How should journalists use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia receives about 18 billion page views per month from around 1.4 billion unique devices. While many people use Wikipedia … Continue reading "How should journalists use Wikipedia?"
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US Second World War propaganda films migrated to Commons
Victor Grigas, a video producer and storyteller who has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation for a number of years, posted on … Continue reading "US Second World War propaganda films migrated to Commons"
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Talking to Creative Commons’ Ryan Merkley about CC Search and Structured Data on Commons
CC Search beta was launched in February. This new tool incorporates ‘list-making features, and simple, one-click attribution to make it easier to credit … Continue reading "Talking to Creative Commons’ Ryan Merkley about CC Search and Structured Data on Commons"
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Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site
Alec Muffett, a director of the Open Rights Group and an ex-Facebook, now Deliveroo software engineer, has created a Wikipedia … Continue reading "Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site"
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Help reduce the #GenderGap and win prizes in the Women in Red World Contest
WikiProject Women in Red is holding a biographical article creation contest throughout the month of November. They aim to create 2000 new biographical articles … Continue reading "Help reduce the #GenderGap and win prizes in the Women in Red World Contest"
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WikiFeed project to create custom newsfeeds from Wikimedia data
Fako Berkers and Edward Saperia have been working together on a project called “WikiFeed”. It’s a framework that allows you … Continue reading "WikiFeed project to create custom newsfeeds from Wikimedia data"
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 winners announced!
Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s biggest photographic competition and takes place every September. Participants take photos of historic places, … Continue reading "Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 winners announced!"
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Meet our new Membership and Fundraising Officer
I’m Katie Crampton and I’ve started as Wikimedia UK’s Membership, Fundraising and Operations Assistant, and I’d like to take this … Continue reading "Meet our new Membership and Fundraising Officer"
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Wiki Project Med Foundation launches Wikipedia hosting mini WiFi computer to distribute medical information
In 2017, the world passed the 50% mark in the number of people in the world who have access to … Continue reading "Wiki Project Med Foundation launches Wikipedia hosting mini WiFi computer to distribute medical information"
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Libraries Week – how librarians can help improve Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s greatest strength is the sheer number of people who contribute information to it. Every month the collective effort of … Continue reading "Libraries Week – how librarians can help improve Wikipedia"
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