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Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site
Alec Muffett, a director of the Open Rights Group and an ex-Facebook, now Deliveroo software engineer, has created a Wikipedia Onion site which can only be accessed through the Tor…
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Wikidelta: glimpsing unique Wikipedia articles in 284 world languages
If you are curious about the languages and cultures of the world, follow Wikidelta on Twitter. It's an unofficial and experimental account which is an attempt to discover what could be unique in each of the languages of Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia and Open Access: making research as useful as it can be
This post was written by Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at Bodleian Libraries, and was first published on Open Access Oxford.
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Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
This post was originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation blog by Dario Tarborelli and Yana Welinder. Re-published under CC-BY 3.0 unported
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Altmetrics and Wikipedia
'Impact' is a perennial concern for organisations, including Wikimedia chapters. Showing that what you're up to makes a difference: contributing to free knowledge.
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The truth gets its shoes on: the Black Death on Wikipedia
A recent article by @monicaMedHist identifies the disease in Royal 6 E VI, f 301, as leprosy: http://t.co/PmatI7obgF pic.twitter.com/ysEb3X9VNA
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Wikipedia – is it fit for patient consumption?
This post was written by John Byrne, the Wikimedian in Residence at Cancer Research UK. It was first published here under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence.
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Connecting knowledge to power: the future of digital democracy in the UK
Wikimedia UK and Demos are encouraging Wikimedians to participate in an attempt to crowdsource a submission to a call for evidence on digital democracy from the Speaker of the House…
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Researchers: are you Wikipedia-compatible?
This post was written by Wikimedia UK Associate, Dr Martin Poulter
