Community, Photo contests, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia Commons
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BY Biplab Anand ON November 13th, 2015
Wiki Loves Monuments 2015, an international photography competition, was held locally in Nepal for the third time this year. Their photos are extraordinary.
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Community, Editor engagement, Free Culture, Free Knowledge, Wikipedia
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BY Vira Motorko ON November 13th, 2015
Outside view This blog post was written by a member of the Wikimedia community and not by an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. The views expressed are the author’s alone and are not necessarily held by the Foundation or the community as a whole. Methylene blue, one of many redox…
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Chapters, Community, Global, The wikis, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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BY Chen Davidi ON November 13th, 2015
2015 was a pivotal year for the Hebrew Wiktionary. How can the Chapter help and support on the process of “revitalizing” a community? And what is the meaning of an independent and prosperous community?
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Foundation, Legal
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BY Mark Bergsma and Michelle Paulson ON November 12th, 2015
A security incident with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Mailman mailing list system was identified and addressed today. Photo by Petar Milošević, freely licensed under CC by-SA 4.0. On November 12, the Wikimedia Operations team identified a security incident on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Mailman mailing list system that resulted in the breach…
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Free Knowledge, Wikipedia Library
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BY John G. Dove ON November 12th, 2015
John G. Dove, whose efforts with Credo Reference helped establish The Wikipedia Library, reflects on Wikipedia’s complex connections to the Open Access Publishing movement.
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Communications, Highlights, The wikis, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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BY Andrew Sherman ON November 12th, 2015
Here are highlights from across the Wikimedia movement, as reported on this blog in October 2015: Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony; Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez; Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item; District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected; Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse.
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Community, Editor engagement, Free Culture, Free Knowledge, The wikis, Wikipedia
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BY Runa Bhattacharjee and Amir E. Aharoni ON November 11th, 2015
Content Translation has helped create 30,000 new Wikipedia articles since the beginning of 2015. In our latest update, we’ve covered some important milestones.
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Community, Free Culture, Free Knowledge, The wikis, Wikipedia
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BY Kumiko Korezumi ON November 11th, 2015
Learn about Wikipedia Town and Wikipedia ARTS, an original approach to promote editing articles on local communities and modern arts.
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Chapters, Community, The wikis, Wikipedia
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BY Nahid Sultan and Nurunnaby Chowdhury ON November 10th, 2015
The Bengali version of Wikipedia started its journey back in 2004 and has gradually become the largest Bengali content website on the Internet with more than 38,000 articles on various topics.
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Communications, Community, Community Digest, Corporate, Edit-a-thons, Gender Gap, Wikipedia
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BY Addis Wang and Ed Erhart ON November 6th, 2015
Wikipedia Asian Month has started, “superprotect” has been removed from Wikimedia sites, and other relevant news from the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia community.
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