Community Digest—collaboration bears fruit in Quebec
Also featuring a 60-hour editathon, Wikimania scholarships, and Foundation news.
Community, Free Knowledge, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
0 Comments BY Emna Mizouni ON December 8th, 2015
The MedinaPedia concept aims to host workshops to improve all aspects of Wikimedia’s coverage on Tunis’ medina, including Wikipedia articles, Wikimedia Commons images, or Wikidata entries.
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1 Comment BY Tobias Gritschacher, Jakob Warkotsch and Jens Ohlig ON December 8th, 2015
Phragile is a tool that generates burn down charts, burn up charts and sprint oberviews for the Phabricator boards of agile software projects. Why was it developed?
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1 Comment BY Jeff Elder ON December 8th, 2015
The golden ceiling of a mosque in Iran, an orange and white lighthouse in Germany, the red roof of a Buddhist temple in Thailand. This year’s Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest winners glow with the colorful cultural heritage of the world. And the over 230,000 entries poured into Wikimedia projects with the help of Creative Commons licenses.
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1 Comment BY Andrew Sherman ON December 7th, 2015
Today, Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 revealed the winners for this years photo contest including Westerheversand Lighthouse, Sacra di San Michele, Hanover’s New Town Hall, and more. The international jury’s final report will be issued in the coming weeks.
Read moreCommunity, Grantmaking, Grants, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage
1 Comment BY Helen Halbert ON December 4th, 2015
Photo by Heather Walls, freely licensed under CC0 1.0. We are excited to announce the successful grantees from round two of the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2015 Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program. Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) provide funding to individuals and small teams to take on projects with potential for online impact…
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1 Comment BY Vira Motorko ON December 4th, 2015
See top-10 pictures of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Ukraine, part of international photography competition, which was held locally in Ukraine for the fourth time.
Read moreChapters, Community, Editor engagement, Education, Global, The wikis, Wikipedia
0 Comments BY Shani Evenstein ON December 3rd, 2015
A new for-credit elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all undergraduate students on campus.
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0 Comments BY Patrick Earley and Maggie Dennis ON December 3rd, 2015
Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler, public domain. Online harassment and behavioral issues have long been an area of serious concern for the Wikimedia Foundation and particularly for the Community Advocacy team. A major focus of our department is the protection of our users and others impacted by our sites, so we…
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0 Comments BY Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule ON December 3rd, 2015
When the non-profit organization Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha celebrated its 121st anniversary, they re-licensed 1000 books so that they could be digitized and be made available for millions of Marathi-language readers.
Read moreChapters, Communications, Community, Community Digest, Edit-a-thons, Editor engagement, Events, Global, The wikis, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
0 Comments BY Melina Masnatta and Ed Erhart ON December 2nd, 2015
This week’s edition also includes the new revision scoring service, which “functions like a pair of X-ray specs”; the awarding of the Erasmus Prize; the possibility of an endowment; and more.
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