;s Communications department has built and supported an open \u2013 anyone can edit \u2013 style blog using WordPress. It&#8217;s called Diff (diff.wikimedia.org) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11993468,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1726851600,"_wcpt_session_duration":2700,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[2713],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[48],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-2714","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-1-rose-city"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"20 September 2024","time":"10:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"2713","slug":"chris-koerner","name":"Chris Koerner","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/speaker\/chris-koerner\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2714\/revisions\/8991"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/2713"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/ckoerner"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}