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New Year Wikimedia ideas from Magnus Manske
The new year is just over two weeks old, but the WikiVerse already celebrated a joyous event: Wikipedia's 18th birthday! 50 million seems to be the number of the day…
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WikiCite conference 2018
Imagine a world in which anyone could use an open citation database to support free knowledge, with rich information about every citable source.
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How to run a Wikipedia editathon – for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference
For some time, Wikipedia has been shown to be a resource to engage with, rather than avoid. Wikipedia is heavily used for medical information by students and health professionals -…
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Science Source seeks to improve reliable referencing on Wikipedia’s medical articles
Science Source is a new project by ContentMine which builds on their previous work on WikiFactMine, which wanted to ‘make Wikidata the primary resource for identifying objects in bioscience’. This…
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GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Project Launch of of GB1900; the first ever historical gazetteer of the entirety of Great Britain, capturing the…
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Wikipedia in the History Classroom
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and as the digital revolution continues to unfold, its dominance seems unlikely to be challenged in the near future. The rate at…
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Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability
Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. But it has a huge problem: it’s a total mess.
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Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point
I saw a friend on Facebook share an obvious piece of fake news a few days ago. It came from a site I’d seen before, World News Daily Report.
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A guide to the past: hillforts and Wikimedia
Hillforts are enormous archaeological sites dotted around Britain and Ireland. There are some of the most impressive remains from prehistory. Just five years ago the best guess for how many…
