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Updated: the story of Wikipedia and libraries is being rewritten around the...
Talk to your librarians about Wikipedia 15. Photo by Joi, freely licensed under CC BY 2.0. Update, January 21: The story of Wikipedia and libraries is being changed, updated, improved and broadened...
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Community digest: Urdu Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
The tiger shark was the Urdu Wikipedia’s 100,000th article. Photo by Albert kok, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. On December 29, 2015, the Urdu Wikipedia community achieved a major milestone:...
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Wikimedia and zero rating: clear principles for free knowledge
Photo by Victor Grigas, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. The Wikimedia Foundation works to expand free and open access to knowledge everywhere, including areas where affordable access to the...
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Wikimedia Highlights, December 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in December 2015. Contents Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske Making...
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Millions read Bowie biography following sudden death
David Bowie, left, who released twenty-six studio albums during his lifetime, died earlier this month. Photo by CBS Television, public domain. On January 10, just two days after the release of his...
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Wikimedia Foundation takes part in Google Code-in 2015
Photo by Swiss National Library/Simon Schmid/Fabian Scherler, freely licensed under CC BY-SA-4.0. Google Code-in 2015 is over. As a co-admin and mentor for the Wikimedia Foundation—one of the 14...
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MIT’s Pantheon explores historical culture with Wikipedia
Denis Law, centre, is scientifically the most famous person from my home town. Who’s yours? Photo by apasciuto, freely licensed under CC BY 2.0. Who is, scientifically, the most famous person in your...
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Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
Content Translation session at Wikimania 2015. Photo by Amire80, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Last year around this time, we announced the arrival of a new tool that evolved out of an...
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WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer shares her journey and goals
Odia Wikisourcer Pankajmala Sarangi shares her experience and future plans to grow the community. Video by Pankajmala Sarangi (original video) and Subhashish Panigrahi (post production), freely...
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Wikimedia Research Newsletter, January 2016
Vol: 6 • Issue: 01 • January 2016 [contribute] [archives] Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling With contributions by: Brian Keegan, Piotr...
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