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Diff
is a Wikimedia-community-focused blog platform, established by the
Communications department at the Wikimedia Foundation
. It hosts community storytelling and learning at
diff.wikimedia.org
. With Diff, we are promoting the sorts of enriching exchanges by welcoming people from every background to build strong and diverse communities, breaking down the barriers for entry to our movement, and focusing our efforts on facilitating collaboration, including from communities that are new to our movement.
Background
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Diff
builds on the experiences of the
Wikimedia Blog
, the
Wikimedia Foundation News
, and
Wikimedia Space
, and it offers a combined archive of over 4,000 posts from these channels.
Diff
aims to become a predominantly community-authored platform, in which volunteers can share their stories, learnings, and ideas with each other. Learning from others has been essential for development of the wiki movement.
The name of the new community blog is "Diff" – named after the
wiki interface for showing the difference between two revisions of a page
. It is also a nod to the
difference
our communities make in the world every day.
Mission statement
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Diff
enables a predominantly community-authored platform for sharing and learning by and for the Wikimedia movement. Diff has an inviting and simple editorial process to encourage participation from all – especially emerging and under-represented communities. Content can be written and translated into languages to reach a wide audience.
We are using existing off-the-shelf technological solutions and plans for integration with Wikimedia wikis to allow for expansion into common volunteer workflows.
Objectives
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Help community members share and learn from one another across geographies, languages, and areas of interest.
Increase the diversity of voices and involvement in community discussions and activities.
Provide a wellspring of storytelling opportunities for Comms work from communities and individuals.
Welcoming and safe to newcomers. Friendly interface, familiar features, encouraging participation, and a code of conduct.
A central place for volunteers to learn about foundation activities, from new products, experiments, consultations, and more.
Scope
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The scope of the Diff Blog is news about the Wikimedia movement, for the Wikimedia movement. Some examples:
News produced by committees and affiliates, like the ones posted in wikimedia-l.
Links to interesting Wikimedia stories and discussions published in other channels.
News about Wikimedia partners, the ecosystem of free knowledge and other current events that are connected with the Wikimedia movement and are targeted to Wikimedia contributors.
Announcements, requests for feedback, reports, newsletters… produced by the Wikimedia Foundation for community audiences.
News with an unclear impact on the Wikimedia movement and opinion articles are out of scope.
Audiences
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Diff
is internally focused toward community members, affiliates, and projects who want to share their experiences with others and invite those outside their normal channels of activity into their own efforts.
Externally speaking,
Diff
allows for the movement to share with the rest of the world its breadth and flurry of activity.
Structure
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A blog using WordPress VIP hosting where contributors can log in with their Wikimedia account to submit drafts
Category-based navigation to highlight strategic interest areas of content
An open and minimal editorial process whereby volunteers and staff can submit blog posts for inclusion in their own voice
Calendar
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Diff had a calendar feature where anyone in the Wikimedia movement can add events. It was retired in March 2026. More information can be found at
Diff (blog)/Calendar
. An archive can be found at
Diff (blog)/Calendar archive
Compliments, comments, and questions
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Please
start a new topic on the talk page
or email the project team at diff
wikimedia.org
Bug reports and feature requests
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Bug reports and feature requests can be
made on Phabricator
. Please
add the #diff-blog tag
when creating new tasks.
Archive
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There is a manually curated list of all published blog posts
here on Meta
Code
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A public repository of the Diff theme
can be found on Github
A public mirror of the code that makes Diff work
can be found on Github
See also
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Welcome to Diff blog post from the day Diff was launched
About Diff
Wikimedia Blog
Wikimedia Space
Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department
Cross-departmental
Knowledge is Human
A Wiki Minute
Open the Knowledge
Open the Knowledge: Journalism Awards
Open the Knowledge: Stories
Project Rewrite
Wiki Unseen
Brand Studio
Sound Logo
Trademark policy
Visual identity guidelines
Wikimedia brands
Wikimedia brand guidelines
Wikimedia trademarks
External Communications
Communicating about the Wikimedia Foundation
Diversity, equity, and inclusion communications research
Social media
Wikimedia Foundation website
Press room
Wikimedia News
Wikipedia Preview
Movement Communications
Communications committee (ComCom)
Communications Resource Center
Diff
Maryana's Listening tour
Movement communications group (MoveCom)
Movement communications insights
Organization communications translators group
WikiCelebrate
Wikimania
Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
Wikimedian of the Year
Annual plan
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