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A surly, 17-year-old underdog shocked the cycling world with his victory in the 1947 Tour de France.... Read more

  1. Community digest: “High hope” for the Farsi Wikipedia as it reaches 500,000 articles

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    “It is a very good feeling,” editor Alfa80 said, “to complete a stage—like getting through the five days to the weekend or when the countdown of a traffic light is finished.”... Read more

  2. Community digest: I moved to Germany to help organize the Wikimedia Conference

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    Teele Vaalma of Wikimedia Estonia recalls her time in Germany and her work in helping to organize the annual Wikimedia Conference.... Read more

  3. Android app now offers new ways to browse Wikipedia and find trending, recommended articles

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    The updated Wikipedia app for Android features a completely redesigned home screen, now including the explore feed, in addition to other new features and improvements.... Read more

  4. Wikipedia seeks to speak your language

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    Wikipedia readers speak many languages, so it’s not a surprise that sometimes they search for phrases not in the language of the wiki that they’re currently reading. We’re changing that by adding language detection to Wikipedia’s search engine.... Read more

  5. Why I contribute to Wikisource

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    Hrishikes Sen has nearly 30,000 edits across the Wikimedia projects, most of them made on Wikisource. Here, he discusses the motivations behind his work and what Wikisource can bring to the world.... Read more

  6. A change of perspective is needed in Wikimedia-GLAM cooperation

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    Barbara Fischer, the GLAM coordinator at Wikimedia Germany, believes that the movement is at a turning point in GLAM activities and that a change of perspective is needed.... Read more

  7. Wikimedia Research Newsletter, June 2016

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    Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps school kids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment
    With contributions by: Morten Warncke-Wang, Liang (WMTW), Tsung-Ho Liang and Tilman Bayer... Read more

  8. Wikipedia edit-a-thon, 72 hours long, is recognized with a Guinness World Record

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    Wikimedia Mexico and Museo Soumaya partnered for the event, named #72HorasConRodin for the “progenitor of modern sculpture.”... Read more

  9. Illustrating the 1968 Democratic National Convention—48 years later

    Photo by Bea A Carson, scanned by Victor Grigas, public domain/CC0.

    Wikipedia articles about historic events can sometimes host amazing photography and video, sometimes not; it can take a bit of dedication by Wikipedia editors to illustrate articles on news events well.... Read more

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