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    Jan 19

    You visited Wikipedia 15,000,000,000 times each month in 2017. That's 6,000 times a second, every second of the day. Check out more amazing facts from 's executive director .

    It's remarkable how essential and the free knowledge projects were to people’s lives in 2017. Some highlights from our new annual report: 1/
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    3 hours ago

    Upload your pigeon photos to in honor of . This Western Crowned Pigeon is from the in Washington DC. Easy step by step uploading instructions here:

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    Feb 2

    The UNC Library is part of a global effort by librarians to make Wikipedia stronger by adding more citations. Curious what we've been editing? Watch the video!

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    Feb 4

    The campaign wrapped up yesterday. Thanks to so many people for so much kind attention. Over 6500 edits in 22 languages. We crushed the edit numbers from previous years! And, as in every year, I learned so much.

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    8 hours ago

    768 edits! What an amazing contribution from for the community! Serbian Wikipedia is much stronger for it!

    Акција остварила сјајне резултате у Србији! У чланке на Википедији библиотекари и додали чак 768 референци!
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    Jan 31

    Rachel Wexelbaum on using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: + advocacy as a wiki-librarian

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    Feb 1

    We’re overhauling the way metadata works on (cc: ) w/ the goal of making it the best damn platform for libraries, archives, & museums to share open collections. Newly published research sheds light on institutional needs + challenges:

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  8. 13 hours ago

    The theme for 2018 has been announced: "Bridging knowledge gaps—the ubuntu way forward."

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  9. Jan 31

    As continues, our own interviewed about how she's using librarianship to create a more equitable internet.

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  10. Jan 30

    Here's how people around the world celebrated Wikipedia's 17th birthday.

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  11. Jan 29

    Video presentation: (Due to an oops, you'll need the slides to follow along. )

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  12. Jan 29

    Learn more in the blog post above, and at the following: Full research report:

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  13. Jan 29

    And GLAMs uploading to Commons have diverse needs—enough to potentially apply to many other kinds of people who contribute and consume media on Commons every day.

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  14. Jan 29

    Why? GLAMs upload lots of content to Commons.

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    What can galleries, libraries, archives, and museums ("GLAMs") teach us about multimedia metadata on ? We're researching that.

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    Jan 26

    ICYMI: two key deadlines for submitting your work at

    The call for contributions is now live! Submission deadlines: January 28 and March 11, 2018.
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    Jan 26

    WMDC is proud to announce the winners from the 1,180 entries in the US 2017 Wiki Science photo competition. US winners will go on to the international contest.

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    Jan 25

    Hey people going to , says you might find this useful: – it's a lesson on reading/interpreting data visualizations that I put together for my coworkers at (static version available at )

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  19. Jan 26

    বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া আজ ২৭শে জানুয়ারি ১৪তম বর্ষে পদার্পন করেছে। বিশ্বব্যাপী বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার পাঠক, অবদানকারী ও শুভানুধ্যায়ীদের অভিনন্দন ও শুভেচ্ছা | Happy 14th birthday ! Congratulations to your readers, contributors & well-wishers worldwide.

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    Jan 24

    – a visualization of the longest deletion discussions in English Wikipedia – has been fully rewritten in HTML5 and is now free licensed (CC BY SA) 🙌

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    Jan 23

    Hoping to get students/young people involved in Wikipedia and public knowledge production on the web? Think about using in this way as a start:

    When our kids were in middle school I tried to interest them in Wikipedia, but asking for major edits was a mistake. I wish I'd thought of . It's a great way for students (or anyone) to make contributions that stick. Also hugely instructive about how attribution works.
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