Stories about Design
August 8, 2017
New GV Feature: Contributor Achievements!
Hi GV Community, we're launching a small new feature on the GV sites and I wanted to send out a warning because the feature will be sending you email and...
August 3, 2017
Facebook Sharing Woes: Using the URL Debugger to fix post metadata
Lena Nitsche Hey everyone. Question: Since a couple of days Facebook isn't showing the thumbnail pictures of posts I want to share on the GV German Facbeook account. Any tips...
July 18, 2017
Instagram Embeds on GV: Updated Guides
Hi all, quick post to point out that I've reviewed and updated the Instagram embedding guidelines for GV sites. It's nothing too wild, but there has been some confusion and...
March 16, 2017
GV Has Taglines On Posts Now?
Here at Global Voices Tech HQ (my apartment) we try to avoid overloading the editing process for GV posts with a million steps and processes because we don't want you to...
February 24, 2017
Facebook Instant Articles Are Live on GV: What you need to know
Greetings Earthling Voices! As we promised in our format test post Facebook Instant Articles, the nebulous publishing tool that makes our posts ultra fast for mobile Facebook visitors, is now...
July 14, 2016
Useful new WordPress and Lingua features
Hello, I'm Jeremy the lead developer for Global Voices. We just updated all sites to use the latest version of WordPress (4.5.3) and I wanted to demo a few cool...
February 19, 2016
Every language in the world: Introducing Wikitongues
Wikitongues is a movement for human rights. Together with speakers and signers of every language in the world, we’re building the most inclusive cultural archive ever made, raising awareness about...
December 10, 2015
Lingua Tech: Multiple authors per-post is here!
As promised in my last post about changes to credits display on Lingua, today we are launching a whole new feature across GV: The option to set more than one...
November 20, 2015
Lingua Tech: All your posts on all your sites!
Hi GV! I'm Jeremy the Tech Director of Global Voices. Along with our coding contractor Carl, I've been working on a really big update to the plugins that control the...
August 14, 2015
Brand New Lingua System Feels Pretty Much The Same
Hi everyone! Today we're launching an update to the Lingua Translation system used on GV sites that I've been working on for many months now. To make the transition easy...
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Meet Gwenaelle, the Physicist who Fell in Love With Minority Languages
Thanks for the beautiful read!
Should the world look more like Global Voices?
Very nicely put. I've been thinking about this question for years Laura, and also feel...
Dear Laura: “being Global Voices” is more of a journey than a destination, undoubtedly. It is...
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