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Documenting Tunis for future generations

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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Of Great Pyramids and agile software development: how and why we developed Phragile

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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Creative Commons: Preserving culture, 1 billion items at a time

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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10th place: Vakil mosque Panorama by Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

See the 14 gorgeous winning photographs from Wiki Loves Monuments

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.

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Photo by Heatherawalls, freely licensed under CC0 1.0.

Wikimedia IEG program will fund fourteen community-led projects

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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7th place: Passage, Odesa, by Kateryna Krasnytska, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

10 stunning photos from Ukraine’s Wiki Loves Monuments

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.

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Photo by Shani Evenstein (שני אבנשטיין), freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tel Aviv’s new university course is dedicated to contributing to Wikipedia

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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Heinrich Vogeler, public domain.

Working together on the problem of online harassment in Wikimedia communities

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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Image by Ashok Bagade, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books

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.

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Community Digest—when a province mobilizes for Wikipedia

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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