Category: Research

• 29.05.2018

By Charles West, Lecturer of History and Wikipedia Advocate at the University of Sheffield Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the … Continue reading "Wikipedia in the History Classroom"

• 28.02.2018

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. … Continue reading "Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability"

• 15.02.2018

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator I saw a friend on Facebook share an obvious piece of fake news a few … Continue reading "Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point"

• 21.12.2017

What is the Atlas of Hillforts? Hillforts are enormous archaeological sites dotted around Britain and Ireland. There are some of … Continue reading "A guide to the past: hillforts and Wikimedia"

• 27.11.2017

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"

• 01.12.2016

If you are curious about the languages and cultures of the world, follow Wikidelta on Twitter. It's an unofficial and experimental account which is an attempt to discover what could be unique in each of the languages of Wikipedia.

• 01.02.2016

This post was written by Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at Bodleian Libraries, and was first published on Open Access Oxford . The … Continue reading "Wikipedia and Open Access: making research as useful as it can be"

• 24.03.2015

This post was originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation blog by Dario Tarborelli and Yana Welinder. Re-published under CC-BY 3.0 unported The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to … Continue reading "Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge"

• 13.02.2015

‘Impact’ is a perennial concern for organisations, including Wikimedia chapters. Showing that what you’re up to makes a difference: contributing … Continue reading "Altmetrics and Wikipedia"

• 16.01.2015

A recent article by @monicaMedHist identifies the disease in Royal 6 E VI, f 301, as leprosy: http://t.co/PmatI7obgF pic.twitter.com/ysEb3X9VNA — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) … Continue reading "The truth gets its shoes on: the Black Death on Wikipedia"