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News on Wikipedia: SpaceX takes next step to reusable rockets
SpaceX landed a reusable rocket on a drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. How has Wikipedia covered it?... Read more
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Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016
Here are highlights from across the Wikimedia movement, as reported on this blog in March 2016: The new alchemy—turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists; New completion suggester helps you find what you need on Wikimedia sites; Jimmy Wales tells South by Southwest that community is key to Wikipedia’s future.... Read more
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Announcing a new informational resource on Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA and government surveillance
We have released a new landing page for Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA, and the government has filed their response to our opening appeal brief.... Read more
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Wikimedia failover test—expected impact for editors
We are launching a new data center in Texas, and to do so we will be placing Wikimedia sites into read-only mode for two short periods next week.... Read more
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Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz
“Men can be a champion for women. I know that, for example, a lot of feminists have said ‘no they can’t,’ that that’s not a good thing, that actually women should be the people championing women’s own causes. But I don’t think that there should be such a division. There should be people arguing for women, right, not just women arguing for women and men arguing for men... Read more
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First-ever Wikimedia Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
The participants ended the day with fifteen successful patch submissions.... Read more
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Where do we go from here: the Wikimedia Education Collaborative
Wikimedia Education Collab members met in Stockholm to discuss the improvements they had implemented since last summer and set the goals for the upcoming eighteen months.... Read more
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2,200 articles and counting in the Central and Eastern European Wikipedia writing contest
Over 2,200 articles about Central and Eastern Europe have already been improved as part of a large and ongoing writing contest.... Read more
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Save the safe harbors that power the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation advocates to the U.S. Copyright Office for the preservation of protections from copyright liability for intermediaries, and against turning intermediaries into copyright police.... Read more
The new Wikipedia store features many new items, such as plantable "sprout" pencils and "free knowledge" T-shirts.