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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 hours ago

    Volunteer editor communities in four language Wikipedias—German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak—have decided to black out the sites on 21 March in opposition to the current version of the proposed EU Directive.

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  2. Mar 19

    Our CEO  talked with 's about how the Wikimedia movement is thinking about bias and representation. (54 minutes in.)

    New Pod! , , and are live from San Francisco with guests , and Listen here:
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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 19

    The Wikimedia Research Showcase is back! The March edition will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 11:30 AM PST/18:30 UTC. Tune in to learn about the new research projects from our two guest speakers! (1/4)

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  4. Mar 14

    For many years, Wikimedia's vision has asked us to imagine a world where everyone has access to the “sum of all knowledge” — but because is a web project, only those with internet access can reach that knowledge. That’s left billions behind.

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    I love the blogging that has been doing about his team’s work on and code. One really interesting benefit of working at an org that embraces ‘open’ is the ability to show actual plans and outcomes rather than just hand waving.

    I believe strongly that in a decade from now, much of software engineering is going to be about fixing codebases that were built in this era. We as engineers have to get better at talking about technical debt.
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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    I believe strongly that in a decade from now, much of software engineering is going to be about fixing codebases that were built in this era. We as engineers have to get better at talking about technical debt.

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  7. Mar 13

    For some attendees, it was their first time editing . For others, it was a process that had begun long before the event.

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  8. Mar 12

    We have normalized stemmed words, but where do we put them? In an inverted index! Part 4 of 6 in our basic overview of how full-text search engines work is now up:

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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 12

    Excellent op ed by ⁦⁩ ED of on protecting the freedom & humanity of the web & using AI as a tool not a substitute. ⁦ proud to be Wikipedia’s biggest supporter. ⁩ via

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  10. Retweeted
    Mar 12

    "If the best part of the web is indeed people, then we must keep them at the center of every policy decision and platform design." - 's in

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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 8

    Wrote a blog post for about the edit-a-thon at & the editors doing important work to improve representation of women&NB folks on Wikipedia. Was great to see 's speech and run into !

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 8

    This , let young women know that they can pursue any career they want. Do that by writing Wikipedia biographies for .

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    Mar 8
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    Flickr's repository has been an important source of / photos for many years now. If you'd like to add your own Flickr photos, create an account and use this transfer tool:

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  14. Mar 8

    This is a fantastic announcement for everyone interested in the future of free knowledge. (And !)

    Thank you to for this commitment to protecting CC licensed works! An update from CEO
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  15. Retweeted
    Mar 4

    Very excited to announce our line-up of amazing speakers for the at ! Looking forward to seeing you all in San Francisco on May 14th. 🌉

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  16. Mar 1

    Independent Wikimedia affiliates are doing fascinating work all around the world. Here's one example from France.

    Avec notre aide, des doctorants Lillois enrichissent depuis 9 ans déjà ! Depuis 2009, un partenariat unit et la afin d’amener des doctorants à contribuer. Plus d'infos sur le blog →
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  17. Retweeted
    Feb 28

    "By making this data and media free, students and teachers around the world can use the material for their schoolwork, Wikimedians can illustrate Wikipedia articles, scholars and programmers can analyze the collections."

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  18. Mar 1

    We cannot support an EU Directive that, at its core, aims to radically control the sharing of information online.

    We do not support the EU Directive in its current form.
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  19. Feb 27

    The organizing team and have announced the official theme of Wikimania 2019: "Strengthening each other: Wikimedia, free knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals." The keynote will be given by .

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  20. Feb 26

    A few months ago, people across the world were asked “What is Wikimedia”? Almost no one answered correctly. That's led to this question: should we instead center our brand system around , one of the world’s best-known brands?

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