New Wikipedia app for iOS puts the joy of exploration in your hand
Our new Wikipedia app for iOS features major design and usability improvements, including the new Explore feed.
Affiliates, Community, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
0 Comments BY Lourdes Cardenal and Ruben Ojeda ON March 9th, 2016
In Spain, generations have abandoned villages. In such a situation, how do you keep track of their histories?
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0 Comments BY Tilman Bayer ON March 8th, 2016
Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is “verifiable”?
With contributions by: Nicolas Jullien, Piotr Konieczny, and Tilman Bayer
Read moreCommunications, Community, Gender Gap, Profiles
2 Comments BY Ed Erhart ON March 8th, 2016
By day, Emily Temple-Wood is a biology student. By night, she writes Wikipedia articles on women scientists—one for every harassing email she receives.
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1 Comment BY Joe Sutherland and Victor Grigas ON March 8th, 2016
Rebecca O’Neill is helping both to plug gaps in Wikipedia’s coverage of women in art while simultaneously researching why people even want to.
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0 Comments BY Benoit Rochon ON March 7th, 2016
During March, across all French-speaking territories, Wikimedians are organizing dozens of events, training workshops, conferences, and photo walks to gather local contributors and promote the Wikimedia projects.
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4 Comments BY Shai Katz and Ed Erhart ON March 3rd, 2016
An interview with Tal Zussman, a student who recently received the English Wikipedia’s “Editor of the week” award.
Read moreCommunity, Edit-a-thons, Events
0 Comments BY Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey and Michael Mandiberg ON March 2nd, 2016
Art+Feminism announces the third annual international Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, with 125 events taking place in over 20 countries on every inhabited continent.
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0 Comments BY Eric Houston ON March 1st, 2016
The race to become the next United States president is intensifying as the two main political parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are holding caucuses and primaries to determine who their candidates will be in the coming two-person general election.
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1 Comment BY Aeryn Palmer and Jim Buatti ON February 29th, 2016
The latest Transparency Report covers the time period from July to December 2015, during which we received 220 alteration or takedown requests, none of which were granted. We also received 25 user data requests, only one of which was granted.
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0 Comments BY Subhashish Panigrahi ON February 28th, 2016
Vasanth S.N. talks about his 10-year long journey as a Wikipedian, the challenges he is facing in his home project (the Kannada Wikipedia), and his plans for the future.
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