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Counting down the days until Wikimanía 2015! Will we see you in Mexico City?
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This high profile prisoner escaped through a mile-long tunnel with the help of a modified motorcycle. ‪#‎NewsOnWikipedia‬

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News on Wikipedia: possible bailout for Greece and a prison escape in Mexico « Wikimedia blog
Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece, must now persuade his government to accept the new terms. Image by kremlin.ru, freely licensed under CC-BY 3.0.
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Want to meet other attendees at Wikimanía 2015? Find a meetup or add your own here! ‪#‎Wikimanía‬

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Meetups – Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City
Meetups are self-organized by delegates, and can happen at any time during the conference, though we recommend 7pm onwards so as not to clash with sessions. The Wikimania team will assign meeting points for meetups, depending how many meetups are proposed and estimated attendance. These may or may n…
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Blast off to ‪#‎NewHorizons‬! Today's featured article is Pluto, updated with the latest photo from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ‪#‎PlutoFlyBy‬

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pluto is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun, with about a sixth of the mass of the Moon and a third of its volume. Like other Kuiper belt objects, which are generally outside Neptune's orbit, Pluto is primarily rock and ice. It has an elongated and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 49 astronomic…
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité: Happy ‪#‎BastilleDay‬!

Bastille Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête nationale (French pronunciation: [la fɛːt nasjɔˈnal]; The National Celebration) and commonly Le quatorze juillet (French pronun…
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Wikipedia a partagé la photo de Wikimanía 2015.
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Photo de Wikimanía 2015.
Wikimanía 2015

Our volunteers will have this welcome banners at the airport émoticône smile

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IFTTT's new Wikipedia Channel lets you share Wikipedia's information more easily than ever before.

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Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT « Wikimedia blog
If This Then That, or IFTTT, introduces new tools to make connecting with Wikipedia’s public data simpler than ever. Photo by IFTTT.
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After 24 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes…

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Print Wikipedia Project Reaches Final Entry
So far, no buyer has emerged for the full 7,600-volume, 5.4-million-page set, which is priced at $500,000. But several dozen individual volumes have been sold.
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com|Par Jennifer Schuessler

Going to Wikimanía 2015? Let your friends know! ‪#‎Wikimanía‬

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The program, run by the Wiki Education Foundation and The Wikipedia Library, allows Wikipedia editors access to high-quality sources through top research libraries in North America.

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Five new positions placing Wikipedians as Visiting Scholars « Wikimedia blog
McMaster University is one of the five libraries joining the program. Photo by Mathew Ingram, freely licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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Remember the world before Wikipedia? The Fine Brothers asked some of today's students to try researching with traditional encyclopedias.
It wasn't quite what they're used to.

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TEENS REACT TO ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedias Bonus video on the REACT channel: Coming Tuesday! 10% OFF Monthly GEEK/GAMER BOX!!! Use Code: THEFINEBROS http://lootcrate.com/thefinebros Watc...
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Caitlyn Jenner praised Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's coverage of transgender rights. This is how Wikipedia covered Jenner's transition.

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How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition « Wikimedia blog
Caitlyn Jenner, a famed Olympic athlete and reality television star, completed her transition on June 1 and revealed it with a cover shoot in Vanity Fair. Wikipedia responded to this news in less than 30 minutes. Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, used under fair use in the Wikipedia article…
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During last year's event, 80 editors created or improved 759 articles in 65 days. This year, they want to do even better.

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The Chinese Wikipedia’s Dong Yuan Ling wants you to contribute articles « Wikimedia blog
An online edit-a-thon called "Dong Yuan Ling" (Chinese: 动员令/動員令, literally "Mobilization Order") is an annual summer tradition on the Chinese Wikipedia.
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"Me di cuenta que el digitalizar la información pues hacía que la enciclopedia creciera y de ahí me enamoré de Wikipedia y del movimiento."

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Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the richest men in the world, pledged his fortune to charity last week. ‪#‎NewsOnWikipedia‬

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News on Wikipedia: Reddit controversy and the Women’s World Cup final « Wikimedia blog
Voters in Greece set out to vote in a referendum on Sunday (July 5) to choose whether or not to accept terms on a new bailout deal offered by the European Union. While opinion polling in the buildup suggested a close race, the “No” option did much better than many expected: 61.3 percent of voters el…
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"Me di cuenta que el digitalizar la información pues hacía que la enciclopedia creciera y de ahí me enamoré de Wikipedia y del movimiento."

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"I realised that the digitalisation of information made the encyclopedia grow, and that made me fall in love with Wikipedia and the movement."

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Raising awareness of endangered species, one Wikipedia page at a time: Christian Cariño «...
Christian Cariño is excited to be going to Wikimanía 2015. Video by Victor Grigas, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Also view on YouTube.com and Vimeo.com. A version with burned-in Spanish subtitles is available here.
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Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015.

Contents:

These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution...
Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder

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Wikimedia Highlights, June 2015 - Meta
'Wikipedia Picks' is a new content experiment for the Wikimedia blog. This weekly feature invites one member of the Wikipedia community to curate a list of five articles, images, or other content that they find interesting or important, in collaborat
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Carli Lloyd scored a hat trick within just thirteen minutes as U.S. Soccer won the FIFA Women's World Cup. ‪#‎NewsOnWikipedia‬

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News on Wikipedia: Reddit controversy and the Women’s World Cup final « Wikimedia blog
Voters in Greece set out to vote in a referendum on Sunday (June 5) to choose whether or not to accept terms on a new bailout deal offered by the European Union. While opinion polling in the buildup suggested a close race, the “No” option did much better than many expected: 61.3 percent of voters el…
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Earth overtakes Jupiter every 398.9 days as it orbits the Sun, a duration called the synodic period.

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Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth of that of the Sun, but is two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn (Uranus and Neptu…
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"Before Wikipedia" there were Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Diderot, Calvino, and Flaubert.

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Hacking the Humanities - The New Yorker
In the past decade, digital scholarship has gone from being a quirky corner of the humanities to a mainstream phenomenon.
newyorker.com|Par Elias Muhanna

The newest version of the official Wikipedia app for iOS is now available for download.

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Wikipedia Mobile
Disponible dans l’App Store

WikiCamp – the only one of its kind – brings together very active student Wikipedians for a season of fun and learning, sponsored by Wikimedia Armenia.

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Summer Wikicamp 2015
WikiCamp is a youth camp organized by Wikimedia Armenia. WikiCamp main goal is the education, deepening wiki editing and translation skills of participants t...
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Greek voters rejected terms on a new European Union bailout this week. ‪#‎NewsOnWikipedia‬

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News on Wikipedia: Reddit controversy and the Women’s World Cup final « Wikimedia blog
Voters in Greece set out to vote in a referendum on Sunday (June 5) to choose whether or not to accept terms on a new bailout deal offered by the European Union. While opinion polling in the buildup suggested a close race, the “No” option did much better than many expected: 61.3 percent of voters el…
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The writing contest toolkit is the second in a series of program guides on how to implement more effective Wikimedia programs.

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We’re here to help you plan the next Wikimedia writing contest « Wikimedia blog
The competition is like a celebration, a festival, because all of the sudden there are a lot of new pages about the topic. Photo by Alejandro Escamilla, freely licensed under CC0 1.0.
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