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Community digest: “No matter how old you are, you can edit Wikipedia and be...
Photo by Tal Zussman, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. In the last academic year, Tal Zussman was an eighth-grade student at HaNagid school in Herzliya, Israel. Along with all his classmates, Tal...
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The International Francophone Contribution Month is here
A science workshop in Montreal held during the Francophone Contribution Month, a collaboration between Wikimedia Canada, Acfas, and BAnQ. Photo by Benoit Rochon, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0....
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Understanding Wikipedians, and narrowing the gaps: Rebecca O’Neill
Photo by the Victor Grigas, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Rebecca O’Neill is helping both to plug gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of women in art while simultaneously researching why people even...
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The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women...
One of the many women scientist biographies Emily Temple-Wood has worked on is Barbara McClintock, a 1983 winner of the Nobel Prize. Photo from the Smithsonian, public domain. By day, Emily...
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Wikimedia Research Newsletter, February 2016
Vol: 6 • Issue: 02 • February 2016 [contribute] [archives] Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is “verifiable”? With contributions by: Nicolas Jullien, Piotr Konieczny, and...
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When people disappear
Peñalba de Duero. Photo by Lourdes Cardenal, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Alfonso V of Aragon was born in 1396; known as Alfonso the Magnanimous, he was the king of territories all over the...
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New Wikipedia app for iOS puts the joy of exploration in your hand
The welcome screen when you first open the new Wikipedia app for iOS. Photo by Benjamin Child, public domain/CC0. You’re on your commute home from work or school. You want something interesting to...
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Katherine Maher appointed as interim executive director for the Wikimedia...
Katherine Maher has been chosen as interim executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Katherine Maher, the chief communications...
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News on Wikipedia: Volunteers are bringing reliable information about the...
This freely-licensed video documents current understanding of the Zika virus and its spread. Video by Osmosis, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. As the Zika virus outbreak continues to worry health...
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“The potential is huge and waiting to be explored”: Wikipedia for Peace
Photo by Xendzi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Last year I had the privilege to coordinate a community project that I’ve in mind for a long time. I imagined a rather small and grassroots...
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